Extreme heat has caused several deaths in Australia especially across the states in Victoria on Friday, as five of the eight states and territories sweltered above 40 degrees Celsius, emergency services has said. Since Thursday, emergency workers responded to more than 30 cardiac arrest calls, a significant spike, and several of them had died, Ambulance […]
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Not less than five persons were killed and many wounded Thursday by Storm ‘Friederike’, Germany’s heaviest, in 11 years, the German Press Agency (DPA) reported in an update. The storm swept across Germany from the west. German Weather Service said it is the heaviest storm since 2007. It brought powerful winds, heavy rain and snowfall […]
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Theresa May, British Prime Minister, on Wednesday appointed Tracey Crouch as the country’s minister for loneliness. Crouch is the current junior minister for sport and civil society. May said: “I want to confront this challenge for our society and for all of us to take action to address the loneliness endured by the elderly, by […]
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The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has appointed retired Lt.-Gen. Chikadibia Obiakor of Nigeria to lead a special investigation into the killing of some Burundian refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mr Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General in New York announced this in a statement issued in New […]
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Following the outrage of the international community over the comment of U.S. President, Donald Trump, wherein he called countries in Latin America and Africa Shithole countries, the president on Tuesday made a u-turn by saying he wants immigrants from around the world. “I want them to come in from everywhere,” he told reporters at the […]
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President Adama Barrow of The Gambia during a joint press conference with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, praised the latter for his leadership role in the stabilisation of African countries. The 51-year-old Gambian president said that President Buhari played the role of a game-changer in Gambian politics as his contributions helped to ensure political stability, […]
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China’s economy exceeded its annual growth target in 2017, overcoming the government’s battles against massive debt and pollution-spewing factories. AFP reported that the world’s second largest economy expanded 6.8 per cent in 2017, much better than the official target of around 6.5 per cent. According to the poll of 11 financial experts, the growth is […]
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A diamond thought to be the fifth largest of gem quality ever found has been discovered in Lesotho, miner Gem Diamonds said Monday, and could be worth as much as $40 million. The company unearthed the D-colour stone at the Letseng mine in the landlocked southern African country and described the 910-carat find as of […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has summoned United States ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, over Donald Trump’s usage of “shithole countries” to describe African nations. Trump is reported to have questioned why the US would want to have immigrants from “shithole countries” such as Haiti and African nations. Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, is scheduled […]
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Africans in the diaspora would join Haitians, and El-Salvadorians in rallies to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged racist remarks. The rallies would begin on Monday in major cities, including New Jersey, Atlanta, Houston. He was reported to have branded Haiti, El Salvador and unspecified African nations as “shithole countries”. The organisers of the […]
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