EDUPEACE| Three takeaways from 2020
Prof. M. A. Adedimeji As the unusual year 2020 drifts to its end, it is appropriate to reflect on some...
Month: December 2020
Turkish court sentences 92 people to life imprisonment over 2016 coup attempt
A Turkish court sentenced 92 defendants including former high-ranking army officials to life in jail on Wednesday for their roles...
US blacklists 2 Venezuelan officials
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Venezuelan judge and a prosecutor over their roles in the trial...
Cuba FM warns washington against new terror designation
Cuba on Wednesday warned the outgoing US administration against redesignating the island as a state sponsor of terrorism, a move...
Ten still missing after Norway landslide
Rescue workers were still searching on Thursday for survivors from a landslide smashed into a residential area near the Norwegian...
Federal judge in Iowa ridicules Trump’s pardons
A federal judge in Iowa who has warned against political corruption is ridiculing President Donald Trump’s pardons, including those issued...
Argentina’s Senate passes law to legalize abortion
Argentina’s Senate has passed a law legalizing elective abortion in Pope Francis’ homeland early Wednesday after a marathon 12-hour session,...
Trump’s $2,000 checks stall in Senate as GOP blocks vote
President Donald Trump’s push for bigger $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks has stalled out in the Senate as Republicans blocked a...
EU officials sign Brexit trade deal
Britain’s House of Commons has voted resoundingly to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for...
UAE announces 1,723 new Covid-19 cases, 1,607 recoveries
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention has reported 1,723 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of recorded cases...
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi launches first flight to Athens in January
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the UAE's newest national airline, on Tuesday confirmed that Athens will be its inaugural destination, with...
ACWA Power signs deals for first wind project in Azerbaijan
Following the signing of the implementation agreement for the $300 million Independent Power Project in January 2020, ACWA Power Tuesday...
UK records 53,135 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours
UK’s government has reported 53,135 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the highest number since mass testing started in mid-2020...
Egypt’s court sentences 168 terrorists to life imprisonment
Egypt’s military court has sentenced 168 terrorists to life imprisonment. Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported on Tuesday that the judgment followed...
Indian film star Rajinikanth battles ill health, ends political bid
The 70-year-old Tamil action hero said he would serve the people without entering electoral politics over health concerns. Indian movie...
Strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake crushes Croatia
A strong earthquake has hit central Croatia, with injuries reported as well as considerable damage to buildings southeast of the...
Israel shuts down Ramon prison due to Covid-19 infections
Israeli prison authorities have closed down the Ramon prison after detecting several coronavirus infections among prisoners and guards, according to...
Covid-19: Epidemiologist warns UK to tighten rules to avert catastrophe
A leading epidemiologist and government adviser, Andrew Hayward, has warned Britain’s government to tighten coronavirus lockdown rules to avert a...
Biden condemns US national security agencies
President-elect Joe Biden has criticised President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the US’s foreign policy and national security apparatus. While saying...
Saudi signs deal to bolster non-oil exports
The Saudi Exports Development Authority and the Council of Saudi Chambers signed, on Monday, a memorandum of cooperation to build...
Iran begins first human trial of locally-made virus vaccine
Iran has begun the first study of the safety and effectiveness of a coronavirus vaccine. While reporting this on Tuesday,...
Trump signs $2.3 trillion Covid-19 package, adds conditions
US President Donald Trump, has finally signed a $2.3 trillion financial package that is crucial to millions of jobless Americans,...
Saudi company acquires US medical campus
Saudi-based Arbah Capital has announced its investors’ acquisition of the Commonwealth Campus, a $59m high income-producing diversified medical campus in...
Lebanon secures Covid-19 vaccines for 20% citizens
Lebanon has secured about 2 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, which will cover 20% of the country's nationals, the...
Kenya forces kill several Al-Shabaab in Lamu
Ibrahim Jaafar Olum Kenya Forces on Sunday raided a stronghold of Al Shabaab militants and destroyed their camp, killing several...
Cleric accuses media, US government of double standard, condemns underreported Christian terrorist attack on Xmas Day
Akeem Alao A Pakistani-American theologian and preacher, Yasir Qadhi, has accused the mainstream media and the US government of double...
Nigeria: Boko Haram attacks Borno communities, kills 3 people, destroys schools
At least three people have been confirmed killed in one of the Borno communities in Hawul Local Government Area attacked...
Turkey warns Haftar against attacking forces in Libya
Turkey’s defence minister has threatened that any attack by eastern Libyan renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar on its personnel in...
Dubai ruler approves $15.5 billion budget for 2021
Dubai, the business and financial hub of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has approved a 57.1 billion dirham ($15.55 billion)...
Saudi Arabia discovers 4 Oil, gas fields
Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz has announced that Saudi Aramco has discovered four new oil...
Oman to reopen borders on December 29
Oman has disclosed plan to reopen its land, air and sea borders on Tuesday December 29, a government Twitter account...
Nigeria: GYSF unveils project, feeds 100 underprivileged people in Lagos
Global Youth Sustainability Foundation, a non-governmental organisation which promotes welfarism among the underprivileged Nigerians, has fed 100 underprivileged people in...
Iran extends traffic curfew to 330 cities to sustain virus decline
Iran has extended a night-time traffic curfew to 330 lower-risk cities in an effort to sustain a recent fall in...
3 UN peacekeepers killed in CAR ahead of Sunday’s elections
Unidentified armed combatants have killed three peacekeepers from Burundi in the Central African Republic (CAR), the United Nations said on...
India arrests 75 in Kashmir after local elections
The Indian government has arrested at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance...
Democrats support Biden’s ‘unconditional’ return to Iran nuclear deal
A letter backing President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to return to the Iran nuclear deal without any new conditions has garnered...
2 climbers killed, 2 injured in Iran during heavy snowfall
Two climbers were killed and two others injured on Friday on a mountain outside Iran’s capital Tehran during heavy snowfall...
Egypt Mufti condemns Israeli attacks on Muslim graves in Jerusalem
Egypt’s Mufti Shawki Allam has urged the international community and international organizations to assume their full responsibilities in stopping Israeli...
Algerian political prisoner offers govt help to improve conditions for inmates
A major Algerian political prisoner has offered the government financial assistance to improve the conditions for inmates in the prison...
Egypt’s head of electoral commission dies of Covid-19
The Head of Egypt’s electoral commission, Lashin Ibrahim, has died. It was reported on Friday that Ibrahim died of complications...
Xmas: Santa distributes toy giveaway to children in 49th Precinct
Robert Press Santa has distributed toy giveaway to make a Merry Christmas to children in 49th Precinct Santa, who came...
It is our collective responsibility to involve in every activity in our community — Al-Hassan Kanu
By Moses Kuwema New York City Council candidate for District 27 in Queens, Al-Hassan Kanu, has expressed belief that everyone...
Columbus suspends police officer for shooting unarmed Black man
A Columbus, Ohio police officer who fatally shot a Black man on Tuesday has been suspended from duty. This was...
UK finds new strain of Covid-19 from South Africa, widens lockdowns
A new, potentially more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus has been found in the United Kingdom in cases linked...
Dubai begins Pfizer vaccine campaign to residents
The Dubai Health Authority (DHA), in coordination with Dubai’s Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management and the COVID-19 Command...
Washington accuses Tehran of ‘disregarding’ Security Council
Washington has accused Tehran of “reckless disregard” for its UN obligations, and regretted that some Security Council members ignore or...
Trump warns Iran over rocket strike on embassy in Iraq
US President Donald Trump has warned that he would hold "Iran responsible" in the event of a fatal attack on...
A Farmer’s Homeland by Tu Niu
A farmer’s homeland, is gathered in his palm of land He never walks out of the crop line of sight,...
Pandemic sends US single mothers into poverty
When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered restaurants in California, Aleida Ramirez lost her job as a waitress, plunging her — along...
Biden to appoint Connecticut schools Chief Miguel Cardona Education Secretary
President-elect Joe Biden has disclosed plan to appoint Miguel Cardona, the head of Connecticut's public schools, as his secretary of...
Ex-Italy defender Bellugi’s legs amputated after COVID-19 complications
Former Italy and Inter Milan defender Mauro Bellugi revealed on Tuesday that both his legs had been amputated following coronavirus...
Lebanese Parliament agrees to lift banking secrecy for one year
Lebanon's parliament has passed a law to lift banking secrecy for one year in a move that could clear the...
5 people killed in Kabul car bomb blast
At least five people, including four doctors, were killed after a magnetic bomb attached to their car exploded in the...
Canada pledges $70m to assist crisis-hit Palestine refugee agency
Canada has pledged 90 million Canadian dollars ($70m) in aid to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which has been...
Malaysia signs Covid-19 vaccine agreement with AstraZeneca
Malaysia has signed an agreement to buy 6.4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and is in negotiations with China...
Iraq begins fuel exports to Lebanon
Iraq’s oil minister said on Monday that an agreement has been reached with Lebanon to start fuel export supplies to...
Oman shuts borders to prevent outbreak of new strain of Covid-19
Oman has disclosed plan to shut its land, air and sea borders on Tuesday at 1 a.m. for one week,...
Tunisian Minister of Environment arrested over Italian waste scandal
Tunisian Environment Minister Mustapha Aroui has been sacked and arrested over the shipment of hundreds of containers of household waste...
Financial Focus: Retirement Planning Success — from Today to Tomorrow ( part 2)
Professor Anthony Rivieccio In our last week's article ( part 1), we discussed that I was finishing up my Retirement...
AfDB Board of Directors approves borrowing program for 2021
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved 2021 borrowing program for up to US$10.4 billion...
