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Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has rejected the UAE-Israel deal.While disclosing this in a statement on Thursday August 13, 2020, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Abba’s senior adviser, said the Palestinian leadership rejected and denounced the…

Britain's Royal Air Force in response to the increasing number of immigrant crossing from France, on Wednesday August 12, 2020, sent a maritime patrol aircraft as a support to border control operations in the English Channel.In recent…

A Missouri federal judge said on Wednesday August 12, 2020, that business owners such as hair salons and restaurants can sue their insurance carriers for business interruption losses occasioned by coronavirus pandemic.The case, Studio 417…

After a week into the school new year in one Georgia school district, over 250 students and teachers are now quarantined as cases of Covid-19 infections among teachers and students multiply as schools resumed on Monday.According to the…

Micheal Ojo, 27, Nigerian-born basketball player and former Florida center has died of a heart attack at a hospital in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, according to Red Star Belgrade, his former team.Red Star Belgrade, in a statement on…

Letitia James, New York Attorney General, has sued the National Rifle Association, a not-for-profit organization for financial misconduct, and sought that the organization be dissolved.James in her suits against the organization on…

Brian Hook, the U.S Iran envoy, has left his post and would be replaced by Elliott Abrams, the U.S. Venezuela envoy as soon as transition period is over.Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, made the announcement on Thursday August 6,…

Grant Shapps, Britain transport minister, has said that passengers arriving Britain from Belgium, the Bahamas and Andorra would have to quarantine for 14 days as the cases of coronavirus keep rising in the country.Shapps made the…

Sixteen individuals connected with the Beirut port warehouse explosion have been detained by the Lebanese government, following Investigations into the blast that rocked the city on Tuesday claiming about 145 lives.According to a report…

Amsterdam has succumbed to the use of face mask as it ordered citizens to wear mask especially in crowded places as the cases of coronavirus hike.Sebastiaan Meijer, Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema’s said on Wednesday August 5, 2020, that…

Greece has disclosed that it would mandate mask wearing on ferries arriving on its islands from Tuesday August 4, 2020 until August 18, 2020 as cases of infection are on the rise.The new measure is a move to safeguard the country’s…

Two Republican senators have backed plan by Beijing-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok following president Trump’s threat on Friday to ban the app in the United States.Steven Mnuchin, the U.S. Treasury Secretary,…

Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House Speaker, has expressed lack confidence in Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of White House coronavirus task force.While addressing ABC news, Pelosi criticized Birx for being responsible for disinformation…

Eddie Howe has stepped down as the Bournemouth manager following talks with Bournemouth officials over the weekend after the club was relegated from Premier League.His decision to leave the club came when all efforts to keep the club in…

Iran Intelligence Ministry has said that it has arrested Jamshid Sharmahd, leader of a pro-monarchist group called Tondar, for being the brains behind a deadly bomb attack in 2008, and planning another series of attacks on the country.…

ByteDance, a Beijing-based multinational internet technology company, has finally thrown in the towel as it agreed to divest itself of a short video app called TikTok following President Trump’s threat to order ban of the app in the United…

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong leader, has postponed Hong Kong election into legislature scheduled for 6th September by a year citing surge in coronavirus infections as the reason.The decision came following disqualification of 12 pro-democracy…

The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), under the leadership of its President-General and Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, congratulates Muslims on the occasion of Eid al-Adha celebration.…

China has accused the United States of inciting new Cold War as some U.S. politicians take China as a scapegoat to boost their chance of getting elected in the U.S forthcoming November election.Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador to London…

Nepal officials have disclosed that the South Asian country would reopen Himalayan Mountains including Mount Everest to climbers in the fall season despite rise in coronavirus infections in the country.Nepal, a country of 30 million…

China has warned that the recent move by India to ban China’s business interest in India’s market would only leave the two nations wobble in loss.Following a Himalayan border clash last month, India has been making a move to sideline…

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has said that the U.K. has been able to exercise some degree of control over the spread of coronavirus infections and that the country has in recent time witnessed reduced cases of coronavirus-related…

The U.S. Attorney General, William Barr, has defended him against Democratic attack over protest.In what was his first testimony before the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee since taking office in 2019, Barr rejected accusations of…

Emilio Lozoya, 45, the former chief executive of Pemex, a Mexican state oil firm, formally called Petroleos Mexicanos, has rejected accusations on corruption charges against him and promised to disclose names behind his alleged crimes.…

The United States and Australian have held a two-day high-level talk on China on the need to uphold a global holder that would be based on rules.At the meeting held on Tuesday July 28, 2020, among U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and…

Moroccan authorities have announced the closure of eight cities in the north of the kingdom due to the rapid surge in COVID-19 cases.This was declared in a joint statement released by the Moroccan Ministries of Interior and Health on…

At a new round of talks hosted by the African Union around Ethiopia’s filling of its Blue Nile dam, Egypt and Sudan have criticized Ethiopia for unilaterally filling the dam, which it says is to generate electricity for its people.The…

Kenya has extended its nationwide curfew, earlier due to be lifted on 6th of August, for the next 30 days to curb spread of coronavirus infections.The nation’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta, confirmed this on Monday July 27, 2020, in a…

Sheikh Naim Qassem, the deputy leader of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement has ruled out any escalation of violence between the Iran-backed movement and Israel.Since last week, Israel’s frontiers with Syria and Lebanon has been…

Hassan Ali Khaire, Somalia’s Prime Minister has been stripped of his leadership role as the country’s parliament ousted him in a vote of no confidence amidst a power tussle between him and the nation’s President, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed,…