39 Years Old Emmanuel Macron sworn in as France President, to name the Prime Minister tomorrow. The inauguration took place at Elysee Palace on Sunday and gave a moving first speech to begin healing his fractured country. Macron has shaken up French politics with his meteoric rise to the presidency, winning his campaign as an […]
Centrist Emmanuel Macron has gone through to the second round of the French election, where he will face far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Mr Macron, a former banker, is seen as a political newcomer – and ran without the backing of an established party. After topping Sunday’s vote, he is now favourite to win the […]
History is made as Donald Trump becomes president of the United States of America. His path to the White House was paved by a string of stunning victories over Hillary Clinton in swing states. Key financial markets around the world have fallen in anticipation of Trump’s victory, but many in the US view him as a […]
Donald Trump is now only 32 electoral points short of achieving the magic number of 270 electoral votes needed to be President of the United States of America. The path for Hilary Clinton appears to be getting Narrower and Narrower as the night goes on and global markets have already started reacting […]
Donald Trump continues to shock observers in the race to the White House by winning the key battleground states of Ohio, Florida and North Carolina. In a race which experts had largely ceded to Clinton, with some saying she had an 80% chance of winning – she appears to have significantly under-performed by losing key […]
Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mr Cameron made the announcement in a statement outside Downing Street after the final result was announced. He said he would attempt to “steady the ship” over the coming weeks and months but that “fresh leadership” […]
Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has said. The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world’s best-known sportsmen, died at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday. He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by […]
Nazareth – Two members of the Plateau pilgrimage contingent are missing, the Acting Secretary of the state Pilgrims Board, Mrs Hassana Ayika, has confirmed. Ayika in Nazareth, Israel, on Wednesday said that the two persons, a man and a woman, were said to have gone missing at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday. Ayika said […]
There are speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari will keep the petroleum minister portfolio for himself in the new cabinet rather than trust anyone else with the ministry, which currently contributes over 80 per cent of Nigeria’s revenue. Reuters quoted some close associates of the President as saying this on Tuesday. One long-standing associate of Buhari, […]
A US jury has sentenced Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection. Three people were killed and 260 were injured when Tsarnaev, now 21, and his brother placed bombs at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. Tsarnaev is likely to be moved to a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, […]
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