Category: Global News

US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential contender, released DNA test results Monday confirming her Native American ancestry and challenged Donald Trump to donate the $1 million he promised if the results proved her claim. The 69-year-old Warren, a leading progressive voice, has been derisively called “Pocahontas” by the president and accused of […]

Several British ministers are threatening to quit over concessions Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing to make to the European Union on Brexit, UK newspapers said on Friday. Reports of a growing government revolt emerged ahead of a high-stakes summit in Brussels next week aimed at nailing down the details of the two sides’ divorce […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to visit, saying he would be “ardently welcomed”, South Korea’s presidency said Tuesday, adding it would pass on Pyongyang’s message to the Vatican. South Korean President Moon Jae-in will have an audience with the Pope during a visit to the Vatican from October 17 to […]

President Donald Trump has apologised to his new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh

US President Donald Trump on Friday accused protesters massing in Washington against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of being “paid professionals” funded by billionaire investor and liberal donor George Soros. “The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don’t fall for it!” Trump said […]

Brazil’s front-running far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed in the abdomen while campaigning on Thursday, and is in serious condition and undergoing surgery, his son and a hospital spokeswoman said. Flavio Bolsonaro, the candidate’s son, wrote on his verified Twitter account that “sadly, it was more serious that we had hoped for.” “The perforation […]

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), has given its nod to fresh one hundred and twenty medical doctors trained at the College of Health Sciences of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, to practice medicine and surgery. Registrar of the Council, Dr. Tajudeen Adisa Sanusi who inducted the new doctors in […]

Scott Morrison has become Australia’s new prime minister after Malcolm Turnbull was forced out by party rivals in a bruising leadership contest. Mr Turnbull had been under pressure from poor polling and what he described as an “insurgency” by conservative MPs. Mr Morrison, the treasurer, won an internal ballot 45-40 over former Home Affairs Minister […]

US President Donald Trump has responded to speculation that he might be impeached by warning that any such move would damage the economy. In an interview with Fox & Friends, he said the market would crash and “everybody would be very poor”. He was speaking after Michael Cohen, his ex-lawyer, pleaded guilty to violating election […]

German woman yet to have sex aged 36 has successfully AUCTIONED her virginity online for €250,000 – and says her age drove up the bids *EXCLUSIVE: Mandy 36, sold her virginity on auction site Cinderella Escorts *The highest bidder was an anonymous businessman who paid €250,000 *Mandy has arranged to meet the successful bidder in […]