British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has resigned. Raab resigned from the government on Friday after being accused of bullying his colleagues. Raab was said to have resigned in a letter to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak before the report was made public. The Deputy Prime Minister’s resignation could affect the electoral fortune of the Conservative Party. The local council …

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has joined other world leaders in extending warm felicitations to Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his election victory. In a congratulatory letter he personally signed, the Ukrainian leader expressed his gladness at the peaceful conduct of Nigeria’s just-concluded general elections and particularly praised Tinubu’s emergence as the next President of Nigeria, adding that his …

A United States judge on Wednesday ordered former Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo to surrender this week ahead of an expected extradition to his home country on bribery charges. The 77-year-old, who served as Peru’s president from 2001 until 2006, is wanted by Peruvian prosecutors investigating a scandal involving Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth …

An Argentine appeals court on Tuesday confirmed that eight medical professionals accused of responsibility in the death of football legend Diego Maradona will indeed stand trial. Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and six others had appealed a 2022 decision to put them on trial for homicide with potential aggravating circumstances. Maradona died in November 2020 aged 60 while recovering …

A fire in a Beijing hospital has killed 21 people, the state-run Beijing Daily said on Tuesday. Emergency response teams first received information just before 1 pm (0500 GMT) that a fire had broken out at the Beijing Changfeng Hospital in the capital city’s Fengtai District, the Beijing Daily report said. The fire was extinguished about half an hour later …

More than 155,000 public servants in Canada will go on strike Wednesday if a deal is not reached with the government on wages and other demands, their union said Monday. These government employees, who work at more than 20 departments including the Canada Revenue Agency, have been without a contract since 2021. They voted overwhelmingly last week to strike. Union …

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday condemned clashes in Sudan that have left dozens of civilians dead including three workers for the global body’s food agency, demanding swift justice over the killings. Guterres “strongly condemn the deaths and injuries of civilians, including the death of three staff members of the World Food Programme in North Darfur, with a further …

Fighting in the Sudanese capital raged into the early hours of Sunday after a day of deadly battles between paramilitaries and the regular army that left at least 27 people dead and 170 wounded. Explosions and gunfire rang out on the deserted streets of Khartoum, according to witnesses, after the paramilitaries said they were in control of the presidential place, …

The West African Elders’ Forum (WAEF) has deployed a pre-election fact-finding mission led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to Sierra Leone, ahead of the country’s general elections scheduled for June 2023. In a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, the Communications Officer of Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF), the host of WAEF, Wealth Ominabo said the fact-finding mission also had former President …

United States President Joe Biden has brought words of encouragement and offers of investment on his visit to Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the region’s Good Friday peace agreement. After an informal meeting with Rishi Sunak, the US president expressed support for the British prime minister’s compromise deal with the EU on Northern Ireland trade arrangements. “Your …