•Trump The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial has fined him 1,000 dollars (nearly £800) for violating his gag order – and sternly warned the former president that additional violation could result in jail time. The fine marks the second sanction for Trump for inflammatory comments about witnesses since the start of the [&hell...
•Israeli Army The Israeli army today carried out airstrikes on areas in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, said Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses. Sources and eyewitnesses told our correspondent that Israeli airstrikes created fire belts in the vicinity of Gaza Airport and on the outskirts of the Al-Salam neighborhood, east ...
•Britain (UK) flag, The Union Jack The United kingdom (UK) says only international students coming in for their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) studies were eligible to bring in dependants to the country. Dr. Richard Montgomery, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria made this known in an interview yesterday in Abuja, reports NAN He said the [&he...
•Re-elected Mayor of London Sadiq Khan London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday secured a record third term, dealing the Conservatives another damaging defeat in their worst local election results in recent memory months before an expected general election. Khan, 53, easily beat Tory challenger Susan Hall to scupper largely forlorn Tory hope...
•Biden and Trump US President Joe Biden took pointed digs at election rival Donald Trump yesterday as he awarded the country’s top civilian honour to Democratic allies, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Al Gore. Biden said the veteran Pelosi had “defended democracy” during the January 6, 2021, assault on the US [&h...
•Turkish President, Recep Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu Turkey said yesterday it was suspending all trade with Israel until it allows aid to enter Gaza unhindered during its offensive against Hamas militants in the territory. “Exports and imports to and from Israel have been suspended,” the trade ministry said i...
•Kenya floods The death toll from flood-related incidents in Kenya has crossed 200 since March, the interior ministry said today, as a cyclone barrelled towards the Tanzanian coast. Torrential rains have lashed much of East Africa, triggering flooding and landslides that have destroyed crops, swallowed homes, and displaced hundreds of thousand...
•Britain’s main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (C), flanked by partymen Britain’s ruling Conservatives lost a parliamentary seat to the main Labour opposition today, as the country awaited local election results likely to pile more pressure on embattled leader Rishi Sunak. Labour seized the constituency of Blackpool South, ...
•Trump Donald Trump was facing a backlash today after declining to pledge he will accept the results of the 2024 presidential election if he loses, as he repeated his false claims that he was cheated in the 2020 vote. “If everything’s honest, I’d gladly accept the results,” the Republican former president told the Milwaukee Journal […]...
•A car is stranded on a flooded street in Dubai today Schools and many offices were closed across the United Arab Emirates today as heavy rains returned to the desert country just two weeks after record downpours that experts linked to climate change. A lightning storm with high winds swept across the oil-rich monarchy […]