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  President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden, 39, fled the United States and ...

A stream of Russians flocking to Istanbul on Saturday expressed personal relief but concern for the safety of loved ones after the Kremlin announced a partial mobilisation for the war in Ukraine. The price of some tickets from Moscow shot ...

China’s former justice minister faces life in prison after a court handed him a suspended death sentence on Thursday for taking bribes and “bending the law”. Fu Zhenghua’s death sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment after a two-year reprieve, ...

    Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has died, ending a historic 70-year reign. She was 96. The Queen died at Balmoral, her beloved palace in the Scottish Highlands, which was purchased by her great-great-grandfather Prince Albert for Queen Victoria in 1852. She ...

  The United States Vice President, Kamala Harris, says it was a great meeting with her Nigeria counterpart, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo, on Wednesday, departed Abuja for the United States to seek global partnerships and support for Nigeria’s recently launched ...

One of Vladimir Putin’s cronies has died after he reportedly fell from a hospital window – making him the latest member of the Kremlin’s inner circle to die under mysterious circumstances. Ravil Maganov, 64, was the chairman of the Russian ...

A daughter executed her own mother by kicking away the chair as she was hanged in line with one of the Iranian regime’s most barbaric laws. Maryam Karimi was condemned to die for killing her husband – who reportedly subjected ...

A Russian rocket strike on a train station killed 25 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow’s invasion began. Five of the victims of the attack in the eastern town of Chaplyne burnt to death in ...

  A member of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle has reportedly narrowly avoided being killed in a car bombing which saw his daughter “blown to bits”. Alexander Dugin, a fascist political strategist who has been dubbed ‘Putin’s Philosopher’, was allegedly the ...

A Kremlin official has betrayed Vladimir Putin and offered to secretly negotiate with the West, it has been claimed. The unnamed Russian elite has reportedly been in touch with enemy intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI5. A so-called ‘situation ...

In light of Nigeria’s dwindling revenue, the continued payment of trillions of naira on fuel subsidy by the government and the attendant economic challenges, the World Bank on Wednesday raised the alarm that the country might be facing an existential ...

  Former U.S. President, Donald Trump Monday night said FBI agents broke into his mansion in Florida as part of an ongoing investigation. Mr Trump said the attack was aimed at preventing him from running for president again in 2024, ...

    Donald Trump blasted President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan while dropping his strongest hint yet that of a potential 2024 presidential bid. The former president told fellow Republicans ‘the time is coming’ for him to make a ...

  US public health officials have declared the spread of the monkeypox disease a public health emergency. The declaration will free up additional government resources to help contain the spread of the virus. As of August 3, more than 6,600 ...

  A top Russian senator has pledged his country’s support if China goes to war over Taiwan, sparking fears of a massive escalation and World War 3. Vladimir Dzhabarov said he sees “no grounds to refuse to help China,” as ...

Wang Xiaopjuan, a member of the Standing Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) Yantai Committee, has called for stronger relations between China, Nigeria and other developing countries. Mr Wang, a spokesman for the Department of Yantai, stated this on ...

  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska have raised eyebrows after appearing in a glossy photoshoot for US Vogue. The pair were pictured together for the piece by renowned photographer Annie Leibowitz – although the article primarily ...

‘Downblousing’ will Become A Criminal Offence If Rishi Sunak Becomes UK Prime Minister, The Former Chancellor Has Announced. Mr Sunak has promised a crackdown on s3x offenders if he pulls off a surprise win in the race for Number 10 ...

A woman who hails from one of India’s minority ethnic communities was chosen Thursday as the country’s new president, a largely ceremonial position. Droupadi Murmu, a leader from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, was elected by the Indian Parliament and ...

US President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is isolating at the White House. The 79-year-old, who is fully-vaccinated and has twice received booster jabs, is experiencing “very mild symptoms” and will continue to carry out all his ...

A monster wave crashed an outdoor wedding reception in Hawaii leaving the bride and groom and their guests dripping wet and running for cover. Despite Mother Nature’s unexpected arrival, the Saturday wedding held at Hulihe’e Palace in Kailua-Kona carried on. ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his chief prosecutor and the head of the country’s security agency in the largest government shakeup since the start of Russia’s invasion nearly five months ago. Zelensky said he was firing Prosecutor General Iryna ...

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president after the speaker of the parliament accepted a resignation letter sent by embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after he fled the country. Wickremesinghe on Friday asked legislators to ...

Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has tendered his resignation in a letter sent by email to parliamentary speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardenena, according to an announcement from the speaker’s office Thursday. Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on a flight from Maldives earlier ...

  A Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in the country’s first such case in almost a decade. Police in Sudan’s White Nile state arrested Maryam Alsyed Tiyrab, 20, last month, before her sentencing at ...