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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...
Donald Trump Jr’s girlfriend tests positive for coronavirus
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of President Donald Trump’s eldest son and a top fundraising official for the Trump reelection campaign, tested positive...
Black Iraqis expose long history of racism, slavery
The death of George Floyd during his arrest in the US city of Minneapolis last month has shed light on the...
Iran issues arrest warrant for Donald Trump over Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s murder
The government of Iran as issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining U.S President Donald Trump and dozens...
Viral Images of Coronavirus Victim’s Body Cause Uproar in India
A viral video showing an earthmover carrying the corpse of a suspected coronavirus victim has triggered anger and condemnation in India, where...
Ghana offers to rebuild demolished house at Nigerian embassy
As a follow-up to the apology offered Nigeria, Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry says the country will reconstruct the building demolished at the Nigerian...
ECOWAS endorse Okonjo-Iweala for WTO DG
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Monday endorsed Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation...
Qatar Airways resumes flights to 4 U.S cities
Qatar Airways has announced resumption of flights to New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington Dulles in the US. The national...
COVID-19: China promises to provide vaccines free to Africa after successful clinical trial
China, leading the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, says it will supply any vaccine against virus to African first free of...
Coronavirus: U.K Govt Approves Dexamethasone in ‘biggest breakthrough yet’
The U.K. government has approved the use of dexamethasone — the first coronavirus drug that scientists says has been shown to save...
Chinese military scientist arrested for allegedly stealing U.S lab research work
The U.S security operatives recently arrested a researcher from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at Los Angeles International Airport while attempting to...
U.S President Trump says he’ll leave office peacefully if he loses election
U.S President Donald Trump on Friday sought to brush aside fears he might not leave office willingly if the Presidential election...
