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  Former Ghanaian president John Mahama on Thursday launched a campaign to run again as a candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections, saying his experience could help salvage the economy. Despite being defeated in ...

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated on Wednesday that his government still intends to hold elections a month earlier than scheduled despite an earthquake last month that devastated parts of southern Turkey. In an address to legislators of his ...

  At least two people have been killed and more than 50 trapped after a coal mine collapsed in Alxa League in northern China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to the state media. “The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon, and ...

  North Korea fired two rockets on Monday, in a drill for a launcher Pyongyang said to be capable of a “tactical nuclear attack” that could take out entire enemy air bases. It was North Korea’s second weapons launch in ...

  The death toll on Saturday rose to more than 44,000 from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria with the body of former Ghana international footballer Christian Atsu also found beneath a collapsed building in Antakya. The number of people found ...

  A United States Senator John Fetterman has voluntarily checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to seek medical help against depression. The first-term Pennsylvania senator was admitted to hospital last week after feeling light-headed, an incident that ...

  South Africa declared a national disaster on Monday as floods hit seven of its nine provinces, damaging roads and bridges and leaving at least seven people dead. Heavy rains have hit large parts of the country, and the deluge ...

  A gunman who killed at least three people and wounded five on a US university campus shot himself dead Monday after a massive police manhunt. Thousands of students at Michigan State University were ordered to shelter in place after ...

  A British security guard at the UK’s embassy in Germany who pleaded guilty to spying was snared in an elaborate sting after sending sensitive material to Russia, prosecutors said Monday. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, has admitted to eight charges ...

  Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau another unidentified object has been shot down by US jet over Canada’s airspace. This coming after US fighter jet shot down a high-altitude object hovering over Alaska on the order of President on Friday. ...

  The Church of England’s governing body on Thursday endorsed plans to let priests offer blessings to same-sex couples, after hours of acrimonious debate highlighting deep Anglican divisions on the issue. The Church’s General Synod — comprising hundreds of elected ...

  This is the sweet moment, President Volodymyr Zelensky melted hearts as he ignored security protocols to give a hug to a plaintive Ukrainian news reporter. Natalia Goncharova, from Kyiv, who grilled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on fighter jets and ...

  At least 59 people were killed and 157 others were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, January 30.   The blast occurred at a mosque near police offices in Peshawar, ...

  The Russian government has accused former British prime minister Boris Johnson of lying when he said President Vladimir Putin had threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine.   This is coming after Johnson disclosed to ...

    Ten people have died and at least 10 others were wounded in a mass shooting at a dance club in a largely Asian city in southern California, police said Sunday, with the suspect still at large hours later. ...

The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament has warned that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction. The Putin ally’s message on Sunday, January 22 comes after new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense ...

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Thursday she will stand aside for a new leader within weeks, saying she doesn’t believe she has the energy to seek re-election in the October polls. Speaking at a news conference, Ardern ...

Six people, including three children, have died at a festival in India after their throats were sliced open by kite strings. Nearly 200 revellers were injured while they were flying kites during mid-air duels at the Uttarayan festival in the ...

A son of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been freed after serving more than seven years of a 10-year jail sentence for fraud, Iranian media reports today. Mehdi Hashemi, 53, left Tehran’s Evin prison late Tuesday, his lawyer ...

  Nurses across England today began two days of strike over pay, threatening fresh disruption for patients in the creaking state-run health service, as new figures showed inflation still surging. The walkout comes after nurses held their union’s first stoppage ...

A ban on foreigners buying residential property in Canada took effect on Sunday, aiming to make more homes available to locals facing a housing crunch. Several exceptions in the act allow individuals such as refugees and permanent residents who are ...

  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has passed on. The Holy See Press Office announced that the 95-year-old Pope died at 9:34 am in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery on Saturday. He had chosen the Ecclesiae Monastery as ...

  More than 50 people have been hospitalised in western Canada after a passenger bus crashed on a highway, provincial authorities said. The cause of the Saturday evening accident, which occurred on a highway some 330 kilometers (200 miles) east ...

  The Taliban’s treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to “a crime against humanity”, G7 foreign ministers said on Thursday, demanding the ban on women attending university be reversed. “Taliban policies designed to erase women from public ...

President Muhammadu Buhari met with the United States President Joe Biden in Washington DC on Wednesday. Photos shared by the Presidency show Buhari in a meeting with Biden and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the White House ...