A 16-year-old girl was killed Saturday after being mauled by a shark as she swam in a river in Western Australia, officials said. The girl was critically injured when an unknown species of shark bit her in the Swan River in the Perth suburb of Fremantle, a state government statement said. She was pulled from the water but pronounced dead at the scene after efforts to revive her failed, said Paul Robinson, police acting inspector for the Fremantle district. “It’s very early on, what we’re being advised is that she was with friends on the river,” he told a news…
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A Sumatran tiger believed to have attacked and injured farmers in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh was captured on Saturday after a days-long hunt. It comes after two separate tiger attacks in the same Sumatran town over the past week left at least four people seriously injured. The animal entered a trap set by conservationists inside a forest reserve early Saturday in the town of Kluet Tengah in southern Aceh. It was found to have several wounds on its body. “One of the victims said he injured the animal when he was being attacked and was defending himself. There are…
East African leaders were heading to Burundi on Saturday for a regional summit called to discuss the raging conflict in eastern DR Congo The post East African leaders to hold talks on DR Congo unrest appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
Islamabad will ask the secretive supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing The post Pakistan to appeal to Taliban leader over police mosque bombing appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
Burkina Faso’s junta leader said Friday his country had not severed diplomatic ties with France, which he has asked to withdraw its forces, and denied Russian Wagner mercenaries were in the country. Former colonial power France had special forces based in the capital Ouagadougou, but its presence had come under intense scrutiny as anti-French sentiment in the region grows, with Paris withdrawing its ambassador to Burkina over the junta’s demands. “The end of diplomatic agreements, no!” Captain Ibrahim Traore said in a television interview with Burkinabe journalists. “There is no break in diplomatic relations or hatred against a particular state.”…
Pope Francis on Saturday will meet victims of South Sudan’s civil war, a day after delivering an impassioned appeal for the country’s leaders to recommit to peace for the sake of their long-suffering people. Francis is making the first papal visit to South Sudan since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and plunged into a brutal ethnic conflict that left the young nation divided and traumatised. Some 380,000 people died in five years of bloodshed before the civil war formally ended in 2018, with a ceasefire between warring leaders who remain in power today. But the country remains fragile…
France’s former prime minister Edouard Philippe, a leading contender to succeed President Emmanuel Macron in 2027 elections, has opened up about a hair loss condition he says will not diminish his political ambition. The 52-year-old politician, who spearheaded the government’s fight against the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, was a familiar face on television with his trademark brown beard. Since leaving the post in the summer of 2020 and working as mayor of the Normandy port of Le Havre, his appearance has drastically changed with his hair and beard thinning and turning white suddenly. “This is what had happened to…
A Briton on Friday became the first person in decades to plead guilty to treason, after admitting trying to harm Queen Elizabeth II with a loaded crossbow in Windsor Castle in 2021. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, from southern England, was detained on the grounds of the royal residence on Christmas Day while the late queen was there. He admitted to an armed officer at the scene that he was there “to kill the queen”, and pleaded guilty to three charges at a criminal court hearing. They include a section of the Treason Act, dating back to 1842 that outlaws attempts…
Pakistan has threatened to ban Wikipedia if it does not remove “blasphemous content” from its website by Friday, the latest censorship warning in the deeply conservative country. Social media giants Facebook and YouTube have been blocked in the past over content deemed blasphemous, a hugely sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday said the website had until late Friday to heed the warning, without elaborating on the content in question. In the meantime, Wikipedia would be “degraded”, disrupting and slowing access to the free online encyclopedia, which gets billions of views each month. “Given the…
Russia on Friday said it will nationalise “foreign” assets in annexed Crimea — including those with Ukraine-linked ownership — and funnel some of the funds to support people fighting in Ukraine. “Deputies of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea adopted a resolution on the nationalisation of property of foreign citizens and states that commit hostile actions against Russia,” their chairman Vladimir Konstantinov said on social media. The regional parliament, created by Moscow after the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, said the bill targeted the property of Ukrainian individuals and businesses and was approved unanimously. Konstantinov said…