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At least 18 people died Thursday when a building collapsed in India’s financial capital Mumbai following heavy rains that have wreaked havoc in many parts of South Asia. A dozen others were pulled from the rubble of the four-storey residential building,...

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson and Secretary for International Development, Ms. Priti Patel, met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo following the official visit and reconfirmed the commitment of the UK government to assist Nigeria in banishing...

The UN on Thursday said at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal have been directly affected by flooding and landslides from the monsoon rains that begun in June. The monsoon, according to the UN, might continue until October. It lingers...

Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced a “major and ambitious” transformation of France’s complex labour laws aimed at tackling mass unemployment and making the country more competitive in the global market. Five decrees have been issued, containing...

The United States President Donald Trump is ready to donate $ 1 million to flood relief efforts in Texas and Louisiana after the devastation suffered by the people of Texas and Louisiana, said White House today. “He’ll pledge, proudly, $ 1 million of...

British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted she would lead the Conservative Party into the next general election, in interviews broadcast Thursday. Her announcement followed reports that she was preparing to stand down when Britain leaves the European...

Nuclear-armed North Korea has warned Tokyo against “imminent self-destruction” for siding with Washington, as tensions soar after Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan. The North set off global alarm Tuesday when it fired an intermediate-range missile...

U.S. closes down Russian consulate in San Francisco Russia has been ordered to close down its consulate in San Francisco by the US, said the U.S. State Department today. In July, Moscow had ordered the U.S. to cut its diplomatic and technical staff in...

Zambian police have arrested two men allegedly found having sex. The men, one aged 38 and the other 30 were discovered in a guesthouse in Kapiri, a town in Zambia's central province commiting the act. According to Police spokesperson, Diamond Likashi...

Reports have it that, there are over 3,000 people taken care of in Texas shelters. Director Brock Long says "we have over 230 shelters operating in Texas with over 30,000 people" with some 195,000 people have registered with the U.S. government for Harvey-related...

Indian man stabbed his mum to death, ate her heart and intestines after she refused to give him alcohol money. An Indian man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his mother to death in a fight over money, before cutting out her heart and intestines...

The FBI is searching for two women who attempted to rob a bank in the US state of Pennsylvania dressed as nuns. One of the women brandished a gun as she demanded money during the incident at a bank in the town of Tannersville on Monday. Both were wearing...

More homes in areas of west Houston have flooded but water levels in the Houston-area have crested, reducing the danger of new flooding, a county official said on Wednesday. However, Houston watershed levels crest, has been appraised to have been a means...

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that the Kremlin last year received an email from a lawyer working for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump about building a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov...

Nigerians are most law abiding, Saudi Authority says The Saudi Arabia authority has proclaimed Nigerian pilgrims as the most Law abiding in the 2017. This was made public by Alhaji Mannir Yakubu, the Katsina State Amirul-Hajj in a meeting before the state...

May in Japan to discuss trade, Brexit British Prime Minister Theresa May arrived in Japan on Wednesday to meet with counterpart Shinzo Abe and trade is at the top of her agenda.

Freedom of the press under attack by Trump: U.N. rights boss The United Nations' top human rights official says that derogatory remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about journalists could amount to incitement and embolden followers to attack certain...

South Korea’s ex-spy chief jailed for election meddling A former South Korean spy chief was jailed for four years Wednesday for leading an online smear campaign against the man who is now president, Moon Jae-In, during the 2012 election. Won Sei-Hoon,...

North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un has promised more missile flights over Japan, insisting his nuclear-armed nation’s provocative launch was a mere “curtain-raiser”, in the face of UN condemnation and US warnings of severe repercussions. The Hwasong-12 intermediate-range...

According to the Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, Abdullahi Mohammed, Five Nigerian pilgrims to this year’s hajj in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, have died.

Thousands have been rendered homeless in the wake of devastating rainstorm in Houston, Texas’ largest city, United States. Public facilities, schools and businesses have been grounded in response to Hurricane Harvey, as the tempestuous rainstorm is named....

Twenty years ago on August 31, 1997, Britain’s Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a high-speed car crash in Paris. For the next week, leading up to her spectacular funeral, Britain was plunged into an unprecedented outpouring of popular grief which shook...

Fire has engulfed the headquarters of a Sierra Leone opposition party, the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP). Mohamed Kamaraimba Mansaray, outspoken leader of the party, told a Reuters reporter that the fire was caused by a petrol bomb. He narrated that...

Pastor Joel Osteen is currently trending on the social media for cancelling services at his Houston megachurch and locking his 16,800 seat Lakewood church due to deadly floods in Texas. He was blasted after sharing a comforting words on his Twitter handle...

The American President, Donald Trump has arrived Texas today, with his wife, Melania Trump and was received by Texas governor, Greg Abbott. He traveled to the hurricane-ransacked city to commensurate with the Hurricane Harvey victims. While speaking to...