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African leaders continue to throw their weight behind the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina. The latest support came ...
South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Friday, said he “deeply regretted” the unjustified use of force by security forces enf...
US President, Donald Trump, has said that he would slap on tariffs for all duties imposed on the importation of lobsters from the US against the Europ...
The Energy Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Suhail Al Mazrouei, has criticised countries that failed to adhere to the oil production agreement. N...
Prime Minister of Uganda, Ruhakana Rugunda, has gone into self-quarantine after some contacts of his tested positive for the novel coronavirus. ...
A thief who raided the house of an ITV Zanibar presenter, Farouk Karim, in Tanzania fell asleep in the presenter's car until he was apprehend...
Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari, to head the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Okonjo-...
A high-profile politician in the Central African country of DR Congo who is facing charges of misappropriating the sum of $50 million allocated for so...
Sub-Saharan's largest industrial power, South Africa, has reported 3,267 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, making it the biggest recor...
The Brazilian Health Ministry recorded 1,349 COVID-19 deaths within the space of 24 hours. The total number of fatalities in Brazil has hit 32...
In an ongoing dispute between the US and China, all flights in and out of the United States have been suspended by the US after China did not allow Am...
The three officers present during the arrest of George Floyd who died of suffocation after nine minutes of enduring pressure on his neck under the kne...
Former US President, George W. Bush, has called on the US to take stock of its "tragic failures", highlighting the racial injustices plaguin...
Not less than 20 journalists have died from the novel coronavirus in the South American country of Peru, with most of them contracting the virus while...
Teachers in Mali have embarked on strike action following the decision of the Malian Government to reopen schools across the country that were closed ...
Over 2,000 New Zealand nationals who took to the streets to protest the killing of George Floyd, an African American killed by Derek Chauvin, wil...
President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to order a military crackdown on "once-in-a-generation violent protests" gripping the United Sta...
The date for the funeral of George Floyd, the African American man who was killed a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, has been scheduled for June 9...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the increased use of antibiotics in the treatment of coronavirus will only lead to more deaths, as...
The Southeast Asian country of Malaysia has recorded no new fatalities in 10 days, according to its Ministry of Health. The country's total dea...
Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, has disclosed that he, alongside members of his family, has tested positive for coronavirus H...
Embattled President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has been reassured by the President of Sierra Leone, Juli...
North Korea has joined the short list of countries around the world that have moved to reopen schools during the pandemic, with reports stating that t...
As part of the ongoing protests in the United States over the death of George Floyd, US President, Donald Trump, has said that the anti-fascist group,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has described tobacco as one of the greatest public health threats ever. The Director-General of WHO, Dr ...
US President Donald Trump said Saturday he will delay the G7 summit scheduled to take place in June and invite other countries — including Russi...
Globally, there have been over six million cases of the novel coronavirus, with two-thirds of the recorded cases emerging from the United States and E...
Following Trump's decision to cut ties with the UN health agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO), Europe's economic power Germany ha...
In an ongoing dispute with China over its imperialist move on Hong Kong, US President Donald Trump has warned that country would lose its special...
Bob Weighton, the Guinness World Record's oldest man, has died at the age of 112. Weighton, died from cancer on Thursday, as confirmed by his ...
Kellie Chauvin, the wife of police officer Derek Chauvin has filed for divorce following the realization that her husband is responsible for Mr. Floyd...
The South American giant, Brazil, on Friday, recorded 27,878 deaths from the novel coronavirus, as disclosed by government officials, rising past Spai...
The United Nations has announced the death of two of its peacekeepers in Mali in connection to the coronavirus pandemic. These two deaths, out...
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has said that it will be severing ties with the UN health agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO...
The officer who had his knee on the neck of the now deceased George Floyd, the African American whose death has spurred a protest that has led to the ...
In a bid to allay the fear of Indonesians after the government announced the relaxing of restrictions in the Southeast Asian nation, the Minister of S...
The ongoing protest sparked by the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in the United States has resulted in the shooting of seven people in Louisville, K...
On Friday, a social media giant, Twitter, flagged US President Donald Trump's tweet, describing the tweet as 'glorifying violence...
Ten “terrorists” have died in an offensive against a jihadist base in the west of Burkina Faso on Thursday, according to the army’s ...
US President, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to limit the powers wielded by social media platforms like Twitter an...
Coronavirus cases on the African continent has surpassed 123,000 according to a report released on Thursday by the World Health Organisation (WHO).&nb...
The Nigerian Government has tackled the demand of the United States following a request for an independent investigation into the activities of Africa...
The United States has been pulling strings to back up its confrontation with the current President of African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, and ...
Nigeria's former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the board of the African Development Bank, AfDB, to ignore calls by the United State...
A fire has razed a makeshift isolation unit made for COVID-19 patients in United Hospital Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in five deaths. Accordi...
US President, Donald Trump, has directed that an investigation into the recent murder of an African American man, George Floyd, whose death has stirre...
Experts say that the impact of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic on economies across the globe could cause not less than 86 million children in...
Over 100,000 people have died from coronavirus in the United States, according to a data provided by the Johns Hopkins University Centre for...
Officials of the island country of Cyprus have said that it hopes that after the pandemic the country can resume receiving tourists. ...
After social media platform, Twitter, tagged US President Donald Trump's tweet as "unsubstantiated", saying that the claims he was putti...
A 39-year-old man identified as Jackson Mbabazi has been arrested by police in Kagadi, Uganda for allegedly killing his 8-year-old daughter and buryin...
A video of a police officer in Minneapolis choking the breath out of a handcuffed black man by kneeling on the neck of the detainee for over five minu...
High school students in Hong Kong's public high schools have resumed school activities on Wednesday, as part of the semi-autonomous country's ...
Not less than 2,000 Ecuadorians stormed the streets on Monday in protest against the desperate move by President Lenin Moreno in his bid to ...
Despite the decision of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to halt its trials of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of coronavirus, the Brazilian Mi...
On Monday, Chile recorded a high number of coronavirus infections, 4895 new cases in just 24 hours, with two ministers also testing positive for ...
The Association of South East Town Unions, ASETU, has sent a petition to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, UN, António Guterres and ...
Thailand is conducting tests on macaque monkeys as it races to produce a cheaper, alternative coronavirus vaccine it hopes will be ready by 2021, a to...
Fiji Airways has more than halved its workforce on Monday, as the airline, like many others in the industry, continues to receive some negative hits f...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday noted that the novel Coronavirus pandemic has reduced Nigeria to the same level with advanced countries, noting h...
Latin America has been declared the epicenter of the novel coronavirus by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This declaration came as c...
Eight companies and an institute of the Chinese Government will be facing sanctions by the US Department of Commerce for their involvement in hum...
Since its first set of cases were reported in January, China, on Saturday recorded no new coronavirus cases within the past 24 hours. This comes af...
The Kenyan health ministry announced that 13 people have died from cholera after some parts of the country experienced some heavy rainfall. ...
An aircraft scheduled to land at the Karachi Airport, belonging to the Pakistan International Airline (PIA) has crashed into a residential area, on Fr...
The World Bank said its board of executive directors has approved $48 million to help Uganda fight a desert locust invasion threatening live...
Nigeria's former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has joined 26 other global leaders to alert the world that democracy was becoming endange...
Following the resignation of Nelson Teich, immediate-former health minister in Brazil, over a disagreement with Brazilian President Jair Bol...
South Sudan's Minister of Defence, Angelina Teny, who is also the wife of the vice president, Riek Machar, has tested positive for ...
Four hundred prisoners were pardoned by the Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar, as part of the country's measures in the stemming of the...
Hungarian parliament, on Tuesday, passed a law that will prohibit Hungarian nationals from altering their gender legally, in the face of pro...
Students in South Korea have resumed school activities on Wednesday, as schools have begun opening their gates to receive students, after a ...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has said that millions of Africans could suffer extreme poverty due to the coronavir...
Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist, Ravi Zacharias has died aged 74. AllNews reports that Zacharias passed on today at his...
Brazil's confirmed coronavirus cases now make the South-American nation the country with the third-highest COVID-19 cases globally. F...
The President of Bioresources Development Group and a consultant pharmacognosist, Prof. Maurice Iwu, has pointed out other major factors tha...
Chinese President, Xi Jinping, on Monday, announced the country's commitment of two billion dollars to the fight against the novel coronaviru...
The United States has faulted the World Health Organisation (WHO) for its negligence of duty, accusing the UN health agency of failing to pr...
Police authorities are searching for seven Filipino migrants who escaped from isolation centres in the Philippines after returning from over...
Five lives have been lost in a car bomb attack in the city of Ghazni, Afghanistan, officials have disclosed. A spokesman to the gov...
The Irish Government, on Monday, took steps to allow workers return to their places of work as shops opened to mark the resumption of busine...
A 28-year-old pregnant Algerian doctor, Wafa Boudissa, who died from the novel coronavirus after being denied maternity leave has ...
On Sunday, the United States recorded 820 fresh coronavirus deaths in the span of 24 hours, with the total number of deaths in the country nearing 90,...
The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has said that the lockdown imposed on the country as part of the measures to check the spread of t...
The Cambodian Government has said that it discharged its last coronavirus patient on Saturday, according to a report by Aljazeera. The news agency ...
A 29-year-old woman who recently delivered a baby has been reported as Nepal's first fatality from the novel coronavirus. The pa...
One of the culprits of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Félicien Kabuga, has been arrested after he was caught in France living under a false id...
Following the ease of restrictions in Senegal, some mosques in the West African nation have begun prayers, accommodating Muslim faithful for...
On Friday, China called on all member states of the United Nations (UN) to “actively fulfill their financial obligations to the U...
The Minister of Health in Brazil, Nelson Teich, has resigned amid the coronavirus pandemic, and a source within the ministry said that the r...
Following the United States allegations that Chinese hackers were trying to "steal" research on the COVID-19 vaccine from them, Ch...
Nigeria’s former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and ex-Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Desalegn Boshe, on Thursday observed that Africa h...
Burundi's foreign ministry on Friday declared the representatives of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the country "persona no...
Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday announced the suspension of IPOB's one-millio...
On Wednesday, Russia recorded more than 10,000 new COVID-19 cases, making the country continue on a trend that positions it as the country w...
A leading global Islamic scholar, Mufti Ismail Menk has severely criticised Tuesday's attack by gunmen on a maternity hospital...
On Tuesday, the Southern-Central African country of Zambia recorded 174 fresh coronavirus cases. The country tested 338 blood samples bet...
Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, in China, have said that there will be a mass test conducted in the city af...
Six people lost their lives on Tuesday during a protest over roadblocks set up by Guinea's police force as part of measures implemented ...
Over the last 24 hours, the United States recorded 1,894 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, which makes the total number of deaths from the disease...
President of Senegal, Macky Sall, in response to the agitations of families whose relatives died overseas, has requested that bodies of Sene...
A hospital was attacked on Tuesday in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, by gunmen, causing an official of the government and a doctor to flee t...
A fire outbreak at a hospital in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday has killed five COVID-19 patients who had been hooked up to ventilators, this w...
Tensions between the United States and China continue to deepen, as the trade deal between both countries seems to have reached a deadlock. ...
A Chinese official in the city of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, charged with the responsibility of closing-off and controlling the Sanmi...
The president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, has, along with other top members in his administration, taken a 50 percent pay cut, as the country ...
The Kenyan Ministry of Health says that it has recorded 23 fresh coronavirus cases, making the total number of cases amount to 672. Speaking with j...
Coronavirus cases in South Africa have jumped past 10,000, with the country recording 194 deaths, Minister of Health, Zwelini Mkhize, r...
One person has reportedly died as fire razed Moscow hospital where infected coronavirus patients were been treated on Saturday. The ...
Former US president, Barack Obama, has described current US president's, Donald Trump, handling of the coronavirus outbreak as an &...
France, on Friday, recorded fresh 243 coronavirus deaths, making the total number of fatalities in the country 26,230, while patients admitt...
Another White House staff, identified as the spokeswoman for the vice president, Mike Pence, has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, acc...
The World Health Organization (WHO) fears that Africa might record up to 190,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus if the measures to stem the spread ...
Claims by the President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, that tests carried out in his country for coronavirus had been faulty have been repudiat...
Despite the current strained relationship between both countries, China and the United States have decided to forge ahead with their trade d...
The United States military base in Niger says that it has lost another drone, making it the second loss in two months. The US military e...
Embattled Prime Minister of Lesotho, Thomas Thabane, has restated his announced intention of retirement from office July ending "or earlier."...
Russia's confirmed coronavirus cases have been more than 10,000 for the past four days, making it the sixth country with the highest num...
The death toll from the novel coronavirus in Europe has exceeded 150,000, with most of the numbers emerging from Great Britain, Italy, Germa...
Japan is on track to approve the use of remdesivir, an antiviral drug, for the treatment of coronavirus patients, government of Japan reveal...
Following the United States' claims that the novel coronavirus was engineered in a lab in Wuhan, Chinese authorities fire back at the US Secr...
Chinese students in the province of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, have resumed classes on Wednesday, donning masks and walkin...
Britain unseats Italy as the European country with the highest number of deaths from the novel coronavirus, as the country records a death toll of ove...
The number of coronavirus cases in the West African country of Sierra Leone has seen an upward surge, with the country recording 21 confirmed COVID-19...
A plane conveying medical supplies has crashed in the south-western part of Somalia, the crash killed six people including two pilots, this is accordi...
A military prison in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has reportedly seen a spike in the number coronavirus cases, this...
Donald Trump has criticised the former president of the United States, George W. Bush, who called on Americans to be compassionate and stand in solida...
The Minister of Employment and Labour in Niger, Mohamed Ben Omar, died on Sunday, the minister's party disclosed this without detailing ...
The President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbe, was sworn in at a ceremony on Sunday, with few guests present at the swearing in due to the measures tak...
The United States saw an increase in its death toll from coronavirus by 1,450 in the past 24 hours, this is according to a tally by John Hopkins Unive...
On Saturday, Russia recorded a significant single day increase in coronavirus cases recorded, with the country recorded nearly 10,000 cases in just on...
In the past 24 hours, the death toll in the United States jumped to more than 66,000, with an addition of 1,435 deaths recorded, according to a tally ...
The Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, made his first public appearance since it was speculated that he had taken gravely ill last ...
The island nation of Mauritius has announced an extension of its lockdown until June 1, depsite a plateau in the country's COVID-19 cases that has...
The Italian Government plans to open two of its airports in the coming week, it says that it will open the Ciampino Airport in Rome, and the Pere...
The Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, said that Britain was “past the peak” of the coronavirus pandemic, despite the country ...
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), nearly 1.3 billion children are forced out of school ...
The Prime Minister of Russia, Mikhail Mishustin disclosed, on Thursday, that he had tested positive for coronavirus and will go on to isolate himself ...
More than 2,000 deaths have been recorded in the United States in the past 24 hours for a third time straight, this is according to a real-time tally ...
Twenty-one people have died with 13 others in critical condition after imbibing a contaminated alcoholic beverage in Jalisco a Mexican state, acc...
The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Nuno Gomes Nabiam, on Wednesday, announced that he had contracted the novel coronavirus, as well as thr...
In the past 24 hours, the United States recorded a total of 2,502 death from the novel coronavirus, this is according to a tally from John Hopkins Uni...
The President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, has extended the country's state of emergency declared on April 1 by another month, this is an eff...
South Africa's coronavirus cases have jumped past 5,000, as of Thursday, after the country recorded its biggest daily number since the o...
German officials say that labs in the country are now able to conduct nealry 900,000 tests weekly for the COVID-19 virus, this is part of the country&...
Tuesday saw a rise in the death toll from coronavirus in the United States, according to a tally from John Hopkins University, drawing a parallel to t...
Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan yesterday warned that the restrictions of movement and the lockdown of African economies in response...
Official reports show that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally has climbed to more than three million, while of that figure, ...
The Roman Catholic Church leader, Pope Francis, was seen on camera, as shown in a video, kissing a nun on the cheek. Just last week, the Pope was s...
More than 200 Cuban doctors and health workers arrived in South Africa on Monday to help the fight against coronavirus, the presidency said. South ...
After being hospitalised for weeks, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson, has made his first public appearance on Monday, stating that t...
Sudan announced that it had recorded fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday. It recorded 24 new cases, making its total number of COVID-19 cases 237. Th...
One week after Ghana lifted its lockdown order, Accra, its capital city, and Kumasi had a combined total of 271 fresh coronavirus cases. ...
The West African country of Guinea-Bissau has announced its first coronavirus death and an extension of its state of emergency. Guinea-Bissau has a...
Spain, one of the worst-hit countries from the coronavirus pandemic, has recorded a drop in its daily death toll since the 20th of March. It ...
In the past 24 hours, the United States has recorded 2,494 deaths from the novel coronavirus, this is according to a report by Johns Hopkins Univ...
The Government of Saudi Arabia has repealed its court-enforced floggings as enshrined in the country's laws, this is one in a series of &ldqu...
The death toll from coronavirus in the United States has surged past 50,000 on Friday, this is according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. ...
The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday sent a goodwill message to the Muslim community as they start observing th...
The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that so far in April “over 2,400 migrants” have been ret...
A new research by United States government scientists has found out that the novel coronavirus pathogen is quickly destroyed by sunlight, al...
Over the past 24 hours, Spain recorded a total of 367 deaths from the coronavirus, making it the country's lowest daily number in four weeks, this...
President Muhammadu Buhari's government says it has been "deeply wounded" by the racial discrimination being meted out to Nige...
The Vietnamese Government has relaxed its order on social distancing in the country, as medical experts cite mass testing and quarantines an...
President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced, on Thursday, a nationwide lockdown that will run for five weeks and will see a lax in restricti...
After the first case of a tiger being infected with COVID-19 was reported at a zoo earlier in April, four more tigers and three lions have t...
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation, WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on Wednesday disclosed that the Coronavirus will ...
Two migrants seeking assylum on the Greek Island of Lesbos have been reportedly shot and wounded after they flouted the coronavirus quarantine di...
Authorities in Ukraine have quarantined a monastery managed by the Orthodox church that had earlier rejected confinement, as more of the monks at the ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that globally, there are about 2.5 million coronavirus cases and more than 160,000 deaths from ...
Heads of States and Government of member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are scheduled to hold a meeting via video...
Streets in South Africa will be seeing a heavy presence of security officers, as the President, Cyril Ramaphosa intends to dispatch over 73,000 more t...
The first series of clinical trials of a vaccine for the coronavirus pandemic has been authorised by the German Government, this is according to the c...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tentatively began his return to work on Tuesday after being hospitalised for coronavirus, as parliament returned ...
In the face of a battle against the coronavirus pandemic and an ongoing protest in Lebanon, the Lebanese parliament met to vote on the legalisation of...
The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has announced a $26 billion relief package that will serve as a support to the South African economy, ...
The Health Secretary in the United Kingdom, Matt Hancock, has said that starting from Thursday there will be a commencement of clinical trials of a po...
At a time when countries hit by the novel coronavirus are implementing measures that can be helpful in the containment of the spread of the virus, lik...
The death toll from the novel coronavirus has exceeded 170,000, with nearly two-third of the death toll emerging from Europe, the hardest-hit region, ...
On Monday, health authorities in Tanzania announced that the country had 84 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, which brings the total...
The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, announced the extension of the lockdown initiated in the country on 30th March by two weeks. In...
A tally by Johns Hopkins University puts the total number of coronavirus deaths in the United States, as of Sunday, at 40,000. ...
Cities across America saw hundreds of people protesting the lockdown initiated in the country as part of the measures to curb the spread of the virus ...
The Prime Minister of Lesotho, Thomas Thabane, has said that he sent troops onto the streets in an effort to contain the unruly agents of the country&...
An enraged man identified as Robert Kovner, 62, has been arrested by the police after he threatened to go on a shooting rave at his local superma...
In Africa over 1,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus since it broke out last year in the province of Wuhan in China. The country w...
In the face of the pandemic crisis, Lebanese citizens took to the streets on Friday to protest the country's corruption and economic hardship. ...
Tunisian authorities said that two men, including a suspected jihadist member, were arrested over a suspected "terrorist" attack on security...
The United States has a confirmed number of 32,917 deaths from coronavirus , as of Thursday, according to a tally made available by John Hop...
A governor in Kenya, Mike Sonko, has distributed Hennessy bottles as part of the relief items to residents of Nairobi where h...
Senegal has extended the suspension on all flights both to and from its airports until 31 May in a bid to contain the growing coronavirus pandemic, th...
The British Government, in a bid to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country, is expected to add another three weeks to the n...
In response to the suspension of funds to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the organ...
Against the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic and the demand for face masks, the International Criminal Police Organisation, Interpol, sa...
Two Brazilian state governors who have criticized President Jair Bolsonaro’s calls to relax COVID-19 containment measures said Tuesday they had ...
On Tuesday, Sweden recorded over 1,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, with the government of the country facing criticisms from medical experts on...
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has said that the US would be halting its funding to the World health Organisation (WHO) because the...
In an effort to cater to the rising numbers of coronavirus cases, the island nation of Bahrain has converted a car park near its capital of Manam...
The global death toll from the novel coronavirus has exceeded 120,000, with nearly 70 percent of that number emerging from Europe. The total number...
On Tuesday, India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced the extension of the country's nation wide lockdown until the 3rd ...
The death toll from the novel coronavirus has climbed past 20,000 on Monday, while the number of people in intensive care has dropped f...
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has offered the sum of $1 million as a reward to resident scientists in Ukrane if they are able to creat...
Workers in Spain’s construction and manufacturing sectors cautiously returned to work Monday as the daily death toll resumed its downward trend ...
As coronavirus cases continue to rise in different countries across the globe, many nations and territories are implementing practical approaches to c...
Britain's Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has been discharged from the hospital after been admitted into intensive care for treatment of coronavirus...
As coronavirus cases globally continue to surge, with no end in sight, the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, said that public schools in the sta...
The Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, said that the Italian government's plan to extend the lockdown in the country to the 3rd of...
All residents of Turkey across 31 cities have been ordered to stay indoors for 48 hours from Friday midnight, this directive was initiated as part of ...
As coronavirus cases on the African continent increase, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that the facilities to handle the swel...
South Africa, the worst hit country on the African continent, has extended its lockdown by another 14 days, as the government sees it beneficial in th...
The Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, has, on Thursday, been moved from intensive care after spending three days, from Sunday when he was take...
Over 1.5 million coronavirus cases have been recorded globally, according to an official source as compiled by AFP at 0530 GMT on Thursday. ...
Measures imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus are pushing the world economy into a recession deeper and more painful than initially expected,...
The total number of deaths from coronavirus globally has topped 86,000, this is according to a tally done by AFP, from official sources. Coron...
Residents of the Republic of Benin have been mandated to don face masks as part of the efforts of the government of the country to stem the sprea...
New cases of infection have resurfaced in China as seven people, five Nigerians included, have tested positive for the virus after eating fr...
The United Kingdom recorded its highest death toll from coronavirus in 24 hours on Wednesday. It recorded a total of 938 deaths, making it the biggest...
Ethiopia on Wednesday declared a state of emergency to fight the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far infected 55 people and resulted in two deaths ...
The Government of Morocco has made mandatory the wearing of face masks in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country. The...
On Tuesday, France saw a spike in the number of deaths from the novel coronavirus, crossing the 10,000 mark. According to the French gov...
Forty-eight South African health workers have tested positive for coronavirus, the South African Health Minister, Zweli Mkhi...
Ecuador's former President, Rafael Correa, has been sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of corruption during his t...
China on Tuesday reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since it started publishing figures in January, the National Health Commission ...
In 24 hours, the United States, recorded 1,150 deaths resulting from the novel coronavirus, a tally by Johns Hopkins University revealed, raising...
Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has hit out at French scientists for suggestin...
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has been moved to intensive care after his condition deteriorated on Monday. All...
The President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Ado, in a public address on Sunday, said that the government of Ghana will be implementing some social in...
Residents in a working-class district of the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan on Sunday destroyed a coronavirus testing centre that was under con...
Following the news that the Nigerian Government will be evacuating its citizens abroad willing to come home, the Nigerian Consulate in New York, ...
The novel coronavirus has spread to over 280 countries and territories, with a number of 1,263,976 recorded coronavirus cases, and a death t...
Following the news of the admission of the UK's Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to a hospital, President of the United States, Donald Tru...
The Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, took a test at a hospital just 10 days after he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus,...
In the United States, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has risen to 300,000, with a death toll of over 8,000, this is according to a report b...
The South African Government on Friday announced that that the death toll of South Africa had been increased by 2, with 43 new cases confirm...
In response to the ongoing global health crisis, makers of Corona beer and two Mexican brewers have reduced the amount of beer produced...
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world has soared past one million and fatalities have topped 50,000 as the United States reported...
On Thursday, the South African country of Malawi announced its index coronavirus case, making Malawi one of the last countries on the continent to rec...
The cases of infection in Africa has risen to 6,470 as at Thursday, this is according to the Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC). On April...
A woman from the Kokama ethnic group in the Amazon rainforest is the first indigenous person in Brazil to test positive for the new coronavirus, autho...
The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease globally sits at over 900,000, this is according to a tally done by AFP, citing authori...
A six-week-old baby is said to be the youngest patient to have died from the coronavrius due to complications, this is according to the governor ...
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 30,000 people in Europe, more than three-quarters of the deaths registered in Italy and Spain, according...
The United States, unseats China as the country with the highest number of infection, this is according to a report by Johns Hopkins University. ...
A 13-year-old Brit has died just days after he tested positive for the coronavirus, this news was confirmed by medical personnel and the family of the...
Things are looking up for the West African country of Ghana, as it records the highest number of recoveries on the African continent, with 31 people r...
Great Britain and France reported a total number of 880 deaths in just less than 24 hours. In the UK, 381 lives were lost, while in France, 499 peo...
A 12-year-old girl confirmed infected with COVID-19 has died in Belgium, health officials said Tuesday. The young age of the fatality “is a v...
Tanzania on Tuesday recorded its first death from coronavirus, a 49-year-old man who had underlying health issues, the health ministry said. The Ea...
A Nigerian-American student, Bassey Offiong, who was scheduled to graduate from school at Western Michigan University, has died from coronav...
The Government of Sierra Leone has repealed its law that bans pregnant girls from attending school, the government disclosed this on Mo...
The Italian Government has said that its current lockdown will be extended to, at least, the 12th of April, as part of the measures taken to curtail t...
The US recorded 518 new coronavirus-linked deaths in the span of 24 hours, according to data published Sunday by Johns Hopkins University. The reco...
A US doctor, Anthony Fauci, predicts a grim future for the death toll that will be recorded in the United States, predicting that as many as 200,...
The West African country of Ivory Coast has announced its first death on Sunday, as disclosed by the Minister of Health in the country, Eugene Aka. ...
Angola records its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus, this is according to the country's health minister on Sunday. The two recorded dea...
Germany's Hesse state Finance Minister, Thomas Schaefer, has reportedly committed suicide after he became "deeply worried" about the eco...
Italy, the most-hit country by the novel coronavirus, has recorded over 10,000 deaths since the outbreak, amid the government's total lockdown. ...
An Italian woman dubbed 'Highlander' the immortal by doctors and nurses at a hospital where she was treated for coronavirus has survived it. ...
The West African nation of Mali has recorded its first death from coronavirus on Saturday, just a day before the nation observed its long-awaited...
A US-based lab has unveiled a portable test that can tell if someone has COVID-19 in as little as five minutes, it said in a statement Friday. Abbo...
In the past 24 hours, Spain has recorded 769 new deaths from coronavirus-related complications, raising the total figure to 4,858. Allnew...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus pandemic. He announced this on Twitter, stating that he is self-isolat...
China and Italy have been beaten off the top of list as the countries with the most recorded cases of infection in the world, the country atop the lis...
The South African Government reported the country's firtst 2 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, with the number of infections rising ...
South Africa braced for a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown Thursday, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in an...
The coronavirus pandemic has forced the shut down of the British Parliament on Wednesday, although, some MPs were sent home before the shut ...
Spain’s coronavirus death toll overtook that of China on Wednesday, rising to 3,434 after another 738 people died as Madrid announced a multi-mi...
The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, has said that he, alongside his VP, will be taking an 80 percent slash in their remunerations, this is to supp...
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, over 67 Italian priests have lost their lives over the period of a month, this is according to a newsp...
Hubei Province, the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, that has been under strict travel restrictions by the Chinese Government for a month, has fina...
Over a thousand Algerian nationals are left stranded at the Istanbul Airport in Turkey due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, this is according to the...
An Italian priest in Casnigo, Giuseppe Berardelli, who offered his respirator to a younger patient suffering from coronavirus, has died. The n...
The number of infections from the coronavirus pandemic is seeing a daily increase. South Africa has a record of 554 cases, with 152 cases recorded in ...
A tourist in the island country of Cape verde, 62-year-old Brit man, has died from coronavirus, this is according to the country's government, whi...
Dozens of US lawmakers on Monday threw their support behind efforts to allow remote voting in Congress, as members seek to have their say on critical ...
Citizens and reisdents of Brittain have been urged to stay home, as the country's government mandates a three-week lockdown to curb the sprea...
Syria is the latest, among many other territories, country to record a case of the novel coronavirus, this was announced by the government of the war-...
Hong Kong will ban all non-residents from entering the financial hub from midnight on Tuesday evening in a bid to halt the coronavirus, its leader sai...
As infections cases from coronavirus surge globally, Spain, in an effort to contain the impact of the spread in the country has decided to distend its...
The first French doctor battling the coronavirus has died as the death toll in the country spiralled to 674 Sunday. With the outbreak spreading to ...
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has been put in self-isolation after coming into contact with her doctor who also tested positive for the virus. ...
The Chile health authorities have announced the first death of a patient from coronavirus in the country, and the patient was an 83-year-old woman. ...
A Zimbambwean who recently returned to his home in the town of Victoria Falls after a visit to Britain has tested positive for coronavirus, making him...
The rate of infection from coronavirus has doubled, as the country records 4,032 deaths from the outbreak of the virus, and in only 24 hours the Europ...
Gabon, on Friday, recorded its first death from coronavirus. The patient was a 50-year-old man who had recently returned from France, another country ...
The total number of people whose lives have been lost to the infection has passed 10,000, this is according to a tally by news agency, AFP....
French homeless organisations on Friday accused police of issuing fines to rough sleepers for failing to comply with self-isolation requirements under...
Over a thousand researchers and scientists have taken up residence on the icy continent of Antarctica, a place where temperatures can go as ...
All 40 million residents of California were Thursday ordered to stay at home indefinitely in a bid to battle the coronavirus pandemic in the nation&rs...
Two US lawmakers including a Florida representative on Wednesday became the first members of Congress to announce they have tested positive for the no...
Russia records the first death of a person infected with coronavirus on Thursday. The patient was an aged man who was in treatment in a hospital in Mo...
An unnamed Iranian woman aged 103 has reportedly beaten all odds after recovering from coronavirus that is said to affect, mostly, the elderly, t...
The World Health Organization recommended Tuesday that people suffering COVID-19 symptoms avoid taking ibuprofen, after French officials warned that a...
Inmates in Brazilian minimum security prisons who had escaped after their usual temporary furloughs that grant them the right to leave was suspended o...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disclosed that two of its personnel have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that bri...
The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 has begun in Seattle, US health officials said Monday. &ldqu...
Nationals of all countries except for the United States are barred from entering into Canada, this restriction comes as a measure by the Canadian Gove...
An offshoot of the Lufthansa group, Austrian Airlines, the flag carrier of Austria has said that the steep fall in demand from the outbreak of coronav...
The President of Liberia, George Weah, on Monday, said, during a televised addressed that travels from any country with 200 cases of infections from c...
The Health ministry in Spain says the country has registered about 1000 new Coronavirus cases within the past 24 hours. Allnews reports t...
Liberia announced its first case of the novel coronavirus on Monday, becoming the 27th African country to confirm the illness. The patient is the h...
The West African country, Ghana, also hit by the virus that has some countries on lockdown like Italy and Spain, has closed all its schools, suspendin...
Kenya unveiled a series of strict measures to curb coronavirus on Sunday, blocking entry to the country to all except citizens and residents and shutt...
President Donald Trump has tested negative for the novel coronavirus, his physician said, following concerns over his exposure to a disease that has p...
The U.S. had announced plans to ban Europeans from entering into the U.S. as a measure to prevent the spread of the virus in the country. The U.S. Gov...
On Saturday, the first death from coronavirus was recorded in Denmark, and in a bid to stop the further spread of the virus, the country's governm...
Sudan announced on Friday its first case of the novel coronavirus following the death of a 50-year-old man the night before. The Sudanese citizen h...
China reported 11 new infections of the coronavirus on Saturday, and for the first time since the start of the epidemic the majority of them were impo...
Ethiopia on Friday announced its first case of the new coronavirus, the second to hit East Africa which had so far been spared from the rapidly spread...
Romania’s Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Friday that he would self-quarantine after attending the same meeting as a senator from his party...
Kenya announced its first confirmed case of coronavirus on Friday, saying a woman who returned from the United States tested positive for the illness ...
Justin Trudeau’s wife has tested positive for novel coronavirus, his office said late Thursday, while assuring the public the Canadian prime min...
Over 8 countries have cases of the coronavirus in the Sub-Saharan region, with Gabon and Ghana adding to the list, bringing the number to 10. Gabon...
If you, a Nigerian living in Nigeria, are keeping up with the impeachment drama happening in the big ‘ole US of A, amidst all the judicial and e...
Iran said on Thursday that it has sought immediate financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help it combat one of the world&...
China has cancelled permits for Mount Everest because of the coronavirus, expedition organisers said Thursday, ahead of the spring climbing season on ...
Spain’s equality minister has tested positive for coronavirus and has been quarantined with her partner, deputy prime minister and Podemos leade...
Algeria has registered its first death from the novel coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Thursday. No further details on the death were ...
The United States on Tuesday called for Iran to release all American prisoners held in the country the outbreak reportedly spreads through its prison...
British MP Nadine Dorries, a minister in the health department, has tested positive for coronavirus, she said in a statement on Tuesday. “I c...
Morocco’s health ministry on Tuesday said the country had recorded its first death linked to the new coronavirus, an 89-year-old woman who suffe...
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Wuhan Tuesday for the first time since the city emerged as the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in January &...
Travel was restricted across Italy from Tuesday and public gatherings were forbidden throughout the country as the government signed off on strict qua...
Groupe ADP, the company that runs the operations of two key international airports in Paris, the Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, r...
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived unharmed an assassination attempt using explosives in the capital Khartoum Monday, said his top a...
In an attempt to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, the Italian government has ordered a lockdown of the country’s northern region whi...
Iran Air announced on Sunday the suspension of all its flights to Europe until further notice. The national carrier said in a statement that ...
The wife of South Africa’s first novel coronavirus patient tested positive on Sunday becoming the third confirmed case in the country, the healt...
The governor of New York on Saturday announced a state of emergency as the coronavirus continued to spread in the northeastern state, with 21 new case...
More than 40 people have been rescued following the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China on Saturday, state ...
The number of cases from the new coronavirus topped 100,000 worldwide as official data Saturday showed a significant hit to Chinese exports after the ...
An Iranian lawmaker died from the novel coronavirus on Saturday, state news agency IRNA reported, one of several officials to succumb to the illness i...
Two staff of the British flag carrier airline, British Airways, are said to have tested positive for coronavirus and are currently at home recuperatin...
Russia announced plans to restrict access to people arriving from Iran on Friday, as it moves to ensure the population’s safety and thwart the s...
The World Health Organization said Friday it needs $20 million to fight Ebola in DR Congo, even as the end of the devastating 19-month epidemic finall...
Health officials in the Netherlands have confirmed the country's first death recorded from a coronavirus infection. According to the Natio...
A court in Russia-annexed Crimea sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for extremism, the group said Thursday as Moscow...
A fight over toilet roll ended with a man being tasered, Australian police said Thursday, as coronavirus concerns drive panic buying. Police ...
Almost 300 million students worldwide faced weeks at home on Thursday with Italy the latest country to shut schools over the deadly new coro...
Teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg branded the EU’s grand plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 inadequate on Wednesday and said Europe is f...
U.S. President, Donald Trump, on Wednesday, in a White House meeting with airline executives and administration officers on the issue of hygienic...
A top Islamist militant, Hisham Ashmawy, formerly a special forces officer, was executed by the Egyptian government on Wednesday over his involve...
At least eight people have died after a series of tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, leaving major structural damage including...
India on Tuesday suspended with immediate effect all regular visas or e-visas granted to the nationals of Italy, Iran, South Korea, and Japan issued o...
South Africa slipped into recession in the final three months of 2019, the country’s statistics bureau said on Tuesday, the third recession to h...
Pope Francis, who is suffering from a cold, has tested negative for the coronavirus, an Italian newspaper reported Tuesday, as Italy battles Europe&rs...
A regional minister in Lombardy, the Italian region most affected by the novel coronavirus outbreak, has tested positive for the virus. T...
Egypt on Monday reported its second case of novel coronavirus, more than two weeks after announcing the first confirmed infection in Africa. The fo...
A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for fatally stabbing two officials at a checkpoint set up to control the spread of the new coronavirus ou...
The global death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic surpassed 3,000 on Monday after dozens more died at its epicentre in China and cases soared ar...
Luxembourg on Saturday announced its first case of infection by the new coronavirus: a man who recently returned from Italy, Health Minister Paulette ...
Mexico confirmed its fourth case of the new coronavirus on Saturday — all linked to recent travel to Italy — after a young woman tested po...
Qatar has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, state media reported on Saturday, after a 36-year-old Qatari man who was evacuated to Doha from Ira...
Pope Francis postponed his official appointments Friday and was working from home, the Vatican said, a day after cancelling a scheduled appearance at ...
Lithuania confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus in a woman who returned from Italy, the government said on Friday. The 39-year-ol...
In a communiqué released on Thursday, the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has ordered the return of all South African citizens...
A woman in Japan who contracted the new coronavirus and was released from hospital after recovering has tested positive again, officials said Thursday...
Saudi Arabia on Thursday suspended visas for pilgrims wishing to visit Mecca over coronavirus fears, the foreign ministry said. The government is &...
A Chinese man infected with coronavirus and his wife have been charged in Singapore for lying to health authorities investigating whether they had pas...
At least 22 “armed criminals” and two police officers were killed in clashes between Burundi security forces and an unnamed armed group at...
President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States on Wednesday of trying to spread “fear” in Iran over a deadly outbreak of the novel . ...
Five people were killed, three more are missing and thousands are unable to return to their waterlogged homes after floods submerged parts of Indonesi...
Former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, who served as president for 30 years has died at the age of 91 at the Military Hospital in Cairo, as confir...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has blamed the management of a hospital in northern Italy for one outbreak of the new coronavirus. “At ...
Two sides have claimed victory in Togo’s presidential election as the main challenger to incumbent Faure Gnassingbe cried foul, citing “re...
Mahathir Mohamad on Monday resigned as Malaysia’s prime minister and his Bersatu party has quit the governing Alliance of Hope coalition. Mahat...
Italy reported Monday its fourth death from the new coronavirus, an 84-year old man in the northern Lombardy region, as the number of people contracti...
Around 100 more passengers were allowed to disembark from the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship on Saturday as Japan’s health mi...
Lesotho police on Saturday said they would wait for the prime minister’s return from “sick leave” to resume a court case in which he...
Streets were deserted and residents warned to keep out of an emergency room on Saturday in an Italian town placed under lockdown as a second death fro...
Following last month's report of the killing of nine Mormon women and children in Mexico, nine suspects have been arrested, this is according to t...
The son of a powerful Mexican drug lord was Thursday extradited to the United States, where he is wanted for trafficking, a government source told AFP...
Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will be charged with the murder of his estranged wife, who was gunned down ahead of his inauguration in 2017, po...
At least nine people were killed in two shootings late on Wednesday near the German city of Frankfurt, with an unknown number of attackers still at la...
Two elderly former passengers from the coronavirus-wracked Diamond Princess died Thursday, Japanese authorities said, as fears mount for those who hav...
Argentina’s debt is not sustainable, the IMF concluded Wednesday at the end of a week-long visit, urging the government to generate funds from p...
Hundreds of relieved passengers disembarked Wednesday from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan after being given the all-clear, but health off...
Al-Shabaab Islamists on Wednesday carried out attacks on two Somali military bases, using a suicide vehicle bombing and dozens of heavily armed milita...
China slams Washington on its decision to strengthen rules on the circulation of Chinese state media organisations in the US, grouping them in th...
A hospital director in the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan, the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak, died from the disease on Monday, state media repo...
Japan said on Monday it would cancel a public gathering to celebrate the birthday of new Emperor Naruhito, as fears grow over the spread of the new co...
Scores of women students staged a protest outside an Indian college saying they were forced to strip to check if they were menstruating. The studen...
Senator Bernie Sanders claimed victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, citing internal campaign data that placed him ahead of Pete Buttigieg after a m...
Africa recorded its first case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Friday as a foreigner who had been put in isolation at a hospital in Egypt tested positive...
The first case of coronavirus has been recorded in Egypt, as confirmed by the country's Minister of Health on Friday, making Egypt the first Afric...
Investigators are turning to the travelers’ personal electronics for potential answers with no black box recorder aboard the helicopter that cra...
Passengers on a cruise ship that was turned away from ports around Asia over fears they could be carrying the new coronavirus finally began disembarki...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday sacked the minister, who helped end three years of political stalemate in Northern Ireland. This&n...
Bernie Sanders narrowly won New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, solidifying his front-runner status in the nominating race...
An additional 39 people on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the Japan coast have tested positive for the new coronavirus, Japanese Health Mi...
Thousands of Kenyans on Tuesday gathered to mourn the country’s longest serving leader, the hardline Daniel arap Moi, as a week of mou...
Hundreds of flights and train services were cancelled across northwest Europe on Monday as Storm Ciara swept in packing powerful winds after lashing B...
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus has risen to 811 in mainland China, the country’s National Health Commission said on Sun...
The United States on Friday offered up to $100 million to China and other impacted countries to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus. “This ...
A wild leopard has killed a nine-year-old girl outside her home in a village in central Nepal, local police said on Friday. The girl was playing ou...
The White House on Thursday confirmed that the United States had killed Qasim al-Rimi, the leader of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen. ...
After his acquittal by the Senate on the articles of impeachment, President of the United States, Donald Trump, is set to give his "victory speec...
Lesotho police on Tuesday charged first lady Maesaiah Thabane with murder for her alleged links to the brutal 2017 killing of the prime minister&rsquo...
Daniel Arap Moi, the former President of the East African nation of Kenya, who was notorious for ruling with a strong hand has died on ...
Hong Kong on Tuesday become the second place outside of the Chinese mainland to report the death of a patient being treated for a new coronavirus that...
A woman attempting to flee from Florida police on Friday burst through two security checkpoints on a road leading to US President Donald Trump’s...
At least 20 people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the country, offic...
Britain on Friday ended almost half a century of European Union membership, making a historic exit after years of bitter arguments to chart its own un...
Up to 24 people were killed on Thursday in a fresh attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces ...
Russia said Thursday it was closing its border with China to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told a gov...
Flash floods and landslides have killed at least nine people and forced thousands into temporary shelters on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, the loc...
British Airways on Wednesday said it had suspended all its flights to and from China owing to the deadly coronavirus. “We have susp...
At least 10 men have been killed in a jihadist massacre at a village in Burkina Faso, which is in the grip of a years-long Islamist insurgen...
A Caspian Airlines plane skid off the runway onto a highway on landing at an airport in southwestern Iran on Monday. But all passengers were evacua...
In an effort to check the number of foreigners gaining American citizenship through birth, the United States is set to announce plans to reduce t...
In an attempt to nip the spread of the coronavirus in the bud, China has made plans to build a hospital in 10 days to treat affected citizens. The cor...
Three American crew helping to battle Australia’s devastating bushfires were killed Thursday when their water-bombing plane crashed in mountaino...
Greece’s parliament on Wednesday elected the first woman president in the country’s history, a senior judge with expertise in environmenta...
President Donald Trump’s historic impeachment trial begins in earnest on Tuesday in the Senate, with Democrats calling for his removal from offi...
A grenade detonated by a member of Sudan’s security forces at a wedding party in the capital Khartoum killed himself and four other people, poli...
Britain’s Prince Harry expressed “great sadness” on Sunday at the way he and his wife Meghan had to give up their royal titles as pa...
President Donald Trump’s legal team presented Saturday its line of defense for his upcoming impeachment trial, a process they dismissed as uncon...
The U.S. and China signed a so-called ‘Phase One’ deal on Wednesday thus putting on hold a trade war between the two economic giants but l...
Fourteen people have been killed in two attacks in an area of the Democratic Republic of Congo that is volatile. In the recorded casualties, a governm...
The erupting Taal volcano has caused 53,000 people to leave their homes, as the Filipino officials cautioned that those living close to the volcano ta...
Leftist Bernie Sanders attacked frontrunner Joe Biden on foreign policy Tuesday, but found himself fighting accusations of sexism in the final preside...
A patient died on Saturday from a mysterious illness after an outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, according to the local health c...
Several people have been arrested in Iran in connection with last week’s shooting down of a Ukraine International Airlines flight with 176 peopl...
The U.S. House on Thursday voted to set restrictions on Donald Trump's future military action against current military adversary, Iran. The house ...
Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, on Thursday, said that all collated evidence points to the fact that the Ukrainian plane that crashed o...
Remains of 141 victims of 1994 Rwandan genocide against Tutsi have so far been exhumed from mass graves at Rubavu airstrip in the western part of the ...
The Swiss National Bank says it expects to post an annual profit of 49 billion Swiss francs (50.29 billion dollars). The bank made its expectations...
British royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have put out a notice of their intention to bow out of their positions "as 'senior' m...
Airliners, on Wednesday, have barred flights from entering the Iranian and Iraqi air spaces after Iran fired scores of missiles on US bases in Iraq. ...
Iran has fired more than a dozen rockets at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops, according to the Pentagon. The rockets which were fired at...
Mark Latunski, a 50-year old resident of Michigan was on Tuesday arrested by cops after allegedly murdering a man he met via a dating app and consumin...
A Ukrainian plane crashed in Tehran and it is confirmed, by the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, that both passengers and crew membe...
Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, has been denied a visa by the US to attend the United Nations Security Council meeting that is sche...
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southwest of Indonesia’s Aceh Province on the island of Sumatra on Tuesday, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...
With the news of the regional adoption of the ECO currency by member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), like Nigeria...
Qaseem Soleimani, the top Iranian commander killed by a US air strike will be buried on Tuesday, in his hometown of Kerman, this is according to the I...
US citizens have been ordered by the State Department to leave Iraq "immediately," this is coming after the US killed a top Iranian commande...
Qasem Soleimani, Iranian top commander was killed on Friday in a strike by the US on Baghdad's international airport. In response to the attack, I...
The assets of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the former president of Angola, Eduardo dos Santos, have been freed, following an order by a court i...
A man in Texas shot and killed two people during a church service in White Settlement, Texas, on Sunday morning before being shot down by tw...
Thousands of Australian locals and vacationers have been forced to leave their homes and sleep on beaches due to the fires raging across southeast Aus...
Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic was a flashpoint for a clash between traders and militiamen, leading to the deaths of 11 people, this ...
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu won his party's primary, leading his right-wing party into the general election that will take pla...
A passenger plane crashed into a two-story house just minutes after it took off from the Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, resulting in the loss of 14 liv...
According to officials, the death toll from the Typhoon Kammuri that hit the Southeast Asian country of the Philippines has hit 13. The typhoon hit...
Five people have been sentenced to death in connection to the murder of a journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Arabian prosecutor, who dis...
A local beer made from coconut sap has caused a few fatalities, killing nine people and leaving 100 more hospitalized, both happening separa...
A loan of $280 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has caused debates and furore from rights mo...
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, will be presenting the Brexit Bill before the MPs on Friday, his spokesman says. The terms that th...
Following the expulsion of two Chinese Embassy officials from Washington by the United States, China has come out to say that the removal of...
Leader of the Conservative Party and UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has won what is described as the UK's "most dramatic elector...
Algeria's APS news agency reports that two former Algerian Prime Ministers have been given heavy sentences on Tuesday in what is a serie...
A C-130 Hercules military aircraft with 38 people aboard has gone missing in Chile. According to Chile's Air Force, it was said to h...
The United Nations, UN, has demanded an immediate release of the 7,000 people arrested in the Iranian protest. The human rights dep...
Firefighters in California on Tuesday, November 26, worked tirelessly to fight a brush fire that was out of control throughout the night in ...
A Boeing 737-800 plane, with 196 passengers aboard, caught on fire shortly after it landed at the Sharm el-Sheikh Airport, Egypt. Th...
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has, on Thursday, announced the release of a second vaccine that will help fight the Ebola virus in the eastern par...
A disheartening report was revealed by the Evangelical Christian Aid Organization World Vision Coordinator for Southern Africa, Maxwell Sibhensana, on...
A lightning strike in Pa, a northern district of Uganda, has caused the death of six people, leaving 11 others in a critical state, after it was ...
An earthquake in northwestern Iran killed five people and injured 120, according to reports. The Iranian Seismological Center said the ea...
Wife of the late leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi proved forthcoming with information about the inner workings of the&...
U.S. president Donald Trump has offered to help Mexico track down the killers of nine Mormon women and children who were shot dead in a ...
The Turkish government has said that it has captured the elder sister of slain ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. According to senior Turkish offi...
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has come under fire for an article he published where he made a reference to Nigerians, saying that the you...
Extremist group, IS (Islamic State), have claimed responsibility for the collision of two military helicopters that claimed the lives of 13 French sol...
A South African Police constable, Austin Luciano Reynold, has been found guilty for the murder of Ebuka Okoli in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal, in 2018,...
