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U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has paid tribute to U.S. President Joe Biden as an “extraordinary guardian’’ of the country’s security. He was “deeply grateful’’ for Biden’s leadership and statesmanship, Austin said in a statement after Biden announced he was withdrawing from the race to be the next president. “He …

GERMAN Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, on Monday praised US President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his re-election campaign. “I have great respect for the US president’s decision. Joe Biden is putting his country’s interests above his own,” she said in Brussels ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers. Biden …

U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign on Sunday followed a series of strategic missteps by his campaign team and White House aides that amplified concerns that the 81-year-old president wouldn’t be able to win in November’s election, or run the country for another four years. Biden’s …

Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets near Yemen’s Hodeidah port on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding 87, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed group hit Israeli economic hub Tel Aviv. Israeli airstrike in Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Media Centre/Handout via REUTERS …

DOCTORS in Gaza, on Saturday, July 20, 2024, pulled a newborn baby from his mother’s womb moments after she died of wounds sustained in an Israeli air strike. At nine months pregnant, Ola Adnan Harb al-Kurd managed to survive just long enough to reach Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza after …

THE World Bank announced on Friday a significant commitment of $100 million to accelerate Zambia’s digital infrastructure and expand internet access. This investment will be channelled through the Digital Zambia Acceleration Project, funded by the International Development Association. Zhang Wencai, Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Administrative Officer, made …

BENIN and Sierra Leone have formally accepted the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, bringing the total number of acceptances to 80. The acceptance documents were presented to WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala by Benin’s Ambassador Corinne Brunet and Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Lansana Gberie on July 19. Director-General Okonjo-Iweala …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is to address an extraordinary meeting of the UK Cabinet on Friday as Prime Minister Keir Starmer underlines Britain’s ongoing support for Ukraine. The Ukrainian president will be the first official visitor to Downing Street under Starmer’s premiership, and the first foreign leader to address the …

IN a recent forecast, international research and data firm Fitch Solutions has projected that John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will emerge victorious in Ghana’s 2024 general elections. The London-based firm has been consistent in its election predictions since last year and bases its latest forecast on a …

THE trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on a charge of spying for the U.S. government continued behind closed doors in a Russian court on Thursday, a court spokeswoman said. Witnesses were being heard, she said. Journalists attending the trial in Yekaterinburg 1,800 kilometres east of Moscow, as …