Ex-Super Eagles coach, Rohr Pens Three-year Contract With Benin Republic
Gernot Rohr, a former head coach of the Super Eagles, has agreed to a three-year contract to lead the Benin Republic national team. Rohr will reportedly be introduced by the Benin Football Federation at a news conference on Friday, according to La Nouvelle Tribune. Former Benin international Moussa Latoundji, who has been temporarily in command of the Squirrels, will hand the...
Russia Apprehend Woman For Detonating Bomb On Railway
Russia’s FSB security service said on Tuesday it had arrested a woman in her fifties accused of detonating explosives in a bid to sabotage the Trans-Siberian Railway. The suspect was allegedly working on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence, the FSB said, in the latest incident of alleged covert activity during the countries’ conflict. “In August 2025, following the instructions provided by the...
Russia Bans Facebook, Instagram
Russia has banned Facebook and Instagram after a court labelled their parent company Meta an 'extremist organisation'. Moscow's Tverskoi District Court upheld a lawsuit filed by Russian state prosecutors on banning the activities of Meta on Russian territory, the court's press service said in a statement. However, the decision will not apply to the company's WhatsApp messaging service as the court...
11 Dead After Indonesia Boat Capsizes
A passenger boat carrying dozens of people capsized in western Indonesia, killing eleven people, an official reported on Friday. After the accident off the coast of western Riau province on Thursday afternoon, rescuers found 62 survivors and mostly found the bodies of women and children, according to a statement from the local search and rescue agency official Kukuh Widodo. “The capsized...
Microsoft To Acquire US Gaming Giant Activision-Blizzard For $69bn
Microsoft announced Tuesday a landmark $69 billion deal to purchase US gaming giant Activision Blizzard, grabbing the sex harassment scandal-hit firm as the tech colossus seeks to boost its power in video games. Merging with troubled Activision will make Microsoft the third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony, it said, a major shift in the booming world of games. “This acquisition will...
Monkeypox Not As Concerning As Corona Virus – President Biden
President Biden on Monday said he doesn't believe an outbreak of monkeypox is as risky as the Covid-19 pandemic, tempering comments he made a day earlier that people should be "concerned." "We have had this monkeypox in large numbers in the past. W...
Zelensky: Kyiv Ready For Prisoner Exchange With Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Kyiv is ready for a prisoner exchange with Russia "even tomorrow," as he called on allies to continue to put pressure on Moscow. "The exchange of people — this is a humanitarian matter today and a ver...
One Dead In New York City Multi-Storey Car Park Collapse
One person has died and five others were injured when a multi-story car park partially collapsed in New York City, officials say. The second floor of the four-story structure in Manhattan's Financial District collapsed first, reports CBS, the BBC's US partner. Authorities said all the workers in the building have been accounted for. A video posted online shows cars and debris stacked...
George Floyd Killing: Rioters Set Third Minneapolis Police Station On Fire
The Third Precinct police station in Minneapolis was set ablaze on Thursday night as violent protests, rioters continued in the city and other cities across the U.S, following Monday's killing of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died after pleading for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck over a long period of time while...
Any Negotiations With Russia Are “Suspended” Because Of Moscow’s Mindset, Ukrainian Official Says
Negotiations with Russia on resolving the conflict have been suspended, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. It was because "Russia is still in its stereotypical mindset," he said on Ukrainian television Tuesday, adding that...
