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Kemi Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch, 7 others clear first hurdle in race for Boris Johnson’s job

The other candidates who received at least 20 nominations are: Suella Braverman, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Tom Tugendhat,…
Russia's state Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin

Russia threatens to reclaim Alaska from America

Russia colonized Alaska in the late 1700s but sold the territory to the US in 1867.
ISIS leader Maher al-Agal killed here

Maher al-Agal ISIS leader in Syria killed in U.S. air strike

In a statement, the command said Maher al-Agal had been killed in a drone strike in northwesten Syria and a…
Rishi Sunak

Race to succeed Boris Johnson: Sunak, 2 others scale first hurdle

The new leader will be chosen in a two-stage election, in which the 358 Conservative lawmakers reduce the race to…
Jose Eduardo dos Santos

Spanish court allows Dos Santos autopsy

According to the office of Angolan President João Lourenço, his predecessor, who stepped down five years ago, died at the…
Togolese soldiers: rising insecurity in Margba, north of country

Bomb kills seven in Margba northern Togo

Margba is part of the northern Savanes region where Togo declared a state of emergency last month due to rising…
Many injured as Russia unleashes powerful wave of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, targeting Kiev, Sumy and Kharkiv, officials says

Ukraine hits Russia’s ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka, seven dead

Russian TASS news agency also confirmed the strike and said at least seven people were killed. The agency did not…
Abe

Japan’s longest ex-PM Shinzo Abe goes home

Abe, was a polarising figure who dominated politics as the country's longest-serving premier, before being gunned down at a campaign…

Australia’s major cruise ship sparks COVID-19 outbreak

The ship is currently heading to the South Coast of NSW. No crew members will disembark, and all passengers disembarking…
Schoolgirl Ava White

Boy, 15, bags life jail in UK for murder of schoolgirl Ava White

The teenager, who can’t be named because of his age, stabbed Ava White in the neck on the evening of…
Heathrow Airport

10,000 passengers can’t fly as Heathrow orders last-minute cancellations of flights

Sixty-one flights were axed as the west London airport did not believe it could have handled the expected number of…
corporate begging

World population to hit 8 billion by end of 2022: UN report

Although population growth is slower, it continues to increase, said the report released to mark World Population Day on Monday.
PM Liz Truss

Foreign secretary Liz Truss joins race to replace British PM Johnson

She joins contenders including trade minister Penny Mordaunt, former health secretaries Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt, ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak, his…
Pat Cipollone

White House attorney Cipollone gives damning evidence against Trump

Mulvey added that the testimony included "information demonstrating Donald Trump's supreme dereliction of duty" and also "corroborated key elements" of…
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, of Sri Lanka sacked by People Power

Prime Minister confirms Sri Lankan president’s resignation

Constitutional experts say once the president and prime minister formally resign, the next step would be for the speaker to…
Retired Lt. General Gary Volesky

U.S. General Volesky suspended for insulting First Lady Jill Biden

USA Today reported that a Twitter account under Volesky’s name carried a reply to a statement by the First Lady…
Schumer

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer tests positive for COVID-19

"The Leader is fully vaccinated and double boosted, and has very mild symptoms," the statement said.
The massive crowd at Sri Lanka president's office in Colombo

ICYMI: Demonstrators sack Sri Lanka president, prime minister [Photos]

Frustration with the economic crisis boiled over on Saturday when a huge crowd of protesters surged passed armed guards into…
Jose Eduardo dos Santos

Daughter of Dos Santos demands autopsy on dad

The 79-year-old was rushed to hospital and placed in in intensive care after suffering a cardiac arrest on June 23,…
People at the scene of the shooting in Nomzamo Park tavern in Soweto

18 killed, many wounded in Soweto, Pietermaritzburg mass shootings

Four people have also been killed and another eight are in critical condition in another tavern shooting, in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.
Hundreds of thousands protest in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s president to resign after crowd broke into his residence

Hundreds of thousands descended on the capital Colombo, calling for Mr Rajapaksa to resign after months of protests over economic…
Three persons have tested positive to Monkeypox in Edo, the State Director of Public Health Health, Dr Stephenson Ojeifo, announces

Monkeypox spreads to South Carolina, the 35th state

California leads the country with 136 cases while New York has logged 131 cases as of Friday, according to the…
Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams beats Gov. Kemp in Georgia’s campaign fund raising

Abrams’s campaign raised about $9.6 million during those two months while her One Georgia Leadership Committee raised about $12.3 million…
Court okays Prince Harry’s case against Home Office

Prince Harry gets court’s nod to sue Mail newspapers for defamation

The libel case is the latest court spat between the newspaper group and Harry, 37, and his wife Meghan, 40,…
U.S. SEC says it was suing Elon Musk over his ownership of more than 5 per cent of Twitter stakes ahead of taking over the company in 2022.

Elon Musk terminates $44 billion Twitter deal

He said he took the decision because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.
An official ballot drop box in Milwaukee Wisconsin

Wisconsin Supreme Court outlaws ballot drop boxes in split ruling

In a 4-3 ruling, the court's conservative majority also said voters cannot have other people return their completed ballots in…
President Joe Biden

Biden takes first steps to protect U.S. women’s right to abortion

Biden's new order directs the government's health department to expand access to "medication abortion" - pills prescribed to end pregnancies
Buhari still grieve for Chibok girls in captivity

Buhari reacts to tragic assassination of ex-Japan PM Shinzo Abe

Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, did not survive after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election on Friday.
Shinzo Abe shot dead

Shinzo Abe dies, first assassination of a Japanese leader

It was the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese premier since the days of prewar militarism in the…
Shinzo Abe shot dead

Japan’s ex-leader Shinzo Abe shot at rally, rushed to hospital

Abe served two terms as prime minister to become Japan's longest-serving premier before stepping down in 2020 citing ill health.
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