China became the leading spender on chipmaking equipment this year, as Chinese semiconductor producers invested a remarkable $25 billion in the first half of 2024. This spending exceeds the combined investments of South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S., reports Nikkei, indicating China’s aggressive ...

Polio has made a comeback in the Gaza Strip after 25 years, forcing the United Nations and local health authorities to launch a vaccination campaign in the Palestinian enclave ravaged by 11 months of Israeli bombardment. Some 640,000 children below 10 years are expected to receive oral ...

Schools and government offices shut down in capital Manila, while ferry services and domestic flights are suspended. A fierce tropical storm has caused floods and landslides that have killed up to 11 people in the Philippines. Tropical Storm Yagi lashed the north of the country ...

As the war enters its 920th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, September 2, 2024. Fighting At least 47 people were injured in a Russian attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city. Officials said Russia fired at least 10 missiles on the ...

The Israeli siege of the West Bank city of Jenin has left Palestinians with no food, water or electricity, with medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, accusing Israeli forces of obstructing access to health facilities and targeting ambulances. “All basic ...

Israel’s military has announced that its troops have recovered the bodies of six captives, including a dual US national, from a tunnel in southern Gaza, as it continued its 11-month long, deadly assault on Palestinian enclave. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel ...

  By Francis Ugwu President Joe Biden has said Hamas will surely pay for killing an American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Biden stated this while reacting to Goldberg-Polin’s death, saying he is devastated and outraged by the news. DAILY POST ...

By Francis Ugwu Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin has been confirmed dead, his family announced early Sunday. Fox News reports that five other Israeli bodies were also recovered on Saturday. The report stated that the six victims ...

By Seun Opejobi The United States, US, Republic presidential candidate, Donald Trump, on Sunday warned Americans against his counterpart from the Democrat, Kamala Harris. Trump warned that Harris would bring ...

Alcaraz crumbled against Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp while Osaka lost to Czech Karolina Muchova. Carlos Alcaraz, the reigning champion of this year’s first two Grand Slams, and Naomi Osaka have both been knocked out of the US Open at Flushing Meadows. Alcaraz crumbled to a 6-1, ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Nigeria ranks among the top 20 countries globally that received United States permanent residency status visas, known as green cards. This is contained in BusinessDay reports, according to 2022 data from the U.S. Department ...

Republican presidential candidate’s comments latest bid to present a moderate image on reproductive issues. Donald Trump has pledged to make in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment free for all women and criticised a six-week abortion ban in Florida, the latest bid by the Republican to ...

On Thursday, US Vice President and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris will sit down for her first major broadcast interview since she became the face of the Democratic Party following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race. She will be joined by her running mate, Tim Walz, for the ...

Ukraine is pushing its Western allies for additional air defences and to use weapons to attack targets in Russia. The European Union’s top diplomat has ramped up pressure on Ukraine’s supporters to lift the restrictions on the use of Western weapons inside Russia. In advance of a ...

Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes says platform faces ban unless Musk names legal representative within 24 hours. Brazil’s top court has threatened to ban X unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in the Latin American country within 24 hours. ...

As Canada moves towards a major immigration overhaul, tens of thousands of international students have taken to the streets to protest the new policies introduced by the Justin Trudeau-led federal government. According to a report by City News Toronto, approximately ...

UN has been forced to evacuate its humanitarian aid hub a second time since the start of the war, official says. United Nations aid operations in the besieged Gaza Strip continue a day after a senior UN official said humanitarian efforts had ground to a halt because new Israeli ...

IAEA head Rafael Grossi says Kursk nuclear plant’s proximity to the fighting is ‘extremely serious’. A nuclear plant located in western Russia where fighting is raging between Russian and Ukrainian forces is vulnerable to a serious accident because it lacks a protective dome that could ...

Russia has launched waves of missile and drone attacks targeting several Ukrainian regions killing at least four people, according to Ukraine’s military, a day after it carried out a “massive” attack on Ukraine’s power grid. Two people were killed when a hotel was “wiped out” in the ...

Canada will allow in fewer temporary foreign workers under tightened rules announced Monday, part of a turnaround in its generous immigration policy that has resulted in an unwieldy surge of newcomers. The rules include reinstituting a ban on temporary foreign ...

Speaking at a meeting of Pacific Island leaders in Tonga, Antonio Guterres warned the region was ‘uniquely exposed’. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued his latest climate SOS, calling on countries to “Save Our Seas” as he warned of a crisis of an “unimaginable ...

Telegram’s Pavel Durov finds himself at the center of a huge legal or political storm following his recent arrest in France. He was detained at Le Bourget airport near Paris after landing on a private jet from Azerbaijan.  Shrouded in secrecy, the arrest has raised alarms in Russia and the ...

Patients and displaced Palestinians are fleeing Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in central Gaza, following the latest evacuation orders. The Israeli army on Sunday demanded Palestinians evacuate an area east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, previously ...

Harris’s team says $82m came in during last week’s convention as her campaign for the presidency gains momentum. Vice President Kamala Harris has raised $540m in little more than a month since she began her race for United States president, with a surge of donations during the Democratic ...

Former world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has again outmatched John Gotti III, the grandson of the late New York crime boss, in an exhibition fight rematch that left the Mexico City crowd unimpressed. Mayweather, 47, dominated Gotti from start to finish on Saturday despite confusion ...

As the war enters its 913th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 26, 2024. Fighting At least 18 people were killed and 37 injured in Russian missile and drone attacks on Sunday which targeted the front-line Ukrainian regions of Chernihiv, ...

US President Joe Biden reportedly asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a call on Wednesday to move troops back from Gaza's border with Egypt as part of an initial phase of a ceasefire deal so that talks could continue. Netanyahu has insisted Israeli forces remain in the ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The billionaire founder and Chief Executive Officer of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was reportedly detained at Bourget Airport near Paris on Saturday. This is according to French news outlets TF1 and BFM TV. According to Reuters, ...

Meta has blocked WhatsApp accounts involved in "a small cluster of likely social engineering activity" on the service. In its report, it has revealed that it traced the activity to APT42 (also called UNC788 and Mint Sandstorm), which the FBI previously linked to a phishing campaign that ...

Here are the main developments as the war enters its 911th day. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 24, 2024. Diplomacy and aid: The United States has announced a new round of military assistance to Ukraine, following a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

United States of America’s Vice President, Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic nomination for President on Thursday with a rousing call to end the war in Gaza and to fight tyranny around the world, drawing a sharp contrast with Republican Donald Trump. “In ...

Several deaths reported as floods caused by torrential rains sweep India’s northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh’s east. Floodwaters have inundated parts of India and Bangladesh, stranding hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighbouring Bangladesh’s eastern ...

Moscow has come under one of the largest drone attacks of the war. When President Vladimir Putin launched Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine two-and-a-half years ago, he expected a speedy victory. Not only did that not happen, but Ukraine has now brought the war ...

Israel killed three Palestinians in a drone strike on Thursday in Tulkarem, a city and refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. That was during an Israeli raid – a near-daily occurrence in the West Bank – on the Tulkarem refugee camp, during which Israeli troops clashed with fighters from ...

Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says. The attack on Thursday came as the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said fighters from its Tulkarem Battalion ...

Israel has killed at least 50 more Palestinians and wounded more than 120 in Gaza as its military has ordered new evacuations in central and southern parts of the enclave. Gaza’s Civil Defence agency on Wednesday said at least four people were killed and 18 wounded in the latest Israeli ...

By Matthew Atungwu Former US President and Republican candidate, Donald Trump will hold a rally outdoors Wednesday in North Carolina, the first open-air campaign event since he narrowly escaped an assassination ...

The Portuguese footballer’s launch broke the world record for fastest YouTube channel to hit one million subscribers. Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo has launched his YouTube channel, and more than a million subscribers signed up within the first 90 minutes. The 39-year-old, five-time ...

Tomiko Itooka went mountain climbing into her 70s, scaling Japan’s 3,067-metre Mount Ontake – in sneakers. A Japanese woman aged 116 is set to be named the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records. The United States-based Gerontology Research Group announced on Wednesday that ...

Ukraine has launched one of its largest drone attacks on Moscow, as it presses on with a major incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Russian authorities said. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday that air defence forces shot down 11 drones over Moscow and its surrounding region, ...

When Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee for President in July after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race, nearly the entire party quickly came together to endorse her campaign. But the Vermont independent senator who caucuses with the Democrats, Bernie ...

Top US diplomat Antony Blinken met Egypt's president Tuesday for talks about a Gaza ceasefire after saying Israel had accepted a US "bridging proposal" for a deal and urging Hamas to do the same. The Palestinian group said it was "keen to reach a ceasefire" agreement but protested US ...

Chicago, Illinois – United States President Joe Biden’s send-off speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was often interrupted by adoring chants of “Thank you, Joe.” But outside the convention halls on Monday, thousands of protesters held signs accusing Biden of war crimes ...

Former US president lays out what’s at stake and why Harris-Walz should lead the country. Former United States President Barack Obama has taken to the stage of the Democratic National Convention in a show of support for Kamala Harris in her 11th-hour bid to become the country’s next ...

On August 5, the government of Mali announced its decision to cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine, citing a Ukrainian official’s boastful admission that Kyiv provided Malian rebels with crucial intel for a rebel assault that killed many Russian Wagner Group mercenaries and Malian soldiers. The ...

United States President Joe Biden has delivered the keynote address on the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, effectively passing the baton to his vice president and party nominee, Kamala Harris. “Are you ready to vote for freedom? Are you ready to vote for democracy ...

Medical source says ‘entire health sector has collapsed’ as Israeli air attacks kill Palestinians across the Gaza Strip. Israeli air strikes have killed at least 35 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, medical sources tell Al Jazeera, as hospitals warn that children are at a risk of ...

Chicago, Illinois – Rich Barnes says that opposing Israel’s war in Gaza is not a complicated issue. “Are we for mass murdering babies, or are we against it? To me, it’s a pretty simple equation,” he said, holding Palestinian and Irish flags near the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in ...

UN office warns that a record number of aid workers were killed in 2023 and fears further grim milestones could be set as wars rage. More than half of the 280 aid workers killed worldwide in 2023 died during the first three months of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the United ...

The Democratic Party kicks off its convention this week in Chicago with its candidate for President as the favorite to win in November. It’s a remarkable turnaround from when former President Donald Trump entered the Republican National Convention a month ago, with the betting odds in his favor ...