NIAMEY/ABUJA — Niger’s military leaders warned against any armed intervention in the country as West African leaders are set to gather in Nigeria’s capital on Sunday for an emergency summit to decide on further actions to pressure the army to ...

MUMBAI/LAGOS/LONDON — Women will bear the brunt of extreme heat as more frequent heatwaves on a warming planet pose a growing threat to their work, earnings and lives, researchers have warned. The impacts of rising heat are disproportionately dangerous and ...

PARIS — Booksellers along the river Seine say the Olympics threaten to erase a symbol of Paris, after they were told by local authorities that they will have to remove their stalls for the Summer Games opening ceremony in 2024 ...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that an African initiative could be a basis for peace in Ukraine but that Ukrainian attacks made it hard to realize. He was speaking at a press conference after meeting African leaders in ...

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury said that “tens of thousands” of people may have been unfairly de-banked in a scandal appears to encompass the whole banking sector. Andrew Griffith MP told GB News: “There are a number of inquiries now ...

The UK construction industry is experiencing a severe labour shortage, with almost two-thirds of UK trades struggling to fill roles this year, according to new research. New research from the trades platform Rated People reveals UK tradespeople are also looking ...

Embattled business group the CBI is this week preparing to announce the resumption of events for the first time since it was engulfed by allegations of sexual misconduct. The body, once at the heart of the establishment, has restarted its ...

Nigel Farage has called for the chairman of NatWest Group to be “replaced at the soonest possible opportunity” over misjudgements in the de-banking scandal. He told GB News: “What happened yesterday was Howard Davies, the chairperson, as he calls himself, of ...

The anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller has said “we don’t have a functioning democracy” if new political parties cannot access banking services, after she was told her own party’s account would be closed. The government and financial services watchdog must step ...

There is a lack of confidence about what the future holds for governing organisations, and their departments’ ability to handle change, according to PA Consulting’s latest Responsive Government survey, conducted in partnership with Global Government Forum. Officials are also less ...