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Trudeau apologises for dumb ‘brownface’ photo

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has admitted to wearing brownface makeup during a 2001 event at a school where he…

UN correspondents host Muhammad-Bande in New York

Isa Isawade

7 years ago

The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) on Wednesday evening in New York hosted the new President of the General Assembly…

Netanyahu cancels US trip as grip on power slips

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled his planned trip to the UN General Assembly next week as his long…

P.W. Botha May Be Savouring Some Big Laugh in Wilderness

Ademola Adegbamigbe

7 years ago

Pieter Willem Botha, South Africa’s former Prime Minister and first Executive President may be turning in his grave, jeering at…

25 drones, missiles fired at Saudi oil facilities: Defence spokesman

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday displayed remnants of 25 drones and missiles it said were used in a crippling attack “unquestionably…

Dozens of children killed in Koranic school fire

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

At least 26 children were killed on Wednesday in a fire at a Koranic school near the Liberian capital Monrovia.…

Trump appoints Robert O’Brien as new national security adviser

Nimot Sulaimon

7 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Robert O’Brien, the current envoy for hostage affairs, as national security adviser following…

Indonesia parliament raises marital age for girls to 19

Nimot Sulaimon

7 years ago

Rights groups on Wednesday welcomed the Indonesian parliament’s decision to raise the marriage age for girls from 16 to 19…

Spain’s King declines government mandate as elections loom

Nimot Sulaimon

7 years ago

Spain’s King Felipe VI has decided not to grant acting Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez or any other politician a…

Pennsylvania lawmaker in child pornography scandal

Nimot Sulaimon

7 years ago

Pennsylvania State Sen. Michael Folmer is facing charges of possession of child pornography, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Tuesday…

America points to southwest Iran as staging post for Saudi attack

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

The United States believes the attacks that crippled Saudi Arabian oil facilities last weekend originated in southwestern Iran, a U.S.…

Israeli election: Gantz upsets Netanyahu

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

In an apparent setback for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, challenger Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White Party is slightly ahead…

Truck falls, kills 15 in Philippines

Isa Isawade

7 years ago

Fifteen people were killed when the truck they were travelling on fell off a cliff in the southern Philippines on…

Taliban to end 18-year old war with U.S

Isa Isawade

7 years ago

The Taliban is willing to sign the “finalized agreement with the U.S.,” the militant organization’s deputy head of political office…

Train derails during rush hour in Hong Kong

Isa Isawade

7 years ago

Hong Kong experienced another disaster on Monday as a passenger train derailed during the morning rush hour forcing evacuation of…

Tunisian prime minister trails in the presidential poll

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, a presidential hopeful whose popularity has been tarnished by a sluggish economy and the rising…

Boris Johnson booed in Luxembourg, cancels press conference

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to cancel a press conference with the prime minister of Luxembourg, after being…

Number of asylum seekers fall in Germany

Nimot Sulaimon

7 years ago

The number of asylum seekers in Germany, relying on state support, fell to around 411,000 at the end of 2018,…

Groups raise concerns about raging forest fires

Nimot Sulaimon

7 years ago

Environmental groups urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday to take urgent action to put out forest fires that have…

City officials advise against eating dog meat

Nimot Sulaimon

7 years ago

Food safety officials in Ho Chi Minh City have urged locals to stop eating dog meat to improve the national…

Britain not blaming Iran for Saudi attacks

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Britain said it is not jumping to conclusions yet like America, that Iran was responsible for the drone attacks on…

Imminent attack on Iran as Trump says US ‘locked and loaded’

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Is a US attack on Iran imminent? U.S. President Donald Trump fuelled the speculations when he said on Sunday that…

Africa, disunite and perish

Ademola Adegbamigbe

7 years ago

Other things being equal, I am due to give a keynote lecture on the Fourth Industrial Revolution at an international…

Kim invites Trump to Pyongyang

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August,…

Tunisian outsiders claim runoff places in presidential poll

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Two anti-establishment candidates in Tunisia's divisive election claimed Sunday to have won through to a runoff, hours after polling closed…

‘Incredible Hulk’ Boris Johnson still eyes October no-deal Brexit

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson likened himself to the comic book character The Incredible Hulk in a newspaper interview where…

49,200 General Motors workers begin strike, first in 12 years

PM NEWS Editor

7 years ago

Roughly 49,200 workers at General Motors plants in the U.S. will go on strike Sunday night, halting production in US.…

Xenophobic attacks: Ramaphosa sends envoys to African countries

Isa Isawade

7 years ago

In an apparent move at damage control over recent escalation of xenophobic attacks by South Africans on African immigrants in…

For Old Bob, Let’s Render Mount Ephraim

Ademola Adegbamigbe

7 years ago

For Zimbabwe’s heroic anti-colonial fighter and former President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 95, please join me to render the beautiful lines…

G5 Sahel backs AfDB initiative to boost solar energy

Isa Isawade

7 years ago

G5 Sahel Heads of State have expressed their support for “Desert to Power’’, an Africa Development Bank (AfDB) initiative designed…

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