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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revealed an ambitious timetable with the aim of going to the moon on uncrewed missions by 2023. Image: Turkish Space Agency (TUA) Turkey has unveiled ambitious plans to head to the Moon in 2023, followed by a soft landing on the lunar surface in 2028, said the country’s President […]

A French court found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty on Monday of trying to bribe a judge and of influence peddling, making him the second head of state in modern-day France to be convicted of corruption. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for the verdict in his trial on charges of corruptionand […]

In less than three months, Nigerians especially those from the Northern part of the country had witnessed mass abduction of school children by armed bandits terrorizing the region. It is no longer news that bandits have deviated from their normal activities of blocking roads, attacking worship centres and others but may have discovered a ‘lucrative’ […]

Donald Trump returned to the spotlight Sunday telling enthusiastic conservatives that he may run for president again in 2024, as he sought to reassert his dominance over a Republican Party that is out of power. Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, US February 28, 2021. © Octavio […]

Families with children will be offered two Covid rapid tests a week under plans for schools to safely reopen in England from March 8. Up to 32 million lateral flow tests will be given to parents to administer every week in a new government ‘surge’ testing initiative launched tomorrow. Teacher holds a creative writing class […]

 Myanmar riot police prepare to cross the blockades set up by protesters in Mandalay [AP Photo]At least 18 people have been killed and dozens wounded across Myanmar in the most violent crackdown yet by security forces against peaceful demonstrators protesting against a February 1 military coup, according to the United Nations human rights office. Myanmar […]

The United States on Friday for the first time publicly accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of approving the gruesome murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, unveiling a raft of punitive measures but stopping short of directly targeting the powerful heir apparent. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks off after a news conference at the […]

Flanked by thousands of his supporters, the Armenian Prime Minister on Thursday marched through the streets of Yerevan in a bid to rally people behind him after claiming the army had attempted a coup. MOpposition demonstrators rally to pressure Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign in the center of Yerevan, Armenia. Feb. 25, 2021.   –   Copyright  Hrant […]

Haitian authorities announced Friday that more than 400 inmates escaped and 25 people died in a prison breakout, making it the country’s largest and deadliest one in a decade, with the prison director and a powerful gang leader among those killed. Recaptured inmates are led by police outside the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison after an attempted […]

The abduction yesterday of over 300 schoolgirls at the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the TalataMafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State by unknown gunmen, eight days after over 42 persons including 27 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State, were abducted is eliciting serious outrage among the people. The abduction according […]