Fifty-eight of the 164 member states of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) members have voiced support for a proposal from the African Group backing incumbent Director General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to serve a second term. The 58 member countries of the trade association made…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s government on Tuesday, which will now serve only in a caretaker capacity, the presidency said. French politics have been in gridlock since an inconclusive snap election earlier this month,…

Russia struck cities across Ukraine on Monday with a missile barrage that killed 31 people and heavily damaged a Kyiv children’s hospital in an assault condemned as a ruthless attack on civilians. Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers were digging through debris…

France’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he would offer his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron on Monday after his party failed to win a majority in parliamentary elections. But he added that, if his resignation is refused, he was ready to remain in…

With fuel subsidy gone, the Nigerian government has been seeking new avenues to cushion the economic effect on citizens with regards to cost of transportation, and one of such initiatives is the drive towards Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) which stakeholders now believe will…

The governor of Louisiana has signed a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom in the conservative US state, according to BBC.  The bill signed on Wednesday, has reignited intense debates over the separation of church and…

China has started two days of military exercises around Taiwan, with its military calling them "strong punishment" for the self-ruled island's "separatist acts". The drills come three days after the inauguration of President William Lai, who called on China to stop threatening the…

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leaders on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Karim Khan said he was seeking warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli…

The EU’s top two chiefs condemned the attack on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who on Wednesday was reportedly shot and hospitalised after a cabinet meeting. “I strongly condemn the vile attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico,” said European Commission President Ursula von…