INTERNATIONAL

Israel has agreed to daily four-hour pauses in northern Gaza to let civilians flee, the White House said Thursday, even as President Joe Biden said there was no chance of a full ceasefire. Biden has been pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for…

Amidst fresh request for the extradition of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, over alleged $2.5 billion fraud, a Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Monday, adjourned to November 2025 its hearing of bribery allegations said to have been committed in…

FIFA on Monday imposed a three-year ban on former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales after his forced kiss on the lips of World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso shocked the world of football. World football’s governing body provisionally suspended Rubiales for 90 days following…

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York fined the former US president $10,000 on Wednesday for violating an order not to criticize court staff. Judge Arthur Engoron imposed the fine — Trump’s second — after determining that comments…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he had canceled a plan to visit Israel in light of the ongoing Gaza conflict. At the Justice and Development (AK) Party's parliamentary group meeting in Ankara, Erdogan said that before Oct. 7, when…

A Zimbabwean pastor of the United Methodist Church (UMC), Reverend Oscar Mukahanana, has taken his own life after an audio recording of his sexual encounter with a young woman from his church was leaked on a WhatsApp group. The reverend who was the…

England World Cup winner and Manchester United great Bobby Charlton, described by the club as a “giant of the game”, has died at the age of 86, it was announced on Saturday. Charlton was a key member of England’s victorious 1966 World Cup…

Medical authorities in the United Kingdom (UK) have suspended a Nigerian doctor, Ewere Onyekpe, for having a sexual relationship with a patient including in a hospital’s toilet. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal of the General Medical Council (MPT of the GMC) –…

US President Joe Biden urgently requested Friday military aid for Ukraine and Israel in a massive $106 billion national security package, but Republican paralysis in Congress means it hit an immediate wall. Biden’s demand came a day after he drew a direct link…