At least 31 people have died after a massive Guinea landfill collapse buried homes and makeshift shelters in the capital, Conakry. The disaster happened early Sunday at the Dar Es Salam landfill in the city’s Gbessia commune after heavy overnight rain caused a huge mound of rubbish to collapse. At least 22 people were also…
INTERPOL Operation Jackal IV has delivered 58 arrests and identified 263 suspects across 22 countries in an eight-month crackdown targeting West African organised crime groups, including Black Axe. The operation ran from November 2025 to June 2026 and focused on cyber-enabled financial crime, money laundering and the people helping criminal networks move and hide their…
The United States is turning increasingly to economic pressure as tensions rise on two major fronts, imposing new sanctions on Iran while its trade relationship with Canada moves closer to a wider confrontation. The latest Iran measures target oil traders, vessels linked to Iran’s so-called shadow fleet and networks accused of supporting missile and weapons…
The race for the FIFA presidency has taken a dramatic turn after UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin ruled himself out of challenging Gianni Infantino, while warning that the FIFA chief could still face an opponent in the 2027 election. Ceferin said he was not interested in replacing Infantino because he wants to continue working at UEFA…
The U.S. South Korea military drills are facing another setback as Washington cancels a major amphibious exercise, raising questions about how the Iran war is affecting America’s military commitments in Asia. The U.S. Marine Corps cancelled the September Ssangyong exercise, a division-level amphibious landing drill involving American and South Korean forces. Seoul’s Marine Corps said…
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life, but a recent Omaha bank robbery shows just how far that reality now extends. A 23-year-old Nebraska man, Deron Lewis-Payne, has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison after investigators found that he used ChatGPT to plan an armed bank robbery. The case is unusual because…
The war in Ukraine is once again forcing the world to confront a difficult question: should war ever reach places where ordinary people live, shop and go about their daily lives? At least 15 people were killed and more than 130 injured after Russian drones struck a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of…
Georgia’s decision to reject the latest EU sanctions on Iran is more than a disagreement over one sanctions package. It is another sign that Tbilisi is becoming increasingly willing to put its own economic and strategic interests ahead of closer alignment with European foreign policy. The Georgian government declined to join the European Union’s latest…
A six-month-old mystery involving three missing Iranian pilots has suddenly become a new source of tension between Iran and Qatar, with Tehran now accusing Doha of secretly holding the men after their fighter jets were shot down in March. The accusation is serious because it is no longer simply about missing military personnel. Iran is…
The DR Congo Ebola outbreak has reached a worrying stage, with health authorities preparing 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine as the country battles its largest Ebola epidemic on record. The emergency response comes as confirmed Ebola cases in DR Congo have passed 5,000, with more than 2,400 deaths reported. The outbreak, which was declared…
