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The Italian police have arrested a 26-year-old man for driving a fake Ferrari F430 ‘supercar’ following a police operation called ‘Operacion Cavallino’. According to The Sun UK, the unidentified man converted a Toyota MR2 Coupe to look like a Ferrari F430 sports car In a video that made the rounds on social media […]
Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan early next year, a trip previously postponed due to problems with his knee, the Vatican said Thursday. The 85-year-old pontiff will visit Kinshasa during his trip to DRC from January 31 to February 3. He will then be joined by the Archbishop […]
Lionel Messi has already come to Argentina’s rescue at the World Cup. He might just have to do it all over again. Another emotionally charged evening awaits Messi and the soccer-mad south American nation that worships him when Argentina meets Poland on Wednesday for a match with so much on the line. For Messi, […]
Elon Musk, owner and chief executive officer of Twitter, has accused Apple of threatening to remove the microblogging app from its Store. Musk said this in a tweet on Monday evening. His allegation comes amid social media discussions on the possibility of Apple and Google kicking off Twitter from their app stores over […]
Ghana has denied issuing a travel advisory to its citizens to keep away from Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. On Wednesday evening a notice bears the name and logo of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ghana. The notice indicated that Nigeria asked some hotels to close, citing “the directive […]
United States President Joe Biden says preliminary information suggests that the missile that hit Poland was “unlikely” to have been fired by Russia. On Tuesday, a missile killed two people at Przewodów, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine. Since February, there have been military attacks between Russia and Ukraine after the former […]
Six persons have been confirmed dead and 53 others wounded after the explosion that rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul. According to a report on Al-Jazeera, ambulances rushed to the scene on packed Istiklal Avenue, which police quickly cordoned off. The area in the city’s Beyoglu district had been crowded with […]
Oil prices jumped on Friday after health authorities in China, top crude importer, eased tight COVID-19 rules. At 09.00 GMT+1, Brent crude futures rose 2.34 percent to $95.87 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 2.61 percent to $88.77 a barrel. Years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China […]
Former United States president, Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany Trump is set to marry her Nigerian-bred fiance, Michael Boulos. According to Page Six, a source close to the couple revealed they would be getting married on November 12. The wedding ceremony is scheduled to hold at Trump’s palm beach in Florida with more than […]
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan has been shot and wounded in his left leg in a suspected assassination attack. Khan was attacked while leading a protest march in Islamabad, the country’s capital city, demanding snap elections on Thursday. The ex-PM was rushed away from the scene while his camp said […]
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