A shooter killed two people and wounded four others in a gun attack near a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris on Friday, the prosecutor’s office said. Multiple gunshots were fired in the Rue d’Enghien, a street lined with small shops and cafes in the capital’s 10th arrondissement, sowing panic. Armed police guarded a security cordon… Read More Two dead, several injured following shooting in Paris
The World Bank’s executive board has approved $500 million in development financing for Egypt to expand its social safety net and protection programme in the face of global economic pressures filtering through to the country’s economy, the international cooperation minister said on Friday. The funds will support the government’s Takaful and Karama conditional and unconditional… Read More World Bank approves $500million for social security expansion in Egypt
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison on Friday after nearly two decades behind bars. Sobhraj, 78, a French national, arrived at the Kathmandu airport later on Friday to board a regular flight to Doha en… Read More French serial killer Charles ‘The Serpent’ Sobhraj released from Nepal prison, heads to France
Venezuela’s political opposition to the ruling Socialists voted on Thursday by a wide margin to remove the interim government led by Juan Guaido, as they seek a united front ahead of presidential elections tentatively scheduled for 2024. The motion was backed by three of four major opposition groups but rejected by Guaido’s Popular Will and… Read More Venezuela opposition vote to remove Juan Guaido’s interim government
Algeria is offering to Europe its spare electricity capacity, and it is planning a 270 km undersea pipe towards Italy, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told reporters in an interview on Thursday. Algeria is also pushing to double its gas exports to reach 100 billion cubic metres per year versus 56 billion cubic metres per year… Read More Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune suggests sale of spare electricity capacity to Europe
Shell will pay 15 million euros (an equivalent of $15.9 million) to communities in Nigeria that were affected by multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta, the oil company on Friday said in a joint statement with the Dutch division of Friends of the Earth. The compensation is the result of a Dutch court… Read More Shell to pay €15million in settlement to Nigerian communities for oil spills
China has sanctioned two Americans in retaliation for U.S. sanctions against two Chinese officials over human rights in Tibet earlier this month, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday. Anti-sanctions measures against historian Miles Yu and Todd Stein, deputy staff director with the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, will take effect from Friday, according to… Read More China imposes retaliatory sanctions on two Americans over Tibet rights row
Suspected militants sped through a checkpoint in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad on Friday and blew themselves up as police gave pursuit, killing one officer and injuring several others. “Our initial information says that there was a man and a woman in the car,” Islamabad operations police chief, Sohail Zafar, told reporters. The car did not… Read More One police officer killed, several injured following suicide car bombing at checkpoint in Pakistan capital of Islamabad
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