Burkina Faso has asked France to move its troops out of the country within a month, according to a letter to Paris from the authorities in the West African country, which was obtained by AFP on Sunday. The foreign ministry letter, dated last Wednesday, ends the 2018 agreement under which French troops were stationed there and sets a deadline of …

Czech police said on Saturday they were investigating an anonymous threatening letter against presidential candidate Andrej Babiš. The letter contained live ammunition and explicit insults, Babiš told Czech news agency CTK. Babiš, a billionaire who founded the centre-right populist ANO 2011 (Action of Dissatisfied Citizens 2011) political party, said such threats against a political candidate and his family should have …

The conflict-torn Anglophone North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon have received praise from the Canadian government for their peace-making efforts. A complex military struggle between the government forces and armed separatist organizations has developed from what started as a political disagreement in Cameroon’s Anglophone region. According to a report by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, English-speaking lawyers, …

The number of dead has risen to 25 after a Russian missile attack that hit a high-rise apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Saturday, according to official figures. By Sunday afternoon, 73 injured people had been rescued from the rubble of the partially collapsed building, including 13 children, the Ukrainian Civil Defence announced on Telegram. More …

Two Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli military operation near the Palestinian town of Jenin on Saturday. According to unanimous reports from both sides, the Palestinian men fired shots from a moving car at Israeli soldiers, who returned fire. The men, aged 23 and 24, were fatally wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Israeli army said the …

British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari has been executed after being sentenced to death on charges of spying for Britain, according to Iran’s state media. The Iranian judiciary claimed Akbari, who was Deputy Defence Minister under former President Mohammad Khatami until 2001, was a “key spy” for the British government, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. It said Iranian intelligence unmasked …

The discovery of the largest known rare earth element deposit in Europe, which is necessary for the production of electric vehicles, in far-northern Sweden has raised expectations that Europe will be able to reduce its reliance on China. The newly discovered deposit, which was discovered near the Swedish mining company LKAB’s iron ore mine, included more than a million tonnes …

The United Kingdom has released a list of organisations licensed to sponsor skilled Nigerian and other national workers for temporary worker immigration travel routes. The companies approved by the UK provide a great option for smart Nigerians who are not financially buoyant to live the dream of ‘japa‘ which has become popular, particularly among Nigerian youths. Japa is a phrase …

Following a week of storms that claimed 12 lives in the state of California, United States President Joe Biden has approved the designation of national emergency. Biden stated that the emergency designation will provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) permission to coordinate disaster relief operations and mobilize emergency resources. In the past 10 days, severe weather spawned violent wind …

South Korean Labour Minister on Monday said that the government planned to expand the period of leave for working parents from the current one year to one year and six months. The Ministry of Employment and Labour also said it planned to increase the quota of foreign workers with non-professional employment visas for this year to alleviate pandemic-induced labour shortages. …