Thu 28 May 2026: Donald Trump’s self-styled Board of Peace for Gaza is facing a deepening crisis after its official reconstruction fund failed to receive any donor money, despite $17 billion in pledged support, raising fresh questions over whether the US-backed body is little more than a hollow political project. According to the Financial Times, the […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: Case follows repatriation of women and children held for years in Syrian camps without trial. Australia has charged a woman with alleged links to the ISIL (ISIS) group after she returned from Syria, as authorities intensify investigations into nationals repatriated from detention camps. Police said the 34-year-old arrived in the country […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: Education minister says 16 killed, 79 injured at Utumishi Girls School in Gilgil, central Kenya. At least 16 students have been killed when a fire ripped through a dormitory at a girls school in a town in central Kenya, police and a government official say. Education Minister Julius Ogamba said on […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: An albino buffalo nicknamed “Donald Trump” has been returned to its farm after Bangladeshi officials stepped in to stop its planned ritual sacrifice for a Muslim holiday, local media reported on Thursday. The buffalo, raised at a farm near the capital Dhaka, became a viral attraction in recent weeks over its […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: President Donald Trump issued a stark threat to Oman on Wednesday, telling the Gulf country to “behave” or face attack from the US. “Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine,” the president said in remarks during a Cabinet […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: ‘Stopping this Ebola transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access,’ said Tedros, the WHO chief. The World Health Organization chief has warned that the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was dramatically complicating efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak. “Eastern DRC now faces a catastrophic collision of disease […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: Police have entered the headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) in Madrid as part of an investigation into possible financial wrongdoing, according to local media reports. Police officers entered the PSOE premises on Wednesday, the Reuters news agency reported, quoting a Civil Guard spokesperson. The Civil Guard told The […]
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Wed 27 May 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: 👇🏼 ◼️ New laws for workers in SA: Broadly, the laws aim to regulate the employment of foreign nationals and “enhance job opportunities for South African citizens”. The Bill amends the Employment Services Act 4 of 2014 to address rising unemployment and the high […]
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Wed 27 May 2026: The UK government rejected demand from the Scottish parliament for a second independence referendum, saying there is “no consensus” for another vote, according to media reports published Tuesday. The motion agreed at Holyrood said the Scottish parliament election result earlier this month provided a “clear mandate that decisions about Scotland’s future […]
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Monique Bitu Bingi, one of the plaintiffs in the case, holds holds a photo of herself as a young girl before she was forcibly removed from her parents. Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP Wed 27 May 2026: The Belgian government lost a final appeal on Friday over a verdict that declared the forced placement of five women into […]
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