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Kenya braces for legal battle after Ruto declared president-elect

Ayorinde Oluokun

4 years ago

Kenya on Tuesday braced for a protracted legal battle after William Ruto was declared the winner of presidential election. Ruto…

Armenian warehouse blast death toll rises to sixteen

PM NEWS Live

4 years ago

According to the latest investigations, the blast occurred when a warehouse where fireworks were stored blew up at the wholesale…

Author Rushdie awake and articulate; more details on attacker emerge

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Award-winning author Salman Rushdie is awake and "articulate" in his conversations after being stabbed at least 10 times in the…

U.S. Justice Department opposes release of Trump raid affidavit

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it opposes unsealing the affidavit that prosecutors used to obtain a federal judge's…

U.S. flags President Weah’s chief of staff for corruption, slams sanctions

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The sanctions target Weah's Chief of Staff Nathaniel McGill, Liberia's Chief Prosecutor Sayma Syrenius Cephus and Bill Twehway, the managing…

China slams sanctions on Taiwan’s ‘independence diehards’

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

Among those sanctioned were Taiwan's de facto ambassador to the United States, Hsiao Bi-khim, Secretary-General of Taiwan's National Security Council…

Buhari sends message to Kenya’s President-elect, William Ruto

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Wafula Chebukati said Ruto had won almost 7.18 million votes (50.49 percent) against…

VP William Ruto beats Odinga to win Kenya’s presidential election, chaos looms

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The commission's chairman Wafula Chebukati said Ruto won 7.18 million votes (50.49 percent) against 6.94 million (48.85 percent) for his…

Israel arrests 3 over “large-scale fraud” against France

Michael Adesina

4 years ago

Israeli authorities have arrested three suspects as part of an investigation into “large-scale fraud” against the French treasury and the…

Salman Rushdie: Iran denies involvement in attack

Nimot Sulaimon

4 years ago

Rushdie was stabbed onstage as he was about to deliver a lecture in New York State on Friday. He is…

Armenian warehouse blast death toll rises to five

PM NEWS Live

4 years ago

Blasts ripped through the warehouse in a shopping mall in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Sunday, causing parts of…

South Korea urges improved ties with Japan on freedom anniversary

PM NEWS Live

4 years ago

The South is also ready to help boost its neighbours' farm productivity, modernise hospitals and medical facilities, and take steps…

Ghastly Church fire kills 41 people, mostly kids in Egypt

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The fire blocked an entrance to the church, causing the stampede, the two sources said, adding that most of those…

Putin’s Russia owing reservists, volunteers in Ukraine: Reports

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

Russia has also failed to provide for the funeral arrangements of volunteer soldiers killed in action and those who have…

Japan vows never to wage war again: PM Kishida

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

"We will never again repeat the horrors of war. I will continue to live up to this determined oath," Kishida…

Vietnam mulls high speed railway at price tag of $58.7 billion

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The first two sections with combined length of 665 kms (413 miles) and total investment of $24.72 billion would be…

Rushdie’s assailant Hadi Matar pleads not guilty

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, New Jersey was born in California. He recently moved to New Jersey

Trump presents national security challenge to US: Insight

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

Trump is under federal investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act, which makes it unlawful to spy for another…

‘The devil on path to hell,’ Iranian newspapers celebrate stabbing of Rushdie

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

The assailant, Hadi Matar had stabbed Rushdie in the neck at a literary event in upstate New York Friday.

Salman Rushdie still on ventilator, may lose an eye after Satanic attack

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

His agent Andrew Wylie said Rushdie, 75, also suffered a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye,…

Travails of Salman Rushdie: The writer who hardly sleeps with two eyes closed

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

Though there were no immediate threats before this attack, it is not unconnected with the death threats the Indian-born novelist…

Paraguay VP Velazquez set to resign after U.S. sanction

PM NEWS Live

4 years ago

Velazquez denied the accusation but said that to protect his party, he would submit his resignation next week.

U.S. Southern Baptist Convention under DoJ probe for 2 decades of sexual abuse

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The news of the investigation came just months after executive committee in May released the results of a third-party investigation…

Ukraine destroys 2 bridges to Russia-occupied Kherson Oblast

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the bridges, they will remain a key vulnerability, the UK's Ministry…

Amir Abdulla appointed Sudan Coordinator of Black Sea Grain Initiative

PM NEWS Live

4 years ago

Prior to joining WFP, Abdulla was a Branch Manager in Juba and Port Sudan for the shipping and forwarding company…

Rushdie battles for life, placed on ventilator, liver damaged

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, was stabbed in the neck at a literary event in upstate New York…

Man who stabbed Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, named

Kazeem Ugbodaga

4 years ago

Rushdie was stabbed in the neck at a literary event in upstate New York Friday. The assailant stormed the stage…

U.S. House delivers another win for Biden, Democrats

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

The bill effectively secures a significant victory for Democrats less than three months before the midterm elections.

Odinga, Ruto in tight race as allegations of rigging surface in Kenya

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

Media tallies, which had nearly stopped by Friday morning, showed Odinga and Ruto neck and neck, just under the 50%…

Classified files seized from Donald Trump’s Florida home leak

PM NEWS Editor

4 years ago

Among the classified materials collected were four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets…

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