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Dubai main airline Emirates has announced the indefinite suspension of flights to and from Nigeria from Monday 21 June, 2021. The Airline on Monday revealed this on their website emirates.com. “In line with government directives, passenger flights to and from Nigeria (Lagos and Abuja) are suspended with effect from 21 June 2021 until further […]
The Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt has become a father to twin boys, Thunder Bolt and Saint Leo Bolt. Bolt, 34, and his partner, Kasi Bennett, announced the news in a Father’s Day Instagram post, with a lightning bolt emoji next to each of their three children’s names. The couple have a daughter, Olympia Lightning, […]
Oscar-winning actor Angelina Jolie on Sunday visited a refugee camp in Burkina Faso sheltering thousands of Malians who have fled jihadist violence in the region. Jolie visited the camp at Goudebou, in the northeast of the landlocked west African country, as part of her role as an ambassador for the UN refugee organisation, the […]
American reality star,business woman and model, Kim Kardashian has said that her ex-husband Kanye West is like family, despite their divorce, adding in a television show that she will always be his biggest fan. Kardashian, 40, was speaking on a reunion show for “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” which broadcast its final episode last […]
The founding president of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97. “KK”, as he was popularly known led his country for 27 years and championed Africa’s struggles against apartheid and HIV/AIDS, The former Zambian president was being treated for pneumonia at the Maina Soko Medical Centre, a military hospital in Lusaka […]
China’s Liaoning Province has built 26,500 5G base stations to date, amid efforts to accelerate the upgrade of its digital infrastructure, local authorities said on Tuesday. It is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. The 5G network now covers all Liaoning’s urban […]
In the presence of Belarusian opposition politician Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the documentary film Courage about the protests in Belarus is scheduled to celebrate its premiere this Friday at the Berlinale. Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has also been announced for a panel discussion relating to the film about the protests in […]
Former Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh has won Mongolia’s presidential election, National News Agency, Montsame reported, citing preliminary results. Khurelsukh won with 99.3 per cent of the polling stations counted, the candidate of the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) secured about 68 per cent of votes, Montsame reported. The election authority was due to announce the […]
At least 100 people were killed in a “barbaric attack” by gunmen targeting a village in north-eastern Burkina Faso, said the West African country’s president, Roch Kabore, on Saturday. Kabore said he had ordered three days of national mourning over the attack on the village of Solhan in the conflict-ridden Sahel region. Security forces […]
Brazilian football federation (CBF) president Rogerio Caboclo was temporarily removed from his position late Sunday, in connection with sexual assault accusations. Caboclo has been initially suspended for 30 days by decision of the CBF ethics commission. He was accused of sexual and moral assault by a employee of the confederation. Caboclo denies all accusations. […]
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