•President Joe Biden US President Joe Biden has confused a European leader with a dead predecessor for the second time in a week, telling a campaign event he met Helmut Kohl four years after the German chancellor passed away. The 81-year-old’s gaffe late yesterday came days after he said he had spoken to long-dead French […]
•Secondhand clothes It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana’s capital Accra. Finally, their catch emerges — a colossal barracuda and a less welcome bounty of bundles of discarded clothing. Where once nets teemed with fish, they are […]
•Late Chilean former President Sebastian Pinera Chile’s former president Sebastian Pinera, a billionaire tycoon who twice held the South American nation’s top job, died yesterday in a helicopter crash, his office said in a statement. “It is with deep regret that we announce the death of the former president of the Republic of Chile,” said [&he...
•Donald Trump Donald Trump has no immunity from prosecution as a former president and can be tried on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, a federal appeals court said today in a landmark ruling. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Trump’s claim that […]
•Prince Harry King Charles III’s estranged son Prince Harry was reportedly flying back to London today, raising hopes of a family reconciliation after his father’s diagnosis of cancer which doctors “caught early”. Harry, who now lives in California with his actress wife Meghan and their children, has been at war with his family since quitting ...
•Self-proclaimed pastor, Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (C) A Kenyan court today charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who has already been charged with terrorism, manslaughter as well...
Canada is one of the most popular study destinations for international students but it has issued some new rules for 2024 student visa. If you are actively planning to study in Canada, you should be aware that the Canadian government has recently announced some changes to the study permit. The new rules also affect the […]
•US Secretary of State Antony Blinken US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia today for another Middle East crisis tour, hoping to secure a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war as Gaza saw no let-up in fighting. On his fifth trip to the region since Hamas’s October 7 attack that triggered the […]
•President Cyril Ramaphosa The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), welcomes the final decision taken by the South African Minister of Agriculture Ms Thoko Didiza, in terms of section 19 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Act of 1997, to uphold the October 2021 decision of the Executive Council (EC) that the risk assessment framewor...
•Late President Hage Geingob Namibia’s President, Hage Geingob is dead. A presidential release today confirmed his demise. Geingob, who was serving his second term as president, revealed last month that he was receiving treatment for cancer. He was 82. “It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage […]...

