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The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, sanctioned on Tuesday a law that toughens penalties for those who mistreat dogs or cats. The far-right leader resisted the measure but finally accepted pressure, among others, by his wife Michelle de Paula Firmo. Several ...

  US President Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born Enoh Titilayo Ebong to the post of Director, United States Trade and Development Agency. This was contained in a brief with names of nominees for different positions in the president’s cabinet sent ...

The Taliban executed a young woman and uploaded sickening photos of her beheaded body on social media, it has been claimed. Mahjabin Hakimi, a highly-rated player with the Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club, was slaughtered by jihadists, her former coach says. ...

The President of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, says the terrorists who tried to remove him through a coup in 2016 are still active in Nigeria. Erdogan said this on Wednesday at a joint press conference with President Muhammadu Buhari, on the ...

The United Kingdom government has warned its citizens in Nigeria against visiting 12 states in the country over possible terror attacks. The advisory from the UK through its Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) followed concerns on the possibility of terrorists ...

At least 19 people were killed a day after torrential rains pounded villages and flooded roads in the southern Indian state of Kerala.   Officials said rescuers recovered the bodies in two of the worst-hit districts, Kottayam and Idukki, where ...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has issued a stern warning to Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asking him to stop prosecuting opposition leader back home in Turkey. MURIC berated the president ahead of his arrival in Nigeria today, Monday, on ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reminded countries and people that pandemics are not over. Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Technical Lead on COVID-19, gave the advice at a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland. The official stated that the world must ...

  Dozens of people have been killed and more than 70 wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan today. The attack took place at Fatemieh mosque in Kandahar, the largest Shiite place of ...

The Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, DIGC, Dr Paul Enenche, has said that the move to make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for everyone across the globe is a demonic agenda from the “pit of hell”. The renowned clergy man ...

Former President of the United State of America, Bill Clinton has been hospitalized. A statement by Dr. Alpesh Amin, chair of medicine at UC Irvine Medical Center, said Clinton was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit for a urinary ...

Taliban fighters have been pictured shamelessly enjoying themselves at an amusement park even as they bring a reign of terror to Afghanistan. Pictures show the machine-gun-wielding jihadis frolicking as they took over a theme park and played on a carousel ...

  Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died in a Paris hospital on Saturday aged 88, after decades of exile in France following his dismissal by parliament. “After a long illness, Abolhassan Banisadr died on Saturday ...

Former President Donald Trump suggested without evidence Thursday night that thousands of Haitian migrants who are reported to be heading for the US-Mexico border are afflicted by AIDS.   “We have hundreds of thousands of people flowing in from Haiti,” ...

The Taliban hung the dead bodies of three alleged criminals in public view in Afghanistan on Tuesday, a shocking display reminiscent of the Islamic militant group’s brutal regime of the late 1990s. The alleged criminals were killed by a man ...

  Former US President Donald Trump was not included on the annual Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest Americans Forbes said Trump is now worth an estimated 2.5 billion dollars, leaving him 400 million dollars short of the cutoff to ...

  A video of an Air India plane stuck underneath an over-bridge in the capital, Delhi, has gone viral. The scrapped plane, which had reportedly been sold off, was being transported when it got stuck. The video shows traffic passing ...

India’s top court has approved the government’s decision to pay 50,000 rupees ($674) as compensation for every death due to Covid-19. The Supreme Court’s order followed a petition by lawyers seeking compensation under India’s disaster management laws. India has officially ...

    Two sisters aged 5 and 7 spent several days in an apartment with the body of their mother who had died suddenly in northwestern France, the regional prosecutor said on Saturday. “Be quiet, Mommy is sleeping,” the girls ...

  A Spanish bishop has resigned from his position to pursue his love interest. It was gathered that the bishop identified as Xavier Novell, 52 fell in love with a divorced author of satanic-themed eroticas. Novell announced last month that ...

  A 25-year-old suspected Islamist extremist has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of terrorism. He is suspected of having committed offences of preparing for acts of terrorism, membership of a banned organisation and receiving weapons training. The suspect ...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama presided on Tuesday over a ceremonial groundbreaking at the future Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, saying he hopes the facility will be a hub of global civic activism. Construction of the $700 million centre, blocks ...

They were the trailblazers of women’s rights in Afghanistan. They were the staunch defenders of the law, seeking justice for their country’s most marginalised. But now, more than 220 female Afghan judges are in hiding due to fear of retribution ...

China’s central bank has announced that all transactions of crypto-currencies are illegal, effectively banning digital tokens such as Bitcoin. “Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities,” the People’s Bank of China said, warning it “seriously endangers the safety of ...

A prominent leader of the Taliban has said the group will reintroduce punishments such as amputations and executions for criminals, though perhaps not publicly. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban, confirmed the return of executions. He ...