Twitter has announced it will hand over the presidential @POTUS account to Joe Biden when he is sworn in on inauguration day, even if President Donald Trump has not conceded his election loss, US media reported Friday. The social media giant is “actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on … Read more
US Elections results, Donald Trump Almost two weeks after Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the US presidential election, Donald Trump is still refusing to concede. Does he have a plan to overturn the outcome? The president’s legal strategy to challenge the election results seems to be falling on deaf ears in courtrooms … Read more
Minister Resigns Armenian defence minister, David Tonoyan resigned on Friday, following the recent conflict with neighbouring Azerbaijan, according to a state media report. A replacement was quickly appointed. Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan’s spokesperson adamantly denied that Tonoyan had already been dismissed after Armenia agreed to cede control of territory to Azerbaijan to end … Read more
child rights bill The United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF), on Friday called on the Somali authorities to approve the Child Rights Bill to better protect children in the country. UNICEF and the Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development, in a joint statement issued in Mogadishu, vowed to push for the ratification of the Child … Read more
Children The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the lives of tens of millions of children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. A United Nations agency report published on Friday shows. According to recent data and a survey by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), “the pandemic has had a compound impact on children’s … Read more
President-Elect of the United States of America, Joe Biden, has said that his opposite number, Donald J. Trump, would go down in history as the most irresponsible American president. The flag-bearer of the Democratic Party in the just concluded presidential election said this at a news conference after meeting with Republican and Democratic governors. “Americans … Read more
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary on Friday, an occasion they will be unable to share with their family as England is currently under a coronavirus lockdown. Elizabeth, 94, and Philip, 99, married in London’s Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947, just two years after the end of World War … Read more
CDC The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has told Americans to avoid travel for the Thanksgiving holiday amid soaring Covid-19 cases. “In the last week, we’ve seen over a million new cases,” said the CDC’s Erin Sauber-Schatz to reporters on Thursday. “Thanksgiving is a week away.” Read Also: Buhari Commends Zulum Over … Read more
20 detained after abortion law protest in Warsaw Police on Thursday reported that they have detained 20 people in Warsaw, a day after the protest against an attempt to tighten the country’s abortion law. Warsaw police spokesman Sylwester Marczak said of those detained on Wednesday, 13 were apprehended for committing criminal offences such as assaulting … Read more
Donald Trump President Donald Trump is fixated on his failing, threadbare challenges to the election and is tweet-spreading lies about vote fraud, instead of using his platform and power to confront a once-in-a-century health emergency he falsely assured the nation was all but over. As the US speeds past the tragic mark of a quarter … Read more
Two-week power outage in Brazil’s Amapa has erupted protests resulting to chaos in the region, officials and residents said Wednesday. Protesters blocked roads overnight with piles of burning tires and rubbish in the state capital, Macapa, and the city of Santana, police said in a statement. The latest unrest in the remote Amazon rainforest state, … Read more
Strike The National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM), the largest trade union in the country, is observing a 72-hour strike started on Wednesday, after the failure of negotiations with the government, the general-secretary, Yacouba Katilé, has announced. “The UNTM waited for the government for more than 10 days to find a common ground. Unfortunately, … Read more
Marriage, Accident Eight people died while 20 others injured as roof collapsed at a wedding ceremony on Wednesday in Pakistan’s northwest Kurram Tribal District, local media reported. According to the reports, the roof collapsed at the wedding ceremony in Pewar area of Parachinar Region of Kurram, a tribal district in the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa … Read more
Ban, Petrol cars by 2030 Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2030, five years earlier than previously planned, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. This is part of what Johnson is casting as a “green revolution” to cut emissions to net zero by 2050. Read Also: … Read more
Lil Wayne Charged With Gun Offense In Florida, Risk 10-Years Jail Term Records documented in Miami government court say the rapper, whose genuine name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., had a firearm and ammo on Dec. 23 of a year ago. Rapper Lil Wayne was charged Tuesday in Florida Ekohotblog, November 18, 2020 Rapper Lil Wayne … Read more
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is offering 424 scholarship slots for Nigerian students to study various courses in Saudi universities. It said the slots are part of the 6,597 scholarship the kingdom distributes annually to African students. According to a statement on Monday from the Saudi embassy in Abuja, 150 slots are also given to … Read more
Israel Demands CNN, Amanpour Apology Over Nazis’ Kristallnacht-Trump Comparison Ekohotblog, November 16, 2020 Israel has demanded that CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour apologize after comparing a deadly night at the start of the Holocaust to President Trump’s four years in the White House. Amanpour said during a segment commemorating 82 years after Kristallnacht that the … Read more
Boris Johnson forced into self-quarantine, for the second time this year For the second time this year, the coronavirus has found its way to the very top of British politics and forced Prime Minister Boris Johnson into self-quarantine. On Sunday night, Johnson tweeted that he must “self-isolate for two weeks, after being in contact with … Read more
Vaccines Lebanon has signed two agreements with foreign pharmaceutical companies on the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines and would be among the first states to receive them in the first quarter of 2021, an Official said. The Health Minister, Hamad Hassan said this on Monday in Beirut. Read Also: Biden Defeats Trump In Arizona “Lebanon has … Read more
United Arab Emirates (UAE) has approved long term residency for doctors, engineers and brilliant students. On Sunday, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE Vice President announced 10-year Golden Visas for them. He tweeted that the visa will be issued to all PhD holders in the UAE as well as top graduates from UAE-accredited universities with … Read more