Guinea’s Alpha Conde has won the country’s presidential poll, the national electoral authority said Saturday. Announcing provisional results, the president of the electoral authority, Kabinet...

US President Donald Trump cast his ballot in Florida on Saturday morning before travelling to headline three rallies in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. With only 10 days left before the election,...

Jacinda Ardern has won a second term as New Zealand’s Prime Minister in a landslide victory. With all votes tallied, Ms Ardern’s centre-left Labour Party won 49.1%, bringing a projected 64...

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP), an organ of the United Nations, for its “efforts to combat hunger” and its “contribution to...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not participate in the second presidential debate with Joe Biden after the Commission on Presidential Debates said the event will be held virtually...

Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing. Charpentier, who is French, and Doudna,...

The Economic Community of West African States has decided to lift the sanctions it had imposed on the Republic of Mali following the military coup which ousted the democratically elected government of...

US President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving treatment for COVID-19. He immediately ignited a new controversy by declaring...

US President Donald Trump who has been hospitalised for COVID-19 infection has been slammed by critics for driving outside the medical facility on Sunday so he could wave to a group of supporters on...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is self-isolating after participating in a meeting that was attended by a person who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19, she has announced on...

Three scientists who discovered the virus Hepatitis C have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. The winners are British scientist, Michael Houghton and US researchers, Harvey Alter and Charles...

White House Physician, Navy Cmdr. Dr Sean Conley has said the US President, Donald Trump is doing “very well” in hospital. The President was flown in a helicopter yesterday evening from the...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and First Lady, Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 and would immediately quarantine and begin the “recovery process.” He announced the...

US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden last night in Cleveland, Ohio, engaged in a heated verbal  exchange laced for the main part with diatribes in the first presidential...

The coronavirus pandemic has now claimed one million lives around the globe, according to the latest official death tolls, with more than 33 million cases. The pandemic has ravaged the world’s...

United States President Donald Trump has called on the United Nations to “hold China accountable for their actions” with regard to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. He made the call in a speech...

The United States passed the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 yesterday with cases rising nationally and more controversy roiling the country’s response. The bleak milestone, by far...

France has created an important diplomatic upset that has kept the world guessing. She has recalled her ambassador to Cote d’ Ivoire, Gilles Huberson only few weeks before the country’s elections. Protesters...

Mali’s ruling junta said on Wednesday that it is making moves to appoint an interim president.  This comes after West African leaders imposed economic sanctions after the coup. ECOWAS leaders had given...

Mr Yoshihide Suga, a seasoned politician has been elected as Japan’s new Prime Minister following a vote in the country’s parliament on Wednesday, confirming him as leader of the world’s...