Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky greeted his country’s status as a candidate to join the European Union (EU) as a turning point in a video address released on Friday. “Ukraine is not a bridge, not a cushion between the West and Russia, not a buffer between Europe and Asia, not...
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Prince Charles laid a wreath on Wednesday at a memorial to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda during the first visit to the country by a British royal. The Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla paused in silent tribute at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, the final resting place for...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday, in a solemn ceremony, honoured the memory of 485 UN personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2021. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 485 personnel is the highest number of UN...
A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 1,000 persons in Afghanistan. At least 1.500 persons were also left injured. Reuters reported that houses were reduced to rubble and bodies swathed in blankets lay on the ground after the magnitude 6.1 earthquake. An unknown number of people remained stuck under rubble and...
Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman is expected in Turkey on Wednesday, hoping to normalise relations strained after the 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate. Talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan come amid efforts by the oil-rich kingdom’s de facto ruler...
The grandson of India’s independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has dropped out of the race to become president after his name was proposed by an alliance of opposition parties. Gopalkrishna Gandhi, 77, a diplomat turned politician said he had declined the request of the 17-party alliance to be their nominee...
One of the two luxury cars Cristiano Ronaldo had shipped to Majorca for his family summer holiday has been involved in an accident. The Man United striker’s £1.7million 900 horsepower Bugatti Veyron is said to have crashed in the east coast resort of Sa Coma. An employee of the...
The situation in a forested area southwest of Berlin where fires had raged over the weekend was easing on Monday morning thanks in part to rain, local authorities said. A pair of wildfires fuelled by a sudden heatwave and dry conditions tore through forested areas just to the south...
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Tunis on Sunday in a second day of protest against a constitutional referendum called by President Kais Saied that his opponents say would cement his hold on power. The demonstration was organised by the Salvation Front, a coalition including the moderate Islamist Ennahda, the...
The war in Ukraine could last “for years”, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned in an interview published Sunday by German daily newspaper Bild, while reiterating calls for Western countries to provide long-term support to Kyiv. “We must be prepared for this to last for years,” the secretary general of...
US President Joe Biden took a tumble as he was riding his bicycle near his beach home in the state of Delaware Saturday morning, but was unhurt. A video from a White House pool report showed the 79-year-old president immediately getting up after his fall. He then says: “I’m...
The World Food Programme (WFP) says one-third of Sudan’s population, or 15 million people, are facing acute food insecurity, according to a new assessment. WFP, in the Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment (CFSVA) released on Thursday, showed that the combined effects of economic and political crises were among...
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Ukraine must win the war against Russia, as he visited the town of Irpin outside the capital Kyiv. “France has been alongside Ukraine since day one. We stand with the Ukrainians without ambiguity”. “Ukraine must resist and win,” Macron told journalists in...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has counted 100 million people worldwide who have been forced to flee their homes. The figure is the highest number of displaced people recorded since World War II. The UN body said in its Global Trends Report on Thursday that displacement of civilians from...
The United States has backed Taiwan’s assertion that the strait separating the island from China is an international waterway, a further rebuff to Beijing’s claim to exercise sovereignty over the strategic passage. The Taiwan Strait has been a frequent source of military tension since the defeated Republic of China...
France announced on Wednesday that soldiers from its operation battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa had captured Oumeya Ould Albakaye, a senior Islamic State figure in Mali. The French Armed Forces ministry said Albakaye was captured by Operation Barkhane forces between the night of June...
President of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Brou has said that the Sub-region was winning in the fight against maritime insecurity, with Nigeria being removed from the piracy list hotspot. Brou said this while delivering reports of the ECOWAS Commission before the ECOWAS Parliament at the ongoing 2022 First Ordinary...
Mr Jean-Claude Brou, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, has said that the community has resumed convergence to launch of the ECOWAS single currency “ECO” in 2027. Brou made this known on Tuesday while delivering reports of the ECOWAS Commission before the ECOWAS Parliament...
The President, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Jean-Claude Brou, on Tuesday, enjoined citizens of member States to be vigilant about monkeypox. Brou gave the advice while presenting the commission’s report on the implementation of the Community Work Programme at this year’s First Ordinary Session of the...
The Queen of England has become the second-longest serving monarch in history. As of Monday, June 13, she will be on the throne for 70 years and 127 days, second only to Louis XIV of France who became king at the age of four. She overtakes Thailand’s King Bhumibol...