The death toll has risen to at least 30 a day after an Israeli air strike hit the coastal city of Barja in Lebanon. Rescue workers also discovered body parts in the wreckage, the civil defence said. Three injured people were taken to hospital. Barja is located around 30 kilometres south of the capital Beirut. […]

Germany’s Cabinet approved legislation introducing a new form of military service on Wednesday, according to government sources. The legislation, presented by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, reinstates a military register that young men must join when they turn 18, stating their willingness and ability to do military service. According to t

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s army chief, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, who led soldiers through a critical period in the fight against Islamic extremists in the West African nation’s hard-hit northeast, has died after an illness, President Bola Tinubu said Wednesday. Lagbaja was 56. Lagbaja, who served as army chief since June 2023, di

Nigeria’s Chief of Army General Taoreed Lagbaja was appointed to his position in 2023 (Getty Images) Nigeria’s army chief General Taoreed Lagbaja has died after a “period of illness” aged 56, President Bola Tinubu has announced. He died on Tuesday night in Lagos. The exact details of his illness were not shared. In a stateme

Germany and Somalia are to cooperate on stepping up the deportation of migrants from the East African country. After a meeting with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Berlin, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the leaders agreed that migrants without the legal right to remain in Germany “will be repatriated quickly and efficiently.R