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Pope Francis is in coronavirus danger after a Vatican worker who lives in his residence was hospitalised for testing positive for coronavirus. The unidentified clergyman has lived in the Holy See’s Saint Martha’s guest house for years, reports said. Pope ...

South Korea on Thursday renewed its concerns about Japan’s plan to release contaminated water from its disabled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. South Korea’s Office for Government Policy Coordination said Japan should ensure that its plan does not ...

Business tycoons including Aliko Dangote and Herbert Wigwe are spearheading a coalition of private-sector organisations to support the Federal Government in tackling the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria. The initiative, which is called the Coalition Against Coronavirus (COCAVID), will involve the ...

Kaduna State Government has imposed curfew following what it called non-compliance to certain measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19. The Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, who made this known on Thursday, in the second state broadcast ...

The United Bank for Africa, UBA, has said it would provide N5 billion to the COVID-19 Relief Support across Africa. The bank said it would provide the money through the UBA Foundation. According to tweets on its twitter handle on ...

All Church of England churches are to close with immediate effect, including for private prayer, in an effort to help limit the transmission of the coronavirus COVID-19. The archbishops and bishops of the Church of England have written collectively to ...

Debris is strewn across gardens after a man trying to make cannabis oil caused a huge explosion. Fire ripped through a block of flats with one neighbour leaping 12ft on to a trampoline to escape. James Toogood, 36, used butane ...

A British pensioner has died from coronavirus after only leaving her house once a week for food. Son Jeff Howes has been left “heartbroken” after losing his mum, 87, to the global pandemic. In a viral post on Facebook, which ...

The Nigerian Army has debunked publications in some media platforms about a purported Federal Government’s plan to enforce military lockdown on Friday. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, in a statement on Wednesday, described the publications as ...

A man accused of leading a group that blackmailed girls into sharing s,ex,ual videos – which were then posted in pay-to-view chatrooms – has been named after an outcry in South Korea. At least 10,000 people used the chatrooms, with ...

An Italian priest who gave a respirator to a younger coronavirus patient he did not know has died of the disease. Father Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, died in hospital in Lovere, Bergamo – one of the worst-hit cities in Italy. At ...

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has tested negative for coronavirus but has decided to remain in self-isolation. In a statement, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said the result is that ...

The Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor on Health, Dr Tunde Ajayi, has disclosed that six of the patients at the Infectious Disease Hospital have recovered. Ajayi via his twitter handle, @thetundeajai, said the patients would be discharged soon. ...

Intensive fumigation of the State House has begun. Fumigation experts arrived at the Villa about 9.30 am to commence the exercise, which a source said would cover all the offices at the Presidential Villa, The Punch reports. Findings indicated that ...

Steven Dick the deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest has died after contracting coronavirus, the Foreign Office has said. The 37-year-old died on Tuesday in Hungary. He had served as Deputy British Ambassador to Hungary since ...

Nine doctors have died in the Philippines from the coronavirus, the country’s top medical association said Thursday, as hospitals were overwhelmed and medics complained about a lack of protection on the front lines. The announcement of the doctors’ deaths heightened ...

The Federal Government has announced plans to stop interstate and intertown travels as another strategy towards stopping the spread of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The announcement, which was made Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, according to a tweet by ...

Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has tested negative for COVID-19. The announcement was made by the governor on his official twitter handle this morning. “Good morning sir. The result is negative. Congratulations your Excellency” I just received the above text ...

Kim Kardashian’s cosmetics brand KKW BEAUTY will be ‘temporarily closing’ its fulfillment center amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a post shared to Instagram and Twitter, the brand wrote that the center’s closure comes in wake of ‘current health orders in ...

The Lagos State Government is seeking to discontinue 566 non-active cases which have been in courts 2015 below, being prosecuted by the police. The decision followed the review of the recommendation of the Committee on Decongestion of Non Criminal cases ...

It comes after it was announced yesterday that prisons across England and Wales would be shutting down jail visits in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. A number of prisons have already confirmed cases of COVID-19 as cases ...

Football players Dayo Ojo and Benjamin Iluyomade have been released by their abductors on Wednesday, Enyimba have confirmed. Our midfielder man, Dayo Ojo has regained freedom from his kidnappers 💪👏 The duo fell into the hands of gunslingers while returning ...

Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has said the deadly bug that has been killing people all over the world is spiritual and from God. According to him, God has used the virus to afflict human race ...

Coronavirus lockdowns being lifted only for the virus to break out again is the “last thing” that countries need, the head of the World Health Organization, WHO warned Wednesday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the current lockdowns provide countries ...

Turkey has charged 20 suspects over the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018. Prosecutors said an indictment accused former Saudi Deputy Intelligence Chief Ahmad Asiri and former royal aide Saud al-Qahtani with instigating the ...