Category: World
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Ninety-seven people drowned on Lake Kariba this month — the worst boat disaster in Zimbabwe’s history. The world read the figure 15, because that was the number when the story was still news.
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A town of 18,000 in the far north-east of the Central African Republic is hosting more than 27,000 Sudanese refugees — and since a rebel attack in June, displaced Central Africans too. The response plan is 11 per cent funded.
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Kyiv agreed to an American request to hold off striking Moscow while the CIA director was in the city. The drones came back hours after his plane left — which tells you who the courtesy was for.
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Mocha has been closed since mid-August after more than 25 missiles hit it — the first attacks on the port since the 2022 truce. Yemen’s frozen war is thawing, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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Fourteen babies died in the nursery at Islamabad’s largest public hospital. An air-conditioning fault, oxygen pipework, and a ward whose occupants cannot be evacuated quickly — a combination that has killed newborns twice before in two years.
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The CIA director went to Moscow unannounced and proposed a three-way meeting with Putin and Zelensky. Why that errand goes to a spy chief rather than a diplomat, and why the summit keeps not happening.
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The toll across Nepal and Tibet is nearing 700 and more than 3,000 people remain unaccounted for. The lake above the valley has drained — but the debris it sat behind is still there, and the rain is still coming.
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A Russian drone hit an ammunition store at Myla, west of Kyiv, and the detonation killed at least 37 people. Zelensky’s anger was aimed at whoever put the explosives next to a care home — the second such incident in two months.
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Canada’s answer to “Lake America” is a large sign on its own shore reading “Lake Ontario now and always”. Both gestures are free, both are visible, and neither touches the 50 per cent tariffs underneath.
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State television says dozens of soldiers were killed or arrested after Saturday’s revolt in Niamey. No group claimed the attack and arrests followed inside the army — the two signals that separate a mutiny from an insurgent raid.