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Gambia rejoins Commonwealth after 5 years
The Gambia rejoins the Commonwealth family Wednesday, almost five years after leaving it. Ambassador Francis Blain presented Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland with his...
TRAGEDY: After 18-years wait for children, woman delivers twin and dies
A couple who felt on top of the world last week when they got their first children, a pair of twins, were dealt...
Cleric issues decree against women watching football
A senior cleric at an influential Islamic seminary in northern India has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should not watch...
Trump vows to end ‘Green Card’ lottery program
President Donald Trump has said he’ll only sign an immigration deal that cancels the diversity visa lottery program, which allows people from countries...
Winnie Mandela hospitalized over kidney infection, family confirms
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, known in South Africa as the “mother of the nation”, was hospitalized for a kidney infection, the family announced on Tuesday....
Africa’s future prosperity rests on the creative energy of its youth, says Nobel Co-Laureate
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate, Ouided Bouchamaoui, has warned that Africa’s growing youth population could be a plus for Africa or a political...
Fmr White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card Elected Chair National Endowment for Democracy
Former White House chief of staff to President George W. Bush, Andrew H.Card has been elected as the new chairman of the National...
Student shoots principal dead
The principal of one of the leading schools in India’s Haryana’s Yamunanagar was on Saturday shot dead by a Class 12 student in...
Africa is important says U.S but no apology for Trump’s vulgar comments
US Ambassador Nikki Haley expressed regret on Thursday to African ambassadors who were outraged by President Donald Trump’s alleged description of African countries...
Liberia ruling party expels outgoing president Sirleaf Johnson of Liberia
Liberia’s ruling party said Sunday it had expelled outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for not backing her vice-president, Joseph Boakai, in a presidential...
Trump calls African nations, Haiti, and El Salvador, “shithole countries”
President Donald Trump reportedly referred to Haiti and countries in Africa as “shithole countries” and called for more immigrants from places like Norway...
Groom dies in tragic fire hours after wedding
Hours after he got married, an Afghani groom in his 20s died in a fire that gutted the flat where he and his bride...
Fire and Fury: 15 damaging excerpts from the tell-all book about Donald Trump
The following are excerpts from “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” an incendiary new book by Michael Wolff which was rushed...
Woman says she was sexually assaulted by another passenger while sleeping on overnight flight
A Spirit Airlines passenger has been jailed after a fellow passenger says she was sexually assaulted while asleep on a flight from Las...
Why Trump tries hard to block release of book ‘fire and fury
Trump’s lawyers moved to prevent the release of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” – an exposé by author and political...
18 killed, 260 injured in South Africa train crash
A passenger train carrying people home after the holidays slammed into a truck in rural South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 18...
