If Democrats want to understand one of the reasons the Republican Party is ascendant, they can look to President Joe Biden’s pardon on Sunday for his son Hunter. In its rank mendacity, political hypocrisy, naked self-dealing and wretched example, it typifies so much of what so many ...

Republicans hold a 220-215 majority in House of Representatives but will have to deal with three early vacancies. Washington, DC – Democrats have won the last race to be called in the United States House of Representatives, leaving their Republican rivals with a razor-thin majority in ...

United States President Joe Biden is visiting Angola this week on his first-ever bilateral trip to Africa as president – weeks before he leaves the post to Donald Trump. Biden is set to arrive in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Monday, after a brief stop in the West African nation of Cape ...

Hamas’s announcement comes as the group and Fatah discuss the Palestinian Authority’s management of post-war Gaza. Hamas says 33 captives held by the group in Gaza have been killed since the start of Israel’s nearly 14-month-old war in the besieged enclave. The group issued a video ...

Outgoing US president says his son was ‘selectively’ and ‘unfairly’ prosecuted due to his family name. United States President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter ahead of his sentencing on gun and tax convictions despite a previous pledge not to use his presidential powers to grant ...

Rebel groups in northwestern Syria say they are pushing towards the city of Hama after taking control of nearby Aleppo in a lightning offensive that started last week. The attempted southern advance on Sunday comes on the fifth day of the surprise rebel offensive as Syrian and Russian ...

Beijing lodges ‘serious protests’ with the US saying it ‘strongly condemns’ Taiwanese leader’s stopover in Hawaii, Guam. China has pledged “resolute countermeasures” following the United States’ decision to approve more arms sales to Taiwan, just hours before the island’s President ...

By Francis Ugwu United States President-elect, Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on the bloc of countries known as BRICS countries if they try to replace or move away from the U.S. dollar. The bloc is made up of Brazil, Russia, ...

By Francis Ugwu United States President-elect, Donald Trump has named longtime ally, Kashyap Patel to serve as next director of the U.S Federal Bureau of Intelligence, FBI. Trump announced Patel’s appointment in a Truth Social post on ...

Hamas is open to discussing "all ideas and proposals", a senior official of the Palestinian group told AFP, as representatives arrived in Cairo Saturday for talks on a possible ceasefire in Gaza. The group has "not received any new offer or proposal so far", the official said, speaking on ...

UN nuclear watchdog’s report comes as Iran prepares to hold talks with European nations over its nuclear programme. Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it plans to install more than 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium, the United Nations nuclear ...

By Francis Ugwu The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reappointed Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its Director-General for a second term. This was announced by the WTO in a post on X on Friday. The ...

These were the key developments on the 1,009th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. Here is the situation on Friday, November 29: Fighting Russia unleashed its second major attack this month on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, triggering severe power cuts that affected at least one ...

Montreal, Canada – Canada has pledged to bolster security at its border with the United States, days after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose crippling tariffs in response to drug trafficking and undocumented migration. Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told ...

Windhoek and Leonardville, Namibia – Impo Gift Kapamba Musasa holds a hose pipe in one hand and gestures to a garden of cabbages, onions and turnips with the other. He is a teacher in the crumbling village of Leonardville in rural Namibia, where water is becoming scarce. The vegetables, ...

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam – When Dat had to choose a ride-hailing app to work with as a gig driver, he purposely decided against Grab, the leading player in Southeast Asia. Instead, the 23-year-old was persuaded by the environmentally friendly marketing and homegrown status of Xanh SM, an ...

Brazilian federal police have published a report implicating former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in an alleged criminal organisation designed to overturn the 2022 presidential election, won by his leftist challenger and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The 884-page ...

The suit was filed in 2019 after the plaintiff learned that six men with same job title earned substantially more. Walt Disney has agreed to pay $43.3m to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150m less than their male counterparts over an eight-year ...

Judge rules that the government’s policies favouring heterosexual couples ‘cannot be justified’. Hong Kong’s top court has ruled to affirm housing and inheritance rights for same-sex couples, siding against the government in a victory for the city’s LGBTQ community. Chief Justice ...

The Haaretz newspaper called the decision ‘another step in Netanyahu’s journey to dismantle Israeli democracy’. Israel has approved a resolution to cut ties with the Israeli news outlet Haaretz and ban government funding bodies from communicating or placing advertisements with the ...

Former rivals team up before new tennis season as Djokovic seeks record 25th singles and 11th Australian Open title. Novak Djokovic has hired retired longtime rival Andy Murray on his coaching team as the Serbian legend seeks his 25th Grand Slam singles title, starting at the ...

Director of the Kamal Adwan hospital says several staff wounded in Israeli bombardment. At least 120 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza in two days, Palestinian health officials said, as Israel intensified its bombardment across the besieged territory. At least seven ...

President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to fire US missiles into Russia has brought the world’s two leading nuclear powers to a head. Western media overlooks the broader implications of this move. Inside Ukraine, journalists face the dual threats of restricted press freedoms and Russian ...

MANILA — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the President, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke. Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu United States President-elect, Donald Trump, is considering appointing his former intelligence chief, Richard Grenell, as special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Guardian UK reports. The newspaper ...

Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon's capital early on Saturday. The huge airstrike targeted Beirut's Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month. ...

The United States on Thursday firmly rejected the International Criminal Court’s issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council criticised the ...

 By Seun Opejobi The United States, US, President-elect, Donald Trump has nominated Pam Bondi as the country’s Attorney General. Trump nominated the Florida’s former top lawyer following the withdrawal of Matt Gaetz. He ...

The United States has vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demanding an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s bombardment of the Palestinian territory continues. The US voted down the measure on Wednesday morning ...

Beirut, Lebanon – The United States’s special envoy for the Middle East, Amos Hochstein, has landed in the Lebanese capital to hold talks around a potential ceasefire deal between Hezbollah and Israel. This comes after an emotionally exhausting period for Lebanese as optimism and worry ...

These were the key developments on the 1,000th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 20: Fighting and weapons Ukraine has used the United States-made long-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to hit a military facility in the Russian ...

As the war enters its 998th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, November 19: Fighting A Russian missile attack on a residential neighbourhood has killed 10 people and wounded 44 in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa. Four children were among the ...

The US Senate rejected Senator Bernie Sanders' bid for an inquiry on Israel's human rights record in January The US Senate is due to vote on Wednesday on legislation that would block arms sales to Israel, backed by lawmakers who say Israel is obstructing aid shipments desperately needed ...

State of emergency to allow government to send more money, people to help bring blazes under control, minister says. Ecuador has declared a 60-day state of emergency as the South American country has been hit by a severe drought and record wildfires that have razed large swaths of ...

United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s under way in America”. His comments come even as the ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday confirmed plans to declare a national emergency on border security and utilise US military forces for a mass deportation of undocumented migrants.  The announcement came as Trump solidifies his immigration-focused agenda ...

The move comes as Joe Biden heads into his final months in US office, with successor Donald Trump believed to be more favourable towards Russia. Outgoing United States President Joe Biden will allow Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russia, various news outlets, ...

Explosions heard across Ukraine, including Kyiv and Odesa, as Russia advances at its fastest rate since the early days of the nearly three-year war. Russia has launched a huge strike on Ukraine’s energy facilities and military infrastructure, Russian news agencies report, citing the ...

Blasts were heard in Kyiv early on Sunday, reports said, after Ukraine’s air force warned of a major Russian missile attack threat. The head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council reported on the Telegram messaging app that there were many missiles in the air. Ukraine’s ...

During the final weeks of the 2024 United States presidential race, former President Donald Trump spoke with sympathy to Arab American and Muslim voters enraged by the country’s support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump visited Dearborn, Michigan, known as the “capital” of Arab ...

Israel has ramped up air attacks across Lebanon as its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago before pulling back after battles with Hezbollah fighters, Lebanese state media reported. On Saturday, Israeli air strikes on the village of Khreibeh ...

As United States President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, TikTok could be in line for a reprieve from the very leader who led the charge to ban the embattled video-sharing platform. Under a law signed by US President Joe Biden in April, ByteDance, the Chinese ...

By Francis Ugwu Revelations have emerged that Iran promised President Joe Biden’s administration it would not assassinate former President Donald Trump. Wall Street Journal, citing Fox ...

United States President-elect Donald Trump has picked controversial politician and vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, a job he lobbied for when suspended his own election campaign and supported that of the Republican candidate. “I am thrilled ...

US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, Reuters news agency has reported, citing two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Ending the tax credit could ...

EU says Meta automatically ties its ad service – Facebook Marketplace – to Facebook, creating an unfair advantage. The European Union has hit technology giant Meta with a fine just shy of 800 million euros for what it called “abusive practices” involving its Facebook Marketplace online ...

65-year-old man allegedly told police he defaced Shinto shrine as a ‘prank’. Japanese police have arrested a 65-year-old American tourist for allegedly defacing a Tokyo shrine. The man, identified as Steve Hayes, is accused of using his fingernails to scratch five letters into a ...

Putting an end to days of speculation, United States President-elect Donald Trump nominated Florida Senator Marco Rubio to lead the State Department under the incoming administration. The choice of his former political rival had been rumoured for days and signals the new administration’s ...

A teenager from British Columbia tested positive for the H5 avian flu, and health authorities are investigating. Canada has confirmed its first human case of bird flu after a teenager tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities. The teenager, from the western ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – The main highway connecting Pakistan’s Kurram has remained closed for over four weeks as sectarian tensions sparked by land disputes continue to simmer in this tribal district bordering Afghanistan. A picturesque mountainous region in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ...