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  Barack Obama celebrated his 60th birthday last weekend with a glitzy party teeming with A-listers. The huge bash saw the likes of Jay-Z, Beyoncé and George Clooney gather together to honour the former US president. Missing out on the ...

Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry formally apologized Thursday for the manhandling of a Nigerian diplomat by its immigration officials. It also announced it had launched a formal investigation of the incident. Nigeria earlier this week recalled its ambassador to Indonesia and summoned ...

China on Thursday sentenced Gu Guoming, a former senior banker at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to life in jail after being found guilty of bribery, state media said on Thursday. China’s top anti-graft body has put high-profile ...

  China’s so-called ‘batwoman’ has issued a stark warning that deadly Covid variants are coming. Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli earned the moniker after working with bats found the subtropical areas of China for 16 years. Zhengli is one of the ...

Kim Jong-un has been seen with a mysterious head bandage like a large plaster, fuelling further concerns for his health. The North Korea leader was earlier spotted with unusual dark patches above his neck. Footage of a military conference held ...

Nine tourists have been killed in northern India after the vehicle they were travelling and was hit by falling boulders. Three others were reportedly injured in the incident, which happened in the state of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. Dramatic footage ...

  Tunisian president Kais Saied has suspended parliament and dismissed prime minister Hichem Mechichi after a day of protests against the ruling party brought the country’s political crisis to a head. Cheering crowds quickly flooded the streets of the capital ...

A man in China has become only the 22nd human in the world to die from catching Monkey-B virus. The 53-year-old man, who worked as a vet, contracted the rare virus while dissecting two dead monkeys in early March. He ...

Mali’s interim president Assimi Goita has survived a knife attack at the Great Mosque of Bamako during the Eid-al-Adha prayer. Two men, one of whom was holding a knife, lunged at him at the mosque. It was not clear whether ...

At least 31 people were killed when torrential rain swept through India’s financial capital late on Sunday, triggering landslides that crushed cars and houses while leaving neighborhoods devastated. Twenty-one people died in the Mumbai suburb of Chembur, in India’s western state ...

Unrest in South Africa has claimed 212 lives, the government said on Friday, a sharp jump from the 117 deaths announced the previous day. Government minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told a news conference most of the new fatalities had occurred in ...

  A recent study has shown that over 740,000 global cancer cases in 2020 were caused by alcohol consumption. The study titled, “Global burden of cancer in 2020 attributable to alcohol consumption: a population-based study”, was published in The Lancet ...

At least 19 people have died and dozens are missing, according to regional officials, after heavy rains triggered flash floods in parts of Germany, damaging homes and disrupting transport. Police in the western city of Koblenz said in a Twitter ...

Lauretta Onochie, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, has slammed CNN over its investigative report on the Lekki shooting.   On Thursday, the aide stated that CNN lied to the international community, adding that Nigeria will not ...

Thousands of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington today, with the president making a drive-past in his motorcade as he sticks to discredited claims that mass fraud denied him election victory.   Marchers close to the White House greeted Trump’s ...

China on Friday joined other nations to congratulate the United States President-Elect, elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, for their victory in the U.S Presidential race that saw the defeat of President Donald Trump.   Immediately after CNN, ...

The worldwide total of coronavirus cases has passed 50million, with Europe once again the epicentre of the pandemic and the United States now seeing more than 100,000 new infections per day. Europe accounted for more than half of the 3.8million ...

Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak was ordered back to prison Thursday as the country’s Supreme Court upheld a 17-year jail term for bribery and embezzlement offences.   The conservative Lee, who served as president from 2008 to 2013, had ...

                                                        Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, has been included in the ...

Canada reported zero Covid-19 deaths in the past 24 hours for the first time since March 15, according to public health agency data released late on Friday.   Canada’s death toll from the pandemic stood at 9,163 as of Sept. ...

The US is to block key exports from China’s Xinjiang region due to allegations that they are produced using forced labour.   The proposed bans include cotton and tomato products which are two of China’s major commodity exports. The Trump ...

India’s coronavirus infections have surged past 4.2 million on Monday as it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases.   With 4,204,613 infections, the country has nearly 70,000 cases more than Brazil, which will post ...

Masses of North Korean soldiers have been spotted practicing for a major military showcase – despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.   Satellite images released by a US think tank show formations of troops and vehicles at the Mirim Parade Training ...

North Korean maximum leader, Kim Jong Un is reportedly in coma and is preparing to hand over power to his sister, British tabloid The Sun reported, quoting a former South Korean diplomat.   The diplomat, an ex-aide to former South ...

President Donald Trump has insisted that neither China nor Russia want him to be reelected, claiming that China would ‘own’ the U.S. if Joe Biden were elected to the presidency. ‘If Joe Biden was president, China would own our country,’ ...