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Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, have agreed to testify in the congressional investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes days before a vote on whether to hold the couple in criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the House Oversight Committee after a months-long standoff. Bill Clinton was …

Russia launched its biggest missile and drone attack on Ukraine so far this year on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian authorities, cutting heat to tens of thousands of people and ending a brief reprieve agreed to by Moscow and Washington as Ukrainians grapple with plummeting winter temperatures. CNN staff in the capital Kyiv reported hearing several strong explosions in the city …

US President Donald Trump’s decision to lower reciprocal tariffs on India from 50% to 18% has been met with a sense of relief in Asia’s third-largest economy, even as precise details on the agreement remain sketchy. India paid the highest tariffs in the world after Trump raised import duties on Indian goods from 25% to 50% in August last year, …

  Newly-released documents from disgraced … The major headlines from the latest dump of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein focus on President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the former Prince Andrew, among others. And rightly so. Those names are sprinkled throughout the documents. Epstein’s alleged victims, meanwhile, were horrified that the …

A former two-term PDP National Ex-Officio, Mr David Vaughan (DAKOVA), says party’s founding fathers and the Board of Trustees (BoT) must urgently intervene in the lingering leadership crisis threatening its survival ahead of 2027. Vaughan, who was also a PDP governorship aspirant in Lagos State in 2023, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) …

Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, said on Tuesday at the World Government Summit in Dubai that access to social media for minors under 16 would be banned. Sanchez added that all platforms will be required to implement age verification systems. “Our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone. “We will no longer accept that. …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suspended the selection of examination towns for candidates registering for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Ekiti. The board disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin. Benjamin said that the suspension was to enable the board restructure examination towns to ensure closer proximity …

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Waidi Shaibu, on Tuesday said the Nigerian Army has adopted a flexible, intelligence-driven and technology-enabled approach to confront Nigeria’s evolving asymmetric threats. Shaibu stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while delivering a lecture titled ‘Combating Asymmetric Threats to National Security in Nigeria: The Nigerian Army in Perspective’, to the participants of Course 34 …

The National Industrial Court, on Monday, restrained the workers, under the auspices of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), from going ahead with the mass protest scheduled for Tuesday or any other day. Justice Emmanuel Sibilim issued the interim order in a ruling on an ex-parte motion filed by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory …

The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that cuts to international aid and persistent funding gaps are undermining the global health system. WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, stated this while addressing the WHO Executive Board in Geneva on Monday, saying, “this is occurring as the risk from pandemics, drug-resistant infections and fragile health services are on the rise.” Ghebreyesus, however, …