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The United States First Lady, Jill Biden, and her granddaughter, Finnegan Biden, has arrived at Westminster Abbey in central London on Saturday, May 6, 2023, ahead of the coronations of Britain’s King Charles III and Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort. The set-piece coronation is the first in Britain in 70 years,...

King Charles III and his wife, Camilla, will be officially crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey today in a glittering but solemn religious ceremony with traditions dating back some 1,000 years, followed by a procession, resplendent with pomp and pageantry. He ascended the British throne on September 8, 2022, after the...

An Azman Air plane arrived at Aswan airport, Egypt on Thursday to evacuate Nigerians fleeing war-torn Sudan. The airline made the announcement on its Twitter page early Friday. The tweet read, “Evacuation Update: Azman Air Crew with 400seater Airbus A340-600; 5N-AAM departed Kano, Nigeria at exactly 3:45pm and arrived safely...

Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in Belgrade, Serbia on Wednesday, officials said. The police accused the detained 13-year-old suspect of plotting the attack for a month and making a kill-list. “Eight children and a security guard were killed, while six children and one...

Human flesh remains found inside two crocodiles in a remote part of northern Queensland in Australia are suspected to be parts of a missing 65-year-old fisherman, Kevin Darmody. Darmody was fishing with friends by the Kennedy River in Rinyirru Lakefield National Park on Saturday afternoon when he suddenly disappeared, SkyNews...

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the senate to confirm Abike Dabiri-Erewa as chair of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) for a second term in office. Buhari’s request was contained in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the floor of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday. Dabiri-Erewa...

The $10.8 million London mansion. Inset: Seyi Tinubu. (Credit: Bloomberg/Facebook/Seyi Tinubu) Aranda Overseas Corp, a company belonging to Seyi Tinubu, purchased a London mansion which the Nigerian government had tried to seize as property bought with the proceeds of crime, Bloomberg has reported. Seyi, who is the son of the...

A multi-continental crackdown has halted a major “dark web” drugs marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros ($54.8 million) in cash and virtual currency, Europol said Tuesday. The operation called SpecTor by US, British, Brazilian and European law enforcement also netted almost a...

Anne Sheeran, grandmother to singer Ed Sheeran, died at a nursing home in the Republic of Ireland at age 92 on Tuesday. Anne will be laid to rest on Wednesday after a funeral in St Patrick’s Church, Gorey, Daily Mail reports. Nancy, as she was also called, was the inspiration...

The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations in Uganda, Colonel Charles Okello Engola, was on Tuesday shot dead by one of his military bodyguards as he was entering his vehicle to go to work. The Uganda police, while sharing preliminary information about the killing of the minister,...