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High-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Ab-Sard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and later succumbed to his injuries in what amounted to a “martyr’s death,” the ministry said. Local authorities had confirmed
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A federal appeals court in Pennsylvania has rejected an appeal by U.S. President Donald Trump in a lawsuit alleging massive voter fraud, saying that his campaign’s fraud claims “have no merit.” “Calling an election unfair does not make it so. “Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” Judge
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The police command in Ekiti on Friday, confirmed the killing of a police officer as gunmen allegedly abducted a Chinese expatriate in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The abductee was one of the engineers working with the Chinese company handling the new Ado-Iyin road. The Command Police Public Relations Officer,
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Russian President, Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he was ready to work with any U.S. leader, and would congratulate whoever emerges the winner of the U.S. presidential election once all the legal formalities are settled, Russian news agencies reported. Putin has withheld comment, while President Donald Trump has been taking
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A U.S. federal court on Saturday evening dismissed President Donald Trump’s suit that sought to cancel millions of mail-in votes in the Nov. 3 election in Pennsylvania. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this is yet another major blow to efforts by Trump to have the presidential election
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French police have cleared a large migrant camp north of Paris, evicting about 2,000 people who had been living in “miserable conditions,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted. The evictions at the makeshift encampment near the Stade de France stadium began in the early morning. New accommodation would be found for the people
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The United Nations (UN) said yesterday that it is releasing $100 million in aid for seven countries including Nigeria and Ethiopia to help avoid famine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethiopia, where fighting has broken out between the Central Government and the Northern Tigray region, will receive one-fifth of this money. The other
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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has won the election in Georgia, becoming the first Democrat to claim the southern state in 28 years. With this, Biden is expected to finish the presidential race with 306 Electoral College votes, having earlier been projected to win Arizona. Manual recount of nearly five million presidential election
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has congratulated Americans for “a vibrant exercise of democracy” in the Nov. 3 U.S. general elections. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr Stephane Dujarric, on Monday, Gurerres also congratulated the President-elect Joe Biden and the Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. He said the partnership between the U.S.
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Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has congratulated the United States President-elect, Joe Biden, on his “well-deserved victory” at the Nov. 3 elections. In a statement he signed on Saturday in Abuja, Abubakar urged Biden to build on U.S.-Nigeria relationship. He said that he looked forward to the age-long collaboration between the two nations in
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