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In order to commemorate the completion of 10,000 brand-new, contemporary dwellings in Pyongyang’s newly developed Hwasong District, North Korea organised a ceremony on Sunday, according to the country’s official news agency KCNA. According to the source, the leader Kim Jong Un and many other top government officials, including the premier of the cabinet Kim Tok Hun, attended the event. The accomplishment comes two months after Kim broke ground on a new home development, which the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) called “another opulent socialist street full of the people’s happiness.” North Korea said that it will construct 50,000 additional flats…

In response to the recent increase in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG), the Nigerian Navy (NN) has maintained the presence of her capital ships at sea and instructed operational bases to intensify efforts to control their areas of operations. This was said in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja by Commodore Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, Director of Information for the Nigerian Navy. According to Ayo-Vanghan, the recent wave of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) decreased to an all-time low in 2022. Despite deliberate attempts to keep piracy in the GoG to a minimum, he said that two…

Egypt The Egyptian Football Premier League (EPL) said on Sunday that 3,000 Al-Ahly supporters have been banned for two matches for yelling “insults” at Zamalek and Egypt star Shikabala during the team’s most recent match against Pharco. Despite the fact that league leaders Al-Ahly did not play Zamalek on Friday, their 3,000 supporters, who represent the maximum number of spectators permitted for any club in a domestic soccer game, unloaded their ire at midfielder Shikabala in a long-running trash war. Al-Ahly was also assessed a fine for the event of 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($650). Additionally, the EPL banned 2,021 Ismaili…

Thousands of Czechs protested about rising energy and inflation costs on Sunday in Prague’s main plaza, demanding on the government to step down. Police did not estimate the size of the “Czechia against poverty” rally. The non-parliamentary political group PRO, which has condemned the centre-right administration of Prime Minister Petr Fiala for its handling of the energy crisis that has afflicted Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago, coordinated the protest, as it did with a related rally in March. While denied being a pro-Russian party, PRO has criticised the government for restricting free expression as…

In a murder that was seen on live television on Saturday, a former legislator in India’s parliament who had been convicted of abduction was shot dead with his brother while police were accompanying them for a medical checkup. Intense video of the guys being slain was carried on television and posted on social media. Atiq Ahmed, a former politician, has his turban blasted off as a shooter is seen leaning over police shoulders to put a weapon at his temple. A fraction of a second later, his brother Ashraf Ahmed was shot. Another video taken by newsmen shows a single…

Authorities claim that armed men murdered a toddler and six other people on Saturday after assaulting a resort in the Guanajuato state of central Mexico. The area is becoming more rife with drug cartel violence. Social media users uploaded videos of the attack’s aftermath in a palm-fringed resort in the little town of Cortazar, which is located about 65 kilometres (40 miles) south of Guanajuato. According to Cortazar’s local security division, it was unclear who was responsible for the gunshot that killed the seven-year-old, three men, and three women. In the La Palma resort, one individual suffered a major injury.…

After a power struggle descended into confrontations that left 56 civilians and dozens of combatants dead, the Sudanese army began airstrikes on a rival paramilitary force’s camp close to the capital on Sunday in an effort to regain control of the lawless nation. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), headed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, and army forces loyal to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan engaged in combat on Saturday. The outbreak was the first of its kind since both parties banded together to overthrow President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 2019. The United States, China, Russia, Egypt, Saudi…

The alleged theft of metal roofing sheets intended for a relief effort in the unrest-plagued Karamoja area in northeastern Uganda led to the arrest and detention of Uganda’s assistant finance minister according to authorities. The arrest of Amos Lugoloobi is the second one of a minister in recent weeks related to the misappropriation of roofing sheets. The arrest of Lugoloobi, according to the police, was allowed by the DPP as part of “investigations into the alleged theft and diversion of iron sheets intended for the Karamoja region.” A police post on Twitter said that “the DPP’s office has authorised criminal…

Egypt’s official grain buyer began selling yellow maize on the country’s newly created commodities market on Thursday, according to exchange chief Ibrahim Ashmawy in a statement issued on Saturday. Egypt’s state buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), began offering unusual maize bids early this year in an attempt to alleviate a feed problem that had harmed small farmers and even forced some farmers to slaughter chicks. Supply Minister Ali Moselhy said that the maize will be exchanged for local producers. Egypt, a major importer of basic commodities, has been hit by a foreign currency crisis that has caused…

Kenya launched its first functioning earth observation satellite on Saturday aboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States according to a live stream from Elon Musk’s rocket firm. The satellite, designed by nine Kenyan engineers, will gather agricultural and environmental data, such as floods, droughts, and wildfires, for use in disaster management and combating food shortages. After three postponements due to severe weather, the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Taifa-1 satellite lifted off without incident from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at about 0648 GMT. “Taifa-1 separation confirmed,” Space X announced in a livestream roughly an hour and four…