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Czech President Milos Zeman has appointed the leader of a centre-right alliance Petr Fiala as prime minister on Sunday in a ceremony he performed from a plexiglass cubicle after testing positive for COVID-19. Fiala leads a bloc of five centre ...

Indonesia has announced an entry ban on travellers from Nigeria and seven other African countries to curb the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant first recorded in South Africa days ago. Other countries affected by the travel ban include travellers ...

Chinese lenders, the Export-Import Bank of China, also known as Exim Bank, has ‘taken over’ the Ugandan Entebbe International Airport and other assets in the country over the failure of the Ugandan government to repay a loan. This came despite ...

  North Korea has reportedly banned people from wearing leather trench coats because dictatorial ruler Kim Jong-un doesn’t want his citizen dressing up like him. First worn by Kim in 2019, the coat became popular among the North Korean elite ...

Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Garba Baba Umar, has been elected Vice President (Africa) and Executive Committee Member of the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) – INTERPOL. AIG Garba, who heads INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) in Nigeria, was ...

Sweden’s first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson has resigned from office just eight hours after she became prime minister. Andersson was forced to resign after the Green Party — a junior partner to Andersson’s Social Democrats — said it would ...

President Joe Biden on Friday wrote the United States Senate to convey his decision to temporarily transfer the powers and duties of his office to Vice President Kamala Harris as he undergoes a routine surgery which will require sedation. In ...

President Joe Biden on Friday wrote the United States Senate to convey his decision to temporarily transfer the powers and duties of his office to Vice President Kamala Harris as he undergoes a routine surgery which will require sedation. In ...

A new report by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that Nigerian youths feel the most pressure to succeed globally. The report titled ‘The Changing Childhood Project’ was conducted by UNICEF in conjunction with Gallup, ahead of the ...

The value of cryptocurrency asset Bitcoin has fallen by seven per cent after China has announced plans to restrict cryptocurrency activities in the country further. “Virtual currency is a specific virtual commodity that is not issued by the monetary authority, ...

Ferocious clashes have left 68 inmates dead in an Ecuador prison, police said Saturday, in the latest unrest at a Guayaquil jail that was the scene of a September riot that killed 119 prisoners. “According to preliminary information, some 68 ...

At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, a hospital official told AFP. The blast happened in Spin Ghar district of the eastern province, a hotbed of ...

The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has imposed various sanctions on the leaders of the military coup in Mali for shifting the date for the presidential and legislative elections earlier fixed for February 2022. The sanctions were spelt ...

New Zealand beefed up security measures at its parliament on Tuesday as thousands of people gathered to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and government lockdowns aimed at controlling the pandemic. All but two entrances to the parliament building, known as ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government will distribute 100,000 yen ($880) in cash, vouchers or a combination of both to those 18 years or younger and make it a pillar of an economic stimulus package planned to be created by ...

The Taliban government are reportedly keeping a ‘kill list’ of gay people in Afghanistan which has forced many to go into hiding over fears for their lives. The Islamist government say homosexuality is strictly prohibited, with gay people facing death ...

North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un wants to be worshipped with his own ideology. In an attempt to break free from the shadow of his predecessors, the dictator is pushing ‘Kimjongunism’ which hails him as a ‘Great Leader’. Portraits of ...

Three guests were shot dead at a wedding reception in eastern Afghanistan on Friday night, apparently because music was being played, according to the Taliban.   The attack was carried out by three assailants who claimed to be members of ...

North Korea has warned its citizens that they must expect to eat less food until the country re-opens its border with China in 2025. Food shortages are already affecting North Koreans, but citizens were told to tighten their belts for ...

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Afghanistan where an extra nine million people have been plunged into severe food poverty since the Taliban seized power. New parents said they have sold their babies just to get enough money to feed ...

Children as young as 3 will start receiving COVID-19 vaccines in China, where 76 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated and authorities are maintaining a zero-tolerance policy toward outbreaks. China becomes one of the very few countries in ...

South Korea — Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, who participated in a military coup then won the election that was the country’s first move toward democracy before he was imprisoned for corruption, died on Tuesday. He was 88.   ...

Sudan’s top general has declared a state of emergency, dissolved the authorities leading country’s democratic transition, and announced the formation of a new government after soldiers detained civilian leaders on Monday in what activists denounced as a “coup”. General Abdel ...

Protests have broken out in Sudan as armed forces over the night arrested and detained the country’s , Abdalla Hamdock and other members of his transitional government in what appears to be a ‘coup’.   People are now on the ...

The military in Sudan overnight carried out a mass arrest of civilian leaders and politicians, in what is suspected to be an internal coup. Reports said armed men barged into the homes of ‘political and government leaders’ on Monday following ...