How to apply for the US diversity visa lottery program 2023. Each year, the Department of State performs a random selection of Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) applicants from all registered entries. Ekohotblog reports that the State Department website for the US Diversity Visa Lottery (DV-2023) program is currently open and accessible. Interested applicants can apply … Read more
The exclusion of girls at this time has aggravated fears that the Taliban could be returning to their hardline rule of the 1990s. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed the Taliban’s “broken” promises to Afghan women and girls, and urged the world to inject cash into Afghanistan in order to prevent its economic collapse. “I … Read more
Compaore, the chief accused, announced through his lawyers last week that he would boycott the trial. A military court in Ouagadougou on Monday began the long-awaited trial of 14 men, including the former president, accused of the assassination of Burkina Faso’s left-wing leader Thomas Sankara 34 years ago. The slaying of Sankara, a pan-Africanist icon, … Read more
Afghan interpreter who helped rescue Biden in 2008 has reportedly jetted out of Afghanistan. Khalili recently requested that now-President Biden return the favor by rescuing him from Afghanistan. Ekohotblog reports that an Afghan translator who assisted in the rescue of then-Sen. Joe Biden when his helicopter was forced to land in a snowstorm 13 years ago … Read more
Since the Taliban takeover, many foreigners have left Afghanistan, but some journalists and aid workers remain in the capital The United States and Britain have warned their citizens to avoid hotels in Afghanistan, days after dozens of people were killed at a mosque in an attack claimed by the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP … Read more
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were reportedly seen making eyes at each other during her ‘SNL’ Monologue Kanye West showed support for Kim Kardashian when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the first time, a report says West reportedly left the audience and went backstage after her monologue, which he had seen during rehearsals Ekohotblog … Read more
The Taliban said the talks held in Doha, Qatar, “went well,” with Washington freeing up humanitarian aid to Afghanistan… The United States has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban disclosed … Read more
No fewer than 16 people have been killed as paratroopers plane crashed on Sunday. EKOHOTBLOG reports that an L-410 plane crashed near a city in the Tatarstan region on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring seven. According to the RIA news agency which cited the emergency services, the plane was carrying a group … Read more
Mali has been struggling to contain a growing Islamist insurgency that first emerged in the north of the country in 2012… A Colombian nun kidnapped by Islamists in Mali four years ago has been freed. Gloria Cecilia Narváez was taken hostage in 2017 while working as a missionary in Koutiala, about 400 kilometres east of … Read more
A former President has been confirmed dead. EKOHOTBLOG reports that Abolhassan Banisadr, who became Iran’s first President after the 1979 Islamic Revolution before fleeing into exile, has died at the age of 88. This online news platform understands that Banisadr, who was elected President in 1980, was impeached 16 months after taking office for challenging … Read more
The US insists the meeting does not amount to recognition of the Taliban US officials have met Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban for their first face-to-face talks since Washington pulled its troops from the country in August. The talks in Qatar are focusing on issues including containing extremist groups, the evacuation of US citizens and humanitarian aid, … Read more
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticized for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic Brazil on Friday surpassed the grim milestone of 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest number of fatalities in the world after the United States, according to John Hopkins University data. The South American nation, which holds half the continent’s population, has … Read more
It also lets ordinary citizens enforce the ban, rewarding them at least $10,000 if they successfully sue anyone who helped provide an abortion… A United States federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated Texas’s near total ban on abortions. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton … Read more
Staveley is said to have used false documents, stolen licence plates and at least five different phone numbers to travel across the country and escape the authorities… A Massachusetts man who tried to scam a COVID-19 business aid scheme and faked his own death to evade authorities has been sentenced to 56 months in prison. … Read more
A bomb explosion has killed at least 50 worshippers at Shiite Mosque. EKOHOTBLOG reports that an apparent bomb attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 50 people Friday, in the bloodiest assault since US forces left the country. This online news platform gathered that … Read more
The prize is intended to honour an individual or organisation that has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations”. Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their “courageous fight” to defend freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. The committee called the pair “representatives … Read more
Vice President has announced presidential ambition. EKOHOTBLOG reports that Philippines Vice President Leni Robredo has declared her readiness to succeed President Rodrigo Duterte in the 2022 elections. This online news platform learnt that Robredo made her intention known in a speech delivered in Tagalog on Thursday. She said, “I’m officially offering myself as candidate … Read more
The agreement comes less than two weeks before 18 October, the day the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned was the deadline to prevent the first ever US default United States Senators have agreed to extend the country’s debt ceiling, less than two weeks before it was due to be reached. A debt ceiling is … Read more
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth a sum of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.14m / £840,000) Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he was “surprised and humbled” to be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. Gurnah is the first black African author to have won the award since … Read more
The White House has praised the latest ruling as an important step A United States judge has temporarily blocked a new law in Texas that effectively bans women from having an abortion. District Judge Robert Pitman granted a request by the Biden administration to prevent any enforcement of the law while its legality is being … Read more