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Former X Factor contestant, Tom Mann, has been left heartbroken following the death of his fiancée, Dani, on their wedding day. Tom is best known for his appearance at the ITV singing competition in 2014, where he starred as one of eight members of the boy band Stereo Kicks. The group was […]
Senegal’s main opposition leader has issued what he called an “ultimatum” to President Macky Sall, urging him to release those arrested during a day of clashes that reportedly left three people dead. Violence broke out between youths and police in the capital Dakar on Friday, as officers blocked off access to the home […]
European Union to give fast-tracked opinion on Ukraine membership bid The European Commission will meet Friday to give its fast-tracked opinion on Ukraine’s bid for European Union candidacy, which would be a step closer to membership for the country a day after the bloc’s most powerful leaders visited Kyiv as it continues to […]
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has released a fresh report on crude oil production of its member countries, indicating that six countries increased their crude oil output while seven countries declined in production. The information is contained in the OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) for May 2022, which was […]
Tunisia’s main labour union holds a vast public sector strike Thursday to demand salary hikes and concessions on looming reforms, upping pressure on a president already facing a string of crises. Up to three million workers could observe the strike, shuttering 159 state agencies and public companies, causing cancellations at airports and bringing […]
Heavy rain in China has claimed six lives this week and forced the evacuation of some 200,000 people. Five people died in southeastern China, according to state media reports: A house collapse took three lives in Fujian province on Tuesday, and two died Monday in a landslide caused by torrential rain in neighboring Jiangxi […]
The French military announced on Wednesday its capture of a senior leader of the Islamic State group in Mali. French troops deployed in Mali have captured a senior figure in the branch of the Islamic State group in the Sahel region of Africa, the military said Wednesday. “In the night of 11-12 […]
The British government was to send a first plane carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday despite last-gasp legal bids and protests against the controversial policy. A chartered plane was to leave one of London’s airports overnight and land in Kigali on Tuesday, campaigners said, after UK judges rejected an appeal against the […]
Two Iranian aerospace officials, including a member of the Revolutionary Guards’ Corps, were “martyred while on mission” in separate incidents inside the country, the Fars news agency reported Monday. Ali Kamani, a member of the Guards aerospace division was “martyred” in the city of Khomein in Iran’s central Markazi province, Fars said, quoting […]
An Israeli floating gas production unit arrived in the maritime zone disputed between Israel and Lebanon on Sunday – prompting the anger of the Lebanese government, especially as negotiations between the two countries on this dispute are at a standstill. Suspended for more than a decade, the dispute between Israel and Lebanon over […]
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