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A passenger plane with about 17 passengers on board crashed on Sunday in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing several people, the provincial governor’s office said. The plane, operated by the local company Busy Bee,

A far-right lobbying group known for openly promoting Islamophobia is set to hold a private event on Saturday at U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, permits obtained by the Washington Post showed. According to the report, the Center for Security Policy,

Several family members of the Syrian leader Bashar Assad may face criminal charges, including laundering hundreds of millions of euros, running a criminal organization, and smuggling historical artifacts, legal documents showed Friday. According to documents filed at Spain’s National Court, National

The founder and leader of the yet to be recognised Western Togoland nation has called on the government of Ghana to release some citizens of his who were arrest following the declaration of independence from Ghana. Looking immaculately dressed and sounding

More than 29,000 children have been killed during the eight-year-long Syrian civil war, most of whom were the victims of the Syrian regime forces, according to a report released Wednesday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights report released ahead of World

Israeli forces arrested around 745 Palestinian children in the first 10 months of the current year, according to a nongovernmental organization (NGO), revealing ongoing Israeli violence in the occupied territories. In an annual report, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that

Some 170 suspects have been arrested in a joint security operation code-named Koudanlgou III near the Ghana-Togo borders to stop planned terrorist activities and other criminal moves. “The exercise is aimed at preventing terrorist activities, illegal resource extraction, drug trafficking, dealing

Some ten members of the Volta secessionist group, Homeland Study Group Foundation have been arrested by the Volta Regional Security Council. This comes after the group declared parts of Ghana as independent ‘Western Togoland State’. The leader of the group, 80-year