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Not more than four months that the French President, Emmanuel Marcon won the presidential election through massive votes accrued to him, French voters are now becoming dissatisfied with Macron's performance. A poll was conducted by Ifop for newspaper...

US President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the military not to move forward with an Obama-era plan that would have allowed transgender individuals to be recruited into the armed forces, in furtherance of his policy of banning transgender in the military....

The British Airways has called in the U. K government to address the issue of long queues in the airport. The British Airways called on UK border authorities to attend to the "serious inefficiencies" causing delays at the airport immigration control ahead...

Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast late Friday, unleashing torrents of rain and packing powerful winds, the first major storm to hit the US mainland in 12 years. The storm roared ashore at the town of Rockport — near Corpus Christi, a major...

North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles Saturday, the US military said, reviving tensions with Washington after President Donald Trump had said Pyongyang was starting to show some “respect”. The launches come as tens of thousands of South...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday compared the defeat of last year’s attempted coup against his rule to key events in the country’s history, including a 1071 triumph by Turkic tribes over the Byzantines in Anatolia. Erdogan has in recent...

A great atmosphere with money-related belt on the scene, At the final Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather news conference, World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman introduced the “Money Belt,” a new custom, blinged-out title that will be presented...

1 The Trump administration imposed new economic sanctions on Venezuela on Friday, in the light of dousing the powers of President Nicolás Maduro for increasingly repressive policies. The sanctions restrict trading of Venezuelan bonds sold by the government...

At least 22 people were killed Friday when clashes broke out in northern India after a court convicted a controversial religious leader of raping two of his followers, sparking fury among tens of thousands of supporters who had gathered to await the verdict....

Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe appeared in public for the first time on Friday since she returned from South Africa where she was accused of assaulting a model and granted diplomatic immunity. The wife of President Robert Mugabe allegedly attacked...

The Philippines’ labour department on Friday issued an order banning private companies from compulsorily demanding female employees to wear high-heeled shoes at work. This was as a result of the observation that the compulsion of high heels shoes often...

A bribery scandal that engulfed South Korean president has claimed a major business scalp after a court sentenced Lee Jae-Yong, the acting chairman of Samsung, to five years in prison for offering bribe. The billionaire, who is South Korea’s third-richest...

Qatar’s foreign ministry said it was closing Chad’s embassy in Doha and ordered all staff to leave the emirate within three days, announced today. The retaliatory move came just 24 hours after the central African state announced it was closing Qatar’s...

A 72-year-old grandmother of six simply known as Angela has cried out on social media after her Nigerian sweetheart, Nwachukwu was denied visa several times. Devastated Angela said: “CJ is the most caring man any woman could want to be with. He makes...

Zambian police on Thursday barred entry to the capital’s cathedral where opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema had been due to make his first public appearance since being freed from jail. Hichilema was released last week after four months in custody on...

President Donald Trump’s administration is set to deliver the Pentagon guidance in coming days on how to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military. Trump last month deployed a series of tweets that upended an Obama-era policy of...

An armed gang freed 20 prisoners in South Africa by ambushing a police truck transporting them from court back to their cells, authorities said on Wednesday. During the incident, which occurred at south of Johannesburg on Tuesday, a group of men armed...

Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a “creep” in her new memoir and describes how the now-president’s behavior during one of their debates made her skin crawl, according to excerpts released Wednesday. “We were on a small stage and no matter where I walked,...

1 A day of noisy but largely peaceful protests of President Donald Trump's speech in Phoenix turned unruly as police fired pepper spray at crowds after someone apparently lobbed rocks and bottles at officers. A cloudy haze enveloped the night sky on Tuesday...

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, on Tuesday, reminded Nigerians that it was no longer in the business of issuing them visas. The Embassy's Charge d’ Affaires, Mr Michel Deleen, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the...

Rescuers on the Italian holiday island of Ischia pulled the last trapped child from rubble today after a magnitude-4.0 earthquake toppled buildings and left two dead. Firefighters dug with their bare hands to reach 11-year old Ciro, the last of three...

America and North Korea yet again clash in a UN conference on Tuesday. Pyongyang which was represented by its diplomat, Ju Yong Chol, while Washington DC which was represented by U. S disarmament ambassador, Robert Wood both disagreed on the nuclear weapons...

1 The Saudi Arabian government has apologized to the government and people of Nigeria over the assault of two Nasarawa State Pilgrims by Customs officials at Prince Muhammad Bn Abdulaziz Airport in Madinah on Wednesday. Audu Muhammad and Ibrahim Godi...

The Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani has said that protecting nuclear deal from being torn up by America is his government's top priority. Rouhani who has suffered sanctions from America and its allies because of his penchant for nuclear weapons disclosed...

Syrian capital was reportedly hit by a rocket today Sunday. The rocket was said to hit one of the leading Syrian economic source. The rocket hit Syrian international trade fair, after it was opened in the last five years. The rocket attack led to death...