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Popular Nigerian singer-songwriter Yemi Alade says she has survived a car accident while touring in Spain, local media reported. In a post on her Instagram on Tuesday, the artist revealed that the accident happened last Thursday while travelling between Barcelona and Benicassim. No fatalities have been reported. She said that …

A 24-year-old woman has been arrested for killing her co-wife’s four-day-old baby with an insecticide at Bantu Village in the Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The suspect entered the co-wife’s room with liquid insecticide and applied it to the baby’s unhealed umbilical cord,” reports …

A girl cut off the power supply of her entire village to meet her boyfriend in the dark in Bihar Bettiah, India, reports said. The girl did it every time to meet her boyfriend under the cover of darkness but the affair finally came to light after the couple was …

A sales employee in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has been charged with the theft of two coffins and 26 coffin handles, local media reported. Maureen Khikani, who was an employee of St Augustine Funeral Services, is accused of stealing the items over a week-long period in May last year. She …

Ugandan police have arrested four people in Buikwe district following a raid on a massage parlor suspected of offering sexual services to gays and lesbians, local media reported. Hellen Butoto, the Ssezibwa Region police spokesperson, says all the suspects are employees of Cloud 9 Massage and Chill Outs in Bukaya …

The leader of the Russian Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigojine, published this Monday, his first video since he took the lead of a short-lived mutiny at the end of June. He appears in a recording – probably shot in Africa – on Telegram channels affiliated with the Wagner Group. We can …

A bus carrying Corinthians fans overturned early Sunday in a winding descent from a highway near Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, leaving seven dead and several injured. “There were seven dead and 27 people were taken to hospitals in the region,” Minas Gerais state …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of the situation of children facing the cholera epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 8,000 children under the age of five have been infected with cholera in the first seven months of the year in the troubled province of …

A Franco-Canadian was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison in the United States for having sent a poisoned letter to former president, Donald Trump at the White House in 2020, the American justice announced . Pascale Ferrier, 56, pleaded guilty in January in federal court in Washington to …

A collision between two trams in a large avenue in the center of Lisbon caused 13 minor injuries on Thursday, including several tourists and three children, according to the relief quoted by local media. Among the injured passengers, two French, two Czechs, an American, an Italian and a Spaniard describe …