The international community should support the countries in the Great Lakes region to strengthen solidarity and cooperation to build a common future, said Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, on Tuesday. For some time now, the countries in the Great Lakes region have actively pursued peace, security,

U.S. stocks ended higher on Tuesday, with a surge in technology shares driving a broader market rebound that saw the Nasdaq Composite achieve its strongest performance in nearly three weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 126.13 points, or 0.30 percent, to 42,080.37. The SandP 500 added 55.19 points, or

At least nine provincial security operatives keeping guard in a local community were recently killed in an ambush by a group of gunmen in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara, an official said Tuesday. Dauda Lawal, governor of Zamfara, said in a statement that the civil guards operating under the state’s

Israel’s military said on Tuesday that it launched extensive airstrikes targeting underground Hezbollah command centers in southern Lebanon Monday afternoon, in which more than 50 militants were killed. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said during a televised press briefing that the airstrikes hit and destroyed dozens of

The Academy of Defence Sciences of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted a test-fire of 240 mm-caliber controllable multiple rocket launcher shells on Tuesday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Wednesday. The test-fire aimed at reconfirming the hit accuracy of the rocket launcher shells at a

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a Shiite militia group, claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a drone attack on a site in northern Israel. The group said in a statement that the attack was conducted “in solidarity with the people of Palestine and Lebanon” and pledged to continue targeting “the enemy’s

At least 24 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in central and southern Gaza on Tuesday, Palestinian sources said. Israeli warplanes hit a four-story residential building in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing 16 people, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense Authority. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel) – – – – DAMASCUS

The water levels in the River Niger, one of Nigeria’s two major rivers, are being put under control as part of measures to prevent imminent flooding in the most populous African nation, local authorities said Tuesday. Umar Mohammed, head of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), said in a statement