A divided US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump to freeze some $2 billion in foreign aid payments.
The court, in its first significant ruling on a legal challenge to Trump, voted 5-4 to uphold a lower court…
China’s defence spending will rise by 7.2 percent in 2025, the same as last year, Beijing said on Wednesday, as its armed forces undergo rapid modernisation and eye deepening strategic competition with the United States.
The country’s expenditure on its armed forces has…
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he wanted to “make things right” with Donald Trump and to work under the US president’s “strong leadership” to secure a lasting peace in Ukraine.
In his first public comments since Trump halted US military aid to…
Pope Francis, hospitalised with penuemonia in both lungs, slept “all night long and continues to rest” after suffering two bouts of acute respiratory failure, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
The 88-year-old pope was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on February 14 with bronchitis,…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said it has taken steps towards launching a single regional currency by 2027.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by the FCAI, Director of Information and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Finance,…
Britain and France are working with Ukraine on plans to end the fighting with Russia, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday, as European leaders gathered for crisis talks after a blowout between Kyiv and Washington.
Speaking ahead of a summit in London with…
President Donald Trump on Saturday designated English as the official language of the United States, saying it would bring cohesion to a country characterized by immigration from around the world.
The White House published an executive order by Trump which says it is…
Israel announced Sunday that it was suspending the entry of supplies into Gaza, and threatened “consequences” for Hamas if it did not accept a proposal for a temporary extension of the truce in the Palestinian territory.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided that, from…
Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that his relations with the United States can still be repaired, after President Donald Trump shouted at him in an angry White House meltdown accusing the Ukrainian leader of refusing to make peace with Russia.
“Of course,” Zelensky said…
Senegal will summon former president Macky Sall to court after the west African country’s audit office unveiled irregularities in the treasury’s bookkeeping on his watch, a government spokesman said on Friday.
Sall is accused of having presided over a “catastrophic” mismanagement of the…
