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ABUJA: Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thrown his weight behind Dangote Refinery’s warning against arbitrary pump-price controls, insisting that his proposed production subsidy would protect Nigerian refineries and reduce domestic production costs without forcing them to...
File photo: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele.
The Department of Basic Education cannot provide verified provincial figures showing how many educators and other school personnel have been vetted against South Africa’s two child-protection registers since 2019.
Elon Musk is the subject of Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour documentary Musk, which premiered in Venice.
Takes notice of prolonged outage, orders authorities to utilise resources to provide relief to consumers
GILGIT: A Gilgit-Baltistan election tribunal on Friday suspended the GB Assembly membership of Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party’s (IPP) Malik Imam from GBA-16 Diamer-II, directing the returning officer (RO) of the constituency to complete the verification and counting of postal ballot p...
David Maloney's proposal comes on the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump's signed order to change name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Brazil presidential hopeful Bolsonaro under investigation over alleged corruption, court document shows Reuters
Sweden's fractured left holds slim lead in polls before Sunday election Reuters
A growing rift within the banned Jamaat-e-Islami has spilled into the public domain, with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, backing former Jamaat chief Ghulam Mohammad Bhat in his dispute with the Justice and Development Front (JDF...
References to the war in Iran started by the U.S. and Israel, and Iran’s attacks on installations in the UAE and other West Asian countries, had still not been resolved, officials say
Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerged as a popular choice for photographs at the BRICS Business Forum in New Delhi on Friday as foreign delegates gathered around him for a group picture.
UK lawmakers on Friday voted down a bill that would have allowed terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. After a four-hour debate in the House of Commons, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was rejected by 286 votes to 270.
On the anniversary of 9/11, leaders across the United States honored the victims and reflected on the impact of the tragedy on current foreign policy. Speaking at the Pentagon, President Trump paid homage to the fallen and reaffirmed the nation’s determination, particularly in it...
Iran president says pressure on country at critical, dangerous stage Al Arabiya English
A Polish MEP has taken an axe to a memorial honoring Nazi-linked Ukrainian nationalist paramilitaries responsible for massacring Polish civilians during World War II.
Trump's Clarity Act faces a critical 60-vote test as Democrats demand crypto ethics rules tied to the President's $1.4 billion digital currency earnings.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, lone actors radicalized online have replaced al Qaeda's complex plots as the greatest terrorism threat to the homeland.