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People applying for visas to visit Europe’s Schengen area will soon do so via an online platform, under a change adopted by EU foreign ministers on Monday. The shift towards digitalisation of the visa process will also do…

A former United Kingdom Prime Minister, David Cameron, has been appointed as the country’s new Foreign Secretary by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a recent cabinet reshuffle. Having served as the British PM from 2010…

The joint Arab and Islamic Extra-ordinary Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, yesterday demanded an end to Israel’s aggression…

A memo from the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) indicates that there are more people wanting to sponsor their parents and grandparents through its Parents and Grandparents (PGP) visa route than…

When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken lamented the civilian death toll in Gaza on Friday, it marked a subtle but notable shift in US language toward the…

A team of surgeons in New York announced Thursday they had performed the world’s first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn’t yet known whether the recipient…

Israel has agreed to daily four-hour pauses in northern Gaza to let civilians flee, the White House said Thursday, even as President Joe Biden said there was no chance of a full ceasefire. Biden has been pressing…

Catholic Vatican has announced that transgender people can be baptised in the Catholic Church as long as doing so does not cause scandal or "confusion" The Church's doctrinal office…

Fighting raged in Gaza on Wednesday more than a month after Hamas’s shock October 7 attack triggered a furious response from Israel aimed at destroying the Islamist militant group. More than 1,400 people, mostly…

A close aide to the head of Ukraine’s armed forces died in a freak accident involving hand grenades gifted to him for his birthday, authorities say. Major Gennady…

London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley on Wednesday said the police would not be able to ban a pro-Palestinian march on Nov. 11, Remembrance Day, as there is no legal instrument to do so. Rowley explained…

South Africa has joined Turkey, Jordan, Bolivia, Honduras, Colombia, Chile and Bahrain in recalling their diplomats from Israel in protesting against the genocide in Gaza.   A South African Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavhen…

Israeli airstrikes have so far killed 10,022 Palestinians in the ongoing war in Gaza, reports have indicated. Gaza’s Ministry of Health yesterday said among the casualties were 4,104 children and 2,641 women;…

A top Chinese military official has vowed to ‘show no mercy’ toward any move for Taiwan’s independence. General Zhang Youxia of the People’s Liberation Army stated, “The Chinese military will never agree and will…

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as ‘horrific.’ In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the UN chief renewed his appeals for a humanitarian…

The sprawling frontline between the two warring sides has barely moved in almost a year, with one senior Ukrainian official warning this week that the conflict was deadlocked. “Time has passed, people are tired… But this is…

New Zealand immigration agency has said that employers can no longer include 90-day trial periods in employment contracts for individuals on an Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) These changes took effect from…

Canada has announced new immigration levels plan for skilled workers, caregivers, families, and other classes. In a statement on Wednesday, the citizenship and immigration Canada (CIC) said the North American country…

The war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, is closing in on the Gaza Strip’s main population centre as the death toll continues to mount. On Tuesday, dozens of people died after an Israeli…

Over 1600 Palestinians have been thrown to jail in the past month by the Israeli government, according to the Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdallah Abu Shawesh. Speaking in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday on…

The Gaza Strip has become a graveyard for thousands of children, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it feared the prospect of more dying of dehydration. Israel has heavily bombarded Gaza since Hamas gunmen stormed…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel would not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and would…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is introducing new measures to tighten standards on colleges, responding to criticism that Canada’s education sector is bringing in so many foreign students that…

A flight from Israel to the Russian Republic of Dagestan on Sunday was forced to divert from its intended destination in the capital of Makhachkala amid reports of a planned mob attack on Israeli passengers by…