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Taiwan’s defense minister said on Monday morning that he detected 11 Chinese warships and 59 planes around the island as Beijing is to hold live-fire drills to end three days of military maneuvers. “The Chinese military continues to conduct military exercises around Taiwan”, the ministry said, adding that fighter jets …

Authorities in the United States are trying to assess the risks of leaking classified documents, which include the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to its national security, the Pentagon said on Sunday. This leak of secret documents, revealed last week by the New York Times, concerns in particular assessments and reports …

Twenty-seven migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died or were missing after two shipwrecks on Friday and Saturday off the coast of Tunisia, a spokesman for the court in Sfax, in the center-east of the country, told AFP. These are at least the sixth and seventh shipwrecks since the beginning of March, …

Four people have been arrested for allegedly torturing a suspected watermelon thief to death in Bauchi State, Nigeria, reports said. “The deceased was caught after stealing seven watermelons valued at N2,000 from a summer farm in Dallaji Village,” Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed Wakil said. “His hands …

A South African pilot managed to land his plane leaning against a cobra present in the cockpit, a gesture welcomed by the country’s authorities on Friday. “I felt this cool feeling, kind of going up my shirt,” Rudolf Erasmus, a South African pilot who suffered a huge scare during his …

A Ugandan court charged a government minister and her brother with fraud and detained them in a rare corruption case against the country’s top official. The minister, Mary Goretti Kitutu, and her brother appeared before an anti-corruption court on charges of stealing roofing sheets for housing in the country’s poorest …

Gunmen have killed 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, according to reports. “47 people were killed in Umogidi village in Benue state and three other people had been slain in the same place,” the chairman of the Otukpo local government, Ruben Bako said. The motive …

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva suggested this Thursday in Kiev to cede the Crimean peninsula to Russia, to end the war in Ukraine, believing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “cannot want everything”. “Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot seize the territory of Ukraine. Perhaps Crimea will be discussed. But …

A 43-year-old man has been stabbed to death at Sehwi Anhwiam in the Sehwi Wiawso Municipality of the Western North Region, Ghana. The deceased has been living together with the suspect in the same vicinity for a couple of years. He left behind four boys and a girl between the …

A provincial governor in north-east Burundi has dissolved the decision of a mayor to force a female resident out of the area after others “accused her of taking their husbands”, local media reported. A letter giving the woman 24 hours to leave signed by Butihinda district mayor Gilbert Ndikumasabo made …