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  Rupert Murdoch’s children have reached a settlement in the legal dispute over control of the right-wing media mogul’s companies, News Corp and Fox Corp announced Monday. The agreement resolves litigation after some siblings had contested Murdoch’s effort to install as successor his son Lachlan, who shares his father’s political orientation. But a Nevada court […]

  President Emmanuel Macron will accept the resignation of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday after his government was ejected in a confidence vote, with the French leader rushing to find a successor and stave off a new political crisis. On Monday, Bayrou suffered a crushing loss in a confidence vote he had himself called, […]

  A former top security executive at WhatsApp filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that parent company Meta systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures. Attaullah Baig, who served as head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data […]

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Special Committee on Examination Infractions (SCEIi) has said that computer-based centres found culpable in the over 4,000 cases of exam fraud uncovered by the committee will be shut down and their owners jailed. “What we saw is mind-blowing — the manipulations, the transactions, you will see young […]

  Troops of the 6 Division, Nigerian Army, have intensified their clampdown on oil theft and arms trafficking in the Niger Delta, with significant breakthroughs recorded in Rivers State. A statement signed by Lieutenant Colonel Danjuma Jonah Danjuma, Acting Deputy Director of 6 Division Army Public Relations, disclosed that the operations between August 25 and […]

Leaders of the 11-member BRICS bloc railed against economic protectionism and “tariff blackmail” during a virtual meeting Monday held amid a damaging trade war with US President Donald Trump. The group of emerging economies met via videoconference at the initiative of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose office said it was necessary to […]

  Katsina State Governor, Malam Dikko Radda, on Monday launched a €5.1 million European Union-funded Conflict Prevention, Crisis Response, and Resilience project to strengthen peace and stability in the state. The 18-month project, which covers eight local government areas in Katsina and two in Zamfara State, builds on a previous initiative that benefited over 95,000 […]

  France’s parliament on Monday ousted the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after just nine months in office, leaving President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find a successor and plunging the country into a new political crisis. Bayrou, who has been in the job for just nine months, had blindsided even his allies by calling […]

  Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a man charged with plotting to shoot Donald Trump on a Florida golf course during last year’s presidential election campaign. In an unusual step, Ryan Routh, 59, is representing himself at the trial in Fort Pierce, Florida, which is expected to last between two and four […]

   Manchester City and the Premier League have settled their dispute over the rules governing commercial deals. City have accepted that the current rules for ‘associated party transactions’ are “valid and binding”. The Etihad Stadium club had launched arbitration proceedings on January 20 against the current rules, which are designed to ensure that deals between […]

  Norwegians began voting Monday in an election where US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the war in Ukraine could give a boost to the government led by Labour Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. Store, a veteran Labour politician, has a slight lead in opinion polls, and analysts said geopolitical uncertainties could push voters to back the […]

  Israel’s defence minister told Hamas on Monday to lay down its arms or face annihilation, after US President Donald Trump said the militant group must accept a deal to release hostages in Gaza. In Israel-annexed East Jerusalem, gunmen opened fire at a bus stop and killed five people, according to Israel’s emergency service, in […]