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Imam tests positive for COVID-19, UK mosque shuts
A mosque in northern England has been closed after around 250 people attended a funeral there and its imam tested positive for...
Lebanese accused of laundering drug money for Hezbollah extradited to United States
A Lebanese national accused of laundering drug money for Hezbollah has been extradited from Cyprus to the United States to face a range...
China orders Christians to take down crosses, images of Jesus; worship communist leaders not God
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, poor Christian villagers in China have been ordered to renounce their faith and replace displays of Jesus with...
Thousands of Israelis Stage Socially Distanced Protest Against Netanyahu’s Policies
Thousands took part in protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government’s response to the coronavirus around Israel Saturday evening, including...
Buhari felicitates with Nigerian Prof. Egbu appointed VC of UK varsity
Prof. Charles Egbu, the first black and Nigerian appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University, United Kingdom, has received President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
In Iraq bodies lay in the sun as morgues overflow with Covid-19 casualties
Hospitals and morgues in Iraq are “overwhelmed” according to reports from Baghdad with the chance of contracting the virus remaining...
COVID-19: Chile training dogs to sniff out virus from infected people
In Chile, police authorities said they are training dogs to detect people that may be infected with the novel coronavirus by...
Ibn Chambas, Ejime urge ruling party to stave off constitutional crisis in Cote d’Ivoire
The recent death of Amadon Gon Coulibaly, Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire, has put the political permutations of the ruling RHDP party...
UN, Europe Union and African states call for calm in Mali
The United Nations, European Union, African Union and the West African regional bloc Ecowas have called for calm in Mali after at...
‘I thought this was a hoax’: 30-year-old man dies after attending COVID party
A 30-year-old man died after attending a “Covid Party” in the U.S A “COVID Party” is a party held by someone diagnosed with...
US commence formal exit from World Health Organisation
The United States has formally initiated the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organisation, the UN announced on Tuesday. President Donald...
Coronavirus pushing up child marriage in Afghanistan
Aatifa, 16, had dreamt of becoming an accountant, but that dream was cut short nearly a month ago when she got pregnant...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say Commonwealth must right wrongs of colonialism
Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle in a new video gone viral encouraged Britain to acknowledge “the uncomfortable” past of the Commonwealth as...
U.S coronavirus death count crosses 130,000
The US death toll from Covid-19 passed 130,000 on Tuesday, with 44,361 new cases announced. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention...
Cameroon holds first peace talks with main separatist insurgents
Representatives of Cameroon’s government held talks this week with the main leaders of an Anglophone separatist insurgency for the first time since...
Terrorist jailed for life over plot to bomb London’s St Paul’s Cathedral
A Muslim convert Safiyya Shaikh, 37, has been jailed for life for plotting to blow up London’s historic St Paul’s Cathedral. Shaikh, from...
