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Nancy Pelosi announces retirement after decades in US Congress

Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement from Congress, bringing an end to a decades-long career that saw the California Democrat become one of the...

World’s oldest president sworn in for eighth term in Cameroon

Cameroon's 92-year-old leader, Paul Biya, has been sworn in for another seven years as president in a ceremony at the country's parliament in Yaoundé. Biya...

Man arrested for groping Mexico president during public appearance

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has said she will press charges against a man who groped her during a public appearance. Mobile phone footage of the...

Boeing settles with families of three 737 MAX crash victims

 Boeing has reached settlements in three lawsuits brought by the families of victims who died in the March 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, the...

South Africa says it received distress calls from 17 citizens who joined mercenary forces fighting in Ukraine

South Africa's government said on Thursday that it had received distress calls from 17 citizens who had joined mercenary forces in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The...

Mamdani thinks Trump threats are ‘inevitable’, but it won’t stop his plans to lower cost of living

Zohran Mamdani pledged to stand up to pressure from the Trump administration in his first press conference since winning the mayoral race on Tuesday. The...

Nigeria rejects US religious freedom designation, says it is based on ‘faulty data’

Nigeria's government rejected on Wednesday its designation by the United States as a "country of particular concern" over alleged religious freedom violations, saying the...

US to cut flights at 40 airports if shutdown doesn’t end, Transportation Secretary warns

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned there will be a 10% reduction in air travel capacity at 40 major airports in the US starting Friday...

Miss Universe contestants walk out after organiser berates Miss Mexico

Several contestants have walked out of a Miss Universe event after an official from the host nation, Thailand, publicly berated Miss Mexico in a...

Cruise ship that left woman to die on island boarded by investigators

Investigators have boarded an Australian cruise ship more than 10 days after the death of an elderly female passenger who was left behind on...

More than 85 dead as typhoon wreaks havoc in the Philippines

At least 85 people have been killed while hundreds of thousands fled their homes as one of strongest typhoons this year ripped through the...

At least nine killed after UPS cargo plane crashes in Kentucky

At least nine people were killed when a UPS cargo plane crashed while taking off from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday evening,...

At least 52 dead as typhoon wreaks havoc in the Philippines

At least 52 people have been killed while hundreds of thousands fled their homes as one of the strongest typhoons this year ripped through...

Son who sued parents must stay at Ghana boarding school, judge rules

A 14-year-old British boy who took his parents to court after they sent him to boarding school in Ghana must remain there until at...

I was the female voice on P-Square’s ‘Do Me’ but earned nothing – Waje

Nigerian singer Waje has told a new, wide-ranging story about her early career, revealing she was the uncredited female voice on P-Square’s continental hit...

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney passes on

Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated...

Kim Kardashian has taken her law exams but says: I could never be a divorce lawyer

Kim Kardashian may be weeks away from finding out if she's passed her law exams, but she says practising divorce law is not in...

I’m the luckiest man alive, but also suffering, says Air India crash sole survivor

The sole survivor of the Air India plane crash, which killed 241 people on board, has said he feels like the "luckiest man" alive,...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrives in Ghana for high-level three-day state visit

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced that the bond between Ghana and Germany is set to grow even stronger, bringing benefits...

Mahama congratulates El-Sisi on opening of Grand Egyptian Museum  

President John Mahama, alongside world leaders, attended the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo on Saturday night, hosted by President Abdel...

Powerful 6.3 earthquake kills at least 10 in Afghanistan, scores injured

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring about 260,...

Nigeria says US help against Islamist insurgents must respect its sovereignty

Nigeria said on Sunday it would welcome U.S. help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected, responding to threats of...

Trump says there ‘could be’ US troops on the ground in Nigeria, or air strikes

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. military could deploy troops to Nigeria or carry out air strikes to stop what he...

Tanzania’s Hassan declared landslide winner in election marred by violence

Tanzania's electoral commission declared on Saturday that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had won, with nearly 98% of the votes, an election that set off...

German President to undertake three-day state visit to Ghana

The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will embark on a three-day State Visit to Ghana from Sunday, November...

Black Lives Matter founders under investigation for misuse of $90million donations

The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during racial...

Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

Pornhub says the number of UK visitors to its website is down 77% compared with July, when more rigorous age checks for sexually explicit...

Trump’s surgeon general pick goes into labour before confirmation hearing

President Donald Trump's controversial pick for surgeon general, Casey Means, had to postpone her Senate confirmation hearing after going into labour with her first...

Trump hails ‘amazing’ meeting with China’s Xi but no formal trade deal agreed

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have met for the first time in six years - raising hopes for a...

Mahama, Macron hold bilateral talks on security, economy, and regional stability in Paris

President John Dramani Mahama and French President Emmanuel Macron held wide-ranging discussions at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Thursday, October 30, on the...

Mahama warns AI could fuel global misinformation

President John Dramani Mahama has cautioned that the rapid and unregulated growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses a significant threat to global information integrity,...

Ex-officer guilty of murder of Sonya Massey after she reported suspected intruder

A former Illinois sheriff's deputy has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death last year of a householder who had reported a...

Liberia replaces mines minister amid talks on US investments

Liberia has replaced its mining minister and top mining regulator, the office of President Joseph Boakai announced, as the West African nation and iron...

Mali revokes over 90 mining exploration permits for non compliance

Mali has revoked more than 90 mining exploration permits, including those held by subsidiaries of international mining companies, according to an official decree seen...

Sudanese RSF militia killed 460 people at el-Fasher hospital, says WHO

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia reportedly killed hundreds of civilians at the main hospital in el-Fasher, days after it captured the Sudanese city,...

Tech giants are spending big on AI in rush to dominate the boom

The titans of the technology sector are ramping up their spending on artificial intelligence, as they rush to reap the benefits of an AI...

Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years

President Donald Trump called on US military leaders to resume testing US nuclear weapons in order to keep pace with other countries such as...

Guardian allegedly burns child over bedwetting; case withdrawn under pressure  

Ayisha Zakaria, a 24-year-old guardian, has allegedly inflicted burns on the private part and inner thighs of a seven-year-old girl for bedwetting.   Eyewitnesses said the...

Jamaicans wake to devastation as hurricane causes floods, power cuts and splits city in two

The normal soundtrack that accompanies Jamaican life is silent this morning as many have woken to no electricity. About three-quarters of the island is without...

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US revokes his visa

Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said on Tuesday the United States had revoked his non-immigrant visa issued last year and he was told...