North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has brought with him his own portable toilet to Singapore ahead of the Tuesday summit with U.S. president Donald Trump. President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un are both in Singapore for their highly anticipated summit, the first of its kind between a U.S. president and a leader of […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump has departed the G7 summit in Canada en route to Singapore for the anticipated historic summit with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Un on June 12. Trump said while leaving Canada that he was going on a mission of peace for the world. He said: “I will be on a mission of […]
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An American commando was killed Friday in an attack in southern Somalia that also wounded four US military personnel along with a Somali soldier, officials said. The attack occurred in Jubaland, where a large force comprising about 800 Somali, Kenyan and US troops were working to clear a large area of Al-Qaeda-aligned Al-Shabaab fighters. The […]
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The world is less peaceful than a decade ago, mostly due to conflict in Middle East and Africa that is costing the global economy trillions of dollars, an international index showed on Wednesday. “There’s been a gradual decline in peacefulness over the last decade,” said Steve Killelea, head of the Institute for Economics and Peace […]
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NIGERIA – The minister of women affairs, Aisha Alhassan, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will govern the country forever. The minister said this on Monday after the inauguration of the Taraba state chairman at the ruling party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Alhassan also known as “Mama Taraba” expressed hope that the APC would take […]
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Former U.S. President, George H.W. Bush, 93, was discharged from a Maine hospital on Monday after a week’s treatment for low blood pressure, a family spokesman said on Twitter. Mr Bush, the oldest living former U.S. president, had been taken to Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford, Maine in late May, the Spokesman, Jim McGrath, […]
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No fewer than 17 million Africans left the continent in 2017 in search of greener pastures, a new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said. The ‘Economic Development in Africa’ report also said 5.5 million people moved to Africa from other continents while some 19 million international migrants moved within […]
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Kim Jong Un, leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and U.S. President Donald Trump are willing to hold the first-ever historic summit as scheduled in Singapore. South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday confirmed this in a nationally televised address at the presidential complex, saying both Kim and Trump wished the success […]
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Hundreds of protesters in Nicaragua have resumed their protest, blocking roads in many parts of the country, with at least eight more people killed in the last 24-hours. Unrest resumed since week-long church-mediated talks between the government and opposition to quell a month of violence broke down late on Wednesday. Hundreds of demonstrators in the […]
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the world is “one mechanical, electronic or human error away from a catastrophe that could eradicate entire cities from the map.” Guterres made this known while announcing a bold new vision for global disarmament to help eliminate nuclear arsenals and other deadly weapons warning, the world is just […]
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