WORLD

France’s prime minister on Tuesday suspended planned increases to fuel taxes for six months in response to weeks of sometimes violent protests, the first major U-turn by President Emmanuel Macron’s administration after 18 months in office.…
Read More...

A woman who used various false identities to gain access to Nigeria's presidential complex to allegedly run business scams has been arrested. The secret service said Amina Mohammed initially posed as Kogi state's first lady to gain entry…
Read More...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has denied rumours that he has died and been replaced by a lookalike. Some people thought he had been "cloned", but "it's real me, I assure you," Mr Buhari said. Rumours that he had been replaced…
Read More...

Led by associate professor Christy L. Hoffman ― aself-professed dog person (sure, go ahead, call outher blatant canine bias) ― the researcherssurveyed 962 women living across the UnitedStates. Of this sample, 55 percent reported…
Read More...

President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed to a cease-fire on trade after meeting for more than two hours Saturday after the close of the Group of 20 summit in the Argentine capital. Under the agreement, Trump won’t…
Read More...

The Nigerian Army has challenged its Special Forces to prove that they have bettertraining and tactics than terrorists by making the difference and positive impact inthe ongoing counter-terrorism operations. The Chief of Army of Staff,…
Read More...

A Dhaka court on Sunday issued a warrant for the arrest of 169 BNP leaders and activists, including its chairperson's adviser Amanullah Aman, in a violence case filed in 2017. Dhaka Senior Judicial Magistrate Kazi Md Ashrafuzzaman passed…
Read More...

George H.W. Bush, who in one term as president reasserted the U.S. as the world's lone superpower, rallying an international coalition against Iraq's Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War and presiding over the fall of the Berlin Wall and…
Read More...

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in relation to the Russia inquiry. Cohen admitted misleading lawmakers on talks during the presidential race about a Trump property deal in…
Read More...

Kenyan police have fired warning shots at anti-corruption officers to help two colleagues accused of bribery to escape from detention, Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said. The detained officers were being…
Read More...