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Vacationing U.S. First Lady down with Covid-19 just as hubby recovers from virus
U.S. First Lady, Jill Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms just as President Joe Biden has continued to test...
Breaking: William Ruto wins Kenya’s Presidential poll
Kenya’s Vice President, William Ruto, has won the country’s presidential election, the Head of Kenya’s Electoral Commission announced on Monday. But the validity...
Salman Rushdie will likely lose one eye, nerves in his arm severed and his liver damaged
US prosecutors have charged a man, 24, with the assault and attempted murder of Sir Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Rushdie...
Ousted Sri Lankan president arrives in Thailand
Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who last month fled anti-government protests in his country, arrived in Thailand on Thursday night on a...
US seeking country to accommodate Al Qaeda money courier and would-be suicide bomber Majid Khan
The United States government is urgently looking for a country that will take in former Al Qaeda money courier Majid Khan, who was...
Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth nearly $7bn
Chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion of his shares in the electric car maker, his biggest sale on record, saying...
New York Political Kingmaker sentenced to four months in prison over illegal political donation to Governor
Wednesday's sentencing resulted from Pigeon's guilty plea in October 2018, when he admitted that he conspired to arrange an illegal political donation to...
North Korea is ready to use nuclear weapons – Kim Jong-un
Speaking to war veterans on the 69th anniversary of the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, Mr Kim emphasised the country's "thorough readiness"...
Macron in Cameroon for first leg of three-country Africa trip
Mr Macron is due to hold talks on Tuesday morning with his counterpart Paul Biya, 89, who has ruled Cameroon with an iron...
Indians back Rishi Sunak to become UK prime minister
Twitter user Himanshu Rawat wrote on the platform that “it would be a great moment for India" for someone with Indian roots to...
15,000 Russians killed in Ukraine, CIA chief says
"The latest estimates from the US intelligence community would be something in the vicinity of 15,000 [Russian troops] killed and maybe three times...
Inflation: Ghanian Govt approves 15% cost of living allowance for public workers
In a bid to cushion the effects of inflation, the Ghanian Government has introduced a 15 percent cost of living allowance (COLA) for...
Breaking: Shot Japanese ex-Prime Minister, Abe dies
A former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who was shot on Friday while delivering a stump speech at a rally in the western...
Coup: ECOWAS eases sanctions on Mali, rejects 36-month transition by Guinea’s military junta
By Paul Ejime ECOWAS leaders have lifted the controversial economic and financial sanctions imposed in January on Mali following two military coups...
17 people found dead at South African nightclub
Regional newspaper DispatchLive reported that the bodies were found "lying strewn across tables, chairs and on the floor; with no obvious signs of...
Sri Lankan students demand government resign as economic hardship grows
The country's foreign reserves are nearly gone and it is unable to import food, fuel, cooking gas and medicines. A lack of fuel...
