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Why did Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram go down
Facebook on Tuesday blamed a “faulty configuration change” for the over 6 hour outage on Monday. “To all the people and businesses around...
Bomb kills 5 at Kabul mosque – Taliban
At least five civilians were killed in a bomb blast outside a Kabul mosque on Sunday, a Taliban official said. It was the...
Time of upheaval: World Bank says it is worried about debt burden of some countries, calls it unsustainable
World Bank Group President David Malpass has expressed worry that the debt burden of some countries has become unsustainable and also getting...
Reflections on 61 years of U.S. – Nigerian Engagement
By: Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria As Nigeria celebrates its national day, we celebrate our enduring bilateral partnership with the...
Former France President Sarkozy sentenced to one year in detention after illegal campaign funds verdict
Former France president Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed a one-year prison term after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing of his...
Priest accused of stealing over $100,000 from church to buy drugs for sex parties
An Italian priest has been put under house arrest amid accusations that he stole nearly $120,000 from a church to pay for drugs...
COVID-19 variants are getting more airborne, making them more contagious – New Study
A new University of Maryland study suggests that successive strains to the novel coronavirus are becoming more transmittable through the air. Back in...
US Air Force F-16 intercepts plane over New-York during UN Assembly meeting
A U.S Air Force F-16 intercepted a small aircraft over New York City on Wednesday, after the aircraft violated a temporary flight restriction...
How Mossad assassinated Iran’s chief nuclear scientist with remote AI gun – report
Iran’s chief military nuclear scientist and the father of its weapons program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in November 2020 by the Mossad using...
Attempted coup fails in Sudan
Sudanese authorities have foiled an attempted coup, the army said on Tuesday, warding off a challenge to a civilian-military council that has run...
Defunct Air Namibia owes N$3.5bn to creditors
The liquidators of Air Namibia (SW, Windhoek Int’l) say the defunct state-owned airline’s liabilities total NAD3.5 billion Namibian dollars (USD247.3 million), NAD2.3 billion...
Guinea coup: Who is Col Mamady Doumbouya?
A sensational coup d’etat in the west African nation of Guinea was led by Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, head of the army’s Special...
Guinea, West African country, rocked by military coup
…. whereabouts of 83-year-old president whose popularity has plummeted since he sought a third term in 2020 unknown A bloodless coup...
Another Nigerian stabbed to death in Boston, U.S.
“The stabbing happened in the section of Boston often referred to as “Methadone Mile,” an area long known for issues. Not far...
Air Senegal commences flight operations to Baltimore, USA
Air Senegal Thursday commenced scheduled flight operations to Baltimore, United States with an A330-900 290-seater aircraft. The flight operations was initially scheduled to...
Israeli warplanes bomb several sites in Gaza
The Israeli military announced Tuesday that it carried out strikes against four sites occupied by Hamas in the Gaza Strip in response to...
