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17 Nov
US President Joe Biden began an historic trip to the Amazon rainforest on Sunday to promote his record on fighting climate change amid fears Donald Trump will tear up his environmental policies. Biden landed in the Brazilian city of Manaus, in the heart of the world's largest jungle, on the penultimate leg of a valedictory…
15 Nov
A senior Hamas official on Friday said the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza, urging US President-elect Donald Trump to "pressure" Israel as it continued to pound the Palestinian territory. It comes nearly a week after Qatar, which hosts much of the Palestinian group's political bureau, announced it was suspending its role as…
15 Nov
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday promised a "strong military", as he repeated his pledge to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Trump, who campaigned on an "America First" foreign policy, has said previously that he wanted to strike a deal between Kyiv and Moscow, without giving details, and end bloodshed in the Middle…
13 Nov
US consumer inflation edged higher last month spurred by an increase in housing costs, according to government data published Wednesday, complicating the US Federal Reserve's plans to cut interest rates. The consumer price index (CPI) rose to 2.6 percent in October from a year ago, up from 2.4 percent in September, the Labor Department said…
13 Nov
The Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, has rubbished a claim that President Bola Tinubu is an asset of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Journalist David Hundeyin made the claim, saying the revelation came to light after the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration "filed a…
13 Nov
A Nigerian, Babatunde Francis Ayeni, has bagged a 10-year jail sentence for his involvement in a cyber fraud scheme worth $20 million targeting 400 Americans while two other compatriots remain at large. According to a report on the official website of the U.S Attorney's Office, Southern District of Alabama last Thursday, the massive cyber fraud…
13 Nov
Four Nigerian citizens residing in the United States and Canada have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a series of romance and investment scams against victims across the US. Reagan Fondren, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences on Tuesday, November 12. A federal grand jury in…
12 Nov
Wall Street stocks crept higher early Tuesday following last week's post-election surge, after voters sent Republican candidate Donald Trump back to the White House. About 20 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1 percent to 44,325.21, with the broad-based S&P 500 rising to 6,004.55. The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite Index edged up 0.1…
9 Nov
Elon Musk took part in a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President-elect Donald Trump after his election victory, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP Friday. "I confirm it," the presidency official who asked to remain anonymous told AFP, saying that the claim in a report by US news site Axios about…
9 Nov
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expressed hopes during a phone call with US President-elect Donald Trump that he would keep his "promises to work towards ending wars" in the Middle East. Amid Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon, Sudani -- who was named premier by a majority bloc of Iran-backed political factions -- has…
9 Nov
Firefighters grappling with a blaze that has destroyed at least 130 homes in California said Friday they had made progress in their fight as a turn in the weather offered a break. Hurricane-strength winds this week fueled an explosion in the Mountain Fire near Camarillo, outside Los Angeles, which grew rapidly to over 20,000 acres…
9 Nov
US prosecutors announced charges on Friday in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist. The foiled assassination plot on Trump was allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020 in a US…
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