The people’s congress in China on Friday handed Xi Jinping an unprecedented third term as president. The post China’s Communist Party confirms Xi to unprecedented 3rd term as president appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
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A Mexican drug cartel accused of kidnapping four Americans and murdering two of them has said the killers acted alone and will be handed over to authorities, local media reported on Thursday. Several Mexican news outlets published a letter allegedly issued by the Gulf Cartel, in which the organization said it “strongly condemns” and “apologizes” for the kidnappings and murders, which were carried out without the authorization of the group’s leaders. The four Americans had driven into northern Mexico in a white minivan last week before they were shot at and abducted by gunmen in the border town of Matamoros.…
Nine people were killed across Ukraine on Thursday, as Russia unleashed a barrage of high-precision missile and other attacks that triggered a wave of power cuts, including at Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant. The blackout at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant prompted the UN nuclear agency’s chief to issue a dire warning that next time “luck […] The post Russia pounds Ukraine with barrage of rare hypersonic missiles appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
Several people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness centre in Hamburg, with the gunman believed to be among the dead, German police said Thursday. Police have not given a death toll, but multiple local media outlets reported that the shooting had left seven dead and eight seriously injured. The first emergency […] The post Several shot dead at Jehovah's Witness centre in Hamburg appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, (NAPTIP), has said that it would go after any parent caught renting out children to trafficking rings for various exploitative reasons. The post Trafficking: NAPTIP to commence manhunt of parents renting children for N3,000 per day in FCT appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
Sri Lanka voiced hope on Wednesday that a long-awaited IMF bailout would be finalised soon and help unfreeze billions of dollars in foreign aid for projects suspended since last year. Government spokesman Bandula Gunawardana told reporters that the International Monetary Fund was expected to give its board approval for a $2.9 billion bailout agreed at a staff level in September. “We are confident that the IMF board will give its approval,” the minister said a day after the Washington-based lender confirmed Sri Lanka would be taken up at its March 20 board meeting. IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said in…
US President Joe Biden will host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol for a state visit on April 26, the White House announced Tuesday, as the countries ramp up cooperation over the threat from North Korea. The United States and South Korea have been holding increasing numbers of joint drills in the face of growing warnings from nuclear-armed Pyongyang, which has conducted a wave of banned weapons tests in recent months. The prestigious state visit — only the second of Biden’s time in office — “will highlight the importance and enduring strength of the ironclad… alliance” between the two countries,…
A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced the founder of an opposition social media platform to nearly nine years in jail on charges of spreading “false” information about the army, Russian news agencies reported. Dmitry Ivanov, a 23-year-old former maths and cybernetics student at Moscow State University, created and curated a channel critical of the government on the Telegram social media app. He reportedly shared posts critical of what Russian President Vladimir Putin describes as Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. The verdict is the latest in a series of rulings under legislation that critics say is designed to criminalise opposition…
Eleven people were killed and dozens were missing after torrential rains and landslides battered one of Indonesia’s outermost islands on Monday, the country’s disaster agency said. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s spokesperson Abdul Muhari said on Kompas TV that, according to the latest information from local officials on the Riau Islands, “11 body bags had been filled” and “50 people are estimated missing”. Pictures provided by the agency showed mud and debris from the landslides had flattened and fully covered the houses that were near the edge of a cliff on Serasan island, between Borneo and mainland Malaysia. Parts of…
President Xi Jinping vowed to boost the country’s manufacturing capacity and not rely on overseas markets, state media reported Monday. Speaking at the annual gathering of the rubber-stamp parliament in Beijing on Sunday, Xi said China should be able to fend for itself. “I’ve always said there are two critical areas for China: one is to safeguard our rice bowl, and the other is to build up a strong manufacturing sector,” Xi said, according to the state-run People’s Daily. “As a great nation of 1.4 billion people, we must rely on ourselves,” Xi added. “We can’t depend on international markets…