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Joe Biden has told other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and European Union (EU) leaders that the US believes Vladimir Putin of Russia has decided to carry out an invasion of Ukraine in the next few days, according to diplomatic…

Russia has on Friday said French President Emmanuel Macron was made to sit at an enormously long table for his talks with Vladimir Putin because he refused to take COVID-19 test. According to two sources in Macron's entourage told…

French scientist Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel prize for medicine for his co-discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, has died aged 89. Jean-Christophe Fromantin, mayor of the Paris suburb where he was hospitalised said on…

Burkina Faso’s new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared president by the country’s top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday. They said the Constitutional Council on…

Liberia has approved a scheme to print new banknotes, according to an AFP journalist, in a bid to address long-running cash shortages in the West African nation. The central bank will now be empowered to print notes worth 48.7 billion…

African Union has on Monday said it had suspended Burkina Faso in response to the January 24 coup that ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. The bloc’s 15-member Peace and Security Council said on Twitter it had voted “to…

Former Miss USA winner, Cheslie Kryst has died in a suspected suicide in Manhattan on Sunday morning. Kryst, 30, who had an apartment on the ninth floor of the building on West 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan,  leaped from the high-rise…

Soldiers in Burkina Faso on Monday announced on state television that they have seized power in the West African country following a mutiny over the civilian president’s failure to contain an Islamist insurgency. A junior officer…

Mutinous troops in restive Burkina Faso have on Monday arrested President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and detained him in army barracks a day after staging an uprising, security sources told AFP. Soldiers at several army bases across the…

German former chancellor, Angela Merkel has turned down an offer of a job with the United Nations, her office said as she settles into retirement after 16 years in power. UN sources confirmed that Secretary General Antonio Guterres had…

Former Malian president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was ousted by the military in 2020 after a turbulent seven-year rule, has died at 76, officials said on Sunday. Known by his initials IBK, Keita ran the West African country from…

Queen Elizabeth II’s second son Prince Andrew, who is facing a US civil case for sexual assault, has given up his honorary military and charitable roles, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. A statement said; With The Queen’s approval…

Employees and schoolchildren juggled work and studies with weekly Muslim prayers on the first-ever working Friday in the United Arab Emirates as the Gulf country formally switched to a Saturday-Sunday weekend. Some grumbled at the…

Speaker of Tanzania’s parliament has quit after a very public falling out with President Samia Suluhu Hassan, exacerbating divisions within the ruling party. Job Ndugai, who is no stranger to controversy, had infuriated Hassan last…

Amid Omicron COVID-19 variant spreading like wildfire and leading to surge of infections across the globe, a new variant has been discovered in France, according to researchers. The variant, called B.1.640.2 and dubbed the IHU variant,…