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Hurricane Irma has hit land early on Wednesday on the islands of Barbuda and Antigua and was headed for the Virgin Islands later today and then toward Puerto Rico, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm, the most powerful recorded hurricane...

President Donald Trump has prompted anguish for about 800,000 people brought illegally to the US as children by deciding to end a program shielding them from deportation. Trump also triggered swift and sweeping political consequences, by forcing Congress...

The United States President, Donald Trump, having had a meeting with Congress leaders from Democrats and Republican, has decided to follow the advice of the Democrat on whether Congress should pass an extension of the debt limit. According to the report,...

President Donald Trump agrees to support sales of new weapons to South Korea and Japan. The US president also approved that Seoul could review a joint treaty which places a cap on the development of its ballistic missiles – meaning the strike distance...

Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has said that he will not participate in the presidential election re-run slated for 17 October "without legal and constitutional guarantees". It should be recalled that the Supreme Court, last week, annulled August's...

Lesotho’s army commander was shot dead by rival officers at a military barracks Tuesday, an official told AFP, in an apparent assassination set to revive instability in the mountainous African kingdom. “The commander (Khoantle Motsomotso) has been declared...

On Tuesday, the Britain’s Foreign Minister Boris Johnson called the attention of international community to imposing more sanctions on North Korea given the country’s latest nuclear test. To the parliament, he said, “We are now pressing the Security Council...

Authorities in Ivory Coast speculated that a guard may have allowed nearly 100 inmates to escape a prison in the west African country, the latest in a string of jail breaks. “It’s incomprehensible,” Coulibaly Ouamien, deputy mayor of Katiola, where the...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has denied plan to sell Arik Air to one of the leading airlines in Africa, Ethiopian Airlines. The AMCON also denied rumours of possible sale of the troubled airline to bidders, including recent claim...

, The governnent of South Africa has promised to probe death of Nigerians. Recently, reports of how some Nigerians were tortured to death surfaced on the internet whilst some people's houses and properties were seized from them.

French court rules in five-year-old case. The French court maintains that it was an invasion of privacy the topless shots taken by paparazzi while the Duchess of Cambridge was on holiday in France. Recall that Six people, including three photographers,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday cautioned a reporter asking whether he was "disappointed" with President Donald Trump. "Your question sounds very naive," Putin said, according to The Moscow Times. "He is not my bride, neither am I his bride...

It was reported today Tuesday that human rights violations and abuses are 'continuing unabated' in Yemen. According to the UN human rights group (OHCHR), at least 5,144 civilians - including 1,184 children - were killed and more than 8,749 injured between...

Britain’s number-one opposition Labour Party has said on Tuesday that it could not vote for the government’s legislation to sever ties with the European Union unless it was amended to prevent ministers from grabbing powers from parliament. Parliament...

The powerful Hurricane Irma is likely to strengthen in the next 48 hours. Several Caribbean Island have been warned. According to National Hurricane Center (NHC), the hurricane had sustained winds of up to 220km/h(140mph) and speed of 20km/h. NHC said...

The North Korean government has issued a warning to Nigerians through their official Twitter handle @DPRK, Democratic People of the Republic of Korea. Nigerians in turn have started replying the tweet. See the tweets below,

The United States President, Donald Trump, has given the Congress six months ultimatum to review the US immigration law. The president who has been against some laws which protect some illegal immigration, seems ready to push it to the end. He has decided...

After the hurricane Harvey devastation in Texas , many Texas dwellers have resumed work on Tuesday. The storm took 60 lives and left thousands displaced since August 25. Some of the companies that have opened doors for Starting of operation include ExxonMobil,...

I Prince William And Kate expecting Third Child Prince William and his wife Kate are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace announced, adding that she would not be attending a planned engagement due to a severe form of morning sickness. The news...

UN investigators on Monday accused Burundi’s government of crimes against humanity, including executions and torture, and urged the International Criminal Court to open a case “as soon as possible”. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burundi...

I Kenya holds fresh presidential poll October 17 Kenya will hold a fresh presidential vote on October 17, the election commission said Monday, after the country’s Supreme Court overturned the result of last month’s poll won by President Uhuru Kenyatta....

The Nigeria Union in South Africa has protested the forceful takeover of a house belonging to a Nigerian Baptist missionary by South Africans in that country. The Union disclosed that the owner of the house, who did not want his name mentioned for safety,...

North Korea has become a “global threat” following its latest nuclear test, the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said. Following the North’s claim that it had tested a hydrogen bomb representing a “new dimension of threat,” Yukiya Amano, director general the...

The U.S has sent a warning message to North Korea said to be “begging for war” as a result of fears Kim Jong-un’s regime is preparing to launch a ballistic missile. Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, on Monday afternoon told an emergency...

On Sunday, September 3, the mother of a 14 year-old girl from Takuatung, Phang Nga, Thailand reported to Kokloy Police that her daughter had been raped by 40 men from the same village repeatedly from May to October 2016. Three men have been charged over...