On Thursday, President Xi Jinping is expected to pitch plugging into China's burgeoning green energy industry to leaders from Gambia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

"I have listened to the people on the ground and they are in support of Raila Odinga's candidature," the DP said.

"Politics cannot function without public trust," Kishida said in a press conference on Wednesday to announce his decision not to seek re-election

Around 300 people died in the demonstrations that began as protests against employment quotas but spiralled into a movement seeking Hasina's overthrow.

Abbas Araghchi is a seasoned pragmatist diplomat who was the chief negotiator in nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers from 2013 to 2021.

Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan resigned, the law ministry's adviser Asif Nazrul said in a Facebook video post, after students warned him of "dire consequences" if he did not.

Muhammad Yunus was appointed to the post by Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin after he held meetings with student leaders and chiefs of the three military services.

Her iron-fisted grasp on power has been challenged since summer by protests triggered by a court ruling to reserve government jobs - heavily coveted amid high youth unemployment - for certain segments of the population.

Bangladesh's army chief will meet student protest leaders on Tuesday as the country awaits the formation of a new government a day after PM Hasina resigned and fled the country following a violent uprising against her rule.

Student leaders, who spearheaded a movement against job quotas that turned into a call for Hasina to resign, said that they want a new interim government with Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus as its chief adviser.

The United Nations is following the situation in Bangladesh very closely after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday.

Organisers said the protests would draw over two million people onto the streets to demand more action from President Nana Akufo-Addo on corruption and living conditions, as well as to protest delays in signing an anti-LGBT bill into law.

At least 79 people have been killed in the flooding, which has inundated farms and residential areas and displaced thousands.

Modi, who started as a publicist of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is only the second person after independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru to serve a third straight term as prime minister.

Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party lost its outright majority in parliament in a surprise election verdict.

Should Narendra Modi secure a third term as PM, one of his priorities will be improving incomes.

Most exit polls projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds majority in the 543-member lower house of parliament, where 272 is needed for a simple majority.

Beijing is also expected to pass new rules this year for the labelling of genetically modified crops used in food products.

The system provides effective protection of valuable assets and first-class defence for forces located in the combat area. 

"The conflict has already pushed an additional 1.74 million people into poverty."

One of the choppers was seen clipping the rear rotor of another helicopter, causing both to go into a tailspin and crash.

This was the heaviest recorded rainfall in UAE in a 24-hour period since 1949.

Approximately Sh2.19 trillion has been spent on different African development projects

Food scraps are thrown into the machine where they are slowly mixed with rice husks and sawdust for 48 hours.

An elite Kenyan police unit is already on trial, charged with wrongful death, following the killing of Arshad Sharif in October 2022. 

This is the first time the UN Human Rights Council is taking a position on the escalating war.

Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a warning for tsunami waves as high as three metres (10 feet).

The fresh ICJ order also calls on Israel, as a signatory to the Genocide Convention, to undertake those measures, “including by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points."

The 1948 Genocide Convention, enacted in the wake of the mass murder of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".

Ali Gholampour, Iran's ambassador to Kenya, said the release of the detainees was a sign of Somalia's readiness to thaw diplomatic relations after years of stagnation.