A North Carolina teenager has died after being infected by Naegleria fowleri, a rare and almost always fatal brain-eating amoeba found in warm freshwater, state health officials confirmed on Tuesday. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the death on Tuesday. Further extending condolences to the teenager’s family, friends, and community. The…
Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema has been sworn in for a second five-year term following a disputed election. As well as the detention of his main challenger on treason charges. Hichilema secured 60% of the vote in the 13 August election, according to official results, while his main opponent, Brian Mundubile, received 38%. Mundubile has alleged…
At least three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, including two children and a woman, Palestinian medics confirmed on Tuesday. The deaths in western Gaza City followed what unconfirmed local reports described as a covert raid by either Israeli special forces or an Israel-backed Palestinian militia, who are said to have entered…
At least twelve people have been killed and seventeen others injured, including two children, after Russian missile and drone strikes hit Kyiv and surrounding areas overnight, Ukrainian officials confirmed on Tuesday. Six of the eight fatalities in Kyiv were employees of the state rail company Ukrzaliznytsia, killed when a railway depot was struck. Fires broke…
Hundreds of passengers have been stranded at Kenya’s main international airport in Nairobi as flight disruptions entered a second day amid a workers’ strike. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), one of East Africa’s busiest aviation hubs, has been affected by industrial action by aviation sector workers. The workers are demanding better working conditions and implementation…
The United States and Iran have exchanged direct military strikes for the first time since late July. US Central Command confirmed it had taken “limited, precise action” against what it described as “minelaying forces posing an imminent threat” on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the drone strikes…
At least eight people have died and eighteen others remain missing after a passenger ferry capsized off the coast of Kyrenia in northern Cyprus on Sunday. The ferry had 267 people on board at the time it went down. Ünal Üstel, prime minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, confirmed the vessel had been…
The Federal Government has approved N10 billion for the 2026 National Research Fund grant cycle of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. The allocation represents a 64.2 per cent increase from the N6.09 billion approved for 174 research projects under the 2025 cycle. TETFund announced the development in its 2026 National Research Fund Grant Cycle Call…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has mounted a public counter to Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, unveiling a large sign on Canada’s shoreline. The sign bears the words: “Lake Ontario. Now and Always.” Standing before the new sign, Ford was direct. “Long before President Trump, this lake was called Lake Ontario….
A night of music in Aarau ended before dawn with one woman dead and a gunman on the run. Swiss police have launched a large-scale manhunt after a 22-year-old woman was shot dead and five others wounded at a rave held at a horse racing track in Aarau. The town of approximately 23,000 people is…
