U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said Tuesday he will be issued a fine for breaching COVID-19 regulations following allegations of lockdown parties at government offices. Treasury Chief Rishi Sunak will also be fined.
About 48 million eligible French voters are heading to the polls for the first round of the French presidential election to be held on Sunday, April 10, 2022 to choose a new president who will govern the nation for the next five years.
Ghana was among 58 countries that abstained from a vote Thursday at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that resulted in the suspension of Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.
Ukraine’s defence ministry says its forces have seized control of the Kyiv region from Russian troops as officials warned that the departing soldiers were creating a “catastrophic” situation for civilians by leaving behind mines.
A South African woman who went on a spending spree after erroneously receiving nearly $1m (£700,000) in her bank account has been found guilty of theft and jailed for five years.
Libyans were scheduled to head to the polls last December for a presidential election that had long been marred by mounting challenges and disputes over rules and regulations.
The Ministerial meeting on Eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD8) virtual meeting was held last week with various Press Officers from different African countries and top Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) officials in attendance.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has opened a new terminal building at Lagos' main international airport that has the capacity to process 14 million travellers a year.
Jamaican activists, as well as prominent professors, politicians and other leaders, have rejected a visit by the duke and duchess of Cambridge, calling on the United Kingdom to apologise and pay reparations for hundreds of years of slavery.
Belgian gold dealer Alain Goetz and a network of companies have been sanctioned by the US for allegedly smuggling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The US government has dismissed as fake the reports that the detained Nigerian influencer Ramon Abbas, known as Hushpuppi, executed a $400,000 (£304,000) internet fraud from prison.
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