Explosions were heard in the city of Odesa in southern Ukraine early Tuesday, about 24 hours after an apparent Ukrainian attack on the Kerch Bridge that connects the annexed Crimean Peninsula with mainland Russia. The Uncovered News team heard air raid sirens around 2 a.m. local time and saw air defenses operating across the city,…
Germany’s over 900 food banks, overseen by the charitable organization Tafel e.V., support anyone who can prove they’re facing financial hardship. But fewer and fewer companies are donating to these food banks, although demand is growing amid high inflation and the influx of Ukrainian refugees. That’s why food banks are now calling on the German…
Kenya political impasse wrecks economy, pushes traders to Central Corridor Regional business lobby The East African Business Council is warning of huge disruptions to cross-border trade and investments ahead, which it says will slow the recovery of East African economies from the economic effects of the disruptions caused by COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war. “The…
Rising interest rates, inflation, and commodity shocks have raised the likelihood of an overlap of debt crises in Africa. So how can African countries navigate these challenges to increase domestic resources and deepen capital markets while still accessing affordable pools of international private capital? The International Monetary Fund estimates that 30 percent of emerging markets…
Thousands of diehard Taylor Swift fans erupted in screams Friday as a Philippine drag queen impersonating the American music megastar strutted on stage in a Manila shopping center. As fans across the region scrambled Friday to get their hands on tickets for her six shows in Singapore, one of only two stops in Asia, Filipino…
Hong Kong-born singer and actress CoCo Lee, whose decades-long career included dozens of successful albums, movies, and television shows, died Wednesday, her sisters announced on social media. Her sisters, Carol and Nancy, said she had been suffering from depression for “a few years” and attempted to take her life on Sunday. She was hospitalized but…
Russia’s state The Russia-1 TV channel broadcast a program in which Wagner’s boss was branded ‘a traitor’ and said a criminal investigation was continuing over the mutiny. In this handout photo taken from a video released by the Prigozhin Press Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company. Russian state TV has…
Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) said that three hospitals came under attack during the Israeli military assault on Jenin, “severely damaging their operational capacity”. The Israeli military also prevented ambulances from evacuating the wounded during the assault on Jenin, and “in a further escalation, Israeli forces stormed Jenin’s governmental hospital, firing tear gas and…
At least 48 people have been confirmed dead following a grisly road accident at Londiani Junction along the Nakuru-Kericho highway in Kenya at around 7 p.m. on Friday, June 30. The truck also crashed into hawkers selling roasted maize, vegetables, cabbages, and oranges by the roadside on the Muhoroni turn-off. However, the accident involved a…
Ethiopia has made an official request to join the BRICS bloc of emerging economies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The BRICS is a five-member bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. “We have applied for membership, and we expect BRICS to give us a positive response to the request we have made,…
