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Deadly blast hits Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's Kandahar during Friday prayers I

Deadly blast hits Shiite mosque during Friday prayers

A large explosion tore through a Shi'ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers.
Screenshots from Alarabiya News video of the bombing in Kandahar

30 killed by suicide bomber in Afghan’s Kandahar mosque

It comes days after a suicide bomb attack claimed by Islamic State (ISIS) on a Shi'ite mosque in the northern…
Lothar Wieler

Wieler head of Germany’s COVID-19 agency gets massive death threats

The threats increase whenever the public schools closure is linked to me or there are allegations that I back lockdowns…
Hillary Clinton, middle at the UCI medical centre on Thursday

Hillary Clinton rushes to California to check ailing husband

The 75 year-old former president is being treated in the Intensive Care Unit of University of California Irvine Medical Centre…
COVID-19: NCDC announces new COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 caused rise in TB deaths for first time in decade – WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said deaths from Tuberculosis (TB), one of the top infectious killers in the…
Clinton, wife endorse Kamala Harris for presidential race

Bill Clinton hospitalised

Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent said the 75 year-old Clinton is being treated for a blood infection and he…
Espen Andersen Bråthen

Face of Norway’s bow and arrow attacker Andersen Bråthen

Police have revealed that some of Bråthen's victims - four men and one man, all aged from 50 to 70…
Deadly shooting in Beirut

Six killed in Lebanon’s Shiites protest in Beirut

Hezbollah and its ally, the Shi'ite Amal Movement, are demanding the removal of the judge investigating the explosion that ripped…
Philip Allott North Yorkshire police chief quits

UK police chief Philip Allott quits over Sarah Everard

Allott suggested Ms Everard 'never should have submitted' to the arrest by killer Wayne Couzens, a view branded 'horrifically offensive'
Oluwadamilola Akintewe

Nigeria’s Akintewe makes final 10 for $100,000 global student prize

Nigerian student, Oluwadamilola Akintewe has been named a top 10 finalist for the Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2021.
Prince William

Let’s repair planet earth: Prince William slams Bezos, others the in space race

We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to…
WHO

WHO raises new scientific group to study COVID-19 origins

The 26 scientists come from several countries, and were selected from over 700 applications following a global call.
WHO honours Black American Henrietta Lacks, whose cells transformed medical research

Henrietta Lacks: Black American whose cells were stolen for research honoured

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, on Wednesday recognised Henrietta Lacks, a Black American woman, for her world-changing…
83% of Africans yet to receive COVID-19 vaccine

U.S. COVID-19 cases, deaths tumble with vaccine mandates

Biden last month announced policies requiring most healthcare workers and federal employees to get COVID-19 vaccinations and push large employers…
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence likely to hold

The three liberal justices asked tough questions of the government but it appeared unlikely that enough of their six conservative…
The arrows used in the lone wolf attack in Kongsberg Norway

Several killed in lone wolf’s bow and arrow attack in Norway

The attacks took place over "a large area" of Kongsberg, a municipality of about 28,000 people in southeastern Norway, 68…

ECOWAS taps Akufo-Addo to champion universal suffrage campaign

The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo into a new…
William Shatner and crew back from space

Updated: Star Trek actor Shatner flies to space, makes history

Shatner was among the four-person all-civilian crew in Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space craft for the company's second suborbital tourism…
Biden and Kenyatta

Biden hosts Kenyatta, first meeting with African leader

The meeting in Washington, comes as the White House weighs sanctions against parties to the conflict in Tigray region of…
Prince Harry, Meghan arrive Lagos

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle bag another business deal

In an interview with the New York Times, the couple explained that they wanted to democratise investing and to do…
Pelosi US House Speaker

U.S. House concurs with Senate to raise debt ceiling

President Joe Biden is expected to sign the measure into law this week, before Oct. 18, when the Treasury Department…
Abbott

U.S. airlines snub Governor Abbott’s order on vaccine mandates

The two Texas-based carriers said the federal mandate superseded an order by Republican Governor Greg Abbott barring COVID-19 vaccine mandates…
Greg Abbott looking for President Biden's trouble

You are playing politics: Biden replies Texas Governor Abbott

Press secretary Jen Psaki said Abbott's decision was motivated by politics, not science.
Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito

Breaking: Brian Laundrie strangled Gabby Petito, says autopsy report

By inference, the person of interest, the main suspect Brian Laundrie, her so-called fiance killed her by strangulation.
IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, expresses concerns over new U.S. tariffs, calling them a major risk to the global economy

IMF chief Georgieva stays on, board dismisses allegations

The clearance comes after the fund's board met eight times to review the matter.
The wreckage left by the plane near San Diego

2 dead as plane crashes into homes in California

At least two homes appeared to have been destroyed by an ensuing fire, the city of Santee, California, where the…
Greg Abbott looking for President Biden's trouble

Texas governor Abbott set for clash with ‘bully Biden’ over vaccine mandates

Abbott said he was responding to what he called "bullying" by the Biden Administration on the matter.
Blaise Compaore and Thomas Sankara, right

Killers of Thomas Sankara docked in Ouagadougou, Compaore charged too

Sankara was a charismatic Marxist revolutionary widely known as "Africa's Che Guevara" and loved across Africa, as a breath of…
President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Sara Duterte-Carpio

Philippine’s mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio contracts COVID-19

As of Saturday, Duterte-Carpio was experiencing mild symptoms and is currently in isolation, her office said.
Cuba's Abdala COVID-19 vaccine 92.28 per cent effective

Cuba’s COVID-19 deaths, cases continue to drop

For the past two weeks, the number of active COVID-19 cases on the island has dropped from 34,172 to 16,975,…
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