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  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 ...

  Kim Jong Un enters Russia on armoured train for meeting with Putin North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia ahead of an expected meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The meeting has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms ...

  Morocco’s strongest-ever earthquake has so far claimed 2,497 lives and injured thousands, with foreign teams today joining the intensifying race against the clock to rescue any remaining survivors from beneath the rubble of flattened mountain villages. Terrifying footage shows ...

  More than 70 people have been killed in a pre-dawn fire that ripped through a multi-storey building housing homeless people in South Africa, in what is set to become one of the deadliest fires worldwide in recent years. Witnesses ...

  After the Russian government warned the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) against military intervention against coup leaders in Niger Republic, the United States has commended President Bola Tinubu’s leadership of the West African bloc in recent developments. ...

  Tchiani, the head of the Presidential Guard, has been named “president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland”, a statement said. Appearing on state television, the general said soldiers had seized power due to the deteriorating ...

  Italy starts removing lesbian mothers’ names from children’s birth certificates   The northern Italian city of Padua has started removing the names of non-biological gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates under new legislation passed by the “traditional family-first” ...

  Singapore has recently dethroned Japan to claim the title of having the world’s most powerful passport, according to a new ranking. About the ranking: This year’s most recent Henley Passport Index, which is “the original, authoritative ranking of all ...

  The German Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the Blue Mosque, an Islamic center in Hamburg affiliated with the Iranian regime, is an “extremist Islamic organization.” Despite an objection and complaint filed by the center, the Administrative Court of ...

  Award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina is dead. According to BBC, she died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk. The war crimes researcher becomes the 13th person to have died ...

  South Africa’s Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini is being treated in hospital for suspected poisoning, his traditional prime minister has said. The king sought medical attention in Eswatini as he is uncomfortable with seeking treatment in South Africa, Chief Mangosuthu ...

  Suicides in Singapore rose nearly 26 per cent last year to their highest level in more than two decades, reflecting the “unseen mental distress” in the city-state, according to a local NGO. The suicide rates among young people aged ...

  Three people have been arrested in connection with the death of a Chinese boy who was allegedly beaten by a martial arts instructor earlier this month. The boy, 8, whose name has not been released, was declared dead at ...

  More than 300,000 nurses and doctors are expected to be employed in the NHS as part of a series of plans to improve the health service. The possibility of cutting the amount of time doctors spend in medical school, ...

  A gun battle between suspected cartel members left at least eight dead and one wounded in a mountainous area of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, local authorities said. The state prosecutor’s office said the violence took place in ...

  More than 100 people have died due to extreme heat in Mexico in June, the government said, following a series of heatwaves in the Latin American nation. Scientists say global warming is exacerbating adverse weather, with many countries experiencing ...

  Only three Nigerian universities, University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Covenant University have been ranked among the 1,000 universities in the world 2023. This is captured in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023. The ...

  The Ukrainian parliament on Monday endorsed a decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to impose sanctions on Iran for 50 years, lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko said on Telegram. The sanction bill, which was submitted to parliament by ...

  Australia experiences largest earthquake in over 120 years Melbourne was shaken Sunday by a rare and shallow earthquake – the largest earthquake to hit the Australian city in over a century – swaying buildings but ultimately causing very little ...

  Canada has introduced a new and faster means of visa processing that allows families to be together while they await their permanent residence permit. This development comes days after the United Kingdom (UK) government banned students from Nigeria and ...

  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won Turkey’s presidential election, defeating opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s runoff vote and stretching his rule into a third decade. With 99.43% of the votes counted, preliminary official results announced by Turkey’s Supreme ...

  A Nigerian, Dr Adekunle Osibogun has been elected as the Deputy Mayor of Buckingham in England, United Kingdom for one year. He will deputise for the new Town Mayor who was also elected for a period of one year. ...

  The Mexico State Court found Monday that while Roxana Ruiz had been r3ped, she was guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense,” adding that hitting her attacker in the head would have been enough to defend herself. ...

  A court in western India found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation on Thursday for a speech he made in 2019, and sentenced him to two years in prison. The criminal defamation case was filed against Gandhi by ...

  Britain will give France nearly half a billion pounds over the next three years to step up efforts to prevent small boats from crossing the Channel. Rishi Sunak has committed to sending Paris £478 million – 541m euros – ...