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Tensions between Asia’s two largest powers edged higher this weekend after Japan accused Chinese fighter jets of locking their targeting radars onto Japanese aircraft — an act widely interpreted by militaries as a signal of possible attack. Tokyo says the incidents happened twice on...
For families in the quiet farming town of Papiri, the news arrived the way hope often does in Nigeria’s troubled middle belt — in murmurs, then in a rush. Officials confirmed on Monday that nearly 100 schoolchildren, kidnapped in a sweeping raid last month on St. Mary’s...
Czech President Petr Pavel on Tuesday formally appointed billionaire Andrej Babis as prime minister, returning the populist leader to office after his ANO party won parliamentary elections earlier this month. The appointment, broadcast live on national television, clears the way for a new...
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A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a woman in her 20s to four years in prison for blackmailing South Korean football star Son Heung-min, after falsely claiming she was pregnant with his child. Her accomplice, a man in his 40s, was handed a two-year term for attempted blackmail....
By Martins Abochol
The Chief Judge of Taraba state has notified the state high courts of the 2025 Christmas vacation from Wednesday, December 24 to Friday, January 2, 2026.
In a statement issued by Justice Agya in Jalingo on Tuesday, the chief judge stated that the notice was...
President Donald Trump signaled on Sunday that Netflix’s planned $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery could face resistance from his administration, raising the stakes for what would become one of the most consequential entertainment mergers in decades. Speaking at the Kennedy...
By Martins Abochol
The Chief Judge of Taraba state, Justice Joel Agya, on Monday advised the newly sworn-in Notaries Public to uphold honesty, impartiality and fidelity to the law in the state and across jurisdictions.
Agya gave the advice at the Swearing-In of Six Notaries...
Nigeria’s lead female presidential Obiageli Ezekwesili has withdrawn from the race with just 22 days left to the much hyped polls.
In a statement released Thursday (24 January) she said she was stepping aside from “to help build a coalition to defeat” the two main contenders –...
Oliver Mtukudzi is no more. For decades he was not only a household name in Africa, but across the globe and appealed to a diverse audiences. However, as we reported in the archive piece below when Ish Mafundikwa caught up with him back in 2012, there was much much more to the affable Tuku,...
Perhaps for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the annual gathering of the world’s richest nations (and a fair sprinkling of those on the other side of the divide) for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos, Switzerland, will show more fissures than the proverbial Swiss...
The election of Dr. Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister could well prove to be a pivotal moment in the country’s history. Suddenly, everything is possible. By Mimi Alemayehou
Certain years in the life of a nation can be so pivotal that they represent a rebirth. Think of 1865,...
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Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is...