Amal Clooney on Tuesday gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, the first children for the international human rights lawyer and her movie star spouse, George Clooney. “This morning Amal and George welcomed Ella and Alexander Clooney into their lives. Ella, Alexander and Amal are all healthy, happy and doing fine,” George Clooney’s […]
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The death toll in the May 31 bomb attack in the Afghan capital has risen to 150, President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday at the start of an international security conference in Kabul. Mr. Ghani said the attack near the German embassy had not been aimed at a specific target but the whole of the […]
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According to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the European Union (EU) rejected 24 exported food products from Nigeria in 2016 for failing to meet standards. The NAFDAC spokesperson, Dr Abubakar Jimoh made the disclosure while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. According to […]
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At least Six people have been confirmed dead and some 48 injured in a terror incident in London in which three male attackers were also shot dead by police. A white van ran into pedestrians on London Bridge at about 22:00 BST on Saturday before three men got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough Market. Armed officers […]
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At least 20 people have been killed after three consecutive explosions occurred at the funeral ceremony of a protester in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials said. “Until now we don’t know if the explosions were suicide bombings or previously placed explosives,” a police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told dpa. High-ranking officials, […]
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leading the effort to bring together companies, universities and local and state government to submit a plan to the United Nations pledging to meet the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets outlined in the Paris agreement. “We’re going to do everything America would have done if it had […]
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During a press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump of the United States described the climate change agreement signed in 2015 as a “massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries”, thereby pulling the US out of it. Recall that in the buildup to his election, Trump had promised to withdraw from the deal. […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a waiver to delay relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the White House said. With this move Trump has avoided a step that would have complicated his efforts to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. During the build up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Trump […]
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The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) says an estimated 50 billion dollars leaves the shore of the continent illicitly mostly to the Western countries, every year. Mr Adeyinka Adeyemi, a senior adviser at ECA, told newsmen in New York that illicit financial flow had serious negative development impacts on the continent. Adeyemi also said […]
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The Internet Society and the African Union Commission on Wednesday unveiled a new Internet Infrastructure Security Guidelines for Africa. According to a statement by Mr Michelle Anekeya, the society’s Communications Officer, the guideline was launched at the ongoing African Internet Summit, taking place in Nairobi. He said the 3-day summit, which started on Wednesday, May […]
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