Abuja, Nigeria — AFP Nigeria’s Supreme Court has rejected the opposition’s challenges to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election victory, validating his mandate after the final legal appeal. A seven-judge panel ruled as without merit the opposition appeals over claims of fraud, electoral law violations and Tinubu’s...
GENEVA (AA) – The recognition of the Palestinian state is among Spain’s far-left Sumar party’s demands to form a government with the Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), the party’s spokesperson said on Monday. Ernest Urtasun told a press conference that Sumar believes that there is room to close a government agreement with ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday returned to his country after nearly four years in self-exile. His special chartered plane landed in the capital Islamabad as he was accompanied by party leaders and a group of journalists. Ahead of Sharif’s arrival, several streets in cities across Pak...
–Rwanda (AA) – The military administration in Niger has claimed to have foiled an attempt by deposed President Mohamed Bazoum to flee the country this week. Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, the government spokesperson, said Bazoum tried to escape in the wee hours of Thursday together with his family, two cooks, and two security personnel. “Th...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – A number of councilors from the UK’s main opposition Labour Party have resigned in the past days in protest over party leader Keir Starmer’s support for what he called Israel’s “right” to cut power and water supplies to Palestinians living in Gaza. Some prominent leading members of the shadow cabine...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A Pakistani court has issued notices to former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa, ex-intelligence chief Faiz Hamid and two journalists to appear for allegedly flouting the Official Secrets Act. Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Aamer Farooq has issued the notices. The petitioner, Atif Ali, a resident of Rawalpindi, a garriso...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA )- Senegal’s President Macky Sall dissolved members of the government by decree, according to a communique Friday. Sall “terminated, by decree dated October 06, 2023, the functions of the ministers, members of the government,” said a statement from Secretary-General of the Presidency Oumar Samba Ba. The p...
According to the U.S. newspaper Politico, Garcetti has suggested limiting contacts with Indian officials indefinitely WASHINGTON – U.S. Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has reportedly expressed concern about a possible deterioration of relations with India due to ongoing diplomatic tensions between New Delhi and Canada. According to the...
Pentagon also calls shooting down of Turkish drone in Syria by US jets ‘regrettable incident’ WASHINGTON (AA) – The Pentagon said Thursday that the US acknowledges Türkiye’s “legitimate security concerns,” noting that Türkiye is one of its “strongest and most valued NATO allies.” Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder told a daily press briefi...
Though new map does not establish a second majority-Black district, it features a district where 48.7% of the voting-age populace is Black MONTGOMERY, Alabama – A three-judge panel has endorsed a new Alabama congressional map to be implemented for the 2024 elections. This decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court’s verdict and Al...
