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Medical Tourism: 800,000 visit India for treatment in three years
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated medical tourism, but pent-up demand remains for affordable treatment in India. Persecondnews.com reports that over 800,000 foreigners visited India in...
The world is now a safer place, says Israel PM
Israel Prime minister Naftali Bennett has said “The world is now a safer place thanks to the courageous operation of the US forces,...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Contracts COVID-19, Symptoms ‘Mild’
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday he had tested positive for Covid-19 but was not experiencing severe symptoms. “After experiencing light...
Coup attempt: ECOWAS military force to return to Guinea Bissau
By Paul Ejime ECOWAS leaders ended their extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday, ordering the return of a regional...
Breaking: Heavy shooting at Guinea Bissau State House
By Paul Ejime There was heavy gunfire around Guinea Bissau’s State House (Presidential Palace) Tuesday aftetnoon with reported unspecified casualty. The whereabouts...
Labour shortage: Germany to Admit 400,000 Skilled Immigrants Annually
Germany is facing significant labor shortages in 2022, as the European giants grapple with changing demographics and the retirement of an older generation...
ANOTHER ECOWAS EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT HOLDS ON FRIDAY, THIS TIME ON BURKINA FASO: IS THE REGIONAL BODY LOSING THE DEMOCRATIC BATTLE
If the punitive and unprecedented sanctions that ECOWAS imposed on Mali on January 9 were meant to deter soldiers in the...
Just in: Uprising: Burkina Faso President arrested
Soldiers at several army bases across the West African country rebelled on Sunday, demanding the sacking of the military top brass and...
China Uses Anal Tests To Detect Omicron As COVID Variant Spreads
Chinese health authorities are ordering the use of controversial but more precise anal swabs to detect COVID-19 for a third year running as...
Trump ally Rudy Giuliani subpoenaed over January 6 US Capitol attack
The U.S congressional committee probing the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol issued subpoenas on Tuesday to three lawyers who joined...
China warns international community against ‘slamming brakes on monetary policies’
Chinese President Xi Jinping Monday urged the international community to work together to drive economic growth as the world recovers from the Covid-19...
Breaking: Toppled Malian President, 76-year-old Keita, exits
Former Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was toppled in the August 2020 military coup led by Col Assimi Goita has...
Nigerian Uber driver in Canada found guilty of $670,930 fraud, awaits sentence
A Canadian Court has found a Nigerian Uber driver, Ayoola Ajibade of Brampton, Ontario, guilty of a large-scale fraud to the...
Nigerian born nurse punished for wearing cross necklace to work wins religious discrimination case in UK
A British tribunal has ruled that a Christian nurse who was forced to resign from a hospital over her refusal to stop...
Mali’s military regime calls ECOWAS bluff, rejects sanctions
Barely 12 hours after ECOWAS slammed some sanctions on Mali, the Col Assimi Goita-led interim authority has rejected the sanctions, describing them...
Coup: ECOWAS Tightens Noose on Mali Interim Govt. to Return to Constitutional Order
ECOWAS, the regional bloc, on Sunday announced further sanctions against Mali’s military-dominated interim authority including financial squeeze, border blockage and withdrawal of...
