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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,’ ...

Russia on Tuesday became the first country in the world to officially register a COVID-19 vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. To underscore its efficacy, President Vladimir Putin said that one of his daughters has already ...

World Covid-19 cases surpassed the 20 million mark on Sunday night, as three of the worst hit countries also hit grim milestones of their own. According to worldometers.info, total confirmed cases were tallied at 20,016,286, with the death toll also ...

A Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death in China on charges related to ketamine. Xu Weihong, 45, was convicted of producing the drug in October 2016 by the Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. The court said ...

China, where the coronavirus was detected last December, is now facing a new health threat from another virus, that is tick-borne. The virus causes a disease called “Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS). According to reports, it has already killed ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has commiserated with the people and government of Lebanon over Tuesday’s Beirut explosions. No fewer than 100 people died while 2,700 others were injured in the massive blasts at the city’s port, the Minister of Health, ...

Spain’s former monarch, King Juan Carlos I, has announced he is leaving Spain to live in another country amid $100 million corruption scandal. The royal family’s website on Monday published a letter from Juan Carlos to his son, King Felipe VI, saying ...

Kanye West has officially filed Michelle Tidball, a life coach based in Wyoming, as his vice president on Arkansas’ presidential ballot. A spokesperson for the Arkansas Secretary of State told TMZ that Kanye’s campaign turned in the needed 1,000 signatures ...