•Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales Prince William returned today to official duties, visiting a food charity and youth centre, in his first public engagements since his wife Catherine revealed a shock cancer diagnosis. Heir to the throne as King Charles III’s eldest son, William, 41, has been largely out of sight since Catherine, Princ...
•UN The United Nations Security Council will vote tomorrow on the Palestinians’ application to become a full UN member state, several diplomatic sources have told our correspondent. Amid Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the Palestinians in early April revived a membership application first made to the world body in 2011, though the veto-wi...
•Late Bob Graham Bob Graham, a former US senator and two-term Democratic governor of the state of Florida, has died aged 87, his family has announced. Graham held elected office for almost four decades, beginning as a Florida state representative in 1966 until 2005 when he retired from the US Senate after his third term […]
A new Analytical Report (AR) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has fingered the European Union, China and the US as notorious disruptors of global trade using subsidies and grants as the fulcrum. The report titled, “The Return of Industry Policy,” was presented Messrs Lorenzo Rotunno and Adam Jakubik of the Strategy, Policy and Review [...
Stock markets fell and oil prices climbed today on growing fears of a wider war in the Middle East after Israel’s army chief vowed a response to Iran’s unprecedented attack on his country at the weekend. The selling came after Wall Street’s three main indexes tanked in response to forecast-beating US retail sales data that […]
•Israeli head of military, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi (L), in situational assessment meeting Israel’s army chief yesterday vowed a response to Iran’s unprecedented attack against the country which has prompted appeals for de-escalation by world leaders fearing wider conflict. Six months of war between Israel and the Palestinian militant g...
•Former US President Donald Trump attends the first day of his trial Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial opened today in a historic first for a US ex-president and a seismic twist to an already explosive 2024 presidential election where the Republican is seeking to defy multiple scandals and return to power. Lawyers for both […]
•Michael Chidozie A US-based Nigerian bodybuilder, Michael Chidozie, 26, has died 18 days after he was shot multiple times by his wife, Keaiirra Shavoiyae, in the middle of an argument on March 21. Chidozie lingered on life support, but he suffered a devastating spinal injury and died of complications on April 8, reports Daily Mail […]...
•Major Baltimore Bridge collapses after ship collision The FBI has launched a criminal probe targeting the container ship that crashed into a major road bridge in Baltimore last month, collapsing it and killing six people, US media reported today. The Washington Post described it as a “criminal investigation,” and cited two unnamed US official...
•Israeli flag Schools were set to reopen across Israel on Monday, the army announced, after they were ordered closed due to Iran’s unprecedented aerial attack over the weekend. Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones at Israeli territory on Saturday night, the vast majority of which were intercepted by Israel and its allies, the [&hell...

