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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme on Friday for feeding millions of people from Yemen to North Korea, with...

Nigerian-born American citizen, Ayoola Ajayi, has pleaded guilty to killing a college student whom he contacted through a dating website last year. Mackenzie Lueck, a...

US President Donald Trump has voiced rare criticism of two of his  aides, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Bill Barr, less...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday evening returned to the White House from hospital, three days after he was diagnosed with the coronavirus (COVID-19). Wearing...

U.S. President Donald Trump is being treated with the antiviral drug remdesivir and is “resting comfortably” after testing positive for the coronavirus and being...

The United States of America Vice president Mike Pence and his wife Karen have tested negative for COVID-19. Pence's spokesperson, Devin O'Malley, tweeted this morning...

U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have tested positive for the coronavirus and will quarantine, he wrote on Twitter early on Friday. “Tonight,...

The first person to be cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown popularly known as the "Berlin Patient" is dead, AFP reports. He died of cancer,...

The chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has on Tuesday told Mali’s military coup leaders to hand over power to...

 U.S. President Donald Trump has alleged that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is taking performance-enhancing drugs for his public speeches. Trump said this in an...

The human rights lawyer, George Bizos, who defended Nelson Mandela on treason charges for which he escaped the death penalty, died on Wednesday at the age...

Police in the United States have shot dead another black man, who they said had a handgun but had dropped it during a violent...

At least 14 people were killed after Hurricane Laura slammed into the southern US states of Louisiana and Texas. Louisiana’s Governor John Bel Edwards confirmed...

Chadwick Boseman who played the star of Marvel's blockbuster superhero movie “Black Panther,” has died. He died of colon cancer at the age of...

Japan Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has announced his resignation from office, citing health reasons. The Japanese PM made the announcement at a press conference on...

President Donald Trump's long-term media adviser,  Kellyane Conway, has announced plans to quit the job and focus on her family. “This is completely my choice...

The President of the United States, Donald Trump's older sister has described him as a liar and a cruel person whose lack of principles...

Video app TikTok has said it will challenge in court a Trump administration crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being...

The United States has suspended military aid to Mali after a group of rebel military officers seized power and placed the West African country’s...

Embattled Mali President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has announced his resignation on live television in the early hours of Wednesday morning following a military coup. President...

The US Democrats have officially nominated former Vice President, Joe Biden, as their 2020 presidential candidate. On the Day 2 of the four-day Democratic National...

Donald Trump’s younger brother Robert has died at the age of 71. Robert was hospitalized for an undisclosed illness and died on Saturday, the US...

Ahead of the American presidential election slated for November, candidate of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, has nominated Senator Kamala Harris as his running...

The Peoples Republic of China on Friday said it had revoked the operating licence of the United States consulate in the southwestern city of...

A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck a remote part of Papua New Guinea on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or...

33-year old Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ride-hailng service company, Gokada, Fahim Saleh, has been found dead in his US apartment.  The New York...

Elvis Presley's grandson, Benjamin Keough, has died, a representative for his mother, Lisa Marie Presley, reported. Keough died in Calabasas, California and was 27 at...

Zindziswa “Zindzi” Mandela, the daughter of Nelson Mandela, the late former president of South Africa, has died in Johannesburg. Her granddaughter Ndileka Mandela confirmed the...

The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) says that the world risks another virus of the magnitude of COVID-19. The UN warned that...

Cote d'Ivore Prime Minister, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, has died at the age of 61, the country's presidency announced.  Coulibaly who had just returned from France...