A total of 233 women emerged in the recent parliamentary election that held in France, beating the previous record of 155 set after the last election. There are 577 lawmakers
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A 48-year-old man in the early hours of Monday ran a van into worshippers in a mosque in Finsbury, London, killing one and leaving 10 others injured. The driver was
The death toll in Portugal’s worst forest fire in history has reached 64, even as more than 1,000 firefighters are battling to get it under control. Many victims of the fire
The federal government says it is proud that Babatunde Osotimehin, the late executive director of UN Population Fund (UNFPA), was a product of Nigeria. Tijjani Bande, Nigeria’s ambassador/permanent representative to
The Nigerian mission in South Africa on Friday said it has intervened in the alleged quit order given to Nigerians
Russia’s defence ministry on Friday said it was checking information that its airstrike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may
Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating US President Donald Trump for possible obstruction of justice, the Washington Post reports. Mueller
Steve Scalise, majority whip of the US house of representatives, has been shot at a Republican baseball practice in Alexandria,
A 46-year-old Nigerian has been arrested in South Korea for smuggling “large amounts of methamphetamines” into the country, police said
A residents association, Grenfell Action Group, gave warnings of a potential “catastrophic event” seven months before Wednesday’s massive fire incident
