FOREIGN NEWS

More search teams and emergency aid from around the world poured into Turkey and Syria yesterday as rescuers working in freezing temperatures dug sometimes with their bare hands through the remains of buildings flattened by a powerful earthquake. According to official figures, the death toll soared above 5300 and was still expected to rise. However, […]

A huge earthquake killed more than 2,700 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the many thousands left injured or homeless and hampering efforts to find survivors, Reuters reports. The magnitude 7.8 quake brought down whole apartment blocks in Turkish cities and […]

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said it would consult Indigenous people on a new design that “honours the culture and history of the First Australians”.   Australia will remove the British monarch from its banknotes, replacing the late Queen Elizabeth II’s image on its $5 note with a design honouring Indigenous culture, the central […]

Half a million people were protesting Tuesday in Paris alone in nationwide rallies and strikes against pension reform backed by French President Emmanuel Macron,     Half a million people were protesting Tuesday in Paris alone in nationwide rallies and strikes against pension reform backed by French President Emmanuel Macron, the leading CGT union said. […]

US authorities on Thursday charged five former police officers with murder over the fatal beating of a Black man in Memphis, as the southern city braced for possible civil unrest and President Joe Biden urged demonstrators to protest peacefully.   Tyre Nichols, 29, was stopped on January 7 for what the Memphis Police Department said […]

The United States-based automobile manufacturing company, Ford has planned to cut 3,200 jobs across Europe, in its bid to reduce costs and shift focus towards electric vehicles. According to Guardian UK on Tuesday, most of the 2,500 jobs in product development and up to 700 in administrative roles the automaker is hoping to slash are […]

More Nigerians in South Africa on Tuesday continued to express outrage over the reported invasion of the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg and the disconnection of electricity supply to the premises. It was gathered that Johannesburg City Power officials in company with personnel of the Metro Police Department had stormed the consulate to effect the disconnection […]

Former president of the United States, Donald Trump was sanctioned nearly $1 million for filing a “frivolous” lawsuit against former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Trump filed a lawsuit against Clinton, ex-FBI director James Comey and other officials for their alleged attempt to rig the 2016 election, according to The Washington Post. Clinton, the […]

Jamaica’s Olympic sprinting icon, Usain Bolt has lost millions of dollars in his account with Stocks and Securities Ltd, an investment company based in Kingston. The lawyers of the track star said they are prepared to file a lawsuit if that will make it possible to recover the $12 million that mysteriously disappeared from Bolt’s […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reacted to the helicopter crash that killed interior minister Denys Monastyrsky and other government officials in the capital, Kyiv on Wednesday. Zelensky, while addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said, there are “no accidents at war time.” Initial local media reports said 18 people died, however, the latest […]