Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s third richest person, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Zuckerberg, who is behind Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, surpassed Buffett on Friday when Facebook shares climbed 2.4 percent. According to the Bloomberg Index, it is the first time the three […]
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Turkey’s election body has confirmed the outright victory of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in last month’s presidential polls, saying he won almost 52.3 per cent of the vote according to final results. The publication of the final results kicked off a sequence of events that will culminate on Monday with Erdogan’s swearing-in for a second mandate with enhanced powers. […]
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The death toll in a week-long eastern Canadian heatwave has reached 54, officials said on Friday. Most of the victims linked to the “overwhelming heat” were in the Montreal area, which recorded 28 fatalities, metropolitan health authorities told AFP in an email. The other victims were reported in the southwest of the French-Canadian province, the […]
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The death toll from the heatwave in Quebec has risen to 33 in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, officials said on Thursday. Eighteen of the dead were reported in the provincial capital Montreal, according to regional public health director Mylene Drouin. She added that the majority of the victims in the […]
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The United States says it has committed more than $5.1 billion to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria through its President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The U.S. Charge d’ Affaires, David Young, said this on Thursday in Abuja at the opening of a photo exhibition to commemorate PEPFAR’s 15th Anniversary in Nigeria. “Since […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump, who recently called on OPEC producers to help reduce oil prices, has raised prices through his tweets, Iranian OPEC Governor Hossein Ardebili was quoted as saying by news agency SHANA on Thursday. “Your tweets have increased the prices by at least $10. Please stop this method,” the oil ministry news agency […]
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A heatwave in Quebec has killed at least 17 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said on Wednesday. Twelve of the dead were reported in the eastern province’s capital Montreal, said regional public health director Mylene Drouin. The Tribune newspaper said five of the deaths occurred in […]
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The police on Tuesday said seven people were wounded by a roadside bomb in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist group al Shabaab carries out frequent bombings in their bid to topple the western-backed government. The bomb had been placed at Mogadishu’s Benadir junction, police officer, Abdullahi Hussein, told Reuters. […]
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More than 200 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean from January to June, bringing the overall death toll so far this year to more than 1,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said. IOM said the tragic weekend began on Friday with two shipwrecks adding to the alarming increase in migrant deaths off Libya […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari is to attend the 31st Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Nouakchott, Mauritania, from June 30 to July 2. This information is contained in a statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday. Adesina […]
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