https://t.co/3XprCU0cHH https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1699441980667985920/aVLqLUXb?format=jpg&name=900x900 Archaeologists have surmised that dinosaurs last roamed China approximately 66 million years ago, after the Jurrasic Period, when the supercontinent known as Pangea drifted apart. The chain of events leading to their extinction was ignited when an asteroid, spanning six miles,…

Flood water covers the floor of a shopping mall in Hong Kong on September 8, 2023. - Record rainfall in Hong Kong caused widespread flooding in the early hours on September 8, disrupting road and rail traffic just days after the city dodged…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will visit China from Friday, the foreign ministry in Beijing said, as the oil-rich socialist country seeks to shore up its ailing finances. China is Venezuela’s main creditor and has close relations with the internationally isolated nation, whose GDP…

US President Joe Biden speaks about strengthening US ports and supply chains after the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association finalized a new contract covering west coast ports, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington,…

Ali Bongo The Gabonese military junta has released ousted President Ali Bongo from detention.  Bongo was freed from house arrest, according to BBC on health ground.  BBC reported that “the decision to free Mr Bongo was due to “his state of health”. The junta said he’s…

The African Union’s Peace and Security Council on Thursday suspended Gabon following the Wednesday overthrow of President Ondimba Ali Bongo by soldiers led by the head of the Republican guards, Gen Brice Nguema. The continental body in a post on X, formerly Twitter,…

A former worker at Britain’s signals intelligence agency GCHQ on Wednesday pleaded guilty to attempted murder after attacking a US government employee outside a leisure centre. Joshua Bowles, 29, punched and stabbed his victim, who was referred to in court by a code…

Firefighters extiguish a fire in a building in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP) More than 60 people have died in a fire that engulfed a five-storey building in central Johannesburg on Thursday, the South African city’s emergency services…

Wednesday’s coup in Central African country Gabon drew anger from world leaders and international organisations. They asked the junta to return to their barracks and restore democratic order in the thinly-populated oil-rich country. The coup, the sixth on the African continent in six…