Miners in Angola have unearthed a rare pure pink diamond that is believed to be the largest found in 300 years, the Australian site operator announced on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The 170 carat pink diamond dubbed The Lulo Rose, was discovered at Lulo mine in the country’s diamond-rich...
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Preliminary data early on Wednesday indicated that the volume of gas delivered from Russia to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was sinking, as Russian gas provider Gazprom had earlier said. While 27 million kilowatt-hours of gas arrived at the German terminal in Lubmin between 6 a.m. (0400...
State-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR), on Wednesday said that the death toll in the suspected toxic liquor consumption in the western Indian state of Gujarat rose to 33. It said that more than 45 people who had consumed toxic liquor are undergoing treatment in Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad hospitals...
At least 471 people were killed, injured or missing as a result of fierce clashes this month between rival gangs in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, the United Nations said Monday. “Serious incidents of sexual violence against women and girls as well as boys being recruited by gangs have also been...
Pope Francis on Monday apologised for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalised generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from school survivors and indigenous...
The police say 29 people died after consuming toxic liquor in India’s western state of Gujarat. The victims were mostly villagers from the Botad district, officials at the police control room said. Preliminary laboratory tests indicated that chemicals including methanol were present in the liquor mix, regional police official...
Tunisians are to head to polls on Monday to vote in a referendum on a controversial draft constitution that grants the president wide powers amid a months-long political crisis in the country, the birthplace of the 2010-11 Arab Spring revolts. The opposition has called for a boycott of the...
More than two in five UK airport workers are considering leaving the industry, new research suggests. A survey of 1,700 workers by jobs site CV-Library found reasons for wanting to quit included wanting better pay and less stress. Only five per cent of respondents blamed the current situation at...
Pope Francis on Sunday arrived in Canada to apologise to residential school survivors on their lands for the Catholic Church’s operation of residential schools throughout the country. The Pope will make three stops in the course of his five-day tour of Edmonton, Alberta, the province that hosts the most...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has charged members of the West African Society of Pharmacology (WASP) to spearhead research for the production of vaccines to contain epidemics that are endemic in the sub-region. Jonathan gave the advice in Abuja on Saturday at a programme of the West African Society of...
The African Union on Saturday hailed a landmark deal between Ukraine and Russia that will allow Kyiv to resume exports of grain through the Black Sea and relieve a global food crisis. Ukraine’s farms are a major source of grain for the world market, in particular in the Middle...
U.S. President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus (COVID-19), and is experiencing “very mild symptoms,” according to a White House statement on Thursday. “He is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms. “He has begun taking Paxlovid,” the statement disclosed. In line with the...
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the United States will bring together leaders from across the African continent for a major summit in December in Washington to discuss pressing challenges from food security to climate change. “The summit will demonstrate the United States’ enduring commitment to Africa, and...
High temperatures have brought severe disruption to rail services throughout Britain as the country wilts under a heatwave. Dozens of trains were cancelled or delayed across England on Wednesday morning because of problems caused by the extreme heat. Temperatures hit 40C on Tuesday, the hottest on record in the...
Britain awoke on Tuesday after experiencing its warmest night on record, with temperatures remaining in the mid-20s, and with more potentially record-breaking temperatures in the forecast. A high of 40 degrees was predicted for Tuesday, a trend that was not only causing Britons to sweat but resulting in growing...
Members of the Sri Lanka parliament will meet on Wednesday to elect a new president for the country. Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, parliamentarian of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Dullas Alahapperuma, and National People’s Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake were nominated for the post of...
UN Member States on Monday gathered at the UN headquarters in New York to observe Nelson Mandela International Day, a celebration for everyone to take action and inspire change in their communities. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mandela, the first democratically-elected President...
A 24-year-old bride has been shot dead at her wedding ceremony after a stray bullet from a celebratory gunfire hit her in the head. Mahvash Leghaei got married at Firuzabad in Iran when a guest, who is believed to be a cousin of the groom, fired his unlicensed high-powered...
Accra/Brazzaville – Ghana has announced the country’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre laboratory confirmed earlier results. The Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal received samples from each of the two patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana – both deceased and...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has hailed late Nelson Mandela, the first black President of Post-Apartheid South Africa and racial justice icon for the outstanding legacy he left after his demise. Guterres described Mandela as healer and mentor to generations, in a video message to mark the Mandela International Day,...