INTERNATIONAL

The Justice Department of the United States has announced the final resolution of two civil cases seeking the forfeiture of various luxury assets that were the proceeds of foreign corruption offenses and were laundered in and through the United States. Documents from the…

A US judge has ordered former vice president Mike Pence to testify about his conversations with Donald Trump leading up to the 2021 assault on the Capitol, multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday. Washington’s Chief Judge James Boasberg reportedly ruled that Pence should have to provide…

Amnesty International has spoken out amid human rights violations in Nigeria, including terrorist attacks by Boko Haram, extrajudicial killings, torture, banditry, and arbitrary detentions. The international non-governmental organisation stated this in an annual report titled ‘Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the…

A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school in Nashville on Monday, before being shot dead by police. Chief of Police John Drake named the…

Scotland’s parliament is set to confirm Humza Yousaf as the new first minister on Tuesday, after he narrowly won the contest to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as Scottish National Party leader. Yousaf beat two SNP rivals on Monday to clinch the party’s top job,…

Pope Francis on Saturday extended a 2019 law to fight sexual abuse in the Church by making lay Catholic leaders responsible for acts committed under their watch in Vatican-approved bodies. A letter, directly sent by the pontiff, also said that vulnerable adults can…

The United Kingdom has said the mission is working on the list of those it will slam with visa ban. It also said the mission had between five and 10  names on its list already, adding that more would still be added. The Deputy…

The brother of separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, on Thursday, lost a legal challenge against the British government about his continued detention in Nigeria. Kingsley Kanu brought a judicial review of London’s alleged refusal to officially acknowledge that Nnamdi Kanu was the victim of…

The British parliament has cited the need for cybersecurity to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from all parliamentary devices and the wider parliamentary network. “Following the government’s decision to ban TikTok from government devices, the commissions of both the House of Commons…