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Security forces have ended a siege by al Qaeda-linked militants at a hotel in Somalia’s capital in which more than 20 people were killed and dozens injured, authorities said on Sunday, Reuters reports. Dozens of people who had been taken hostage in the stand-off at the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu were freed. Elite […]
Railway staff in Britain on Thursday staged the latest in a series of strikes, once again disrupting commuters and leisure travellers, as decades-high inflation hits salaries and prompts walkouts across various industries. The latest action by rail workers, which will be repeated on Saturday, is part of a summer of strike action by […]
France on Thursday denied accusations by Mali’s foreign minister that the French army has provided support to Islamist groups and violated Malian airspace. Mali’s relations with Paris have been deteriorating since a junta took power in an August 2020 coup, eventually culminating in the withdrawal of French troops that was completed on Monday after […]
Emirates Airlines has announced the suspension of its flights from Nigeria with effect from September 1, 2022. The airline’s decision was due to the inability to repatriate its funds from Nigeria. Recall that the airline had in a leaked letter to the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, said it would reduce its […]
British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe has confirmed he wants to buy a stake in Manchester United, to take full control of the club in the future. Ineos founder Ratcliffe is keen to speak to the club’s American owners, the Glazer family, about purchasing a stake in United. “If the club is for sale, Jim […]
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man has made a U-turn after tweeting hours earlier about his intention to buy Manchester United Football Club. Musk said he was only joking when he tweeted earlier that he was going to buy the English football club. “No, this is a long-running joke on Twitter. I’m not […]
Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga, a triumph for the man who shook up politics by appealing to struggling Kenyans on economic terms and not on traditional ethnic ones. However, chaos emerged just before the declaration when the […]
The mass exodus sparked by the Taliban takeover compelled Afghanistan’s new rulers to issue a call for Afghans to stay and help rebuild the country. But after a year of Taliban rule, the economy is in tatters, confidence has been shattered, and Afghanistan’s best and brightest are not returning – they’re fleeing in […]
The heir and de facto leader of the Samsung group received a presidential pardon Friday, continuing South Korea’s long tradition of freeing business leaders convicted of corruption on economic grounds. Billionaire Lee Jae-yong, convicted of bribery and embezzlement in January last year, will be “reinstated” to give him a chance to “contribute to […]
The owner of Tesla, Elon Musk has sold $7 billion worth of Tesla shares, this is according to legal filings published on Tuesday, amid a high-stakes legal battle with Twitter over a $44 billion buyout deal. According to the fillings published by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Website, Tesla’s boss sold some 7.9 […]
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