Dozens of Indian wrestlers staged a protest on Wednesday against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), the governing body of the sport in the country. The wrestlers sat on a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar in India’s capital New Delhi. “The federation’s job is to support the players and take care of their sporting needs. […]
Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday in choppy trading after China posted weak but expectation-beating annual economic growth data. The prices also settled on hopes that a recent shift in its COVID-19 policy will boost fuel demand. Brent crude futures settled up $1.46, or 1.7 per cent to $85.92 while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) […]
By Oluwashina Iyanda ……. explains its approach to fighting poverty, disease, and inequity Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will spend $8.3 billion this year to continue its work fighting poverty, disease, and inequity. The foundation’s CEO, Mark Suzman, announced this in his annual letter published on Tuesday in Seattle, U.S.A., emailed to The […]
Ghana, on Monday, announced a further extension of the deadline for its proposed domestic debt exchange programme, seeking to rein in the country’s debt levels to achieve sustainability. The Ministry of Finance announced this in a press statement, extending the deadline from Jan. 16 to Jan. 31 for further engagements. This announcement is the third […]
Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ramadan Abu-Janah, on Sunday, discussed with the Indonesian Charge D’affaires to Libya healthcare on cooperation between the two countries. Abu-Janah doubles as Libya’s acting Health Minister. The meeting discussed providing necessary healthcare for migrants in Libya and recruiting Indonesian medical personnel in hospitals in remote areas, the government said in a […]
Russia will launch the unmanned Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to bring home three astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS). This is as the astronauts’ Soyuz MS-22 spaceship has an emergency situation, Russian space authorities said on Saturday. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin together with NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio will return to Earth aboard […]
Kentucky progressive Democrat and gubernatorial candidate, Geoffrey Young, has proposed immediate impeachment of President Joe Biden for war crimes committed by his administration. “I think Joe Biden should be impeached immediately for war crimes in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq etc,” Young tweeted. He specified that reasons for the impeachment include “the illegal proxy war against […]
Four family members died in a road accident on Saturday in Tanzania’s eastern region of Morogoro, said an official. Majid Mwanga, the Kilosa District Commissioner in the Morogoro region, said the accident occurred at around 9.20 a.m. local time. A salon car, in which the family was travelling in, collided head-on with a truck at […]
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Thursday, appealed for $272.3 million to provide humanitarian services to three million people in Somalia, including two million children in 2023. The UN agency said the funds would help it expand the delivery of essential multisectoral services. The services will focus on hard-to-reach areas and will strengthen its leadership […]
Seven persons died and ten more were injured in an explosion near the Afghan Foreign Ministry building in Kabul on Tuesday, a Qatar-based media outlet reported. A separate new outlet earlier claimed that the blast killed or wounded more than 20 people. Taliban spokesman, Ahmadullah Muttaki, for his part, told reporters that a suicide bomber had tried […]