By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 14:39 EAT on Monday 31 March 2025 There has been no official reaction yet in Moscow to Donald Trump’s comments. That may come later in the day. But I don’t expect the Kremlin to say “we are quaking in our boots”. Traditionally, President Vladimir Putin does not take…
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A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight.
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 14:43 EAT on Saturday 29 March 2025 Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour Ramadan fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, surveilence…
Myanmar earthquake death toll rises to more than 1,000
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 14:16 EAT on Saturday 29 March 2025 The search and rescue is still ongoing. It’s very difficult now to validate any figure, and we know that it will continue to increase and (that) many of these eighteen million people are now without safe shelter, access to clean water,…
Expelled South African envoy accuses Trump administration of racism
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 13:23 EAT on Saturday 29 March 2025 Ebrahim Rasool, 62, was ordered to leave the US last week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America”. This came after Rasool accused US President Donald Trump of trying to “project white victimhood as…
UK and France to send defence chiefs to Ukraine as Starmer says Putin is playing for time
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 21:53 EAT on Thursday 27 March 2025 As leaders from the 30 countries came together in Paris today under the banner of the “coalition of the willing”, a message was sent out to the world: Europe is united. Europe is strong. Relations between the US and Ukraine have…
Race to save lives in South Korea as wildfires rage
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda at 21:19 EAT on Thursday 27 March 2025 Firefighters in South Korea are racing to save lives and ancient artefacts from the largest wildfire in the country’s history. At least 27 people have been killed so far, according to the country’s interior ministry – making the blaze also South Korea’s…
24 dead in South Korea’s ‘worst ever fires’
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 15:06 EAT on 26 March 2025 At least 24 people have been killed as multiple wildfires continue to ravage South Korea’s south-east region. Most of the victims are in their 60s and 70s, say authorities, adding that some 26 people are injured – with 12 in critical condition…
Mike Waltz takes full responsibility for Signal group chat leak
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 14:51 EAT on Wednesday 26 March 2025 US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has taken responsibility for a group chat in which high-ranking officials planned military strikes in Yemen in the company of a journalist who was inadvertently added. President Donald Trump and US intelligence chiefs have downplayed…
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