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      A 34-year-old Ghanaian woman extradited from Ghana to the US, Deborah Mensah, has been sentenced to 70 months over a multimillion-dollar money laundering conspiracy.   Information available from the New York Southern District of United States Attorney Office indicates that Deborah was between 2014 and 2018 involved …

Cristiano Ronaldo has topped Instagram’s rich list as the celebrity thought to be able to charge more than anyone else for a sponsored post. The Juventus forward can charge advertisers $1.6m (£1.2m) per post on his account, according to social media marketing firm Hopper HQ. Former Real Madrid star Ronaldo …

The health secretary of the United Kingdom (UK) MattHancock, has resigned after he allegedly breached COVID-19 social distancing guidance by kissing a colleague. In a letter addressed to the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, dated the 26th of June 2021, hon Hancock said he writes to resign as secretary of state for …

Cristiano Ronaldo has equalled the enviable record of Ghana star Asamoah Gyan after his brace against Hungary on Tuesday. Ronaldo scored two late goals as Portugal began their Euros title defence with a labored 3-0 victory against a spirited Hungary side in Budapest. The Hungarians deployed a tactic that worked …

Pope Francis on Thursday rejected the resignation of one of Germany’s most influential bishops, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who had offered to step down to accept responsibility for the sexual abuse crisis in the German Catholic Church. Marx, the Bishop of Munich, wrote to the pope in a letter released this …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for variants of Covid-19. From now on the WHO will use Greek letters to refer to variants first detected in countries like the UK, South Africa and India. The UK variant for instance is labelled as Alpha, the South …

A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies, in what would be an extremely rare case. Halima Cisse, 25, gave birth on Tuesday to five girls and four boys in a Moroccan hospital where she had been admitted, the Malian Health Minister Fanta Siby said in a statement. The …

Chad’s President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels, the army said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a presidential election. Deby’s son, Mahamat Kaka, was named interim president by a transitional council of military officers, …

Former United States Vice President, Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who famously told voters to expect a tax increase should he win the presidency, died on Monday, US media reported. He was 93 years old. No cause was given for Mondale’s death, according to reports citing a statement from his family. …

Jose Mourinho has been fired, bringing a contract that had been due to run until the summer of 2023 to a premature conclusion   Jose Mourinho has been sacked by Tottenham Hotspur after just 17 months in charge. The Portuguese replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs manager in November 2019 and …