worldsightadmin (Bloomberg) — Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on TwitterA leading member of Ethiopia’s former ruling coalition is seeking fresh alliances after it rejected Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s new unity party ahead of elections this year.The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, TPLF, said the Prosperity Party, which set out to merge … Read more
Issiaka Ouattara, a key figure in the years-long unrest that gripped Ivory Coast at the start of the century, has died in a New York hospital at the age of 53, associates said on Monday. “He died from illness this morning in a New York hospital,” where he had been admitted several weeks ago, Affoussiata … Read more
Croatia’s ruling conservatives said Monday they will analyze why their candidate lost a presidential election to a leftist challenger in order to prevent this from happening again at the upcoming parliamentary vote later this year. “The aim of the analysis and its conclusions is for us to come out stronger and not repeat at the … Read more
After many tremors in the past week, and a 5.8 earthquake on Monday, a second, more powerful, earthquake struck just off the southern coast of the island on Tuesday morning.Puerto Ricans woke up to a sizable earthquake early Tuesday, in what the U.S. Geological Survey reported was a 6.4 quake that struck off the United … Read more
After many tremors in the past week, and a 5.8 earthquake on Monday, a second, more powerful and deadly 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck just off the southern coast of Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning.Following what the U.S. Geological Survey reported was a 6.4 quake that struck at 4:24 a.m., local time, reports of injuries and … Read more
The head of Ukraine’s recently independent Orthodox Church has compared Russia’s treatment of believers in annexed Crimea to “Stalin-era” repressions, after authorities ordered a church demolished. Metropolitan Epiphaniy, the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, said believers in Crimea and the east of the country had particularly suffered at the hands of Russia since the … Read more
A push led by pro-Iran factions to oust U.S. troops from Iraq following the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian general is gaining momentum, bolstered by a Parliament vote calling on the government to remove them. Iraq was barely starting to recover from a devastating four-year war against the Islamic State group when a … Read more
‘Soleimani had it coming’: Israelis cautiously welcome U.S. strike on Iran general NBC News Netanyahu, in apparent stumble, calls Israel ‘nuclear power’ Reuters U.S. strike gives Netanyahu a chance to shift focus from legal woes, but not for long The Washington Post Netanyahu corrects himself after calling Israel a ‘nuclear power’ | TheHill The Hill Netanyahu calls Israel a … Read more
(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister hopes all actors involved in the recent Middle East flare-up take steps to avoid escalation.“We are very keen that the situation in the region doesn’t escalate any further,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan said at a press conference in Riyadh Monday. “It’s certainly a very dangerous moment and we have … Read more
India’s JNU attacked: ‘We thought … we all will lose our lives’ Al Jazeera English JNU: Students across India protest against campus attack BBC News India protests: Masked men storm New Delhi’s JNU campus – The The Washington Post Gautam Gambhir, Rohan Bopanna Among Sportspersons To Condemn JNU Violence NDTVSports.com New Delhi: Students, teachers attacked inside JNU campus Al Jazeera … Read more