UK’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss has described the Late Queen Elizabeth II of England as the spirit of Great Britain. She gave the description in a television broadcast monitored on Al-Jazeera on Thursday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). In the broadcast, Truss who became prime minister on...
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Former U.S. president Donald Trump says Queen Elizabeth II leaves behind a “tremendous legacy” and that he will always treasure his 2019 meeting with her in Britain. “Queen Elizabeth’s historic and remarkable reign left a tremendous legacy of peace and prosperity for Great Britain,” he said a statement jointly...
British royal residence Clarence House has confirmed that Charles will be known as King Charles III following the death of Elizabeth II. Earlier, British Prime Minister Liz Truss had used the title in remarks outside 10 Downing Street: “Today the Crown passes, as it has done for more than...
Britain’s new King has described the death of the Queen, who he called his “beloved Mother”, as the “greatest sadness” for his family. One of the first acts of the new monarch – whose title has been confirmed by the Prime Minister as King Charles III – was to...
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, is now with Queen Elizabeth after she was placed under medical supervision, the BBC reported on Thursday. A statement from Buckingham Palace, said: “Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she...
Ukraine is to receive another 675 million dollars in military aid from the United States (U.S.) to help in its war against Russia. The U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said this on Thursday at a U.S. base in Ramstein, Germany. Austin had invited the members of the Ukraine Contact...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria is committed to promoting peace and harmony among ECOWAS countries. The President spoke on Wednesday at State House, Abuja, as he received updates from former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, on the face-off between Mali and Cote D’Ivoire...
The death toll in a landslide disaster in the western Ugandan district of Kasese has risen to 15, a local relief agency said on Wednesday. The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) told reporters that the bodies of the victims have been recovered from the landslide in Rukoki Sub-County, Kasika...
The UN says no fewer than 173 civilians have been killed in South Sudan for a four-month period of violence while human rights violations is reported committed in Unity State. As fighting continues in South Sudan, a new UN report released on Tuesday documents 173 civilian deaths over a...
Liz Truss on Tuesday officially became Britain’s new prime minister, at an audience with head of state Queen Elizabeth II after the resignation of Boris Johnson. The former foreign secretary, 47, was seen in an official photograph shaking hands with the monarch to accept her offer to form a...
Japan expects to spend around 1.7 billion yen ($12 million) on a state funeral for assassinated former premier Shinzo Abe, the government said Tuesday, despite controversy over the plan. Abe was shot dead on the campaign trail in July, and the government expects dozens of current and former heads...
A bridge collapsed while being commissioned in South Africa and a video of the incident has gone viral. In the video, the officials commissioning the project are seen standing on the bridge. Immediately a female official cut the ribbon to declare the bridge open, the structure gave way and collapsed...
At least 46 people were killed when a strong earthquake struck southwestern China on Monday, state media reported, as violent tremors in a remote region damaged homes and left some areas without electricity. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding...
Fifty years after a kidnapping during the 1972 Munich Olympics ended in bloodshed, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked the victims’ families for forgiveness. “I ask you, as the Head of State of this country and on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, for your forgiveness for the lack...
Ukraine will receive another 500 million euros (496.3 million dollars) in grants from the European Union to provide housing and education to people internally displaced by the war and returnees. The European Commission announced on Monday that the financial aid, some of which would also support Ukraine’s agricultural sector,...
Britain’s Conservative party Monday announced Liz Truss as its new leader to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and confront Britain’s deepest economic crisis in decades. The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by about 57 to 43 percent after a gruelling summer-long contest decided...
he Supreme Court of Kenya on Monday dismissed a petition challenging William Ruto as president-elect, paving the way for his swearing-in next week in line with the country’s constitution. A seven-judge bench unanimously agreed that Ruto met the constitutional threshold to be declared the east African nation’s fifth president,...
Kenya’s Supreme Court is set to decide on whether to uphold or nullify the result of last month’s presidential election. A ruling anxiously awaited in a country scarred by previous bouts of poll-related violence. The seven-member court said it would deliver its ruling at 12 p.m. local time (0900...
Myanmar’s deposed former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour. According to a source familiar with the proceedings, the nobel laureate and figurehead of Myanmar’s opposition to decades of military rule has been...
Seven people were killed and 23 injured as tribal violence flared in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, the state’s security committee said, just weeks after major clashes. In mid-July, at least 105 people were killed and thousands displaced in fighting over land between the Hausa and Funj tribes as...