Foreign

Emmanuel Macron, 39, has been inaugurated as France’s president and pledged to overcome division in societies. Macron, a centrist, took...

President Adama Barrow on Wednesday fired Gambia’s Central Bank Governor and three other bank officials considered loyal to former dictator...

The Nigeria Union in South Africa said on Wednesday that two Nigerians  were  shot dead in Western Cape Province of...

Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, announced its decision to stop hiring foreign dentists to provide job opportunities for locals, a report...

Pro-European candidate Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidential election by a large margin, winning between 65 and 66 per...

Former Mauritanian President, Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, died on Friday of heart attack, the presidency said in a statement. Mauritania...

Airport officials said a cargo plane contracted by UPS went off the runway on Friday after landing at an airport...

Turkey dismissed 107 judges and prosecutors over alleged links to a failed coup in July last year, Turkish televisions reported...

China’s home-grown C919 passenger jet landed successfully in Shanghai after an 80-minute maiden flight on Friday, a major step for...

U.S. House Republicans on Thursday narrowly approved a sweeping health care bill aimed at fulfilling their campaign promise to overturn...

Local workers at the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington have been paid their three-month arrears, ending their one-day sit-in on...

Prince Philip, the 95-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, joked on Thursday about no longer being able to “stand up...

The Nigerian Embassy in Washington  is open and fully operational, the Acting Ambassador, Hakeem Balogun, has said. Balogun disclosed in...

Renowned South African author, Karel Schoeman, has committed suicide, his lawyer Carl van Rensburg confirmed Wednesday. Media reports said Schoeman...

Chinese engineers have installed a 6,000-ton key structure of the world’s longest cross-sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao....

Fourteen people, comprising women and children, from one family died after a boat capsized in a deep pond in Southern...

Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Jehovah’s Witnesses was an “extremist” organisation and must hand over all its property...

Barcelona resident Ana Vela, who was born on October 29, 1901 close to the city of Cordoba in southern Spain,...

A United Nations (UN) employee was arrested for robbing four Manhattan banks, all during his lunch hour, New York Police...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the people and government of Turkey on the successful conclusion of the country’s referendum on...