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South African ex-president Jacob Zuma was back in court on Monday in a fresh bid to replace the chief prosecutor in his long-running corruption trial over a 1990s arms deal. High Court judge Piet Koen last year rejected Zuma’s application to have prosecutor…

A US judge on Monday rejected plea deals from two white men convicted of murdering a Black jogger in Georgia after relatives of the victim vehemently objected to the agreements. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbour, William Bryan, were…

United Kingdom (UK) and Nigeria are holding the first meeting of their Security and Defence Partnership Dialogue in London this week. The talks, being led by UK National Security Adviser, Sir Stephen Lovegrove and Nigerian National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen. Babagana Monguno, are…

El Salvador’s government on Monday defended the country’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender, rejecting calls from the International Monetary Fund to change course. The IMF last Tuesday warned of “large risks” posed by the cryptocurrency’s volatility. “No multilateral body is going to…

Mali’s government on Monday gave the French ambassador 72 hours to leave the country over “outrageous” comments by the French authorities about its transitional government, it said in a statement read on national television. French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on…

A long-awaited trial in Burkina Faso over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is being suspended until “the restoration of the constitution”, a court said Monday, a week after a military coup. The trial of Sankara’s alleged killers was to resume…

Former Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst has died at the age of 30 after falling from her high-rise New York City apartment. Cheslie’s body was found at 7:05 a.m. Sunday 30 January on the sidewalk just outside the Orion Condominium building in Manhattan…

A professional-liability insurer had no duty to defend a North Dakota lawyer who renewed his policy in 2017 without disclosing that, months earlier, a mix-up over the scope of his representation had led to a $1 million judgment against his clients in…

The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, has suspended Burkina Faso in the aftermath of a military coup, making it the third member nation to be punished for a military takeover in only 18 months. The announcement on Friday by the Economic Community of…

Britain’s Prince Andrew has asked for a United States jury trial as he again denied Virginia Giuffre’s accusations that he sexually abused her more than two decades ago when she was 17. Giuffre, 38, sued the Duke of York last August, alleging he…