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Arsenal shook off their 3-2 defeat to Manchester United last week, with an emphatic 4-0 win at Leeds United on Saturday. The Gunners had seen their lead at the top cut to four points following that result. Having dispatched Kairat Almaty in the Champions League in midweek, Mikel Arteta’s men recorded another important victory at […]

The death toll from a landslide on Indonesia’s main island of Java a week ago rose to 53 on Saturday, a rescue official said, with 10 people still missing. An intense downpour triggered the landslide that hit Pasirlangu village, in an area southeast of the capital Jakarta, damaging more than 50 houses and displacing about

Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, has ordered sweeping sanctions against the leadership and government appointees of Amasiri community in Afikpo Local Government Area, following the gruesome killing of four residents of Okporojo village in Oso Edda community, Edda Local Government Area. The governor announced the measures on Saturday during an on-the-spot assessment visit to Okporojo

A series of landslides struck a militia-held mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, burying people alive and killing several, the governor and witnesses told AFP on Friday. Since its resurgence in 2021, the M23 group has taken vast tracts of the DRC’s resource-rich east, capturing the Rubaya mine in North Kivu province in April

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Olufemi Oluyede, has reiterated the Armed Forces’ resolve to continue supporting peace-building and stabilisation initiatives in Benue State and across Nigeria. General Oluyede gave the assurance while hosting the Governor of Benue State, Reverend Father Hyacinth Alia, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Defence Headquarters in

  Artificial intelligence helps doctors spot more cases of breast cancer when reading routine scans, a world-first trial found Friday. The results suggest countries should roll out programmes taking advantage of AI’s scanning power to ease the workload of short-staffed radiologists, the Swedish lead researchers said. Well before the release of ChatGPT in 2022 raised

A civil society organisation, the World Institute for Peace, WIP, has cautioned the Osun State Government against interfering in the administration and finances of local government councils. The institute, which cited existing court judgements on council autonomy, handed down the warning in a statement issued on Thursday by its Executive Director, Lamina Kamiludeen Omotoyosi. Omotoyosi