Prostitutes in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte have embarked on a week-long strike to press home their demand for inclusion in the group of front-line...
Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has signed a new law that allows him to run for two more terms that will take his presidency to 2036. The...
Two days before the swearing-in of president-elect Mohamed Bazoum, heavy gunfire was heard near Niger Republic’s Presidential Palace in the capital early Wednesday for about twenty...
American sportswear company, Nike has sued an organization, MSCHF Product Studio Inc for allegedly infringing on and diluting their trademark with the black-and-red, devil-themed shoes, which...
The Egyptian government on Monday confirmed the reopening of the Suez Canal after one week blockade. A giant container ship which blocked traffic has been successfully...
In what could be described as one of the most shocking cases of brutality in India, a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by a 21-year-old...
A woman in Ghana has reportedly died in a car crash while she was chasing after her ‘cheating’ husband who was reportedly in a car with...
Kenya government has warned importers that they face jail terms and substantial fines for importing phone with poor battery performance. Draft regulations published Wednesday by the...
The suspect accused of opening fire at a King Soopers grocery store in the university city of Boulder, Colorado, United States, killing 10 people including a...
Barely one week after 58 people were killed by insurgents in the Niger Republic, armed men on Sunday night killed at least 40 people in villages...
At least 10 people have been confirmed dead in a mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store in the United States after a gunman opened fire...
The British racing giant, McLaren, has signed a 13-year-old Nigerian-American racer, Ugo Ugochukwu. Ugochukwu is born to a Nigerian mother and an American father. McLaren confirmed...
Australian authorities planned to evacuate thousands of people from the flood-affected suburbs in the west of Sydney on Monday. The country is facing its worst flooding...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has revealed that globally displaced persons surpassed 80 million in 2020. In a statement made available to Ripples...
The presidential election in the Republic of Congo began on Sunday, March 21, as internet and social media access was deactivated across the country. Political observers...
The Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has tested positive for COVID-19. The country’s Health Minister, Faisal Sultan, who disclosed this on his Twitter handle on Saturday,...
Following the death of Tanzania’s President John Magufuli’s on Wednesday, his deputy, Samia Suluhu, has been sworn in as the country’s first female president. The 61-year-old...
Fifty-eight people have been killed by insurgents suspected to be Boko Haram fighters after they struck three market communities in Niger Republic near the Malian border....
Samia Hassan Suluhu, who became the first female vice-president when President John Pombe Magufuli was elected in 2015, is now set to be sworn in as...
The Tanzanian President, John Magufuli, is dead. Magufuli, 61, died from a suspected heart condition on Wednesday. The country’s Vice President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, announced the...
Despite controversies surrounding the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for the continuous use of the vaccine. In a statement on its...
Four men who gang-raped a married woman in front of her husband whom they had tied up, were executed on Monday at the Mashhad Central Prison...
A report by a Stockholm-based research institute, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), has named the United States of America of being responsible for 36%...
Five miners and two rescuers have died of suffocation after a methane gas fire broke out at a Pakistani coal mine in Balochistan, located in the...
The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.” According to AP, the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation...
Bulgaria on Friday temporary suspended inoculations of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to reports of blood clotting after vaccination. Bulgaria joined Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,...
Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, died Wednesday following a treatment for cancer in Germany. The late prime minister turned 56 on Monday. Ivory Coast President,...
The Queen Elizabeth ll has finally responded to the racism allegations levelled against the British Royal Family by Meghan Markle during an interview session with Oprah...
MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of billionaire founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has married a Chemistry teacher, Dan Jewett, in Seattle, United States. Scott, a philanthropist,...
Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president’s office said Monday According to AP, both are having only mild symptoms...
Not less than 20 people have been killed while 600 were injured after four powerful blasts hit the Nkoa Ntoma military camp in the economic capital...
Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution. This was while investigating the death of one person and the...
Rwanda became the first African nation on Friday to use doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine that require ultra-cold storage. Authorities began transporting Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots...
Grammy Award-winning British singer, Adele has finalized her divorce with her husband, Simon Konecki two years after they separated. The estranged couple went public about their...
Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday for the first ever papal visit to the Middle Eastern country, a place where the Christian community has dwindled...
The government of Senegal has suspended the licences two private TV stations after it accused authorities of focusing too much on protests triggered by the arrest...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the stay-at-home policies adopted by governments across the world to check the spread of the COVID-19 scourge...
Former United States President, Donald Trump, has been served a civil rights lawsuit for allegedly breaking the laws of the “Ku Klux Klan,” an American white...
An unknown number of crocodiles have escaped from a breeding farm in South Africa. Petro van Rhyn, the spokesperson for provincial conservation body Cape Nature, gave...
In addition to nasal or throat swab tests, foreign travellers into China would now undergo mandatory anal swab testing, the state media said. The Chinese Center...
At least ten people, including the two pilots, died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, the region’s governor and the...
The United States of America has explained why it has failed to sanction Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman over the gruesome murder of Saudi journalist,...
Embattled Zimbabwe Vice President, Kembo Mohadi has been forced to resign from his post over allegations of s3xual impropriety levelled against him. Mohadi who threw in...
Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, took the Covid-19 vaccine on live television on Monday. He and his Vice-President, Mahamudu Bawumia with their spouses took the jab. Read...
Deposed Myanmar leader, Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in a court hearing on Monday via video link and was hit with an additional charge during proceedings....
Ugandan opposition leader, Bobi Wine is stewing in fresh trouble over an alleged bullet-proof vehicle in his possession. According to a report on Sunday by the...
United Kingdom Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has celebrated what he calls a “magnificent achievement for the country” after it was confirmed that more than 20 million...
