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As part of activities to expand cultural and education exchange between Africa and the United States, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce yesterday held a special forum for their Advance With Africa program in partnership with the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement (PAC-ADE) at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. At the session, the PAC-ADE discussed its…
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Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine plans to evacuate 9,000 children following an uptick in deadly Ukrainian shelling, the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said Tuesday. Kyiv's attacks on the territory have killed 16 people since last week, with shelling intensifying in the run up to elections poised to keep President Vladimir Putin in power until 2030,…
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A prominent DR Congo journalist was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for allegedly incriminating military intelligence in the murder of an opposition politician. Stanis Bujakera, 33, has been jailed since September over an article in Jeune Afrique magazine that suggested Congolese military intelligence operatives had killed opposition politician Cherubin Okende the month before.…
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Consumer goods giant Unilever has announced plans to cut around 7,500 jobs globally as part of an overhaul aimed at saving around 684 million euros (869 million dollars) over the next three years. The Marmite-to-Dove soap firm said the jobs affected were largely office-based and the move came as it looked to invest in technology…
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The leader of Singapore's opposition was charged Tuesday with two counts of giving false testimony before a parliamentary committee during a probe into one of his party members, police and prosecutors said. Pritam Singh, head of the Workers' Party, was charged at the State Courts for having twice "falsely testified" before the committee in December…
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Former K-pop star Jung Joon-young left prison Tuesday after completing a five-year term for gang rape and illicit filming, in one of South Korea's high-profile spycam scandals. Jung was found guilty of rape on two occasions in 2016 and of filming himself having intercourse with other women without their knowledge and sharing the footage without…
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A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan university collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of them and seriously injuring 42, police said. The accident occurred at 5:50 pm (2:50 GMT) Monday at Maungu, 360 kilometres (220 miles) from the capital Nairobi, when the students from…
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The National Industrial Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State adjourned to the 20th of June,2024 for further mention in a suit filed by the alleged illegal removal of the Rector of Plateau State Polytechnic, Dr. John Dawam. Joined in the suit are the Governor of Plateau State, Plateau State Government, Attorney General, and Commissioner for…
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Delta State governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, on Tuesday visited the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he briefed President Bola Tinubu on the ongoing following the gruesome murder of 16 soldiers in the Okuoma community of the State. Speaking to newsmen after he met behind closed doors with the President, the governor said that the situation is under…
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Scores of protesters were at the National Assembly complex in Abuja urging the Senator Godswill Akpabio led National Assembly to reject the re-appointment of Dr Vincent Isegbe as the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS). Jointly led by Comrades Danesi Momoh and Igwe Ude-umanta, the group maintained that a reversal of Isegbe's…
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Donald Trump has been unable to post a bond covering the full amount of his $454m New York civil fraud judgment against him, his lawyers said in a court filing.
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Security forces deployed in numbers in a Paris suburb on Monday following an attack on a police station near major venues for this summer's Paris Olympics.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a congratulatory message to Vladimir Putin on Monday that Russian voters had shown "unshakeable support" for their re-elected president, state media reported.
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Eight civilians were killed Monday in "reckless" air strikes by Pakistan's military in the border regions of Afghanistan, prompting Afghan forces to retaliate against Pakistani military outposts, Taliban officials said.
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North Korea has shipped around 7,000 containers of arms to Russia to use in its war with Ukraine since the transfers began around last July, South Korea's defence minister said Monday.
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Nine people have been arrested over a firework attack on a police station near major venues for this summer's Paris Olympics, the French capital's top police official said on Monday.
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Russian President, Vladimir Putin has said that a full-scale conflict with NATO cannot be ruled out.
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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday that Israel's military campaign in Gaza had turned the territory into the world's biggest "open-air graveyard".
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Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Vladimir Putin on Monday, telling his Russian counterpart his re-election "fully reflects the support of the Russian people", Beijing's state media reported. With 99 percent of polling stations having submitted results, Putin had secured 87.33 percent of all votes cast, official election data showed Monday, according…
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Eight people, all women and children, were killed on Monday in "reckless" air strikes by the Pakistan military in the border regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban government's spokesman said.
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Malaysia's nearly 100-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was discharged from hospital Monday, almost two months after he was admitted for an infection, his office said.
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Anti-poverty charity Oxfam on Monday accused Israel of intentionally preventing the delivery of aid into Gaza during its war with Hamas, in violation of international humanitarian law.
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Cubans staged rare street protests Sunday over food and electricity shortages as the country suffered long outages that left parts of the island without power for up to 14 hours a day.
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The performance of China's economy in the first two months of 2024 was mixed, official figures showed Monday, with sluggish household consumption alongside increased industrial production reflecting an uneven recovery.
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Vladimir Putin said Russia would not be "intimidated" as he hailed an election victory that paves the way for the former spy to become the longest-serving Russian leader in more than 200 years.