Niger Junta Orders Police To Expel French Ambassador
The Niger military regime has ordered the police to remove French Ambassador Sylvain Itte from the country forcibly. The soldiers who deposed Niger’s president, Mohamed Bazoum, had given Ambassador Sylvain Itte 48 hours to leave. The deadline passed on August 28 with France failing to recall Itte. The French government has stated that it does not recognize the coup leaders as the...
Trump Returns To White House Briefing Room, Insists He Won
President Donald Trump returned to the White House briefing room for the first time since the elections and once again claimed he 'won' despite trialing Joe Biden by millions of votes, as they attacked a pharmaceutical giant of conspiring to defeat him. He also attacked Pfizer and 'Big Pharma' – although he misstated the name of the company that announced a big vaccine breakthrough...
Putin Will Not Attend Brics Summit – South African Presidency
Russia's president will not attend a summit in South Africa next month, according to the country's presidency. The announcement comes after South Africa's leader said any attempt to arrest Vladimir Putin would be a declaration of war against Russia. If Mr Putin had left Russian soil, he would have been subject to an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. South Africa is...
Iranian Pilot, General Dies In Chopper Accident
During an anti-terror operation, a helicopter crashed, killing a general and pilot from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, according to state media. The “ultra-light gyroplane” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “had an accident while conducting combat operations” in a border area, the IRNA news agency said. It said the crash happened in Sirkan, a city in Sistan-Baluchistan province, and identified the...
Study Reveals 4 New Symptoms Linked To COVID-19 (SEE FULL LIST)
The more symptoms people showed the more likely they were to test positive but around 60% of those with coronavirus did not report any signs in the week leading up to taking a test. There could be four more symptoms of coronavirus in addition to classic ones such as a new persistent cough and a fever. A study involving more than...
Veteran Russian Diplomat Resigns In Protest Of Moscow’s “Aggressive War” In Ukraine
A 20-year veteran of Russia's diplomatic service announced his resignation Monday in protest of his country's war on Ukraine, multiple media outlets reported. In a rare public protest by a Russian official, Boris Bondarev, a diplomat posted to R...
Russia Lunches Hypersonic Missile Into Atlantic Ocean
The new Zirkon hypersonic missile was successfully tested by the Russian Navy using computer simulation during a manoeuvre in the Atlantic Ocean, it was announced on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Defence’s Telegram channel, this was done by the frigate Admiral Gorshkov during a training exercise in the western Atlantic Ocean. Commander Igor Kromal, who appeared in a ministry-released video, attested...
US Supreme Court Upholds Law On TikTok Ban
On Friday, the US Supreme Court affirmed a law that would prohibit TikTok in the US, potentially depriving 170 million US users of the video-sharing app on January 19. In a major defeat for TikTok, the court ruled that the law does not violate free speech rights and that the US government had demonstrated legitimate national security concerns about a...
US Secretary Of State Blinken Blasts Buhari, FG Over Twitter ban
United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has lashed out at the Federal Government and President Muhammadu Buhari over the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria. He said restriction of social media use has no place in a democracy. In a statement on Thursday signed by Blinken’s spokesman, Ned Price, ‘Nigeria’s Twitter Suspension’, Blinken condemned the suspension of Twitter. READ ALSO: Suspension...
80-Year-Old US President Biden Announces Re-election Bid
US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election in 2024 in the form of a three-minute video. In a video released early Tuesday, Biden, 80, framed next year’s contest as a fight against Republican extremism, implicitly arguing he needed more time to fully realize his vow to restore the nation’s character. “When I ran for president four years...
