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Last-minute efforts by Germany's largest airline to halt the strike failed after a court in Frankfurt on Wednesday confirmed that the walkout was legal 
World
08.08.2024
Tens of thousands of Lufthansa passengers faced disruptions Thursday as cabin crew in Germany kicked off a "massive" 48-hour walkout in the biggest escalation yet of a bitter row over pay and conditions.
Ntaganda faces life in prison for a litany of crimes including directing massacres of civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile, mineral-rich Ituri region in 2002 and 2003
World
08.08.2024
International Criminal Court Judges will on Thursday sentence Congolese rebel chief Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda after he was convicted earlier this year of war crimes and sexual slavery.
Then South Africa president Nelson Mandela (R) celebrates as captain Neil Tovey (L) holds the Africa Cup of Nations trophy after defeating Tunisia in the 1996 final
World
08.08.2024
South Africa football legend Neil Tovey says a club-versus-country tug of war over the team to compete in an Olympic Games qualifying tournament from this weekend is a "disgrace". 
The iconic picture of Nelson Mandela (L) congratulating captain Francois Pienaar after the Springboks won the 1995 Rugby World Cup
World
08.08.2024
A national tour by Rugby World Cup winners the Springboks begins Thursday and one of the first stops will be Soweto, a township near Johannesburg where they team were once hated. 
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Colombian Defence Minister Guillermo Botero, pictured in September 2019, announced his resignation after meeting with the country's president
World 08.08.2024
Colombia's defense minister Guillermo Botero resigned Wednesday after facing accusations of trying to cover up the deaths of several children in a military air strike on a drug trafficking gang.
A team of international forensic experts exhumed a mass grave of victims of El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war
World 08.08.2024
Forensic experts exhume remains of victims of El Salvador's civil war
Schiphol is one of Europe's busiest airports, handling more than 70 million passengers a year, according to its website
World 08.08.2024
A pilot accidentally set off a hijack alarm on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, triggering a huge security operation by Dutch police.
The country's security forces, pictured during training, have been unable to stem jihadist violence which has intensified throughout 2019 to become almost daily
World 08.08.2024
An ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company in Burkina Faso killed 37 people on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in nearly five years of jihadist violence in the West African country.
Bolivian pro-government supporters clash with riot police during a rally for President Evo Morales in Cochabamba
World 08.08.2024
El líder opositor regional boliviano Luis Fernando Camacho pretende desafiar nuevamente al presidente Evo Morales y llegar a La Paz este miércoles con el propósito de entregarle personalmente una carta de renuncia para que la firme.
Violence has also flared up in Mozambique's far north where suspected Islamist extremists have been waging a terror campaign
World 08.08.2024
Three people were killed in central Mozambique on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, the latest in a series of attacks following an election marred by violence and fraud allegations.
Brazil's lower house of Congress voted to give hunters, sports shooters and collectors easier access to weapons, but opposed easing restrictions that would have allowed millions of ordinary Brazilians to buy and carry guns on the street
World 08.08.2024
La Cámara de Diputados de Brasil aprobó el martes por la noche una versión reducida del proyecto de ley sobre la tenencia y porte de armas propuesto por el presidente de ultraderecha Jair Bolsonaro.
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam is set to be Africa's largest when it is completed
World 08.08.2024
Ethiopia's construction of a massive power dam on the Blue Nile is raising tensions with Egypt, which depends on the river for 90 percent of its water supply.
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda says the International Criminal Court has information on the locations of three Libyan fugitives, including one of former dictator Moamer Kadhafi's sons
World 08.08.2024
A top international prosecutor called Wednesday on Libya and Egypt to arrest three Libyan war crimes suspects, including a son of ousted leader Moamer Kadhafi.
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