POPE Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced on Saturday. It said that the 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. The Pope Emeritus has been down with sickness. The statement reads: “The Holy See […]
EULOGIES from global leaders and leading personalities all over the world poured in for Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch, as she died at the age of 96 on Thursday. She died peacefully at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands in the afternoon marking the end of an era in […]
FORMER Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s wife, Rosmah Mansor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for asking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts. Mansor’s conviction is coming one week after her husband was jailed for corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal. According to BBC, the 70-year-old ex-First Lady had pleaded […]
RUSSIA’S Defence Ministry has confirmed that its forces were behind Wednesday’s missile strike on a railway station in central Ukraine that Kiev said left at least 25 people dead, including civilians. However, Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov claimed that more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers on their way to fight in the Donbass region […]
North and South Korea have tested ballistic missiles hours apart from each other, highlighting an arms race on the peninsula as nuclear talks with the North remain stalled. The North fired two ballistic missiles across its east coast, its first test with such missiles in six months and a fresh breach of UN resolutions.The tests […]
THE Gates Foundation’s annual goalkeepers’ report has established stark disparities in COVID-19 impacts, stating that an additional 31 million people were pushed into extreme poverty in 2020. According to the report, new data reveals world stepped up to prevent worst-case scenarios from happening; spotlights need for long-term investments to ensure an equitable recovery and […]