The show of force against the self-ruling island came after Beijing expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions in the annual U.S. defense spending bill. By The Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan — China’s military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force ...

A San Bernardino County sheriff’s helicopter crew rescued a Colorado woman after she tumbled 200 feet down a trail in the San Gabriel Mountains early Saturday, authorities said. The woman, identified as 40-year-old Ruth Woroniecki, had left her campground in Lytle Creek to hike up to Cucamonga ...

By Paula Tsoni Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine but Kyiv and its Western backers had refused to engage in talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Rossiya 1 state television in an interview aired on Sunday. “We are ready to negotiate with ...

Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgement that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics. China this month has rapidly ...

A total of 11 children died in the landslide Deutsche Welle The death toll from a landslide at a campsite in Malaysia has risen to 31. The landslide occurred on December 16, around 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Kuala Lumpur, at a campsite in Batang Kali town of Selangor district. ...

By Staff The Associated Press Russian shells pummeled the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 55 in the city that Moscow’s troops were forced to abandon last month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just back from his quick trip ...

By Caroline Guerin Millions of U.S. residents are affected by an unprecedented weather storm that has left at least 15 dead as it continues to batter cities across the U.S. According to breaking news updates on CNN, 1.6 million homes and businesses are without power as of Christmas Eve, ...

Chongqing (China) (AFP) – "Deceased, deceased," a staffer in full protective gear shouted as she handed a nurse a death certificate, their hospital in central China overflowing with Covid patients.   China is battling a wave of infections that has hit the elderly hard, but has ...

Taliban minister said some subjects being taught violated the principles of Islam Web Desk As the Taliban faces widespread criticism over banning women from Afghanistan universities, it has defended its decision, stating that female students were not following instructions,  including a ...

By Phelan Chatterjee BBC News Russia has strongly criticised the visit to Washington by Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing the US of fighting an indirect war against it. President Joe Biden has pledged $1.85bn (£1.45bn) of military aid for Ukraine - including an ...

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times The U.S. is sending its famed Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine, Biden administration officials confirmed Wednesday, marking a major step forward in American military aid to Kyiv as its war with Russia nears the 10-month mark. The State Department ...

By ZEKE MILLER, LISA MASCARO and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press WASHINGTON Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a summit with President Joe Biden and an address to Congress in a bid to shore up support for his country and send a defiant message to ...

by Amu TV A group of male medical students at Nangarhar University walked out of exams on Wednesday in protest against the Taliban’s ban on women getting a university education. The protesting students called on the Taliban to reverse their decision and allow Afghan women to return to ...

Gambian authorities have foiled a military coup attempt and arrested four soldiers plotting to overthrow President Adama Barrow's administration, the government said on Wednesday. The Gambian Armed Forces High Command arrested four soldiers linked to the alleged coup after a military operation on ...

Joe Sommerlad Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has issued a fresh warning that Moscow’s RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), nicknamed “Satan II”, could soon be ready for deployment as its war in Ukraine rumbles on after 10 gruelling months. In an end-of-year speech to ...

By Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with Germany, is to restore peace and livelihoods of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) returnees in Borno State. The Northeast stabilisation process with peace could provide hopes and the education future ...

The Taliban regime has announced the closure of universities to women in Afghanistan, BBC reports. A letter by the higher education minister indicated that the move is until further notice and is expected to take effect immediately. It further restricts women’s access to formal education, as they ...

Tens of thousands of members of the RCN in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are holding the latest one-day stoppage after walking out last Thursday demanding an inflation-busting pay rise. UK nurses have staged a second unprecedented strike amid an increasingly acrimonious fight with the ...

The Bank of England has unveiled its first bank notes featuring King Charles. They will enter into circulation from the middle of 2024 to gradually replace those featuring his mother, Queen Elizabeth. Charles became king in September following the Queen's death after 70 years on the throne. The ...

KYIV, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin flies to Belarus on Monday amid fear in Kyiv that he intends to pressure the former Soviet ally to join a new ground offensive against Ukraine and reopen a new front. Putin, whose invading troops have been buffeted and forced into retreats in ...

Gulf Today Report Britain’s former prime minister David Cameron will return to public life with a teaching job at a university in Abu Dhabi. According to sources, Cameron will lecture students on “practising politics and government in the age of disruption” at the New York University Abu ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1DhGDO6LZ4(Vice President Boluarte sworn-in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liMCMAB4Ng8(Pedro Castillo in Police custody) The President of Peru, Pedro Castillo was ousted by Congress and arrested on a charge of rebellion Wednesday after he sought to dissolve ...

The US will double its exports of natural gas to Britain under a new deal to be announced by Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden. The Prime Minister and the US President have agreed to work together to help countries reduce their dependence on Russian gas and boost supplies of renewables. As part of the ...

A wealthy Russian businessman has been arrested as part of a “major operation” on suspicion of multiple offenses, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency said in a statement Saturday. The 58-year-old man was arrested Thursday at his “multi-million-pound residence in London by officers from the ...

Lawmakers exchanged blows in Senegal’s parliament over insult to pro-opposition religious leader Lawmakers exchanged blows and hurled a chair in Senegal’s parliament on Thursday over a perceived insult towards an influential pro-opposition religious leader. An opposition MP slapped legislator ...

The sequential demise of cryptocurrency investors Vyacheslav Taran, 53; Tiantian Kullander, 30; and Nikolai Mushegian, 29, has become a theme of controversy. The trio passed away in different circumstances between October 28 and November 25, unsettling the crypto community. Dealers and analysts ...

Russia, hit by Western sanctions, has reportedly sent India a list of more than 500 products for potential delivery including parts for cars, aircraft and trains, four sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters.The items according to the report are to keep vital industries running as ...

New reports have claimed that the late Belarus Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei was poisoned in a Kremlin sting operation.The veteran diplomat and former GRU spy died on Sunday amid claims he was in secret contact with the West concerning the war in Ukraine and preventing Belarus from being ...

MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Russia's parliament on Thursday passed the third and final reading of a law that expands an existing ban on promoting "LGBT propaganda" to children by banning it among people of all ages.Under the new law, any event or act regarded as an attempt to promote homosexuality - ...

When The Associated Press wrote last week that Russia had struck a village in Poland with a missile, fears quickly rose the event would escalate the Ukraine-Russia war into an even bigger conflict.But it soon appeared that Russia did not fire the missile. And one of the journalists behind the ...

The United Kingdom has pledged to support the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure free, fair and credible elections in 2023. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, who gave the assurance in an interview with NAN on Saturday, said the UK would monitor the ...

Nancy Pelosi, who has led Democrats in the US House of Representatives for almost two decades, has announced she is standing down from the role.The 82-year-old is the most powerful Democrat in Congress and the first woman to serve as speaker of the House.She will continue to represent her ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PxAbE8UutI Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the NATO military alliance, said the early results of an investigation indicated that an explosion on Polish territory was caused by Ukrainian air defenses.“Our preliminary analysis suggests that the incident was ...

US president Joe Biden has spoken to reporters after an emergency meeting with Nato and G7 leaders in Bali.Biden said the group would support Poland’s investigation into the incident.“I’m going to make sure we figure out exactly what happened … Then we’re going to figure out our next step.”US ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrAGDA6egDU Russian missiles have killed two people in NATO member Poland, a senior US intelligence official has said.Polish media said missiles hit an area where grain was drying in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine.Polish ...

At least six people have been killed and 53 wounded when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul, Al-Jazeera reported. According to the report, ambulances rushed to the scene on packed Istiklal Avenue, which police quickly cordoned off. The area in the city’s Beyoglu ...

A respected Russian policy expert, Professor Valery Solovey, claimed that Vladimir Putin had been offered a surrender deal by the West.According to Professor Valery Solovey, a respected Russian policy expert, Western officials have offered Vladimir Putin surrender terms today, Friday, November ...

The UK government is facing “sustained industrial action” by civil servants after roughly 100,000 union members working for the civil service voted to strike in a dispute over pay, pensions, and jobs. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) stated on Nov. 10 that the legal threshold for ...

  A Texas woman convicted of murdering a pregnant woman and ripping out her unborn baby was sentenced to death Wednesday, Nov. 9.29-year-old Taylor Rene Parker was convicted of capital murder on Oct. 3, 2022, in the killing of Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock, 21, and her infant daughter in New ...

By Seun AdeuyiDemocrat Tony DeLuca, a Pennsylvania state representative in the United States who died last month, was “reelected” during the midterm elections.DeLuca died October 9, 2022, after a brief battle with lymphoma, a disease he twice previously beat. He died at the age of 85.Fox News ...

More than 300,000 union members will walk out over pay, adding to pressure on the country’s health system. < p class="tr-story-p1">Tens of thousands of nurses in the United Kingdom will go on strike for the first time demanding better pay as the cost of living soars. Nurses at most of ...

The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has announced it would lay off more than eleven thousand (11,000) employees. A Fox Business report said the development, which emerged on Tuesday, followed a disclosure in a letter Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote to staff. Zuckerberg disclosed that the ...

US media reports say administration privately talking to Ukraine president over fears support from some countries may decline The Biden administration has been privately telling Ukraine to signal willingness to hold talks with Russia or risk losing support from other nations, US media reported on ...

The former Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan, was shot in the country’s east on Thursday, wounding him in the process, his aide said.The attack took place in Wazirabad, about 200 km (120 miles) from the capital, Islamabad.According to a member of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, many ...

There have been news of blacks being discriminated in some countries. Has this affected you in any way? How has your work been influenced by the racial discrimination? Whether it is within Nigeria or outside the country. 

'Next time send the real Mr Bean': The bizarre feud between Zimbabwe and Pakistan surrounding T20 World Cup Source : https://news.sky.com/story/next-time-send-the-real-mr-bean-the-bizarre-feud-between-zimbabwe-and-pakistan-surrounding-t20-world-cup-12732125

The world faces "probably the most dangerous" decade since the end of World War Two, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned when speaking to the annual Valdai forum* Says the West was no more able to be in charge - but was "desperately trying" to do so.* Mr Putin also accused the West of ...

Dutch media reports that overseas Chinese police centers are putting "pressure on dissident Chinese." An NGO report says that Bejing has such centers in "dozens of countries across five continents." The Dutch Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it was investigating reports that China had set up ...

 The manoeuvres followed President Vladimir Putin's warning about his readiness to use "all means available" to fend off attacks on Russia's territory, in a clear reference to the country's nuclear arsenals.Vladimir Putin partakes in his military forces nuclear war drill 'GROM' in Russia amid ...

Russia has started sending men who refuse to pay child maintenance to the front lines in Ukraine.Sochi, a city in Russia is responding to pressure from ex-wives and sweeping up men dodging maintenance payments, ordering them to the front, revealed leading Putin TV propagandist Margarita ...