The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for a renewed commitment from all actors in Nigeria for the elimination of child labour and their protection in the workplace. At the launch of the Nigeria National Consultation Workshop for the Elimination of Child Labour yesterday in Abuja, ILO Director, Dennis Zulu, recollected that in 2017, the […]Read More
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday he had asked the Spanish government and Pope Francis to apologize to indigenous Mexicans for wrongs committed during the Spanish conquest some 500 years ago. Lopez Obrador said in a video shared on Facebook and Twitter he had written to Spain’s King […]Read More
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may break off denuclearisation talks with the US and resume missile and nuclear testing, a senior official says. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Sun-hui told foreign diplomats the US threw away “a golden opportunity” at a recent summit between President Trump and Mr Kim. North Korea had offered to dismantle its […]Read More
Desks and chairs are piled up in the corner of a school with no children. On the blackboard, the date has been written down: 15 December 2018. The headteacher says the school just outside the town of Foubé in northern Burkina Faso, which the BBC visited in March, had closed after an attack by armed […]Read More
Bangladesh has told the United Nations Security Council it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled across the border amid a brutal military crackdown. Attacks on security posts by Rohingya fighters in Myanmar’s Rakhine state triggered the violence that the UN, the United States, Britain and […]Read More
A gun battle raged in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, into Friday morning as soldiers battled to dislodge Islamist militants holed up in a building next to a hotel they had bombed the previous evening. At least 29 people have been killed. The militants, from the Shabab extremist group, set off two blasts outside the […]Read More
The US government is offering $1m (£755,000) for help tracing the son of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The state department said the reward would be paid for help locating Hamza bin Laden in any country as part its “rewards for justice” programme. The statement said bin Laden’s son, who was named a […]Read More
Canberra, March 1 (IANS) Australia has experienced its hottest summer on record, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology said on Friday. The warm weather, 2.14 degrees Celsius above the long-term average, caused bushfires, power blackouts and a rise in hospital admissions, reports the BBC. Wildlife also suffered, with reports of mass deaths of horses, bats and […]Read More
Investigative group Bellingcat on Monday identified the second suspect in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal as a doctor employed by Moscow’s GRU military intelligence service. The Kremlin has rejected past charges about its involvement in the case as fabrications aimed at discrediting RussiaYet analysts will read Bellingcat’s latest publication for more clues […]Read More
An investigation In France has been open into the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the Chinese head of the international police agency Interpol. His family have not heard from him since he left Interpol HQ in the French city of Lyon for a trip back to China a week ago, police sources say. “He did not […]Read More
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