Theresa May’s government faces a vote of no confidence later after MPs rejected the PM’s Brexit deal. Labour launched the bid to trigger a general election after the deal setting out the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU was rejected by 230 votes. However, one senior party figure has […]
Two explosions and gunfire were heard at an upscale hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday afternoon, said a woman working in a neighbouring building. “We are under attack,” another person in an office inside a complex in the Dusit hotel told Reuters, then hung up. Local […]
Authorities in Zambia have ordered a local manufacturer to stop the production and distribution of an energy drink that reportedly caused a prolonged erection in a man. The move comes after the Uganda Bureau of Standards (UBS) said in a letter dated 4 January that it had tested samples from […]
Departures at Heathrow were temporarily stopped after a drone was reported to have been sighted. Flights from the west London airport resumed about an hour after police said a drone had been seen. A Heathrow spokeswoman had said it was a “precautionary measure” to “prevent any threat to operational safety”. […]
South Korea’s government is fining BMW $10 million over its handling of a spate of engine fires in the country and the automaker’s problems don’t end there. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Monday that as well as imposing the 11.2 billion won ($9.9 million) fine, it will […]
The governor of Mexico’s central Puebla state, Martha Erika Alonso, has died in an air crash, just days after being sworn into office. Her husband, Senator Rafael Moreno Valle, was also killed. Reports say Monday’s accident happened shortly after the aircraft – believed to be a helicopter – took off […]
A Security expert in Aflao, Emmanuel Akpalu has called on the Togolese government and the security services to remain alert to prevent any serious instability that might generate from the opposition’s pursued parochial agenda. He was giving an intelligence assessment with regards to Togo political instability, when he averred that […]
The battle for land reform in South Africa rages on as the ruling Africa National Congress (ANC), working with the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), won parliamentary approval of the report endorsing a constitutional amendment for expropriations without compensation. South Africa’s main opposition party, Democratic Alliance (DA), before the Tuesday […]
Theresa May has been accused of “misleading Parliament, inadvertently or otherwise” as the full legal advice on her Brexit deal was published. The Scottish National Party said the Prime Minister had “concealed the facts” after the advice, which warns of an “indefinite” backstop deal with the EU. Ministers were found […]
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has denied a rumour claiming he had died and been replaced by a lookalike. Some people thought he had been “cloned”, but “it’s [the] real me, I assure you,” Mr Buhari said on Sunday. Rumours that he had been replaced with a body double called “Jubril” […]
