Just days after burying his wife Barbara, who died at age 92, former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalised after an infection he contracted spread to his blood. Spokesman to the former president said on Monday that Bush was admitted to the hospital on Sunday. “President Bush was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital Sunday […]
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A university in the U.S. state of Connecticut was closed on Monday after 100 students fell ill. The affected students at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury were suffering from vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach pains. University President, John Clark, said in a statement on Monday that crews would be working to sanitise and disinfect two […]
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The United States (U.S) is set to open its Embassy in the City of Jerusalem on May 14, to coincide with Israel’s Independence Day, spokesperson of the Israeli Embassy to Russia said on Monday. In December, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and instructed the U.S. State Department […]
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Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton and husband Prince William, on Monday welcomed their third child (baby boy). The couple now has two sons and a daughter. “Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 11:01 a.m.,” a tweet from Kensington Palace revealed. “The baby weighs 8lbs 7oz. The Duke […]
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A Nigerian has been burnt to death in Rustenburg, South Africa, after his vehicle was set ablaze by yet-to-be identified people. However, the country’s North West police did not believe the incident was related to violent protests in the area this week, according to media reports on Sunday. Two vehicles were set alight in two […]
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The UN said it welcomed North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Un’s announcement that his country no longer needed nuclear weapons. The country resort to nuclear armament had heightened tension between the North Korea and South Korea. Kim said earlier on Saturday that after conducting a total of six nuclear tests since 2006, further missile tests as […]
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Prince Charles was on Friday approved as the successor to Queen Elizabeth as head of the Commonwealth at a meeting of the group’s heads of government in Windsor. There had been calls for the role to be rotated around the 53 member-states, most of which are former British territories, but in recent days the queen, […]
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South African prosecutors will charge former president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane with homicide after a 2014 car crash that left one woman dead, a spokesman said, reversing a previous decision not to do so. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) gave Duduzane Zuma a two-month deadline that expired at the end of March to make representations […]
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After 10 years in office, Cuba’s Raul Castro, 86, will retire as president on Thursday. Today the country’s after parliament proposed Miguel Diaz-Canel as his replacement, a shift that will usher in the island’s first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution. Raul Castro announced his departure several years ago and has long signalled that Diaz-Canel, […]
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Former First Lady of the United States of America, Barbara Bush, died at the age of 92 on Tuesday evening, after a series of recent hospitalisation, Spokesman for the family, Jim McGrath, said. “A former First Lady of the United States of America and relentless proponent of family literacy, Barbara Pierce Bush passed away Tuesday, […]
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