The death toll in a Colombian highway bombing blamed on cocaine-trafficking rebels has risen to 21, the government said Monday, in the country’s worst attack on civilians in decades and just ahead of elections. Saturday’s bombing in the southwestern Cauca department which the government blamed on guerrillas opposed to a decade-old peace process, comes one month before Colombia holds…
Jihadists and Tuareg separatists in Mali have taken control of the key northern town of Kidal after coordinated attacks on strategic junta positions across the country, an ally of the local governor and local sources said. Two days of fierce fighting between the army and jihadists allied with Tuareg rebels have plunged the junta-led west African country into uncertainty…
Pope Leo XIV met on Monday with the first woman to lead the world’s Anglican Christians, the newly enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelise more effectively. The papal audience at the Vatican was part of Mullally’s first trip abroad since taking up her groundbreaking role last month as the first woman to hold the role…
The Democratic Republic of Congo announced Monday it was setting up a paramilitary unit to secure mining sites in the country, which has abundant deposits of sought-after minerals. The central African nation produces around 70 percent of global cobalt output — key for making electric batteries and in defence technology — and holds some of the world’s richest deposits…
A Ukrainian drone strike Monday on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant complex killed a transport worker, the site’s Moscow-installed authorities said. Zaporizhzhia is the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe. Moscow and Kyiv have repeatedly accused each other of risking a nuclear catastrophe with attacks since it was captured by Russia’s forces in 2022. “Today, a driver was…
Investigators on Sunday said the gunman who tried to storm a gala dinner attended by US President Donald Trump planned to target top government officials, as scrutiny grew over the event’s security. Trump, who was rushed out of the hotel ballroom in Washington by Secret Service agents, posted surveillance camera footage of the gunman attempting to sprint past a…
