Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in Africa’s embattled Sahel region. Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said…

Zimbabwe’s parliament was plunged into darkness after the finance minister’s budget speech. Source link

Australia has warned travellers not to drink some liquors in Laos, following a spate of deaths linked to suspected methanol poisoning. Australians should avoid drinking Tiger Vodka and Tiger Whisky…

Owas Mwape Owas Mwape and his son Mayamiko before he ran away from home One of Zambia’s most popular actors and filmmakers Owas Mwape broke a social taboo by admitting…

People on the streets of Sydney reacted with mixed feelings to a new law which will ban children under 16 in Australia from using social media. Some said it was…

BBC/Joe Phua Russia is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure ahead of the brutally cold winter Amid the monstrous heaps of twisted metal, pools of congealed oil and walls pockmarked by shrapnel,…

A former Chinese state media journalist has been sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison for espionage, his family has confirmed to the BBC. Dong Yuyu, 62, who has…

India’s airlines and airports received 999 hoax bomb threats this year as of 14 November, the country’s deputy civil aviation minister told its parliament. This was nearly 10 times more…

Georgia has postponed its bid to join the EU after the European Parliament voted to reject the results of the country’s recent election. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze accused the bloc…

A former childcare worker dubbed “one of Australia’s worst paedophiles” has been sentenced to life in prison for raping and sexually abusing almost 70 girls. Ashley Paul Griffith, 47, confessed…