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The United Nations General Assembly yesterday in New York, United States elected Nigeria’s Prof. Tijjani Mohammad-Bande as president of the 74th Session of the body. As the sole candidate for the position, he emerged victorious through acclamation at the 87th plenary meeting of the Assembly. He is the second Nigerian …

North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February, holding them responsible for its collapse, a South Korean newspaper reported on Friday. Kim Yong Chol, a senior official who …

The Federal Government has commended the decision of the Supreme Court of Singapore to free a Nigerian, Mr Adili Ejike, who was earlier sentenced to death for drug trafficking in the country. The Acting Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Akpan Friday said this in a statement on Thursday in …

UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced her resignation as Conservative leader, clearing the way for a new PM to pick up the formidable challenge of delivering Brexit and reuniting a shattered Tory party. May said in an emotional statement in Downing Street that she would resign as Tory …

New Zealand police on Tuesday filed a terrorism charge against the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques. Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, was already facing murder and attempted murder charges from the March 15 shootings. The new charge comes with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment …

Prince Harry said he is having sleepless nights since the arrival of baby Archie but cannot imagine life without him. The Duke of Sussex chatted about fatherhood during a series of engagements in Oxford, including a visit to the city’s children’s hospital. Christine George, 52, whose son James, 17, is …

Venezuela braced Saturday for another day of nationwide protests after President Nicolas Maduro clamped down further on opposition leader Juan Guaido, locking up his deputy in a military prison following a dramatic arrest. Edgar Zambrano, deputy speaker of the opposition-majority National Assembly, is being held in preventive detention for “the …

US President Donald Trump cranked up the heat in a trade battle with China, ordering a tariff hike on almost all remaining imports from the world’s second-biggest economy, but Beijing said talks would continue to resolve the row. After tweeting that two days of trade talks in Washington had been …

More than 100 inmates escaped from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island, police said, in the latest breakout to hit the country’s creaking prison system. The prisoners fled the jail in Siak district on Sumatra island early in the morning after rioting and a fire broke out at the detention …

Seventy countries urged North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles and related programs, decrying the “undiminished threat” posed to world peace. Signatories included the United States and South Korea, as well as nations in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe. Russia and China, supporters of Pyongyang, did not …