TikTok fans, your pleas have been heard. The social video juggernaut today announced that group chat, one of the platform’s most requested features, will finally be introduced in a new update. Group Chat will allow users to share their favorite videos, latest trends, and greatest memes with their ...

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In their first face-to-face meeting since 2021, the pair are expected to discuss Israel’s war on Gaza. The Kremlin has maintained relations with both Israel and Palestine, but experts say its ...

As the war enters its 900th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, August 13, 2024. Kursk incursion Ukraine’s army chief, Oleksandr Syrskii, said Kyiv controls about 1,000sq km (386sq miles) of the Russian region of Kursk after launching a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges reform, says the African continent is underrepresented in a changing world. The United Nations chief has called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to reform its outdated structure and assign Africa a permanent seat at the table, stressing ...

The Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi argues that Iran’s top priority is to avoid direct confrontation with the United States. Iran’s leaders have pledged “harsh punishment” of Israel after the assassination of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. But the United States has, in ...

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise abseiled from the roof of the Stade de France as Paris said farewell to an Olympic Games hailed as one of the most successful. Cruise descended on a wire in front of 71,500 spectators on Sunday evening, grabbed the Olympic flag and jumped on a motorbike, to the ...

In the midst of their revelry, festival-goers in California unwittingly kicked up the invisible spores of a dangerous fungus while dancing in the dust. Floating in the air, the soil pathogen surreptitiously slipped into the lungs of at least five attendees at the Buena Vista "Lightning in ...

As the war enters its 899th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 12, 2024. Fighting Officials in the Russian city of Kursk said that 13 people were injured after debris from a destroyed Ukrainian missile fell on a nine-storey residential ...

In his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race, US President Joe Biden has told broadcaster CBS that he made the decision in order to maintain democracy in the United States. Speaking on the CBS News Sunday Morning programme, Biden said: “The polls we had showed that it ...

Claim comes amid reports of foreign efforts to interfere in US presidential election. US presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused Iran of hacking his campaign. The Republican nominee’s campaign team issued a statement late on Saturday claiming that the Iranian government ...

By Francis Ugwu Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has alleged that Facebook can never be trusted. Musk’s statement comes after a UK biologist and writer, Richard Dawkins complained that his entire Facebook account was deleted. “Facebook aka “Meta” can never be trusted,” Musk posted on X on ...

Civil defence teams are working to recover bodies of 58 passengers, four crew killed in fiery crash in Sao Paulo state. Authorities in Brazil are working to determine what caused a plane to crash in Sao Paulo state, killing all 62 people on board in one of the worst aviation incidents ...

As the war enters its 897th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 10, 2024. Fighting A Russian missile struck a supermarket in the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in the front-line Donetsk region, killing at least 14 people and injuring ...

Part of the military aid package will go to an Israeli army unit accused of serious rights abuses of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The United States will send an additional $3.5bn to Israel to spend on US-made weapons and military equipment, the Department of State has said, as ...

Israel carries out deadly air raid in Sidon, deep inside south Lebanon, amid intensifying regional tensions. Israel has stepped up its attacks in Lebanon, killing a Hamas official in the coastal city of Sidon, as the region continues to anticipate Hezbollah’s retaliation for the ...

A Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region – the largest since the war began with about 1,000 soldiers and more than two dozen tanks and other armoured vehicles storming over the border this week – poses a threat to a major gas supply line from Russia to the European Union. While it ...

Drying blood was smeared across a billboard advertising electronics, and black smoke billowed over the tangled metal remains of a supermarket after a Russian strike tore into Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine. Anya Alyabieva was dozing off in her shop, which sells hardware and military accessories ...

Golden day in Paris for Southeast Asian nation as speed climber Veddriq Leonardo and weightlifter Rizki Juniansyah win. Speed climber Veddriq Leonardo has handed Indonesia its first Olympic gold outside badminton after sprinting up a 15-metre wall to beat his Chinese rival by just ...

FTX has committed to a bankruptcy liquidation that will repay customers whose deposits were locked during its late 2022 collapse. A United States court has ordered bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay $12.7bn in relief to its customers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ...

Large crowd of supporters turns up to greet politician in Barcelona after seven years of self-imposed exile in Belgium. Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Spain after seven years of self-imposed exile and despite a pending warrant for his arrest. He appeared ...

By Matthew Atungwu Republican candidate, ex-US President, Donald Trump, has announced a short-notice media event at his Florida resort as rumblings of discontent hit his presidential campaign and poll numbers surged for his election rival Kamala Harris. Trump announced this in a one-sentence post ...

Barely a week after President Joe Biden dropped out from the US presidential race, his deputy Kamala Harris emerged as the top contender to get the Democratic nomination following a string of endorsements from senior party leaders, including former President Barack Obama. Other prominent ...

Washington, DC – In the United States political circles, conventional wisdom dictates that voters only care about the candidate atop the presidential ticket, not the running mate. While vice presidential picks can play a role in public opinion, voters cast ballots mostly for the headliners ...

By Francis Ugwu Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has attacked United States Vice President Kamala Harris. Musk said Harris is ‘literally a communist’. In a post on his X handle on Wednesday, Musk said Harris wants not only merely equal opportunity but equal outcomes. He said: “Kamala is quite ...

Abortion was slightly more common across the U.S. in the first three months of this year than it was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for states to implement bans, a report released Wednesday found. A major reason for the increase is that some ...

By Matthew Atungwu United States Vice President, Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate in the November Presidential election. Harris will face-off against Republican, ex-President Donald Trump. The 60-year-old Walz emerged as a dark horse contender and has ...

President of the Balkan nation expected to call for new vote after three parties fail to garner enough support to govern. Bulgaria is heading for its seventh parliamentary elections in three years after the last of three political parties tapped by President Rumen Radev to form a ...

Sheikh Hasina’s departure appears to have defused the high tension in Dhaka, where more deadly protests were feared on Monday. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reportedly resigned and fled the country in the face of ongoing protests. The longtime leader of the country has ...

The unexpected rise in the unemployment rate in the United States has left economists divided: Is the US on the brink of a recession or not? The unemployment rate jumped to a nearly three-year high of 4.3 percent in July, as per data released Friday. The increase – up from 4.1 percent in ...

Around this time, Shahid started working as a police officer while his eldest brother joined the army. They urged Nadeem to pursue javelin throwing. “He has always been a shy, quiet person who often keeps to himself. We both knew that he liked the sport but never spoke about it publicly,” ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned the far right for the unrest and backed police to take strong action. Far-right protesters have clashed with police at several rallies as unrest linked to misinformation about the murder of three young girls in a stabbing attack spread across ...

As the war enters its 890th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 3, 2024. Fighting Ukraine’s military says it attacked overnight Russia’s Morozovsk airfield and a number of oil depots and fuel storage facilities in the Russian regions of ...

Pentagon announces deployment as tensions build between Iran and Israel after the high-profile Haniyeh assassination. The United States military has announced the deployment of additional resources to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, amid growing concerns about the ...

The political opposition in Venezuela has called for more mass demonstrations as anger continues to boil over President Nicolas Maduro’s disputed election victory. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado urged Venezuelans to take to the streets on Saturday in protest of Maduro’s ...

Top government official accused US-based company of blocking condolence posts on killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey has blocked access to Instagram, the national communications authority said, after a top government official slammed the social media platform for “censoring” ...

US chip maker to cut 15 percent of workforce as part of efforts to cut costs by $10bn in 2025. Chipmaker Intel has announced plans to slash more than 15 percent of its workforce as it tries to make up ground on rivals such as Nvidia and AMD. Under the restructuring plan announced on ...

CARACAS — The stakes grew higher for Venezuela’s electoral authority to show proof backing its decision to declare President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the country’s presidential election after the United States on Thursday recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González as the victor, ...

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan describes the disaster as ‘one of the worst’ the southern Indian state has ever witnessed. Hopes of finding more than 180 missing people alive in India’s Kerala state waned as rescue workers continued to search through mud and debris after landslides set ...

Bhaker became India’s first-ever multi-medallist at an Olympics by winning her second bronze on a hot day in Paris. Great Britain’s Nathan Hales clinched the men’s trap gold at the Paris Games with a new Olympic record, while the Serbian pair of Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec ...

Israel has carried out an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, an Israeli military spokesperson said. The Israeli army said that the attack on Tuesday was in retaliation for an attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday that killed 12 ...

Texas announced a massive settlement with Meta over the use of facial recognition on Facebook, resolving a lawsuit filed in 2022 claiming that the “Tag Suggestions” feature on photos uploaded to Facebook violated the state’s Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI) Act and Deceptive Trade ...

A city in Southern California has become the first in the nation to replace its police patrol cars with electric vehicles, officials announced Monday, unveiling a fleet of 20 new Teslas. South Pasadena on the edge of Los Angeles will replace its gas-guzzling police cruisers with the Teslas ...

Heavy rain hinders rescue efforts after landslides struck the hilly Wayanad district while people were sleeping. At least 10 people are thought to have been killed with hundreds feared trapped after a series of landslides triggered by relentless rain struck a hilly region of India’s ...

Jacob Zuma, who once led the African National Congress (ANC), has been accused of campaigning to dislodge it from power. Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) after he backed a rival party in May’s parliamentary ...

The strike follows a bloody weekend rocket attack on the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, blamed by Israel on Hezbollah. Israeli drone attacks have reportedly killed two people in southern Lebanon as conflict spirals between the bordering states. The Israeli attack was the first ...

North Korea may be considering a nuclear test near the time the U.S. presidential election is held to raise its profile, South Korea’s defense minister said, as Kim Jong Un rolls out new warheads capable of striking the U.S. and its allies in Asia. Seoul will reach a deal with Japan and the U.S. ...

Lebanon on Sunday called for an international investigation into a strike that killed 12 people including children in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, warning against a large-scale retaliation. The Israeli military said that an Iranian-made rocket that Lebanon's Hezbollah group fired on ...

Teenager Coco Yoshizawa took the skateboarding Olympic gold medal at the historic Place de la Concorde in Paris. Japanese 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa has won women’s street skateboard gold at the Paris Olympics in an all-teenage final. Fellow Japanese contender Liz Akama took ...

As the war enters its 884th day, these are the main developments. This is where the war stands on Sunday, July 28, 2024: Fighting A 14-year-old boy was killed and 12 people wounded, six of them children, in Russian shelling in the centre of Glukhiv city in the Sumy region of ...

By Seun Opejobi The United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed on Saturday to end World War Three if elected president. The former US president spoke at a Bitcoin event in Nashville, Tennessee. He also warned that America would be crushed if its citizens failed to elect ...