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The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a draft Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for Mpox, covering the six-month period from September 2024 to February 2025. The response plan, which stresses surveillance, research, equitable access to medical countermeasures, and community empowerment to respond to this global emergency, provides a framework for public health…
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Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has condemned the ongoing harassment of journalists in Nigeria by government authorities. Obi warned that the country risks becoming a “Banana Republic” where journalists are “silenced or simply disappear for simply doing their job.” In a related development, investigative journalist David Hundeyin revealed that the…
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British rock legends Oasis announced on Tuesday they will reunite for a worldwide tour starting in the UK next year, as brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher ended an infamous 15-year feud. The band, which helped create the Britpop era of the 1990s with hit songs "Wonderwall", "Don't Look Back In Anger" and "Champagne Supernova", announced…
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Russia fired a wave of attack drones and missiles at Ukraine that killed at least four people, authorities said Tuesday after the second night of heavy strikes across the war-battered nation. READ ALSO:Telegram: Russia warns France against trying to ‘intimidate’ Durov The overnight barrage came a day after the Kremlin launched one of…
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The Bauchi State Police Command has announced the arrest of two suspected robbers in the state capital. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, Ahmed Wakil, revealed in a statement on Tuesday that the suspects admitted to their involvement in aiding armed robbery operations and taking various valuable items from multiple homes. The statement…
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Authorities in central Japan are urging beachgoers to steer clear of dolphins after a sharp increase in biting incidents, with one expert saying the culprit may be a single overly playful individual. This year has so far seen 18 swimmers bitten at several beaches in the Fukui region, according to the local Tsuruga coastguard, which…
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At least 20 people were killed when Sudanese paramilitaries fired artillery at a camp for displaced people in the country's Darfur region, a local committee said. "The information we have received so far on casualties among residents of Abu Shouk displacement camp is at least 20 killed and 32 wounded," the local resistance committee in…
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Organisers of the Paris Paralympics announced Tuesday that over two million tickets have been sold as the Games prepare to open. "We have already sold around two million tickets, so that's good. There will be full stadia," said Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet at a press conference, alongside International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Andrew Parsons.…
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The Israeli military said its forces rescued an Israeli hostage in southern Gaza on Tuesday after a "complex operation". Kaid Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli Bedouin, was abducted by Palestinian militants during the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the military said in a statement. "Kaid AlKadi was rescued... in a complex operation in the southern…
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned Tuesday that his new government's first budget in just over two months will be "painful", asking the country to "accept short-term pain for long-term good". Starmer, whose Labour Party won a landslide parliamentary majority on July 4, used his first major speech since then to lay the ground for…
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The Ekiti State Government has approved N700,973,716.86 for the comprehensive renovation and remodelling of the State House of Assembly Complex and the Assembly Service Commission building. Additionally, the State Executive Council (SEC) has allocated N177.9 million as part payment to clear 325 hectares of land for youths from Ikere, Emure, Moba, Ido-Osi, and Ekiti West…