A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the felony counts stemming from his 2018 purchase of a handgun while addicted to […]
A New York jury convicted Donald Trump on all charges in his hush-money case on Thursday in a seismic development barely five months ahead of the election where he seeks to recapture the White House. The verdict makes Trump the first criminally convicted former US president but does not prevent him from campaigning for […]
Pope Francis has denied giving approval for the blessing of same-sex couples. The Pope clarified that he permitted the blessing of individuals, but not same-sex unions. Fox News reports that during a conversation with CBS’ ’60 Minutes’, the Pope was asked about a perceived change in Vatican policy when he approved blessings for Catholics […]
One person died and multiple people were injured on a Singapore Airlines flight that experienced “severe turbulence” while heading from London to Singapore before it was diverted to Bangkok on Tuesday, the company said. “We can confirm that there are injuries and one fatality on board the Boeing 777-300ER. There were a total of […]
Chad’s constitutional council has announced Mahamat Déby as the winner of the May 6 presidential election. The announcement on Thursday, confirmed preliminary results from the country’s National Election Management Agency last week. The declaration of Déby as the winner came after the council dismissed challenges by two candidates — Succès Masra, prime minister, and […]
The world’s first patient with a transplanted pig kidney has died, almost two months after the operation. In March, Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted the genetically-edited pig kidney into Rick Slayman, a 62-year-old man living with end-stage kidney disease. The operation was a milestone in xenotransplantation – the transplantation of organs or tissues from one […]
Chad’s junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week’s presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released Thursday, extending his family’s decades-long grip on power. Monday’s vote aimed to end three years of military rule in a country crucial to the fight against jihadism across Africa’s Sahel desert region. […]
On Monday, Liberian President, Joseph Boakai, appointed Major General Charles Johnson (retd.), as the Director of the National Security Agency, pending confirmation by the Liberian Senate His appointment is coming months after his resignation as Minister of National Defence. Before that, he led the Armed Forces of Liberia as its Chief of Staff for […]
Ongoing downpours have killed another 29 people in Afghanistan over the past four days, the government disaster management department said Saturday. Afghanistan was parched by an unusually dry winter that desiccated the earth, followed by a two-week streak of downpours in most provinces that has caused sporadic flash flooding. Disaster Management Department spokesman Janan […]
A Kenyan military helicopter carrying top brass including the defence chief crashed on Thursday, police said. President William Ruto convened an urgent meeting of the National Security Council, his office announced after news of the crash emerged. Defence forces chief General Francis Omondi Ogolla was among those on board the helicopter that went down […]
