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Four people from the same family were killed by lightning on Lake Victoria’s Bumbile Island in Tanzania’s Northwestern District of Muleba in Kagera Region, an official said on Friday.   Muleba District Commissioner, Thoba Nguvilla told a news conference that ...

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-r*ped on several occasions by up to 33 men in the latest shocking s.e.x attack case in India. The attacks took place at various locations in the Thane district of Maharashtra state over the last ...

President Joe Biden has pledge to donate additional 500 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to poor countries. He made the promise today at a virtual summit to boost global vaccination rates. He said he will push other world leaders to ...

At least 353 Nigerian doctors have been registered to work in the United Kingdom in the last 100 days. Checks on the website of the General Medical Council – the body which licenses and maintains the official register of medical ...

Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 Tuesday after attending the UN General Assembly in New York that was inaugurated by his president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to an official statement. “The other members of the delegation have been ...

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were returned to power on Monday in a hotly contested election against the rookie Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, according to TV projections.   This is even as Erin O’Toole, leader of Canada’s opposition ...

The Taliban appear to have shut down the women’s affairs ministry and replaced it with a department that once enforced strict religious doctrines. On Friday, the sign at the ministry was removed, and a sign for the ministry of virtue ...

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in El Salvador, angry at the introduction of Bitcoin as its legal tender. President Nayib Bukele says the cryptocurrency will help Salvadorans working abroad to send money back home. But demonstrators fear ...

Ugandan prosecutors on Wednesday slapped additional charges of terrorism as well as aiding and abetting terrorism on two opposition National Unity Party (NUP) MPs. The lawmakers – Mohammed Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana, who are allied to the opposition leader Bobi ...

Microsoft Co-founder and Billionaire Philanthropist, Bill Gates, has lamented the low access to COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries, warning that if things do not improve, COVID-19 would be treated as a disease of the poor. He said this in a ...

A major row broke out between leaders of the Taliban just days after they set up a new government in Afghanistan, senior Taliban officials told the BBC. Supporters of two rival factions reportedly brawled at the presidential palace in the ...

An Afghan sniper who worked alongside British Special Forces was murdered in front of his family yesterday by the Taliban. Noor was traced to his sister’s home on the edge of the Afghan capital Kabul and shot three times in ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has added 38 individuals including six Nigerians and 15 entities to its terror designation list, according to state-run WAM news agency. The decision, WAM stated, comes within the framework of the UAE’s efforts to target ...

Yoruba Nation agitators and other self-determination groups have arrived at the United Nations Headquaters in New York. Earlier, the Chairman of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, Professor Banji Akintoye, has declared that a Million-Man Freedom March would hold opposite ...

The prime minister’s mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, has died aged 79. A notice published in the Times newspaper said she died “suddenly and peacefully” at St Mary’s Hospital in west London. Boris Johnson once described his mother, who was a ...

THE European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS on Monday inaugurated a 25-member Youth Sounding Board, a body of young Nigerians, who will help in shaping and implementing EU programmes and strategies in the country for more inclusiveness. The union ...

America marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday with solemn ceremonies given added poignancy by the recent chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and return to power of the Taliban. Heart-wrenching commemorations will unfold at each of the three ...

Guinea’s ruling military came under diplomatic pressure on Friday as the African Union suspended the country over last weekend’s coup, and West African envoys arrived to mediate in the crisis. Mediators who met ousted president Alpha Condé said he was ...

Taliban authorities have agreed to let 200 American civilians and other non-Afghans to depart on charter flights from Kabul airport, a U.S. official said. The Taliban were pressed to allow the departures by U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad, said the ...

A wanted terrorist with a $10m US bounty on his head has been made Afghanistan’s interior minister as the Taliban announced a caretaker government packed with the movement’s old guard. Sirajuddin Haqqani, the movement’s deputy leader, is accused of overseeing ...

A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to five years in jail for spreading Covid-19 after he breached home quarantine rules. Le Van Tri was convicted of “spreading dangerous infectious diseases to other people” after he travelled to his home province ...

Angry protests, technological glitches and a plummet in value marked the first day of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. The price of Bitcoin on Tuesday crashed to its lowest in nearly a month, falling from $52,000 (£37,730) to ...

Six minor girls in central India were stripped and paraded naked as part of a village ritual to summon rains. The incident took place in a drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state. Videos that went viral ...

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

  Taliban officials have declared China as their closest ally in the international community. Militants say Beijing is “ready to invest in and reconstruct” Afghanistan and describe the nation as their “principal partner”. Zabihulla Mujahid, spokesman for the group, has ...