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Football’s governing body FIFA has been “assured” by Iran that they will lift its 40-year ban and allow women to attend a World Cup qualifying game next month.   According to FIFA, the strict law against women breaches international soccer statutes prohibiting discrimination.   ...

Earlier this morning (Sept.23) Manchester Airport railway station was evacuated and a naked man was arrested after a bomb squad were called to deal with a suspicious package at the Airport.   Unconfirmed reports suggested the incident may have been ...

178-year-old British tour operator, Thomas Cook collapsed Sunday, September 22nd leaving hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded worldwide.   The British travel group on Monday declared bankruptcy after failing to reach a last-ditch rescue deal, triggering the UK’s biggest repatriation since ...

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US President Donald Trump on Friday, September 20th approved the deployment of thousands of American troops to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in response to an attack on Saudi oil facilities.   The approval was announced at the ...

A Nigerian man identified as Chukwa Onwumere Zef, along with a Sri Lankan citizen have been arrested and detained by the Kancheepuram district police near Mamallapuram on charges of staying illegally in India.   The two men were caught during a door-to-door inspection ...

Elias Antonio Saca, the former President of El Salvador has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted for bribery.   The former President of the Central American country was serving a 10-year prison sentence for corruption before being handed two ...

Ousted President of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali died on Thursday September 19, while on exile in Saudi Arabia.   Before his death, Ben Ali has been in intensive care unit of an unmentioned hospital for three months after battling prostate cancer ...

President Donald Trump has named Robert O’Brien, the current envoy for hostage affairs, as the new national security adviser following the resignation of John Bolton last week. “I am pleased to announce that I will name Robert C. O’Brien, currently ...

Javier Burillo, a member of one of Mexico’s wealthiest families has been arrested on manslaughter charges after his 11-year-old son died on a family boating trip in the San Francisco Bay.   Burillo, 58, was arrested Sunday at his multimillion-dollar home in ...

Zulfat Suara, a US-based Nigerian woman who made headlines months ago after declaring her interest to contest for political office in Nashville, has also made history by becoming the first Muslim to be elected to a Metro seat in Nashville. ...

Nigeria’s Cadet Officer, Sunday Linus Ogbole, has won the King Hussain Award by The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.   He was given the award for being the most improved International Cadet of the Intake on the Regular Commissioning Course. This ...

The British Government has said that international students will henceforth be able to stay and work in the UK after graduating in a policy change that had previously restricted the period to four months.   There will be no cap on ...

President Donald Trump has fired his national security adviser John Bolton, saying that he “strongly disagreed with many of his suggestions.” Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, September 10, saying he ordered John to resign and will be naming a new National Security Advisor ...

Todd Palin, the husband of former governor of Alaska in the US and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has filed for divorce from her after 31 years of marriage.   In a document filed Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, Superior Court, ...

Archaeologists were shocked to discover an “iPhone” buried with the body of a woman in a grave believed to be over 2,000 years old.   They made the discovery in the Russian republic of Tuva, known as “The Russian Atlantis”. ...

Donald Trump has launched another attack on Sadiq Khan after the Mayor of London criticized him for playing golf as Hurricane Dorian edged towards the US.   Trump hit back at Khan for the criticism but spelt Khan’s name wrong. ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) scheduled to begin in South Africa from Wednesday September 4, will go on without the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, President of DR Congo  Felix Tshisekedi and the President of Malawi Peter Mutharika as they’ve all withdrawn from ...

Former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili on Monday September 2, waded into Xenophobic attack launched against Nigerians in South Africa. Recall there was an earlier report that properties includings cars which belong to Nigerians in the country, was set on fire by ...

India has published the final version of a list which effectively strips about 1.9 million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship.   The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of people who can prove ...

President Trump has confirmed the resignation of his personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, after she divulged personal information about the Trump family during an off-the-record dinner with reporters.   Trump confirmed to reporters on the White House South Lawn that Westerhout ...

A distraught Tennessee man has sued fast-food chain Popeyes, for running out of its popular chicken sandwiches which unexpectedly became an online sensation in the last few weeks.   Craig Barr accused Popeyes of false advertising, deceptive business practices and causing him to ...

President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras will on Friday August 30, initiate the final move of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by travelling to the city to inaugurate a ‘diplomatic office’.   Honduras’ foreign ministry in a statement ahead of ...

A reprisal attack was launched against foreigners by South Africans, following the murder of a Taxi driver by suspected drug dealers in Pretoria CBD on Tuesday August 27.   The cabbie was shot dead after he alongside other Taxi drivers confronted suspected drug ...

Emmanuel Macron, the President of France has blasted Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro after he appeared to mock his wife on social media.   Trouble started after Bolsonaro endorsed a sexist Facebook post about France’s 66-year-old first lady Brigitte Macron. Bolsonaro’s supporter posted a meme mocking the appearance of ...