INTERNATIONAL

Social media giant Meta has been fined an additional 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) for breaches of EU data protection regulations by its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, Ireland’s regulator announced Thursday. The penalty follows a 390 million euro fine for Meta-owned media platforms…

Ukraine’s interior minister and other officials were among more than a dozen people killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday near a kindergarten outside Kyiv, in a blow to the war-battered nation’s government. Ukraine did not claim direct Russian involvement, but President Volodymyr Zelensky…

The Vice President of The Gambia, Badara Alieu Joof, is dead. Announcing the death of his deputy in a tweet on Wednesday, President Adama Barrow said the sad incident took place in India. “Fellow #Gambians, it is with a heavy heart that I announce…

Head of Ethiopia's Supreme court, Meaza Ashenafi, and her deputy, Solomon Areda Waktolla “have resigned” from their position. A letter to the House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) on Tuesday did not state the reason for their resignation, local media house Addis Standard reported. The…

Two appeal court judges in London on Monday ruled that a legal challenge can be mounted against the UK government’s controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. The High Court concluded last month that the proposal, introduced to cut record numbers of…

At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when an aircraft of domestic carrier Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said. According to DailyMail, local television showed thick black smoke billowing from the crash site as…

The daughter of a former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia, has denied trafficking a homeless man, David Ukpo, into the United Kingdom to harvest his kidney for herself. Sonia Ekweremadu, 25, is charged alongside her father, mother, Beatrice Ekweremadu, and a…

Benjamin Mendy, Manchester City defender, has been cleared of six counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. The footballer was found not guilty of seven of the nine charges against him after a jury decision at the Chester Crown Court. Jurors…

The United Kingdom Court will resume hearing in the case between the federal government and an offshore firm, Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID) January 16. A high-ranking ministry official told press Friday that FG’s team of lawyers are very well prepared for the…

A Nigerian, Simon Mamoh, has sued the Director-General, Malaysia Immigration Department, Khairul Dzaimee Daud and three others N406 million for alleged unlawful detention and deportation. Mamoh has alleged that the country’s immigration department illegally detained him for 40 days before ordering his…