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Head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said his men will continue to fight in African countries, where they are already present. Ever since Prigozhin mounted a failed mutiny in Russia last month and was banished to Belarus, there have been questions over Wagner’s future. “There was no,...

A view of a shopping street in north China’s city of Tianjin, June 22, 2023. /CFP China’s gross domestic product grew by 5.5 percent year on year in the first half of 2023, indicating a “good momentum of recovery” in the national economy, according to the National Bureau of Statistics...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been photographed training with New Zealand/Nigerian mixed martial arts star Israel Adesanya in preparation for a proposed cage fight with Elon Musk. After both American tech billionaires called each other out, Mark Zuckerberg, whose firm owns Facebook and Instagram, recently released a social networking app...

A member of the House of Representatives representing Tangaza/Gudu Federal Constituency of Sokoto State, Sani Yakubu, has raised alarm, saying jihadists from Niger, Mali and Libya and the local bandits operating in Tangaza Local Government of the state have imposed a tax on farmers in the area. Yakubu, who disclosed...

Hospital doctors in England on Thursday staged the biggest walkout in the history of the UK’s state-funded National Health Service, prompting fears for patient safety. The unprecedented five-day stoppage over pay and staff retention is the latest in eight months of industrial action across the NHS, which is already reeling...

Jacob Olalekan Ponle, also known as Woodberry, was given an eight-year and three-month jail sentence by a federal judge in the United States for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud. According to court documents obtained by Peoples Gazette, Ponle was sentenced on July 11 by Judge Robert Gettleman of the United States...

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed efforts to put in place new systems for a higher-standard open economy and promote the gradual transition from dual control over the amount and intensity of energy consumption to dual control over the amount and intensity of carbon emissions. Xi, also general secretary...

A 24-year-old Ghanaian man has been arrested after a 13-hour gun battle with the police shortly after he allegedly fatally shot his mother and sister in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States. The report revealed that at approximately 8:30 in the morning of that fateful day, authorities from the Worcester...

A 43-year-old Catholic priest was pronounced dead a few hours after he and his lover checked into a hotel. A local media outlet, on Sunday, disclosed that the deceased, identified as Joseph Kariuki Wanjiku, from St. Peters Ruai, checked into the Monalisa Hotel Delview in Gatanga with his lover, a...

President of the United States, Joe Biden, 80, met with the King of the United Kingdom, Charles III, 74, on Monday in London after his absence at King Charles’s coronation in May, and amidst allegations that he is anti-British. They had discussions focusing on climate on the eve of the...