•Former US President Joe Biden Hunter Biden has spoken about his father Joe Biden’s ongoing cancer treatment, saying the former US president’s condition has become increasingly difficult for the family to watch. Hunter said Joe Biden’s cancer had spread to his bones and described the illness as painful and debilitating, reports AFP. He made th...
•Acting US Attorney General, Todd Blanche The US Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general early today after Republican lawmakers shrugged off Democratic concerns over politicisation of the Department of Justice. Blanche, who has already been serving as the top US law enforcement officer ...
•US President Donald Trump The United States has ordered a major crackdown on birth tourism, with President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order directing federal agencies to deny visas, revoke travel authorisations and deport foreign nationals who enter the country to give birth. The order, signed on August 6, 2026, described U.S citizensh...
•Spanish-French border Spain has said that it will introduce temporary border checks on travellers from Italy as a response to Italy imposing similar measures after a mass migrant rush into Ceuta. The checks, which came on yesterday “amid the persistent irregular migration pressure” facing Italy, will start at midnight today and last until Sep...
•Monsoon floods in India Floods in India’s northeast have killed nearly 100 people, according to an official toll update today, with villages buried in mud after one of Assam state’s worst deluges in years. At least 97 people have died in the floods in Assam that have affected nearly 170,000, including thousands who have been […]
•The wife (C) of a teacher who was killed in a school shooting is led to an ambulance in Bang Kruai district, Nonthaburi province, north of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, today A teenage suspect killed his grandparents before shooting dead at least six more people at a school near Bangkok today, police said. First, he shot […]
•Prof. Akasoba Duke-Abiola The African Policy and Research Consortium (APRC), a pan-African think tank, has thrown its weight behind a Nigerian, Prof. Akasoba Duke-Abiola, vying for the office of the UN Secretary-General. The consortium is dedicated to advancing Africa’s development agenda through research, innovation and strategic partnership...
•Dr Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu-Ibrahim Widely recognised as West Africa’s first female certified neurosurgeon and Nigeria’s first female neurosurgeon trained in the country, Dr Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu-Ibrahim has been appointed Medical Director of Freeman Children’s Clinic in Joplin, Missouri, United States. Aliu-Ibrahim was appointed to the position o...
•Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Iran has said reopening the Strait of Hormus depends on the United States after President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted Tehran is keen for a deal. Iran has denied the deal and said it will instead make arrangements with its neighbour across the strait, Oman. According to state news agency [&helli...
•Women commute in cycle rickshaws through a flooded street after heavy rains in Guwahati, in India’s Assam state Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across India since July, official data showed today, with thousands forced to flee their inundated homes. While the annual monsoon brings rainfall th...
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