Category: Foreign Affairs
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Trump for the first times wears face mask in public
US President Donald Trump surprised the world by wearing a mask in public for the first time since the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Trump had previously refused to wear masks in public, although he had said he would if in a crowd and could not maintain physical distance from others. He had…
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Policeman kills four soldiers in Philippines
Philippine authorities are investigating the deaths of four soldiers shot by police in the country’s restive south, with the defence minister vowing Thursday to “get to the bottom” of the incident. The plain-clothes soldiers were in pursuit of “bomb-makers and suicide bombers” from the Abu Sayyaf militant group when they were attacked by police in…
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Italy confiscates IS-made drugs worth one billion euros
Italian police said Wednesday they had seized a 14-tonne haul of amphetamines made by the Islamic State group in Syria calling it the biggest seizure of such drugs in the world. The drug, in the form of around 84 million Captagon tablets hidden inside industrial goods within containers, was worth about one billion euros ($1.12…
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Malawian Lawyer Rejects Appointment as Justice Minister, gives shocking reason
Malawian Lawyer, Mordecai Msiska has turned down an offer to be the new Minister of Justice in President Lazarus Chakwera’s cabinet. He said it would seem like it’s a reward for helping new President Chakwera win the court case that canceled rigged elections won by his opponent. Malawi’s constitutional court ordered a new presidential election…
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BREAKING: 256 Nigerian voluntary returnees from UAE arrives MMIA at 7:40pm
BREAKING: 256 Nigerian voluntary returnees from UAE arrives MMIA at 7:40pm In fulfilment of the Federal government promise to open her airspace for voluntary returnees from any part of the world to Nigeria, the two hundred and fifty six Nigerians living in the United Arab Emirates but willing to return home in view of the…
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Niger’s Minister, Mohamed Ben Omar died of undisclosed ailments in Niamey
Niger’s Minister, Mohamed Ben Omar died of undisclosed ailments in Niamey His party, the Social Democratic Party confirmed that he died on Sunday at the main hospital of the capital Niamey. They, however, failed to disclose the cause of the death. Niger Republic has confirmed 736 cases of COVID-19 with 35 deaths. 367
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COVID-19: Schools reopens as Isreal relaxes movement restriction order
CORONAVIRUS 🇮🇱 Students enter their elementary school in Sderot as it reopens following the ease of restrictions preventing the spread of the coronavirus disease in Israel, Sunday, May 3. Israel reopened some schools on Sunday but the bid to edge back to normalcy as coronavirus concerns ease was boycotted by several municipalities and many parents…
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North Korea may produce a female Supreme leader, Kim Young Un
North Korea may produce a female Supreme leader, Kim Young Un If the news flying round about the young North Korea supreme leader, Kim Jon Un is anything to rely on, a female Supreme leader may be on the way to lead the country. The good news is she is the younger sister and closest…
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FOREIGN: We are not COVID-19 positive, we are stranded here, Nigerians in UK begs FG for evacuation,
Report by Olugbemi Raymond The stranded Nigerians resident in the UK, have expressed concern and disappointment by government failure to evacuate them from UK due to the global pandemic. They have also accused the federal government of breach of their constitutional rights in abandoning her citizens in another country during a pandemic ravaging the…