There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack At least five civilians have been killed in an explosion outside the Eid Gah Mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to a Taliban interior ministry spokesman. Four other people were ... Read More

Ms Haugen shared internal Facebook documents with the Wall Street Journal A former Facebook whistleblower responsible for a series of bombshell leaks has revealed her identity. Frances Haugen, 37, who worked as a product manager on the vivid misinformation team at Facebook, ... Read More

Many women turned out at the protest in Texas, weeks after abortion was all but declared unlawful Tens of thousands of people have been holding rallies across all 50 US states in support of abortion rights. They have been galvanised in opposition ... Read More

Doumbouya led the overthrow of President Alpha Conde on September 5 Guinea has sworn in Colonel Mamady Doumbouya as interim president, who promised to respect the West African state’s international commitments while transitioning to civilian rule. Doumbouya, who led the overthrow of President ... Read More

The UN estimates that 78 percent of the Lebanese lives below the poverty line - some three million people - with 36 percent of the population living in extreme poverty The United Nations has sounded the alarm on Lebanon’s spiralling economic ... Read More

Many countries around the world are fighting to end the menace of plastic pollution in the ocean. The story of plastic pollution in Ghana is not different from others as the country still struggles to save and protect the ocean ... Read More

The High Court in Rwanda has sentenced a woman to 15 years in prison after finding her guilty of criticising the way the 1994 genocide is commemorated, calling for a protest and spreading a rumour that the president had died. Yvonne ... Read More

Pramila Jayapal, leader of the Democrats' progressive wing in Congress, said her members would vote against President Biden's infrastructure plan unless the larger welfare and climate change bill was passed first US President Joe Biden has suffered a setback after Congress ... Read More

Australians will be eligible to travel when their state's vaccination rate hit 80% Australia will reopen its international border from November, giving long-awaited freedoms to vaccinated citizens and their relatives. Since March 2020, Australia has had some of the world's strictest border ... Read More

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ethiopians in three regions where elections had been delayed have headed to the polls to vote for their representatives, with one area also voting on whether to form its own regional state. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will form ... Read More