At least 16 people were reportedly killed in clashes with suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in eastern Congo, an official said on Tuesday. Interim Town Mayor Bakwanamaha Modeste said the clashes, which began on Monday night in the town of Beni, left 13 civilians, two military personnel and a rebel dead. “We regret the […]
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Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigeria’s permanent representative to the United Nations, has emerged president of the 74th UN general assembly. Muhammad-Bande, sole candidate for the position, emerged through acclamation at the 87th plenary meeting of the Assembly in New York on Tuesday. He is the second Nigerian to hold the office after Joseph Garba, a retired military […]
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President Donald Trump of the United States, has denied calling the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, “nasty” despite the comments being recorded. “I never called Meghan Markle ‘nasty’,” he tweeted on Sunday, adding: “Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold!” President Trump made his remarks about the Duchess in a […]
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Most applicants for the United States’ visa will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules. The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years’ worth of email addresses and phone numbers. When proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people […]
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The University of Alberta will confer an honorary doctorate of science degree on Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (https://www.AfDB.org/en/), at its convocation event on June 4 in Edmonton, Canada Dr. Adesina is a globally renowned leader who has dedicated his life to lifting millions of people out of poverty. For […]
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The United Nations received 37 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse against its personnel in the first quarter of 2019, according to one of its spokespersons. Mr Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the organisation, disclosed this at a news conference in New York on Thursday. The alleged offenders, according to Haq, include […]
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The man who was filmed setting himself on fire near the White House has died in hospital after he suffered burns to 85%of his body. Arnav Gupta, 33, was filmed engulfed in flames in the Ellipse park, just south of the president’s Washington DC home on Wednesday. He burned for some seconds before Secret Service […]
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The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday adopted a resolution declaring Aug. 22 as International Day for Commemorating Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that UNGA adopted the resolution, tagged A/73/L85, by consensus at its 85th plenary meeting in New York. Poland drafted the proposal […]
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A package blast on a pedestrian street in the heart of France’s city of Lyon wounded several people Friday, officials said, just two days ahead of the country’s hotly contested European Parliament elections. President Emmanuel Macron called the blast an “attack” during a live Facebook interview, adding that no deaths had been reported “for the […]
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Facebook on Thursday said it disabled over three billion fake accounts between September and March as part of an effort to enforce content standards. The social networking platform said it disabled 1.2 billion fake accounts in the fourth quarter of 2018 and 2.19 billion in the first quarter of this year. The company also said […]
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