The situation was tense and confused in the capital, where mobile internet had been cut on Sunday… EKO HOT BLOG reports that mutinous troops in restive Burkina Faso arrested President Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Monday and detained him in army barracks a day after staging an uprising, security sources told AFP. Soldiers at several … Read more
Last month, New Zealand said it was pushing back its phased border reopening until the end of February over concerns about the Omicron variant EKO HOT BLOG reports that New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Sunday revealed she has canceled her wedding as the country continues to curb a new wave of Omicron cases. … Read more
Russia has denied claims that it is planning to invade Ukraine EKO HOT BLOG reports that the United States has ordered the relatives of its embassy staff in Ukraine to leave amid rising tension in the region. The State Department has also given permission for non-essential staff to leave and urged US citizens in Ukraine … Read more
…she was told by a whip that her “Muslimness” had been raised as an issue. EKO HOT BLOG reports that a British member of parliament says she was fired from a ministerial job in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government partly because her Muslim faith was making colleagues uncomfortable. Forty-nine-year-old Nusrat Ghani, who lost her … Read more
UK ministers have warned that the Russian government will face serious consequences if there is an incursion EKO HOT BLOG reports that the United Kingdom has accused President Putin of plotting to install a pro-Moscow figure to lead Ukraine’s government. The Foreign Office took the unusual step of naming former Ukrainian MP Yevhen Murayev as … Read more
The coalition also said the site was not on a list of targets to avoid that had been agreed with the UN… EKO HOT BLOG reports that the UN has condemned an airstrike on a Yemen detention centre that has killed more than 70 people. The facility in Saada, a stronghold of the rebel Houthi … Read more
Russia has 100,000 troops at the border, but denies planning to invade EKO HOT BLOG reports that the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are to hold talks in Geneva later amid mounting fears that Russia could be about to invade Ukraine. On Thursday Blinken warned Moscow of grave … Read more
Eko Hot Blog reports that at least 17 people were killed and 59 injured Thursday in a devastating explosion in a western Ghana town after a truck carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle, the government said. The blast left a huge crater and reduced dozens of buildings to dust-covered piles of wood and metal in … Read more
The bodies of two adults and a baby were found about 12 meters (yards) from the US border… EKO HOT BLOG reports that Canadian authorities found the bodies of four people including a baby who apparently froze to death in a blizzard a few meters from the US border along a route used by migrants, … Read more
…a new report into historical abuse allegations carried out by a German law firm incriminated the former pontiff. EKO HOT BLOG reports that former Pope Benedict XVI failed to act over four child abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, a German probe into the Catholic Church has alleged. Pope Benedict, then called Josef … Read more
The Pentagon defended the strike at first, claiming it had killed an ISIS-K operative planning an imminent attack on US forces… EKO HOT BLOG reports that the US military released videos Wednesday of the botched August 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children. The newly released videos show the … Read more
Moscow denies planning to attack or invade but has built up its forces EKO HOT BLOG reports that US President Joe Biden has said he thinks his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will “move in” on Ukraine, but does not want “full-blown war”. Asked at a news conference about the threat of a Russian invasion, he … Read more
…Russia has now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region. EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine has warned that Russia has “almost completed” its build-up of forces that could be used for an offensive against the country, compounding fears that Moscow could launch an invasion at any time. According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s … Read more
The Czech Singer Caught Covid -19 in order to access certain venues – Son EKO HOT BLOG reports that a famous singer from the Czech Republic, Hana Horka, has died of Covid-19, two days after posting on social media that she was recovering from the virus, after testing positive. Hana had refused to be vaccinated. … Read more
The USA hopes this will reign in Covid-19 surge EKO HOT BLOG reports that the president of the United States of America, Joe Biden, is set to distribute 400 million N95 masks to the citizens of America. This much a White House official told CNN, as monitored by EEKO HOT BLOG. The masks — which … Read more
Giuliani travelled the US after the 2020 election to promote the baseless claim that Trump had won… EKO HOT BLOG reports that the congressional panel investigating last year’s US Capitol riot have issued a subpoena to former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. The House of Representatives committee demanded Giuliani and three others hand … Read more
The airlines want 5G signals to be excluded from “the approximate two miles of airport runways at affected airports as defined by the FAA on 19 January 2022” EKO HOT BLOG reports that 10 biggest US airlines have warned that the impending switch-on of 5G mobile phone services will cause “major disruption” to They said … Read more
Dozens of British troops have been in Ukraine since 2015 to help train their armed forces… EKO HOT BLOG reports that Britain is supplying Ukraine with short-range anti-tank missiles for self-defence after Russia amassed about 100,000 troops on its border, the defence secretary said. Ben Wallace told MPs a small team of British troops would … Read more
Two Indians Among three killed in UAE capital in suspected drone attack claimed by Yemen rebels EKO HOT BLOG reports that Yemen’s rebel Houthi movement, on Monday, said that it had carried out a military attack on the United Arab Emirates, UAE, as authorities in Abu Dhabi, the capital, announced suspected drone strikes targeted an … Read more
China will not sell tickets for winter Olympics- Olympics organizing committee says EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Chinese winter Olympics organizing committee has released a statement, insisting that tickets for the winter Olympics in China, set to begin February 4, will not be sold. This announcement comes after Beijing reported its first case of … Read more