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A new COVID variant is spreading across the UK, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) – and already makes up one in seven new cases. Scientifically known as EG.5.1, it is descended from the Omicron variant of COVID. The UKHSA has been monitoring its prevalence in the country …

Call it a bold, audacious, or even outright insane attempt by anybody, let alone a full team of more than a dozen persons, and you may not be far from being justified in that thought. But as wild a thought as that may be, it is already a plan in …

As part of his 4-day official visit to Italy, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo paid a courtesy call on Pope Francis, the Head of the Catholic Church, the Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City State, at the Vatican, in Rome on On Saturday, 22nd July 2023. He …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his country’s ambassador to the UK. Vadym Prystaiko had recently criticised the president’s response to a row over gratitude for British military aid. He had called Mr Zelensky’s promise to thank the UK defence minister every morning “unhealthy sarcasm”. Kyiv gave no official reason …

A former Russian submarine captain who worked as a mobilisation officer has been shot dead while jogging in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, according to local media. Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was shot dead on Monday by an unidentified gunman, Russia’s state-run Rossiya 1 reported. Several Russian media outlets speculated …

An unnamed BBC presenter is facing fresh allegations by the Sun newspaper after it claimed he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos. The star was pictured in his underwear “ready for my child to perform for him”, their mother told the paper. It is unclear how old the young …

The Member of Parliament for Akatsi South , Bernard Ahiafor has predicted that countries practicing LGBTQ+ will be extinct in the next five decades. According to him, when God created humans he charged them to reproduce and fill the earth, therefore countries that have decided to go against the natural …

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has said the country’s long-delayed elections will be held next year as planned. President Kiir said he would run for re-election in the polls, the first since the country gained independence. No other candidate has declared their candidacy but First Vice-President Riek Machar is also …

In the late hours of Friday, June 23, news reports began to emerge of mercenary group from Russia, Wagner saying its mercenaries have seized “all military facilities” in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. Leader of the group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in an earlier video message, said President Vladimir Putin had made …

Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian PM who bounced back from sex scandals and corruption allegations, has died aged 86. He died at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, according to Italian media.   In April he was treated for a lung infection linked to a previously undisclosed case of chronic …