Category: 3. Middle East

The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, who became the first African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

Speaking at Kongi’s Harvest Gallery in Lagos on Tuesday, Soyinka read aloud…

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica, as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm would likely cause “catastrophic” flash flooding, landslides and widespread damage, directly affecting up to 1.5 million people.

The United States…

Hamed and Rida Aliwa have taken up the responsibility of raising dozens of their grandchildren after they lost five of their sons because of Israel’s war on Gaza.

South Africa win opening T20 cricket match against Pakistan by 55 runs as tourists’ dire form continues despite Babar Azam’s comeback.

Babar Azam was dismissed for a duck in his comeback to T20 cricket as under-strength South Africa romped to…

Footage shows emergency crews rescuing civilians from under rubble after the Israeli military carried out new strikes across Gaza City. At least two Palestinians were killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the assault,…

Video evidence of mass atrocities in el-Fasher has quickly emerged after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the key Sudanese city.

Nvidia, the artificial intelligence (AI) chip leader, will build seven new supercomputers for the United States Department of Energy (DOE), CEO Jensen Huang has said.

The company has $500bn in bookings for its AI chips, Huang said on Tuesday in a…

At least 60 people, including four police officers, have been killed in a law enforcement operation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to local media reports.

On Tuesday, the Brazilian news outlet G1 said the death toll had risen to 64, though…

Several African nations, including Uganda, Rwanda, Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, and South Sudan, have agreed to accept…

For more than two years, Sudan has been locked in a bloody conflict between its military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

And this week, the RSF wrestled…