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  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 – ...

  A bomb blast in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday killed a security guard and wounded a group of journalists, as well as several children, police and a witness said. The blast came two days after a ...

  A deadly shooting erupted at a Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in the German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, leaving several dead as police said they believed the attacker had acted alone. Authorities have yet to give an official ...

  A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with local authorities warning of aftershocks and possible damage. The shallow quake struck at about 2:00 pm (0600 GMT), a few kilometres from Maragusan municipality ...

  Russia’s investigative committee has launched a murder investigation after a top scientist was found dead in his Moscow apartment yesterday. Andrey Botikov, known as one of the 18 scientists who worked on the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in 2020, ...

  Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the murders of his wife and son on their hunting estate in a case whose twists and turns drew global attention. Judge Clifton ...

At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured in Indonesia’s capital on Friday, after a massive blaze broke out at a state-run fuel storage depot before firefighters brought it under control, the military said. “At the moment, there are ...

  French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated Thursday that France harboured no desire to return to past policies of interfering in Africa after he began a four-nation tour of the continent. “The age of Francafrique is well over,” Macron said in ...