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Parts of South Korea fighting bedbugs South Korean authorities are working to contain bedbug infestations that have caused concern across the country. At least 17 outbreaks have been reported in the capital of Seoul and in the cities of Busan ...

Peter Obi to address world press conference Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party at the last election, will today, November 6, host an international press conference. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Monday by the ...

A man in his 40s has been arrested after allegedly dressing up as Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi for Halloween and posting it on Facebook. Pictures posted by David Wootton show him wearing an Arabic-style headdress, with the slogan ‘I love Ariana ...

Israeli airstrikes k!ll Hamas commander, 50 Palestinians Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, k!lling at least 50 Palestinians and a Hamas commander, and medics struggled to treat the casualties, even setting up operating ...

  Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel would not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and would press ahead with its plans to wipe out the group, Reuters reports. Netanyahu said all ...

Israel has urged Russia to protect “all its citizens and all Jews” after a large mob shouting antisemitic slogans stormed a Dagestan airport. Video footage on social media showed an angry crowd running through the airport in Makhachkala seeking people ...

Israel allegedly cuts internet, communications across Gaza The Hamas government said Israel “cut communications and most of the internet” across the Gaza Strip on Friday. The government’s media office accused Israel of taking the measure “to perpetrate massacres with bloody ...

Israel agrees to delay Gaza invasion because of US Military Israel has agreed to delay an expected invasion of Gaza for now so that the United States can rush missile defences to the region to protect U.S. troops there, the Wall Street ...

There are massacres in Gaza day & night, resident claims as he says “we belong to God and to him we shall return” There are massacres in Gaza day and night Israel says its air strikes hit 250 Hamas targets ...

Russian premier Vladimir Putin suffered a “cardiac arrest” on Sunday evening according to a statement posted on a Telegram channel which regularly says the war-mongering leader is terminally ill. The channel – General SVR – suggests all recent appearances by the ...

  Nigeria on Monday won its bid to overturn an $11 billion damages bill for a collapsed gas processing project it said was procured by a concerted campaign of bribery. The West African country was on the hook for the ...

  No fewer than 15 people have lost their lives while 100 others sustained injuries in Bangladesh after two trains collided on Monday The officials said they fear the death toll will rise. The crash occurred in the eastern city ...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) yesterday said Tuesday’s attack by Israeli forces on Al-Ahli Baptismal Hospital in Gaza was a war crime against humanity and a state-sponsored terrorism that deserves accountability and punishment. The Secretary-General of the OIC, Hussein ...

Iran warns Israel it will face ‘another shockwave’ if Gaza strikes don’t stop A top Iranian commander warned Israel on Tuesday it will face “another shockwave” of attacks by militant groups if the country doesn’t halt its relentless bombardment of ...

  Pope Francis on Sunday called for humanitarian corridors to help those under siege in Gaza and again appealed for the release of hostages held by the militant Islamist group Hamas. “I forcefully ask that children, the sick, the elderly and ...

President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said Israel must eliminate the Hamas terror group but rejected reoccupying the Gaza Strip. Biden made this known in an interview with CBS on Sunday, stressing that reoccupying the Gaza Strip would be ...

A new earthquake has hit western Afghanistan – several days after two large tremors in the region killed more than 1,000 people. The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the magnitude 6.3 quake struck near the city of Herat. It was at a ...

The opposition National Party has won the New Zealand election, taking enough seats to form a coalition with its allies on the right wing of politics. Incumbent prime minister Chris Hipkins, of Labour, phoned National’s leader Chris Luxon to concede ...

Israeli-Hamas conflict: Jordan backs Palestine King Abdullah II of Jordan has declared support for Palestine, saying peace is not possible in the Middle East without the emergence of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. The Jordanian leader spoke amid the ...

  France to withdraw ambassador, troops from Niger after coup   French President Emmanuel Macron has said that his country will withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger in the wake of the July coup that overthrew democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. ...

Ex-US President, Donald Trump is leading the country’s current President, Biden in new poll. Trump is leading with 10 points in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll. The 77-year-old trounced the Democrat 52% to 42% in a hypothetical rematch of the ...

  President Bola Tinubu delivered his first address at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in the early hours of Wednesday (7:55 pm New York time). His speech touched on the need for Africa to scale the limitations ...

  WHO demands ‘full access’ to China for inquiry into origins of Covid Pressure is mounting on Beijing to offer up information on the origins of the Covid pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned it is ready to send a team ...

  Shettima in Cuba for G77+China Leaders’ Summit Vice President, Kashim Shettima is currently in Havana Cuba, for the G77+China Leaders’ Summit. The Vice President arrived on Wednesday. The Havana Summit is being hosted by the President of the Republic of Cuba, ...

  U.S and China owe half of world’s $235tr debts The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday announced that the United States (U.S.A) and China account for half of the world’s total indebtedness of $235 trillion, with both countries owing $117.5 ...