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The West Indies on Thursday for back-to-back Twenty20 series against India and New Zealand as the batsman seeks to secure a place at the World Cup. Left-hander Hetmyer had been frozen out of the international set-up due to question marks…
Which is home to several medallists from the recently concluded World Athletics Championships. The northern region has been largely cut off from the rest of the country due to a conflict between federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front…
As China’s real estate sector was rocked by a cash crunch, a billionaire index showed Thursday. Yang Huiyan, a majority shareholder in Chinese property giant Country Garden, saw her net worth plunge by more than 52 percent to $11.3 billion…
Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has piled pressure on his political opponents working to form a government nearly 10 months after an election. Neither side is willing to make any concessions,” political scientist Ali al-Baidar said Thursday, one day after crowds…
Almost a year after the war that forced them to flee ended. Millions migrated inside Afghanistan over two decades of bitter fighting during the US-led military occupation, which ended as the Taliban returned to power last August. Many flocked to…
In a deal worth a reported £20 million ($24 million). McNeil agreed a five-year contract with Everton as he made a quick return to the Premier League following Burnley’s relegation last season. The 22-year-old scored seven goals in 137 Premier…
The Minister of Aviation, Mr Hadi Sirika made the announcement while briefing State House correspondents after the council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday. The Minister, who didn’t disclose when the national…
A plunging profit as the social media powerhouse battles a turbulent economy and the rising phenomenon of TikTok. Meta had long delivered seemingly endless upward growth but after this income miss — and reporting earlier this year its first decline…
The meeting was necessitated by the need for the senate and house minority caucuses to be on the same page regarding what transpired in the senate yesterday when lawmakers threatened to impeach the president. The minority leader of the House…
The incident occurred at about 1:13pm at Ntigha junction along the Port Harcourt – Enugu Highway in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of the state. Mr Geoffrey Ogbonna, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, confirmed the incident…
One day after making a landmark apology for the abuse of Indigenous children at Catholic-run schools. The 85-year-old pontiff prayed for the Church to choose “truth” over “defending the institution” as he visited Lac Ste Anne, some 80 kilometers (50…
Prosecutors accuse the 45-year-old “Hips don’t Lie” songstress of defrauding the Spanish tax office out of 14.5 million euros ($14.7 million) on income earned between 2012 and 2014. They say she moved to Spain in 2011 when her relationship with…
The EU’s top court upheld European sanctions that took Moscow’s RT channel off-air around the continent. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg threw out an appeal from state-owned RT France against a broadcast ban which was introduced as…
The Brazilian international, his parents and former Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu will be tried for alleged corruption related to the forward’s move from Santos to Barcelona in 2013. Rosell and Bartomeu will also face fraud charges…
The national weather service said Wednesday, with drought-like conditions leading to increasingly severe water restrictions around the country. “The month of July will very likely be the driest July ever recorded since 1959,” spokesman Christian Veil from Meteo-France told AFP.…