Burundi has sworn-in Evariste Ndayishimiye who won the May 20 elections as President. The event which took place at the state Ingoma in Gitega, the political capital of the country was largely attended...

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday as tensions escalate on the Korean Peninsula. South Korea’s Unification...

According to news reports, Burundi will swear in president-elect Evariste Ndayishimiye on Thursday, June 18. The development is coming a week after  the death of outgoing President, Pierre Nkurunziza. The...

An Atlanta police officer has been fired and another placed on administrative duty following the fatal shooting of a black man, the police department announced early Sunday. Rayshard Brooks, 27, was shot dead...

Olena, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Friday she had tested positive for coronavirus, but her husband and their two children had tested negative. “Today I received a...

One of the four former Minneapolis police officers who were charged over the death of George Floyd was released on bail on Wednesday. The former police officer released, Thomas Lane, 37, had been held...

The United States Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed General Charles Brown Jr as Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, making him the first Black officer to lead one of the nation’s military services. Vice...

Police affidavit on Wednesday says Lesotho’s former prime minister, Thomas Thabane and his wife made a down payment of $24,000 to assassins to kill his estranged wife, Lipolelo three years ago. Thomas...

George Floyd, the African- American whose killing by police inspired worldwide protests calling for an end to racism and police brutality, was buried in a cemetery on Tuesday in his hometown of Houston,...

Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday named their main suspect in the 1986 killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Prosecutors also closed the probe into the murder case. The suspect was named as Stig Engstrom,...

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government of Burundi has said in a statement. He was admitted to hospital on Saturday after feeling...

Former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin who is facing murder charges in the fatal arrest of George Floyd, was granted bail Monday at his first court appearance. Chauvin is facing charges of second-degree...

North Korea “will completely cut off and shut down the liaison line between the authorities of the North and the South, which has been maintained through the North-South joint liaison office…...

Tanzania’s President, John Magufuli has declared the country ‘coronavirus-free’ . He attributes the development to  prayers by citizens. “The corona disease has been eliminated...

New Zealand has successfully wiped out coronavirus after the final person known to have been infected recovered. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she was confident the country had halted the spread of...

The global confirmed death toll from COVID-19 has reached a bleak new milestone with 400,000 deaths. At least 6.9 million people worldwide have been infected by the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United...

Huge peaceful marches have taken place across the United States against racism and police brutality on the 12th day of protests sparked by the death of a black man, George Floyd. George Floyd died in police...

Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, setting him up against President Donald Trump for the American presidency in a season of great uncertainty. Nothing is sure...

The Office of the Attorney General of the State of Minnesota, United States yesterday announced charges levelled against all of the four sacked police officers who played a role in the death of an African...

Former Pentagon chief, Jim Mattis rebuked his former boss, President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing him  of trying to “divide” America and failing to provide “mature leadership”. His...