COVID-19: British PM Boris Johnson hospitalised with coronavirus but ‘still in...
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in hospital on Monday undergoing tests after suffering "persistent" symptoms of coronavirus for 10 days, but colleagues insisted...
Final farewell to UN’s Kofi Annan at Ghana state funeral
AFP>>> World dignitaries laid to rest former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in his native Ghana on Thursday, with calls to keep alive the...
Britain, EU enter make-or-break Brexit week
Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeated Monday that Britain must leave the EU on October 31, as divorce talks resumed in Brussels in a pivotal...
Russia is ‘first’ to develop coronavirus vaccine, says Putin
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President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to approve a vaccine offering “sustainable immunity” against the coronavirus and...
Ghana’s former President Jerry Rawlings is dead
AFRICA
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Ghana’s former president Jerry Rawlings, a member of the radical and charismatic generation of figures who emerged in West Africa in the 1980s,...
US President-elect Biden vows immediate science-based action on COVID-19
FOREIGN
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President-elect Joe Biden vowed on Saturday immediate action to contain the United States’ coronavirus crisis, signalling science would dominate the national response once...
Chanel brings out stars to honour Lagerfeld’s final collection
Chanel paid a classy tribute to Karl Lagerfeld Tuesday as it presented his final collection at the Grand Palais in Paris, the scene of...
Pope vows ‘all-out battle’ saying child sex abuse like ‘human sacrifice’
Pope Francis on Sunday vowed to tackle every single case of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church, comparing paedophilia to "human...
Saudi sterilises Kaaba to fight Coronavirus
From Jerusalem to Mecca, Muslims across the Middle East held Friday prayers under the shadow of the new coronavirus, with some gatherings cancelled and...
British Health Minister tests positive for coronavirus
British MP Nadine Dorries, a minister in the health department, has tested positive for coronavirus, she said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I can confirm...