Manny Pacquiao
28 Jul 2024
Filipino great Manny Pacquiao's exhibition fight against Japan's Rukiya Anpo ended in an underwhelming draw on Sunday. The bout in Saitama, north of Tokyo, was ruled a draw because it had no judges, with Pacquiao, 45, struggling to dominate Anpo, a 28-year-old mixed martial artist. The exhibition bout was conducted under strict boxing rules. Anpo,…
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Top diplomats from Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar rejected any forcible displacement of Palestinians during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday, according to a joint statement. The meeting came after US President Donald Trump floated an idea to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. The foreign…
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The UN on Saturday condemned a Russian missile attack on the city of Odesa in southern Ukraine that wounded at least seven people and damaged historic buildings. The Black Sea port, known for its picturesque streets of 19th-century buildings, is regularly targeted by Russian strikes. "UNESCO condemns the missile attack on the historic centre of…
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Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of Africa, died Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness. Koehler, head of state from 2004 to 2010, passed away in Berlin in the early hours, surrounded by his family, the Germany presidency announced. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier…
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After nearly three years away from the touring scene, Grammy-winning Afrobeats star, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, is gearing up to thrill fans once again. The music sensation has officially announced the first set of dates for his highly anticipated ‘Morayo’ tour, which will take him across Europe. When and where the tour…
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Eighteen paramilitaries were killed and three others seriously wounded in an attack in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, police and local officials told AFP on Saturday. A vehicle "carrying unarmed Frontier Corps paramilitaries" near the town of Mangochar "came under gunfire from 70 to 80 armed assailants who had blocked the road", a police official told…
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African scientists have been asked to take more positive steps to explore the enormous benefits of solar energy. An expert on Solar Energy, Professor Niyazi Serdar Sarciftci of Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria, gave the advice in a keynote paper he presented at an International Conference on Solar Energy Revolution in Nigeria and Africa, at…
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Sudanese paramilitary shelling of a market in Omdurman, part of greater Khartoum, killed 40 people on Saturday, a medical source told AFP. Requesting anonymity for their safety, the source at Al-Nao Hospital said the wounded were "still being brought to the hospital" following the attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Since April 2023, the…
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The Kaduna State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Journalists(NUJ) has commended Governor Uba Sani for remitting N548 million to the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Endwell fund scheme following the resolution of the dispute that had lingered since 2021. The union which made this known in a communique after its monthly congress, also praised…
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The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has advanced the implementation of the Africa Mini-grids Programme (AMP) in Nigeria, signing grant agreements for the development of 23 mini-grids across six geopolitical zones. The initiative, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aims to expand clean energy access and…
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Freed Palestinian inmates were greeted by a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah Saturday, after Hamas released three Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip in the fourth exchange under the group's ceasefire deal with Israel. Three other buses carrying freed Palestinians also arrived in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis,…