•Church of Greece The powerful Church of Greece today formally announced its opposition to a bill legalising same-sex marriage and adoption that is expected to come before parliament next month. The church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, said the bill “condemns future children to grow up without a father or mother in an environment of [&hell...
•African billionaires President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has retained his position as the richest person in Africa with a net worth of $13.9 billion, in the 2024 Forbes list of 20 of Africa’s Richest billionaires released yesterday. According to Forbes, the fortunes of Africa’s wealthiest people rebounded slightly in the past 12 months,...
•Canada Visa The Canadian Government is set to impose a national cap to reduce the intake of international students into the country. According to the country’s immigration minister, Marc Miller, during an interview yesterday with CTV’s Question Period, the Canadian government will need to have a meeting with provincial governments “to make su...
•Trump in court Donald Trump’s sexual assault defamation trial was delayed after a juror reported COVID symptoms today, the eve of the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary vote. The juror in the civil case, at which Trump says he will testify, reported symptoms of fever, as did one of Trump’s lawyers who had a separate […]...
•President Joseph Boakai Joseph Boakai was sworn in today as Liberia’s president after his election victory over former football star George Weah, with the challenge of tackling poverty and corruption. The 79-year-old was sworn in for a six-year term after he narrowly beat former Ballon d’Or winner Weah in November’s run-off poll with 50.64 pe...
•Donald Trump Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination yesterday, saying he would throw his support behind frontrunner Donald Trump. In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, DeSantis said that after his second place finish last week in the Iowa caucuses he could not “ask our supporters to...
Thousands of babies have been born into conditions “beyond belief” in Gaza since the war there erupted more than three months ago. UNICEF spokeswoman, Tess Ingram, back from a recent visit to the Gaza Strip, described mothers bleeding to death. Also, one nurse had performed emergency caesarians on six dead women. Nearly 20,000 babies have [&he...
The internet went into a frenzy late yesterday over the news that one man held a joint baby shower for five different women after getting them all pregnant at the same time. Lizzy Ashliegh, a 29-year-old Brooklyn musician, took to TikTok to make the startling revelation about the unconventional event, at which she was one […]
•Boat mishap At least 10 people, including nine children, drowned when a boat capsized Thursday in western India, officials said, with a search on to find more of the missing. The incident happened in Gujarat state as students were travelling to a picnic organised by their school, reports AFP. Dozens of people joined a frantic […]
•Pastor Paul Mackenzie (center) A Kenyan court today charged the leader of a starvation cult with terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and 94 other suspects pleaded “not guilty” to charges of radicalisation, reports AFP. The cult leader was also charged with “organised crimi...
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