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BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON World Medical Association President, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, has called on governments and managers of healthcare systems to urgently resolve the mental health, burn out, and psycho-social challenges confronting physicians and other health professionals in various parts of the world. Dr Enabulele made the call while speaking at two different sessions of the recently concluded 5th Global Forum …

New York Prosecutors say they are working to coordinate the criminally indicted ex-U.S. President Donald Trump’s surrender, which could happen early next week. According to Associated Press, they did not say whether they intended to seek prison time in the event of a conviction, a development that wouldn’t prevent Trump from seeking and assuming the presidency. Donald Trump was on …

Turkey has finally approved Finland’s application to join NATO, putting an end to months of delays while also continuing to block Sweden from joining the military alliance. The CNN reports that the Turkish Parliament voted unanimously in favor of Finland’s membership on Thursday, clearing the last hurdle in the accession process. The vote fulfills Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “promise” …

New York (AP) — Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year, the Associated Press reports. The charges center on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence …

ON A TRAIN FROM SUMY TO KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Tuesday that unless his nation wins a drawn-out battle in a key eastern city, Russia could begin building international support for a deal that could require Ukraine to make unacceptable compromises. He also invited the leader of China, long aligned with Russia, to visit. If Bakhmut fell …

United States Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Department of Defense, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday jointly released a statement on President Joe Biden’s ten-year plans for implementing the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability. The implementation, they said is in partnership with Haiti, Libya, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, and Coastal West …

As decided at the last round of the EU-U.S. High-Level Consultations on the Indo-Pacific on 2 December 2022, the European Union and the United States of America conducted a joint naval exercise on March 23 and 24, 2023, according to the State Department. The joint naval exercise took place in the framework of the EU and U.S. patrolling and exercising …

Beirut (AP) — A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria, and U.S. forces retaliated with airstrikes on sites in Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the Pentagon said. Activists said the U.S. bombing killed at least four people, according to report by Associated Press. …

The British High Commission has said the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, is prepared to take action against those who engaged in or incited electoral violence during the just-concluded general elections in Nigeria. The commission said the UK was already collating names of perpetrators and would impose sanctions “including preventing people from obtaining UK …

London (AP) — A senior Nigerian politician and his wife were found guilty Thursday of conspiring to transport a street trader to the U.K. as part of an organ-harvesting plot. Ike Ekweremadu, who was deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and a lawyer, and his wife, Beatrice, were accused of arranging the travel of a 21-year-old man to the U.K. …