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Disgraced RnB singer, RKelly has been placed on su*cide watch at the federal detention facility in Brooklyn after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison on racketeering and s3x trafficking charges. His lawyers who disclosed that the singer will be suing the federal prison housing him, insisted that there…

An American death row inmate set to be put to death in less than two weeks has asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney to someone in need of it. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting…

Two women nabbed trying to sneak more than 100 live animals onto a plane have been arrested. Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sulthana Ebrahim, 24, had 109 animals distributed between two cases at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand on Monday, June 27. Shocked airport staff found the creatures inside the luggage…

New Zealand’s government has declared that American far-right groups the Proud Boys and The Base are “terrorist organisations”.   The two groups join 18 others including ISIL (ISIS) that have been given an official terrorist designation, making it illegal in New Zealand to fund, recruit or participate in the groups,…

Israel’s parliament has voted to dissolve itself and send the country to the polls in November for the fifth time in less than four years.   Yair Lapid, Israel’s foreign minister and architect of the outgoing coalition government, will become the country’s caretaker prime minister just after midnight on Friday.…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hong Kong by high-speed rail ahead of celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the city’s return to Chinese sovereignty from the United Kingdom.   The anniversary is marked each year on July 1 and this year’s activities will include the swearing-in of…

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Tuesday made a partial apology for chaos at last month’s Champions League final between Real Madrid and Liverpool in Paris, while insisting fake tickets and “delinquency” were mostly to blame. “Should things have been managed better at the Stade de France (stadium)? The answer…

An 87-year-old man identified as Aloise Otieng’ Ng’ombe has purchased a new coffin for his burial ceremony in the future. The man from Busia, Kenya is said to have bought a coffin worth Ksh58,000 for his burial. K2TV reported that Aloise had also bought coffins in 2009 and 2012. The…

The Russia-Ukraine conflict could have a silver lining for African countries in the long run, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa, because it forces them to be more self-sufficient as they look to bolster their food supply.   He said African countries faced a similar concern during the Covid-19 pandemic when…

The Philippines Supreme Court has rejected a final bid to disqualify President-elect Ferdinand Marcos from last month’s election, clearing the way for his inauguration later this week and the return to rule of the country’s most famous dynasty. Marcos, 64, the son and namesake of the notorious dictator overthrown in…

Two senior Libyan officials began two days of talks on constitutional arrangements for elections, the latest United Nations effort to bridge gaps between the country’s rivals. Aguila Saleh, the influential speaker of the country’s east-based parliament, and Khaled al-Meshri, head of the internationally recognised government’s High Council of State, based…

The police have arrested a 39-year-old man for allegedly slapping Uganda’s Minister of State for Works and Transport, Mr Musa Ecweru during Sunday mass at St. Michael Catholic Church in Wera Sub County in Amuria District. It’s alleged that the minister who is also the Amuria County MP, was attending…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday he would not undergo any “psychological transformation” despite this week’s election drubbing and a slew of bad headlines, which included claims he wanted a lavish tree house built for his son.   The beleaguered premier recently survived a confidence vote in his leadership,…

Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Klaus Chilima has denied allegations of corruption contained in a report about a $150m (£125m) corruption scandal involving government contracts.   He accused the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), which published the report earlier this week, of failing to get his side of the story. He was named among…

US President Joe Biden has signed the first major federal gun reform in three decades, a bipartisan compromise that comes in light of a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.   The law, deemed the first significant…

Members of Somalia’s Parliament have approved the appointment of Hamza Abdi Barre as the new prime minister.   More than 200 members of Parliament, who were present at a session held Saturday in Mogadishu, unanimously backed Barre, who also is member of the lower house of Parliament. After the vote,…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled on Saturday that no progress had been made in Sweden’s bid to join NATO, urging Stockholm to take “concrete actions” to meet Ankara’s concerns, his office said.   In a phone call with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, Erdogan reiterated that “Sweden should take…

At least, 17 young people were found dead at a nightclub in a township in South Africa’s southern city of East London on Sunday, police said.   “We got a report about 17 (people) that died in a local tavern in Scenery Park which is based in East London,” a…

It has been revealed that the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom, has banned Senator Ike Ekweremadu who it recently appointed a visiting professor of Corporate and International Linkages.   This followed Thursday’s arrest and subsequent arraignment of Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, in London for alleged conspiracy to…

The US Supreme Court has overturned a landmark 1973 ‘Roe v Wade’ decision that gave women right to an abortion. The ruling overturning the decision was announced on Friday. The apex court said that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves. “The Constitution does not confer a…