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The United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss defended her tax cuts policy on Thursday, despite triggering market turmoil and forcing a Bank of England intervention to prevent “material risk” to the economy. “We had to take urgent action to get our economy growing,…

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California has sentenced Adedayo Akinwunmi Agbayewa to prison. The 45-year-old resident of College Park in Georgia will spend five years behind bars for an international fraud scheme. U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced the…

Police say a Kenyan lawyer facing charges at the International Criminal Court of bribing and threatening prosecution witnesses in a past ICC case against Kenya’s recently elected president has been found dead. Paul Gicheru had pleaded not guilty earlier this year to all eight…

A District Court in Western Tacoma, Washington, United States, has sentenced Abidemi Rufai, the suspended aide of the Ogun State Governor, Dayo Abiodun, to five years imprisonment for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. This was confirmed in a statement by the United…

Olubukola Ajayi, daughter of Justice Olutoyin Ipaye of Lagos State, has lost custody of her three children in Canada six years after her marriage despite her lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) claim. LGBTQIA pertains collectively to people who identify…

China's former justice minister Fu Zhenghua, who spearheaded several corruption-fighting campaigns, has been jailed for bribery. Fu pleaded guilty in July to accepting 117 million yuan ($14.7m; $16.5m) in gifts and money for personal gain. On Thursday, a court in Changchun gave…

The United States has announced sanctions against the Iranian government over its recent attacks on protesters. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of the country following the death of a young woman in the custody of the police. Last week, 22-year-old Mahsa…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi withdrew from a long-planned interview with CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, after she declined a last-minute demand to wear a head scarf. Some 40 minutes after the interview was scheduled due…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday said it has commenced investigation into the source of the outbreak Ebola in Uganda. A statement by WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti disclosed that a joint team comprising its officials and the Ugandan health…