By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 15:35 EAT on Monday 31 March 2025 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” that eight Palestinian medics were killed along with six Civil Defence first responders and a UN staff member by Israeli forces in southern Gaza earlier…
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Myanmar hospitals overwhelmed as military government says more than 1,700 killed in quake
By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 15:12 EAT on Monday 31 March 2025 Early analysis of Friday’s earthquake that hit Myanmar and the surrounding region has revealed why the event has had such devastating effects hundreds of miles from the epicentre – in Bangkok. Scientists who are currently examining data from a global network…
Trump very angry with Putin over ceasefire talks as strikes continue on Ukraine
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…
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…
