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  French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday recognized a Palestinian state, leading a UN summit that already spurred other Western governments to take the landmark step that has infuriated Israel. “The time for peace has come, as we are just moments away from no longer being able to seize it,” Macron told the summit. “The time […]

  Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State on Monday restated that political stability has fully returned to the state. He stated this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after visiting President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa Abuja.     President Tinubu received Fubara at the State House on Monday, September 22, 2025. […]

  Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.23 per cent on a year on year basis in the second quarter of 2025. This is according to a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday. The statistics office said in the report that the growth rate for the period under review […]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a pardon on Monday for prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been jailed for the better part of the past decade, state-linked media reported. The 43-year-old British-Egyptian national, who was pardoned alongside five others, was a leading figure in Egypt’s 2011 uprising and was jailed under each administration […]

  Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca believes Cole Palmer will avoid groin surgery after the England forward was forced off during Saturday’s defeat at Manchester United. Palmer has made just two Premier League starts this season and lasted only 21 minutes at Old Trafford before limping to the sidelines in a game Chelsea lost 2-1. Asked […]

  A Polish real estate group hopes to tackle the country’s falling birth rate by rewarding clients who conceive babies in its hotels. On its website the Arche group, which owns 23 hotels and numerous buildings across the country, laments the demographic crisis resulting from the steady 12-year decline of Poland’s birth rate. In an […]

  Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in Peru’s capital Lima took to the streets again on Sunday following clashes that injured at least 18 people, including police officers and journalists. The youth-led “Generation Z” collective led another march toward the seat of President Dina Boluarte’s administration in downtown Lima, where police were deployed in force. Unrest […]

  The trial against the suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, over alleged cybercrime before Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court, Abuja, was stalled following an objection raised by the defendant. Akpoti-Uduaghan had been arraigned on June 30 on a six-count charge filed by the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF), […]

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  The Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) on Monday presented Certificates of Return to the winners of the recently concluded councillorship by-elections held on Saturday, September 20, 2025. The certificates were issued at the Commission’s headquarters on Airport Road, GRA, Benin City, by Ovuchor Suleiman on behalf of the EDSIEC Chairman, Jonathan Aifuobhokhan. While […]

  At the memorial event for slain US right-wing activist Charlie Kirk on Sunday, President Donald Trump and his supporters celebrated the 31-year-old’s life using the language of religious fervor. “He’s a martyr now for American freedom,” Trump said of Kirk, who was killed on September 10 at a Utah university campus. Trump was the […]

Two pandas at a zoo in central France will return to China in November after the female was diagnosed with kidney failure, the park’s director told AFP on Monday. Huan Huan and her partner Yuan Zi arrived at the Beauval Zoo in 2012 as part of China’s “panda diplomacy” programme, which sees the black-and-white bears […]