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On May 28, 2023, the Indian capital, New Delhi, witnessed two dramatic scenes play out within 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) of each other. Just as a new parliament building was being unveiled, police officers were manhandling some of the country’s top female wrestlers who have brought home medals from the …

The train crash that killed at least 288 people, and injured hundreds more, in India is remarkable even in a country with a long history of train deaths. In 2021 alone, there were more than 16,000 train-related deaths in India, according to the country’s National Crime Records Bureau, a figure …

The party said that Mohammed was elected based on his competence and capability to steer the forum to greater heights. Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has been elected as the new Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum.

Manchester City’s mission to win a treble of major trophies stayed on track after beating Manchester United 2-1 in the FA Cup final, with the first of Ilkay Gundogan’s two goals coming after a record 13 seconds. With City having already retained the Premier League, now only a first-ever Champions …

In this feature, part of a series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel, UN News focuses on the illegal fuel trade in the region. Transported by criminal networks and taxed by terrorist groups, illegal fuel flows along four major routes snaking across the Sahel towards ready buyers, siphoning …

Demonstrators battled with security forces to protest a two-year prison sentence given to a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko.

Unlike other parts of the world, Latin America is free of war. Yet it is a region plagued by inequality, crime, corruption, drug trafficking and social upheaval. Political stability and strong democratic institutions are more the exception than the rule. South America, in particular, never seems to stop moving from …

Tallen was accused of diversion of funds during her time as the Minister of Women Affairs under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The immediate former Minister for Women Affairs and Social Development, Pauline Tallen, was grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, June 2, …

Video shows rescuers attempting to free people trapped in the wreckage after two trains derailed in the eastern state of Odisha.

Fake or substandard antimalarial medicines kill as many as 267,000 sub-Saharan Africans every year. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, June 02, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jun 02 (IPS) – There is a tangled trafficking web that has been woven across the Sahel, which spans almost 6.000 kilometres …