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The Taliban ordered secondary girls schools in Afghanistan to shut Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion over the policy reversal by the hard-line Islamist group. “Yes, it’s true,” Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani told AFP when asked to confirm reports that girls had been ordered home. An AFP team was […]
The President of Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russian fighter pilots flying sorties in his country that they will not escape the full hand of justice. On Wednesday Zelensky said “You will be held accountable one way or another, today or tomorrow, it doesn’t matter that much. The important thing is that it’s […]
A Boeing-737 plane carrying 132 passengers onboard was hit by an accident and caused a mountain fire in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the number of casualties is not clear yet, CCTV reported on Monday afternoon. From Kunming Changshui airport in Southwest China, the plane, MU 5735 took off at 13:15 and […]
Wild storms lashed New Zealand’s North Island Monday after a chartered fishing boat went down off the remote Northland coast late Sunday, claiming at least four lives. Four bodies were recovered and another person was missing when a fishing vessel sank causing chaos in the country’s biggest city Auckland, officials said. Military has […]
Barack Obama, former president of the United States of America says he has tested positive for Covid-19. The first African-American president revealed this on Sunday via a twitter post. He said he was feeling fine other than a scratchy throat adding that Michelle, his wife, tested negative for the virus. “I just tested […]
President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the U.S. will target “the main artery of Russia’s economy” by banning the import of Russian energy products. “We’re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy,” Biden said in remarks from the White House. “That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at […]
Ukrainian forces have killed a Russian general near the besieged city of Kharkiv, the second Russian senior commander to die in the invasion. Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, was killed on Monday, the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s defence ministry said in a statement. Gerasimov was the first deputy commander of Russia’s […]
Burkina Faso’s interim president Paul-Henri Damiba has approved a new government that includes the same defence minister as served under former president Roch Kabore before his ouster in a military coup, an official decree showed on Saturday. Damiba was inaugurated on Wednesday as transitional president for three years, after leading a group of officers […]
Famous Guinea singer Moussa Sandiana Kaba alias Grand P is off the market after proposing to his fiancée and wife to be, Eudoxie Yao. The Guinean tycoon is set to marry his well-endowed Ivorian lover Eudoxie Yao after proposing to her live on TV. According to the Proposal video trending on the media, Eudoxie […]
A father in US has shot three of his children to death on Monday inside a church in Sacramento County before killing himself. Sergeant Rod Grassmann of Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that all three children who died were under the age of 15. “At 5:07 this afternoon, we received a call […]
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