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Last updated: 5 hours ago Thousands of people plunged into the frigid waters of the Magellan Strait in Chile on Saturday during the “Splash of the Strait”, an event suspended for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Punta Arenas, the southernmost city in the world, dawned under 10 centimetres (almost four inches) of snow and sub-zero temperatures. But that… Read More

Last updated: 5 hours ago Just like any other Portuguese bullfight, the elegant rider deftly guides his horse around the charging bull’s horns, before bending down to plant a bandarilha in its spine. Except that no blood is spilled — the small spear is velcro-padded, and sticks to a cushion attached to the bull’s back — and most of the… Read More

The new French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu continued his West African tour on Saturday. He met Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan on Saturday. Lecornu is on a visit to Ivory Coast after a stop in Niger to discuss “the security situation in Africa, particularly in the Sahel-Saharan strip. France’s relationship with Ivory Coast dates back to… Read More

Two bridges were blown up by armed groups in Burkina Faso on Friday night by suspected Jihadists in the West African nation. The fighters blew up two crucial bridges raising fears that they intend to isolate the Sahel region. The attackers destroyed the Woussé bridge, forcing a convoy that was supposed to supply the town of Djibo to return to… Read More

South Africa’s power distributor ESKOM has assured that the frequent power cuts will come to an end by the end of the week as more generators have started operating. While meeting President Cyril Ramaphosa at Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga province, Eskom head said that by the end of July the risk would be significantly diminished once unit 2 of… Read More

Sudanese police fired tear gas in the capital Khartoum on Saturday in an attempt to disperse hundreds of pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against coup leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, AFP correspondents reported. Security forces had erected roadblocks on bridges crossing the Nile river linking Khartoum to its suburbs, AFP reporters said, to deter protesters who had vowed to take to the… Read More

Another woman has pressed sexual harassment charges in a case against French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier and a seventh suspect has been detained, lawyers in Morocco said Saturday. Several young Moroccan women had lodged complaints last month against the 75-year-old, one of France’s richest men, for alleged “people trafficking, sexual harassment and verbal and moral violence”. Since then, Moroccan authorities… Read More

Several groups of Chadian rebel and political parties on Saturday withdrew from talks with the African nation’s military government, accusing it of seeking to destabilise peace efforts. The move, by about half the groups in the talks, came less than 24 hours after President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno’s administration announced that a national peace dialogue intended to pave the way for… Read More

Last updated: 14 hours ago Strikes hit Peace Square in the centre of Kramatorsk — the administrative centre of Donbas, an industrial region Russian troops are attempting to conquer — causing damage to nearby buildings. Strikes were also reported in the south of the city. The children flicker like ghosts among the empty playgrounds in weedy courtyards deep in a… Read More

Last updated: 14 hours ago Japan Expo, the European festival of manga and Japanese culture, is back in Paris after two cancelled editions in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and there is no lack of fans, says the co-founder and co-organiser of the convention: “We were a little worried about how it would go, would people still… Read More