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Ugandan police have arrested four people in Buikwe district following a raid on a massage parlor suspected of offering sexual services to gays and lesbians, local media reported. Hellen Butoto, the Ssezibwa Region police spokesperson, says all the suspects are employees of Cloud 9 Massage and Chill Outs in Bukaya …

The leader of the Russian Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigojine, published this Monday, his first video since he took the lead of a short-lived mutiny at the end of June. He appears in a recording – probably shot in Africa – on Telegram channels affiliated with the Wagner Group. We can …

A bus carrying Corinthians fans overturned early Sunday in a winding descent from a highway near Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, leaving seven dead and several injured. “There were seven dead and 27 people were taken to hospitals in the region,” Minas Gerais state …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of the situation of children facing the cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 8,000 children under the age of five have been infected with cholera in the first seven months of the year in the troubled province of …

A Franco-Canadian was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison in the United States for having sent a poisoned letter to former president, Donald Trump at the White House in 2020, the American justice announced . Pascale Ferrier, 56, pleaded guilty in January in federal court in Washington to …

A collision between two trams in a large avenue in the center of Lisbon caused 13 minor injuries on Thursday, including several tourists and three children, according to the relief quoted by local media. Among the injured passengers, two French, two Czechs, an American, an Italian and a Spaniard describe …

A Kenyan man who said he was protesting against the high cost of living set himself on fire in the coastal city of Mombasa on Thursday afternoon, local media reported. He had climbed on top of a statue in the middle of a busy roundabout before setting himself alight.. In …

A 55-year-old polygamous man who got up one day and angrily divorced all his three wives has given reasons for the action and vowed never to marry again. Identified only as Mutiacya, the elderly man who lives in Uganda recounted in an interview with Afrimax English that he was once …

Dominican authorities on Wednesday declared a one-day national mourning after the powerful explosion that left 27 dead and 59 injured on Monday, according to the latest official report. The explosion occurred Monday at 3:10 p.m. local time, in San Cristobal, less than 30 km from the capital Santo Domingo. The …

A federal appeals court in the United States ruled on Wednesday in favor of reinstating restrictions on access to the abortion pill, but this decision will have no practical effect until the Supreme Court rules. This decision, if confirmed, would result in particular in a return to a limit of …