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Chad’s Military government has signed a peace deal with more than 40 opposition groups to launch a National reconciliation dialogue. Under the accord, talks aimed at paving the way for a presidential election will start on August 20. Since March, Qatar has been mediating between opposition groups and the Military government of Mahamat Itno, a general who seized power last year. But the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, the […]

Colombia has sworn in Gustavo Petro, former rebel fighter, as its first left-wing President. Petro, who took his oath of office in Bogota’s Bolivar Plaza on Sunday, pledged to unite the polarized Country in the fight against inequality, and achieve peace with rebel groups and crime gangs. The President promised to revive scuppered peace negotiations with the National Liberation Army rebels.

At least 13 people have been killed and dozens injured in a fire at a nightclub in eastern Thailand. Provincial Police Chief, Atthasit Kijjahan said the cause of the fire at the nightclub in the Sattahip district southeast of Bangkok, is under investigation. Kijjahan revealed that the club’s owner and staff were giving statements at the police station and that a police forensic team would be collecting evidence at the […]

The former Governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda Vazquez, has been arrested on bribery charges related to the financing of her 2020 campaign. A statement issued by the United States Department of Justice disclosed that Vazquez was accused of engaging in a bribery scheme from December 2019 through June 2020 with several people. According to the statement, Vazquez denied any wrongdoing. It added that those attributed to the alleged crime pleaded […]

Reports say Turkish President, Recep Erdogan will meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on Friday after brokering a grain shipment deal between Moscow and Kyiv. According to the report, regional and global developments will be on the agenda, as well as bilateral ties. The summit with President Putin comes in the same week that a ship carrying Ukraine grain was able to set sail, the first since the conflict began, […]

Nepal’s government says it will hold a Parliamentary election on November 20, 2022 amid concerns over high inflation and depleted foreign exchange reserves that have led to rising food and energy prices. This was confirmed by the Country’s Education Minister, Debendra Paudel on Thursday. According to Paudel, a cabinet meeting had approved the date for the election to the 275-member House of Representatives, 165 seats on a first-past-the-post basis while […]

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed for direct talks with China’s President Xi Jinping. Zelenskyy urged Beijing to use its political and economic influence on Russia to help end the war in his country. Ukranian President and his Western allies have called Russia’s invasion a war of aggression, but Beijing says Moscow was provoked into attacking. Jinping had previously expressed concern over the conflict in Ukraine during a summit in […]

Peru’s Prime Minister Anibal Torres has resigned. In his resignation letter, Torres, said he was resigning due to personal reasons. His resignation comes amid widening criminal investigation focused on the nation’s president, Pedro Castillo. Castillo, has overseen unprecedented turnover in senior government posts during his administration.  

Following the killing of al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, United States government has urged citizens to be cautious against possible anti-American violence. According to the Department of State, al-Zawahiri’s death could prompt al-Qaeda supporters or other linked terror groups to target US facilities and personnel. He was killed by a US drone in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The al-Qaeda leader had helped mastermind the 9/11 attacks on the US […]