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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 ...

  Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are set to unveil their new government today as the country’s economy teeters on the verge of collapse amid food shortage warnings. The impending announcement comes more than two weeks after the Islamist militia captured ...

Photos have emerged showing Taliban supporters in Afghanistan holding a mock funeral while hoisting coffins draped with flags from the U.S. and other NATO countries. Reuters obtained some of the photos that were taken in Khost on Tuesday, less than ...

Afghan women will be allowed to study at university, but not in the same room as men, the Taliban has declared. The group’s acting higher education minister also said that male teachers will not be permitted to teach female students ...

This is the moment a decorated American soldier boarded a military cargo plane just before midnight Tuesday in Afghanistan — becoming the last US service member to leave the country. The departure of Maj. Gen. Donahue, commander of the US. ...

  Minutes after US military forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, armed Taliban fighters were seen entering a hangar at the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul where four heavy-duty Chinook helicopters are stationed. The video captured by LA Times ...

  This is the shocking moment an Afghan TV news presenter reads out the headlines while surrounded by armed Taliban thugs. The clip was shared online by the TV studio after the militants stormed the building and demanded the news ...

Taliban fighters fired their guns into the air in celebration in the Afghan capital as the United States completed the withdrawal of it forces from Afghanistan, nearly twenty years after it invaded the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks ...