French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, following defeat of his party in 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections, according to local media report. “I have decided to give you back the choice of your parliamentary future through the vote. I am therefore dissolving...
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At least 25 people were killed during Islamist terrorist attacks on four army bases in central Somalia on Saturday, officials confirmed. Somali army spokesman Abukar Mohamed Hassan said that the Al-Shabaab group carried out “a massive assault” from different directions, in the Eldheer district, with suicide bombers and...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the French parliament that Europe was a continent at war and that Russia would not stop its aggression at the borders of his country. “We live in a time when Europe is no longer a continent of peace, unfortunately,” Zelensky said in an...
Commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, has threatened to retaliate after an Israeli airstrike near Aleppo, Syria killed its member. Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. Salami offered condolences over the death of Saeed Abyar, who was identified as a “military adviser’’...
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while the pair are in France, the White House said. Biden will discuss with Zelensky the “state of play in Ukraine, and how we can continue and deepen our support for Ukraine,” White House National Security Advisor,...
Former US president Donald Trump vowed on Friday to appeal his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, saying that his legal team had several grounds to challenge the verdict handed down by a New York jury. “We’re going to be appealing this scam… on many different things,”...
US rapper, Nicki Minaj has been detained at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on suspicion of possessing soft drugs, Dutch media had reported Saturday. The singer was due to perform a show in Britain later Saturday and posted images on social media of her being questioned by officials. Police confirmed...
Thousands of Iranians turned out to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi in the city of Tabriz on Tuesday after he was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border at the weekend along with his foreign minister and seven others. State TV broadcast live images of mourners, many...
A lightning strike has injured ten people in the eastern German city of Dresden with four of whom sustained severe injuries. According to a fire service spokesman, two men, aged 27 and 30, were successfully resuscitated after experiencing cardiac arrest. Amid severe weather conditions and a passing thunderstorm...
South Africa’s highest Court on Monday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma cannot stand as a candidate in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma’s sentence of more than 12 months in prison has disqualified him and made him ineligible to stand. His former party,...
A helicopter in a convoy carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has allegedly crashed in east Azerbaijan, according to several media reports on Sunday. Rescuers are trying to reach the site of the “incident”, state television reported on Sunday. There was no immediate elaboration on what happened to the helicopter,...
Months after exiting the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have finalised plans to form a new confederation, the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES ), marking a geopolitical shift in the region. This move showed their departure from their former...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dust haze and thunderstorms from Saturday to Monday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Friday in Abuja forecast dust haze on Saturday over parts of Borno, Yobe, Jigawa and northern part of Adamawa. It envisaged prospects of isolated thunderstorms...
President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said that the mere purchase and usage of Marijuana was not enough reason for anyone to be jailed. President Biden formally made this proposal on Thursday on his official X handle, reclassifying Marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the United...
Africa must unite to defeat terrorism, human trafficking – Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has called for a common front among African nations in the fight against challenges of terrorism and human trafficking bedevilling them. Tinubu said this when he received the new President of Senegal, Bassirou Faye, at the...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) has alerted Kano State residents on possibility of high risk flooding in 14 out of the 44 Local Government Areas(LGAs) of the state. The NIMET Kano/Jigawa Territorial Coordinator, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, stated this at a Disaster Risk Management Stakeholders Coordination Meeting on Seasonal...
President Bola Tinubu has said Nigeria would continue to play strategic roles in the affairs of the African continent at all times. Tinubu said this on Friday while receiving the letters of credence from the Ambassadors of Egypt, Pakistan and Greece in Abuja. He said that Nigeria would...
Eight elite Nigeria Navy warships have left the country’s waters to join in a global joint naval operation aimed at combating sea piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Nigeria’s Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Emmanual Ogalla, revealed this to journalists on Friday during the flag-off of...
Chad’s state election body said interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby had won the May 6 presidential election outright with over 61 per cent of the vote, citing provisional results, even as his main challenger declared himself the winner. Chad’s junta has become the first of the coup-hit...