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ADEFEMOLA AKINTADE

September 29, 2026

U.S. slams visa ban on corrupt, drug-trafficking foreign officials, family members

A Department of State statement on Monday said the visa restriction would also apply to immediate family members of targeted foreigners in Western Hemisphere countries.

President Donald Trump
September 29, 2026

OpenAI cancels release of new AI model over safety concerns

OpenAI said GPT-6.1 Astra was not honest in disclosing its full actions to users and carried out instructions without being prompted.

Open AI
September 28, 2026

More than 14 million people live in food poverty in UK: Amnesty International

The poll found that 70 per cent of respondents had changed their eating and shopping habits to accommodate rising food costs.

People in UK shopping for food
September 28, 2026

Floods, landslides kill scores in India after heavy rainfall

Days of torrential rainfall has killed no fewer than 60 persons and damaged over a thousand homes.

RWANDAN LANDSLIDES
September 28, 2026

Amnesty International, CPJ call for fresh probe into unsolved murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan

Mr O’Hagan was a staff of Sunday World and had written exposés detailing the criminal underworld operations of Ireland’s paramilitary groups before his murder in 2001.

Martin O’Hagan
September 28, 2026

Muslims protest planned demolition of 600-year-old mosque to make way for Hindu pilgrimage

Demonstrators told local media, Maktoob, that it was wrong to wipe out the existence of a religion to favour another.

Hundreds of Muslims in India are protesting
September 28, 2026

Serbia’s Vucic resigns as president to run for prime minister

“Tomorrow morning I will hand over my duties to the parliament speaker,” Mr Vučić said on Sunday. “This is the last evening for me in this building.”

Aleksandar Vucic
September 25, 2026

University of Cambridge drops plans to investigate hiring of Jason Arday after suicide

The University of Cambridge has aborted investigations seeking to probe its recruitment of Jason Arday, the Black professor who died by suicide last month.

September 25, 2026

Xenophobia: RCCG begins repatriation of 500 Nigerians from South Africa

The RCCG Task Force welcomed the first batch of 100 Nigerians on Thursday night at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

September 25, 2026

Gaza: Israel prevented genocide, didn’t commit it, says Netanyahu

Mr Netanyahu says Israel has worked to prevent a genocide, denying claims that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, describing the accusation as “the greatest lie of the century”.

Isreal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu