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Twenty-two Chinese nationals have been sentenced to between 7 and 11 years in prison for cybercrime, including Internet fraud and online scams in Zambia. The chinese have been targeting Zambians and people from Singapore, Peru and the United Arab Emirates. They were also fined between $1,500 and $3,000 after pleading …

In an interview with People magazine, music star Celine Dion talks about the treatments she had to undergo during her fight against her illness. Suffering from stiff person syndrome for many years, for Céline Dion everything changed in August 2022 when the diagnosis officially fell. In December of that same …

The 26-year-old man was arrested for shooting dead his cousin in Numeriso, near Jacobu, in the central district of Amansie, in Ghana’s Ashanti region. According to a police, “the suspect shot the deceased with a single-barrel gun, after which he fled the crime scene.” He was handed over to the …

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu said on Wednesday economic reforms would continue, despite increasing hardships that have fuelled public anger. Tinubu, who came to power a year ago, promised to send an executive bill to parliament soon to set a new minimum wage. In a television broadcast to mark Democracy Day, …

The American giant Google announced on Tuesday that Brazil would be the first country to test a system using artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically block smartphones using the Android system in the event of theft. The largest country in Latin America was not chosen by chance: there are nearly two …

U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was convicted Tuesday in federal criminal court of illegal gun possession in 2018, against a backdrop of drug addiction, U.S. media reported. The 12-person jury at the Wilmington court in Delaware (East), answered “yes” to all three counts: two on lying in the …

ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city of al-Fashir. Al Fashir has become a new front between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In a video statement released on Tuesday, prosecutor Karim Khan …

A 13-year-old boy has died by suicide in the Ungwan Maigero Community in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Acording too reports,” the incident reportedly happened on Thursday, June 7, after a soldier and members of the Civilian Joint Task Force in the area tortured the deceased.” …

The K-pop group Seventeen, among the most popular in the world, will become a UNESCO “goodwill ambassador” on June 26, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization announced on Tuesday. “Seventeen and UNESCO share the same desire to give young people the means to lead change and meet the challenges …

A female student of the Federal University Dutse (FUD), Nigeria, has been arrested by the police in connection with the murder of her newborn baby. “The suspect allegedly threw the newborn from the toilet window of a three-storey hostel building,” according to reports. The disheartening incident occurred on Monday, June …