Category: World

Seven countries where Valentine’s Day is not celebrated

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Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honouring a martyr named Valentine. Through later folk traditions, it has become a significant cultural and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. The eighth-century Gelasian Sacramentary recorded the celebration of the Feast of Saint […]

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China’s Population Falls for First Time in 60 Years

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Official figures show China’s population shrank by 850,000 people in 2022 — the first such decline since 1961. The tipping point comes a decade earlier than the government and the United Nations predicted. Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population, said the “real demographic crisis is beyond imagination and that all of China’s past economic, […]

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Nigerian passport goes down by 38 places in global ranking

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Nigerian passport has gone down by 38 places in a global passport ranking in the last 17 years. This is according to the Henley Passport Index reports between 2006 and 2022 collated by Punch The Henley Passport Index ranks passports according to the number of countries their holders can access visa-free or with a visa-on-arrival […]

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Hear Hakeem Jeffries’ historic first speech as new congressional Democrats minority leader (Video)

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Following tradition, the new congressional Democrats minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries was to pass the gavel to the congressional Republican majority leader, Kelvin McCarthy who had just got the votes, and he spoke. Watch and listen to Hakeem in the video below: Mark my words, last night will be better remembered not for the chaos, rather […]

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Pele laid to rest as millions bid the football legend farewell

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Brazilian football legend and three-time World Cup winner, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, popularly known as Pele, was buried in his final resting place Tuesday as millions of fans in Brazil and around the world mourned the sports legend. Newly inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid his respects at Vila Belmiro, the stadium where […]

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Morocco files official complaint to FIFA about World Cup referee after their 2-0 defeat by France

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Moroccan Football Association (MFA) has filed an official complaint to FIFA over the performance of referee Cesar Ramos after Wednesday’s World Cup semi-final defeat to France. The Atlas Lions were defeated 2-0 by Didier Deschamps’s side who ended their historic run at the tournament, with Morocco becoming the first-ever African side to reach the final […]

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Elon Musk loses title of world richest person to Bernard Arnault

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Elon Musk has lost his title as the world’s richest person after selling Tesla stocks to fund the $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH, and his family took the ‘world richest’ title with a personal wealth of $185.4 billion, according to Forbes. Musk, who […]

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Founder and former Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey launches new social media platform

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Jack Dorsey, the founder and former CEO of the microblogging website Twitter, has launched a new social media platform called “Bluesky.” This happened just a week after business tycoon and owner of Tesla cars, Elon Musk bought and took over ownership of Twitter. Dorsey’s new app, which is in its testing stage, already has over […]

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Rishi Sunak is UK’s New Prime Minister

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British finance minister, Rishi Sunak, will be Britain’s next prime minister after his rivals quit the race, which analysts said had relieved some of the nervousness around the outlook for the UK economy, boosting domestic markets. The 42-year old will become the country’s third prime minister in less than two months, after his predecessor, Liz Truss, […]

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Guinness World Record officially names Monday ‘worst day of the week’

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The world’s authority on record-breaking achievements since 1955, Guinness World Records, has officially named Monday the worst day of the week. Guinness World Records tweeted this on Monday, October 17, 2022. “We’re officially giving Monday the record of the worst day of the week,” reads the post. See below: Twitter users reacted, with many saying […]

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Buhari arrives New York for United Nations General Assembly

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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday arrived in New York, the United States, for the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The president is expected to deliver the national statement on the second day of the general debates on Wednesday, September 21. This will be his last attendance and speech at the […]

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Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lowered into Royal Vault

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Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was on Monday lowered into the Royal Vault at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, bringing to an end public mourning for Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. The “second Elizabethan age” was symbolically brought to a close when the highest-ranking official in the royal household, Lord Chamberlain Andrew Parker, broke his wand of […]

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Germany seizes Russian energy firm’s subsidiaries

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Berlin on Friday took control of the German operations of Russian oil firm, Rosneft, to secure energy supplies which have been disrupted after Moscow invaded Ukraine. Rosneft’s German subsidiaries, which account for about 12 per cent of oil refining capacity in the country, were placed under trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency, the economy ministry […]

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