INTERNATIONAL

In a case that strikes at the heart of Israel’s national identity, South Africa formally accused the country of committing genocide against Palestinians and pleaded Thursday with the United Nations’ top court to order an immediate halt to Israeli military operations in…

An attorney who nodded off during a first degree murder trial violated a defendant’s constitutional right to counsel, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said in an opinion Thursday. “A defendant whose attorney is unconscious and thereby constructively absent for significant portions of the…

he United Kingdom (UK) chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is set to hold its congress on Saturday in London. The chairman of the chapter, Dr. Tunde Doherty, announced this while addressing reporters yesterday in Abuja after a group of the candidates picked…

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed 34-year-old education minister Gabriel Attal as the country’s new prime minister. This is in a bid to seek to breathe new life into Macron’s second mandate ahead of European parliament elections. The move will not necessarily lead to…

A Nigerian citizen, Olugbenga Lawal, has been sentenced to 10 years and one month in a US prison after orchestrating a complex money laundering scheme tied to millions in internet fraud, the United States Justice Department said in a statement on its…

Salem Bazoum, the son of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum who was toppled in a coup last year, was provisionally released on Monday, according to a Niamey military tribunal. In a court document seen by AFP, Salem Bazoum was given “provisional release” after having…

Pope Francis on Monday called for a global ban on surrogacy, saying the practice of a woman carrying another person’s child was “deplorable”. In his New Year’s address to diplomats at the Vatican, the 87-year-old pontiff said it was a “grave violation of…

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is poised to release a three-part investigative documentary outlining the alleged atrocities and sexual crimes committed by the late Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua, widely known as TB Joshua. Joshua passed away on June 5, 2021. As part of…

South Africa’s ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was released from jail on parole Friday and “is now at home”, authorities said, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world. Having served more than half…

Nigeria ranked 97 out of 153 countries in 2023 on the Competitive Industrial Performance Index, partly because of the government’s foreign exchange (FX) access restrictions and import bans, according to the World Bank. This was revealed in its latest Nigeria Development Update for…