Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was briefly hospitalised after his health deteriorated following a hunger strike but was back in prison on Monday, his lawyer told AFP. Besigye, 68, is a leading opponent of President Yoweri Museveni — in power for nearly 40 years — whom he has unsuccessfully challenged in four elections. He was abducted in Kenya in November and has been facing the death penalty on treason charges in a court martial that his wife, UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima, has called a “sham”. Besigye’s lawyer Erias Lukwago said he “was brought under heavy security deployment to…
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A former surgeon goes on trial later this month charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 former patients, most of them children and many of them unconscious at the time, over a quarter of a century across western France. The sheer scale and horror of the allegations against Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, means his four-month trial, due to start on February 24, is likely to have an immense impact at home and abroad.And it will have added resonance coming two months after Frenchman Dominique Pelicot was convicted of enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated then-wife…
US President Donald Trump said Sunday he could meet “very soon” with Vladimir Putin, adding he believes his Russian counterpart genuinely wants to stop fighting in Ukraine. “No time set, but it could be very soon,” Trump told reporters, hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to play down expectations of upcoming high-level talks in Riyadh on ending the war. With Rubio set to lead a high-level American delegation at the discussions with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia’s capital in the coming days, a flurry of diplomacy was taking place as the brutal Ukraine war nears its third…
Israel’s security cabinet was set to discuss on Monday the next phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, after top US diplomat Marco Rubio and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu presented a united front on their approach to Hamas and Iran. Rubio was in Israel on his first Middle East trip as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state, and was slated to leave for Saudi Arabia on Monday. “Hamas cannot continue as a military or a government force… they must be eliminated,” Rubio said of the Palestinian Islamist group that fought Israel for more than 15 months in Gaza until…
13 mins ago Renowned Nigerian writer and literary icon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has revealed that she welcomed twin boys in 2024. The celebrated author, known for bestsellers like Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, shared that she chose to keep their birth private to protect her family’s privacy. Speaking in an interview with The Guardian’s Charlotte Edwardes,… 55 mins ago The 2025 Bafta Awards took place on Sunday, February 16, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, celebrating the best in film. Below is the full list of winners: Best Film Winner: Conclave Nominees: Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete…
The wife of detained Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye said on Sunday she was “very worried” about his health, nearly a week after the ex-presidential candidate began a hunger strike. Besigye, 68, is a leading opponent of the country’s President Yoweri Museveni, in power for nearly 40 years, whom he has unsuccessfully challenged in four elections. On trial for “threatening national security,” Besigye went on a hunger strike on February 10 to protest his detention, with his lawyer describing him as “critically ill”. “He’s not been eating, he’s only drinking water,” his wife, UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima, told…
President Bola Tinubu’s former campaign spokesman in the south east, Dr. Josef Onoh has described the immediate past Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, as a resilient misunderstood statesman who has no political and social boundaries. Onoh said that the former governor has shown his ability to make friendship accros boards, absorb shocks, and quickly overcome political differences. He congratulated El-Rufai in his attainment of 65 years, noting that longevity is blessing from God which men have no control over the gift. Onoh urged the former governor to remain steadfast in his passion for a united country and…
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Argentina’s President Javier Milei admitted making a mistake on Saturday after promoting a cryptocurrency whose value soared and then crashed, with his office announcing an “urgent investigation”. According to news outlets, Milei posted a message on social media platform X Friday evening, praising a “private project” aimed at “stimulating the growth of the Argentine economy, by financing small businesses and Argentine entrepreneurs.” “The world wants to invest in Argentina. $LIBRA,” the post reportedly said, naming the cryptocurrency along with a website for the project. Hours later, Milei deleted the message, saying: “I did not know the details of the…
Taiwan said it detected 24 Chinese military aircraft near the island on Sunday as a Canadian warship passed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait. It was the first Canadian naval vessel to transit the waterway this year, Taiwan’s foreign ministry said, and came days after two US ships made the passage. The United States and its allies regularly pass through the 180-kilometre (112-mile) Taiwan Strait to reinforce its status as an international waterway, angering China. Beijing has never ruled Taiwan, but it claims the democratic island as part of its territory and has threatened to bring it under its control…