Around 300,000 civil servants in Malawi have given the government a 14-day ultimatum to increase their salaries by 44% due to the high cost of living. Otherwise they will go on a nationwide strike. Among their main concerns, the civil servants are demanding an increase in public salaries of 44%, including transportation allowances of 100%, according to...
A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration to unblock billions of dollars in withheld US foreign aid in less than two days. District Judge Amir Ali's order was given in a telephone hearing as part of a lawsuit brought by organizations that hire and...
The East and Southern African regional blocs have appointed former leaders from Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria to oversee the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), at a time when fighting is intensifying in the east of the country. The East African Community (EAC) and the East African Development Community...
American music icon Roberta Flack died on Monday at the age of 88. The information was confirmed earlier in the day to the American press by the singer and pianist's spokeswoman, Elaine Schock. "We are devastated that the glorious Roberta Flack died this morning. She died peacefully and surrounded by her family," reads a statement. Roberta Cleopatra Flack...
The former President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, is in hospital in Shanghai, China, to treat a "malaise", according to information from the government leader in the Chamber of Deputies, José Guimarães. Rousseff has been hospitalized since Friday after suffering from vestibular neuritis, an "inflammation of the balance nerve". Family members told the Brazilian press that...
The leader of Germany's conservative party, Friedrich Merz, is the country's new prime minister after winning 28.6% of the vote, beating the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of former chancellor Olaf Scholz into third place. According to the international press, more than 50 million voters turned out this Sunday to elect the...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said last Friday (21) that he hopes Volodymyr Zelensky will visit South Africa soon for talks on ending the conflict in Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia almost three years ago. The two leaders agreed on "the urgent need for an inclusive peace process that...
Pope Francis, who is suffering from bilateral pneumonia, has a letter ready in which he resigns as leader of the Catholic Church if his health prevents him from remaining in the post. The letter has been signed for around 10 years. The Pope himself confirmed the existence of the document in an interview with the Spanish newspaper ABC in 2022. ...
The head of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, announced yesterday on his X platform page that all American public workers will be fired if they do not respond to an email they will receive every week asking them what they did the week before. "All federal employees will soon receive an...
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, former president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and one of Italy's most important cardinals, admits that Pope Francis may resign from the pontificate for health reasons, although he believes that the Argentine pontiff intends to remain in office at least until the end of the Jubilee in 2025. In an interview with...