•American flag The United States Department of State has authorised the departure of non-emergency government personnel and their families from its embassy in Abuja, citing a worsening security situation across Nigeria. In an updated travel advisory issued yesterday, the department said the directive took effect from April 8, 2026, warning Ame...
•Smoke rises from the site of a US-Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, yesterday The United States and Israel hit an Iranian petrochemicals hub in the country’s southwest last night, without causing any casualties, Iranian media reported the authorities as saying. Five people had been killed in a previous strike on the site in [&hel...
Iranian officials reported damage to at least two bridges, railway infrastructure and a key highway today as part of a wave of deadly US-Israeli airstrikes on infrastructure targets. A bridge near the holy city of Qom and another carrying a railway line in the central city of Kashan were struck, according to regional officials quoted […...
•Artemis II crew members Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover As the four Artemis astronauts approached a high point of their lunar mission — getting slung around the far side of the Moon — NASA staffers crowded into Houston’s famed mission control room yesterday for a team photo. They were all smiles […]...
The US economy posted unexpectedly strong job gains in March, data showed today, in a development hailed as a win by US President Donald Trump’s administration but seen with caution by analysts. The world’s largest economy gained 178,000 jobs in March, after losing 133,000 in February, and the unemployment rate dropped by 0.1 percentage points...
•Tiger Woods Florida judge ruled yesterday that Tiger Woods can leave the United States to seek “comprehensive inpatient treatment” after his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence. Woods’s attorney, Douglas Duncan, submitted the motion to travel in Martin County Court, citing the 50-year-old golfer’s urgent need for an “intensive,...
• A trader works at his desk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Oil prices spiked and stocks sank today after Donald Trump reiterated that US forces would hammer Iran for another two to three weeks but offered no solution to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz that has crippled […]
•Venezuela’s Leader Delcy Rodriguez The United States yesterday lifted sanctions against Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, who took power after Washington ousted her predecessor Nicolas Maduro in a military operation in January. Rodriguez’s name was deleted from the “Specially Designated Nationals List,” according to a post on the...
•Soldiers The Defence Headquarters has placed troops on nationwide alert ahead of the Easter celebrations, assuring Nigerians of tightened security. The DHQ also reaffirmed that ongoing support from the United States is strengthening counter-terrorism operations, with a visible impact expected in the coming weeks. Addressing journalists during...
•Britain’s King Charles III King Charles III will visit the United States in late April, Buckingham Palace announced today, despite some calls for the trip to be cancelled or delayed amid strains over the Iran war. Confirmation of the monarch’s first state visit to the US comes at a rocky time for the so-called US-UK […]
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