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Borussia Dortmund turn stadium to COVID-19 vaccination site

Borussia Dortmund fans can get vaccinated against the coronavirus in the club’s home stadium from Thursday onwards, the Bundesliga top…
Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon reelected IOC Ethics Commission Chair

A former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Ban Ki-moon, has been re-elected for an additional four-year term as Chair…
jeff Bezos Blue Origin Spacecraft on arrival back to Earth

Jeff Bezos back to Earth from Space

World's richest man Jeff Bezos and his crewmates returned to the Earth surface safely after rocketing into space Tuesday aboard…
Ex President Jacob Zuma

Zuma’s trial adjourned till August

A South African court today granted former President Jacob Zuma's request for a delay in his arms deal corruption trial.
Mali Military President Assimi Goita

Malian President Assimi Goita survives mosque knife attack

Mali's interim president Assimi Goita has survived a knife attack at the Great Mosque of Bamako during the Eid-al-Adha prayer.
Crematorium in India dealing with record COVID-19 deaths

COVID-19 kills 4 million in India, death toll under-reported

India's COVID-19 death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly official 415,000 fatalities, a report by Center…
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Report: COVID-19 fuels domestic violence, forced marriage

Deteriorating economic conditions since 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic have fuelled an increase in domestic violence and forced marriage in…
niko-ivanka cargo vessel before it set sail at the weekend

9 WAEC officials among 17 missing in sank cargo ship

Nine officials of West African Examination Council, WAEC were among the 17 people missing after a cargo ship, Niko Ivanka…
Jeff Bezos, 2nd right, his brother Mark, Wally Funk, 2nd left and Oliver Daemen

World’s richest man Jeff Bezos rockets to space today

Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, will today from a base in Van Horn, Texas blast off to Space aboard…
Court awards Britain’s Prince Harry $154,146 in a phone hacking suit against Mirror Group Newspaper, MGN

Prince Harry to publish truth-revealing memoir

Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry has announced his intention to publish a 'truth-revealing' memoir with Penguin Random House.
Pope Francis angry over burning of Quran in Stockholm

Pope Francis makes first public appearance after surgery

Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since returning to the Vatican mid-week after an 11-day stay at a…
Martine Moise right on arrival in Port-au-Prince

Haitian First Lady Martine Moise returns home to bury husband

Martine Moise, the widow of Haiti's assassinated president Jovenel Moise, returned to Port-au-Prince on Saturday for his funeral on 23…

Woman dies after falling from 6th floor

A middle-aged woman has died after she fell from the balcony of a 6th in Greenwich, London.
Sajid Javid: reveals COVID-19 status despite inoculation

British health secretary Sajid Javid hit by COVID-19, after inoculation

British Health Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed that he has tested positive for COVID-19 despite having been inoculated.
The ruins left by devastating flood in Germany and Belgium

Death toll in Germany floods hits 133, Europe 153

The death toll from devastating floods in Germany reached 133 on Saturday, police said. This increased the total number of…
Trump and Putin in Helsinki

The Kremlin papers: How Putin put Trump in White House

The Guardian of London on Thursday 15 July published a scoop the world had been waiting for: Russia's role in…
Chris Whitty: England not out of COVID-19 woods yet

England not out of COVID-19 woods yet, warns CMO Whitty

England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty has warned that the country is not yet out of the COVID-19 woods and…
Rishi Sunak

Britain loses £8 billion to pandemic welfare fraud

Britain may have overpaid more than £8 billion, about $11 billion in welfare payments as fraud and error reached record…
FBI agent Ayotunde Solademi tells court in Lagos how threats by Nigerian fraudster, Muideen Teslim led his 15-year-old victim to kill himself

Israeli group Candiru aids hacking of Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome

An Israeli group Candiru sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab…
WHO DG Tedros Ghebreyesus warns that COVID-19 pandemic could be worse this year

HIV increases risk of severe COVID-19 infection – WHO

A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report has confirmed that HIV infection is a significant independent risk factor for both…
Lebanese Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri quits

‘God save Lebanon’: PM designate Saad Hariri quits

Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has stepped down after nine months of deadlock in forming a government.
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Rwanda goes into lockdown from tomorrow

Rwanda will from tomorrow put the capital Kigali and eight other districts across the country under lockdown as COVID-19 cases…
Dimitri Herard head of Haiti President Jovenel Moise's security arrested

Haiti latest: Herard head of President Moise’s security arrested

Dimitri Herard, head of security at the Haitian presidential palace has been taken into custody as part of the investigation…
Testing for COVID-19 in Senegal

Senegal alarmed by rising COVID-19 cases

Senegal is alarmed by an "unprecedented" surge in COVID-19 cases, after reporting a record 733 cases on Wednesday.
U.S. Senate passes bill to ban all products from China's Xinjiang

Uyghurs: U.S. moves to ban all products from China’s Xinjiang

The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ban the import of products from China's Xinjiang region.
looted South African stores by Zuma rioters

Nigerian Mission takes stock of losses by Nigerians in Zuma riots

The Nigeria Mission in South Africa has begun counting the losses Nigerian businessmen incurred in the orgy of looting triggered…
South African soldiers going to Mozambique

Zulu King begs Zuma rioters as 25,000 soldiers set to hit streets

Zulu King Misuzulu has appealed to his people to withdraw from the riots and looting over ex-president Jacob Zuma jailing.
Pope Francis angry over burning of Quran in Stockholm

Pope Francis discharged from hospital

Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he underwent an operation on his colon ten days ago.
A business owner cries in his empty shop in Soweto

South Africa’s business owners devastated by Zuma rioters, looters

Business owners in many parts of South Africa are now devastated, following days of rioting and looting over jailed ex-President…
Olivia Grange, Jamaica's minister of sports says her country will seek reparations from UK for slavery

Jamaica to demand £7B reparations from UK for slavery

Jamaica is planning to ask the United Kingdom for £7 billion compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former…
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