INTERNATIONAL

US President Joe Biden urgently requested Friday military aid for Ukraine and Israel in a massive $106 billion national security package, but Republican paralysis in Congress means it hit an immediate wall. Biden’s demand came a day after he drew a direct link…

Niger’s military rulers said they foiled an attempt by Mohamed Bazoum, the former president they ousted in a coup in July, to escape their custody on Thursday. “At around three in the morning, the ousted president Mohamed Bazoum and his family, his two…

FIFA on Friday suspended a former youth coach in the Democratic Republic of Congo from football for 20 years for sexually abusing a youth player. The governing body of world football said in a statement that Jonathan Bukabakwa had been “found guilty of…

A vast search was underway on Friday for a man suspected of shooting dead a judge in the eastern US state of Maryland who ruled against him just hours earlier in a child custody case, officials said. Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, was shot…

Canada said Thursday it had withdrawn 41 diplomats from India — fallout from a bitter row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. New Delhi planned to revoke diplomatic immunity for all but 21 of Canada’s diplomats and their families…

In what could best be described as a major milestone for Nigeria at the ongoing Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China has committed to refinancing and completing the Abuja-Kano and Port Harcourt-Maiduguri railway projects. According to…

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has been charged with suspected bribery over referee payments. According to Spanish news agency EFE, via ESPN, the payments were made to companies linked to the former vice president of the refereeing committee, José María Enríquez Negreira. The charges relate…

Israeli air strikes on a hospital compound in the Gaza Strip killed at least 200 people, officials in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said on Tuesday, sparking widespread condemnation and fury. But Israel’s army blamed a rocket misfired by militants in Gaza. Al Jazeera footage…

India's top court on Tuesday declined to legalize same-sex marriage and left it to parliament to decide, agreeing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government that the legislature is the right forum to rule on the contentious issue. The unanimous order by a five-judge bench came…

Car horns in Quito blared in celebration Sunday as banana empire heir Daniel Noboa, 35, became violence-riddled Ecuador’s youngest president-elect ever. With 90 per cent of votes counted, the electoral authority announced Noboa as the victor. Moments earlier, socialist rival Luisa Gonzalez…