Ireland, Spain and Norway have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state on 28 May, triggering an immediate response from Israel, which recalled its ambassadors from Dublin, Madrid and Oslo, and withholding vital funds from the Palestinian Authority.
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UK: Nigerian University Students Ordered To Leave The Country
Nigerian students have been thrown off university courses and ordered to leave the UK after a currency crisis left them struggling to pay tuition fees on time.
Read More »GAZA: Israel Seizes AP’s Broadcast Equipment Over Accusation Of Sharing Feeds With Banned Al Jazeera
Officials with Israel’s Communications Ministry on the orders of Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi have seize a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera.
Read More »EU: Temu Faces Legal Action In Europe Over ‘Manipulative Practices’
The Chinese online retailer, Temu is facing a fresh legal complaint filed by 17 companies in the European Union.
Read More »SOUTH AFRICA: Zuma’s Hope Of Returning To Power Dashed In High Court
South Africa’s highest court ruled on Monday that ex-president Jacob Zuma, who stepped down in 2018 amid a swirl of corruption allegations, is ineligible to contest a National Assembly seat in the vote next week.
Read More »DRCONGO: Coup Attempt Involving 3 Americans Foiled In Kinshasa
The leader of an attempted coup last Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and about 50 people including three American citizens arrested, a spokesperson for the Central African country’s army told reporters.
Read More »UK: Outage Over British Journalist’s Nigeria Nazi Tweet
A British self-styled occasional journalist and a pretentious royalist, Christopher Wilson, chose the wrong people to mess about with when he tweeted that “Nigeria’s human rights record is not far short of Nazi Germany’s” in an X post he hurriedly deleted shortly afterwards.
Read More »UK: BBC To Compensate Diana’s Ex-chauffeur For Slander
Princess Diana’s former chauffeur has settled a High Court slander case with the BBC over claims he leaked information about her before her now infamous Panorama interview.
Read More »GHANA: Stevie Wonder @74 Becomes Ghanaian Citizen
Legendary singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder is officially Ghanaian. The music icon on his 74th birthday was granted citizenship of Ghana by the nation’s president Nana Akufo-Addo
Read More »SCAPEGOAT: High Schoolers Awarded $1m Following Successful Appeal Of ‘Blackface’ Allegation
Two former California high school students have been awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement after they claimed to have been forced to withdraw from the school in 2020 for wearing acne masks, which was mis interpreted by officials and community members as “blackface.”
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