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  A Pennsylvania state lawmaker who died of cancer last month was reelected by a crushing margin, news reports quoting preliminary results said. Tony DeLuca, a Democrat who represented a Pittsburgh suburb in the lower house of the state legislature, ...

  Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of exception in two provinces on Tuesday, after at least five police officers were killed and prison guards were taken hostage in the latest wave of attacks in the deadly gang war ...

  An Australian zoo has been placed on lockdown on Wednesday after five lions escaped from their enclosure. Sydney’s Taronga Zoo said five lions, one adult and four cubs were found in a small area beside their exhibit, with a ...

  Senegalese customs say they have seized 300 kilograms (661 pounds) of cocaine worth around $36 million aboard a truck near the Malian border, in the biggest land seizure of the drug in the country’s history. The drugs were found ...

Pope Francis has granted an audience to 112 pilgrims from Nigeria currently in Rome for the 2022 special pilgrimage organised by the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC). The pilgrims were led to the papal audience at the Vatican City by ...

  The United States Department of State has granted “authorized departure status” to American citizens and Embassy staff in Abuja over imminent terrorist attacks in Nigeria’s political capital. In a notice on Tuesday evening, the US Department of States pledged ...

  Priests and nuns watch internet p*rn, Pope Francis admitted while speaking with seminarians in Rome on Monday. Pope Francis said internet porn was a ‘vice’ shared between members of the church. ‘It is a vice that many people have, many laymen, ...

  Days after it issued a terrorist attack alert in Nigeria, the United States Government on Wednesday notified its citizens that insurgents are planning an attack on large gatherings in Johannesburg, South Africa. “The U.S. government has received information that ...

  A magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the northern Philippines, injuring 26 people and damaging houses and public infrastructure, on Wednesday. The tremor struck at 10:59 pm (1459 GMT) on Tuesday near Lagayan town in Abra province, 348 kilometres north of ...

Germany on Wednesday paved the way to Legalising the purchase and possession of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, as well as its production. “The federal cabinet today agreed the key points for the controlled distribution of cannabis to ...

  An Iranian man dubbed the ‘dirtiest man in the world’ for not taking a shower for decades has died at the age of 94, state media has reported. Amou Haji, who did not wash for more than half a century, died ...

A gran was eaten alive by a 22-foot python in Indonesia after she disappeared while working on a plantation. Jahrah, 54, was collecting rubber in the Jambi province on Friday when she disappeared. Her worried family raised the alarm and started searching ...

  Pound Begins To Rise Against The Dollar As News Of Liz Truss’s Resignation Hits The Markets Liz Truss’s resignation at Prime Minister has seen the pound rally as her departure revitalised the markets. It came after a chorus of ...

Liz Truss has resigned as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, UK, after a month and half in office. She just made the announcement 24 hours after saying she was a fighter and not a quitter, and so would ...

  The United States has promised to provide $1 million in immediate humanitarian assistance for the people affected by unprecedented flooding in Nigeria. Provided through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S said the $1 million will allow ...

  The Australian government, on Wednesday, warned its citizens to desist from travelling to Nigeria over the recent flooding that has ravaged some parts of the country. This was contained in a travel advisory issued to Australians on the consulate’s ...

  Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday that King Charles III will be crowned on Saturday, May 6, 2023, but offered few clues about how the ancient religious ceremony of coronation might differ from the last one in 1953. The new king’s ...

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole due to ill health, the government’s correctional services department. Zuma, 79, has been serving a 15-month prison sentence since July for contempt of court after defying ...

  King Charles III has a secret nickname for Meghan Markle, a new book claims. When Markle joined the royal family, it was clear to Charles that she would be able to handle whatever was thrown at her, according to ...

  Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has responded to Elon Musk’s suggestions to end the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. On Monday, the Tesla boss took to his Twitter page to suggest ways by which the lingering strife between both ...

Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church has for the first time directly appealed to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, Al-Jazeera reports. In an address on Sunday dedicated to Ukraine in ...

Chinese Billionaire S3xual Assault Case Settled In US It was meant to be one of the biggest #MeToo trials China had ever seen, set to play out on the other side of the world in the US state of Minnesota. ...

The United States of America has joined Nigerians to celebrate the country’s 62nd Independence Day. In a press statement on Saturday, the US Secretary, Antony Blinken, said the partnership between both countries was built on shared values of democracy, diversity, ...

Queen Elizabeth II died from “old age,” according to the late sovereign’s death certificate. The National Records of Scotland released the document on Thursday, with Her Majesty’s daughter, Princess Anne, listed as the informant of her death. The certificate also ...

  Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, known as MBS, has become the kingdom’s prime minister, a royal decree said on Tuesday. Saudi King Salman ordered the cabinet reshuffle, giving his son the post which has traditionally held by the king. MBS, ...