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Oil prices hang on conflict negotiations on Iran, Ukraine
Ease of sanctions on Iran is out of sight following sharp disagreement between the country and the United States. And the expected outcomes of the highly anticipated phone call between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Donald Trump of United…
EU adopts new Russia sanctions amid Ukraine ceasefire push
Foreign ministers formally adopted the EU’s 17th package of sanctions and also called on the United States to mount more pressure on Russia if Moscow doesn’t agree on a ceasefire. The bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas announced at a meeting…
Ukraine War: Putin insists on addressing Russia’s initial grievances
President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Tuesday restated his position on the terms of ending the ongoing military campaign in Ukraine, insisting that the original reasons for which his country went to war are yet to be addressed. Putin was…
Netanyahu wants European leaders to demand release of hostages to end war
Sopuruchi Onwuka Prime Minister of Israel, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, has condemned the failure of European leaders to approach the ongoing war in Gaza from a realistic solution perspective; reminding France, Canada and United Kingdom that the war was drawn upon…
Israel recovers files of heroic spy hanged in Syria 60 years
Israel has retrieved thousands of items belonging to the country’s most famous spy after a covert operation in Syria. On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared some of the 2,500 items from the Syrian archive relating to Eli Cohen, an…
Former President Biden is down with prostate cancer
Sopuruchi Onwuka A tip from urinary analysis led doctors to determine that immediate past President of the United States of America, Mr Joe Biden, has prostate cancer, a disease that mainly affects older male adults. The former president and his…
How a Lufthansa flight with 200 passengers flew into Spain without pilot
Sopuruchi Onwuka The fate of 200 passengers who were approaching Spain in a Lufthansa flight from France was hung temporarily in the air when the pilot who went to use the toilet was unable to reenter the cockpit and the…
Ozempic, others get more plaudits for cutting cancer risks
Medications such as Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic were found to have disease-prevention qualities beyond their weight-loss benefits. Scientists from Israel said the drugs, also known as GLP-1s, may be up to 41 per cent more effective at preventing obesity-related cancer…
China leads global dementia with 115 m cases
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency report China has the world’s fastest growing number of cases of dementia with the number of diagnosed cases increasing threefold over the past three decades, a new study has warned. Although dementia cases doubled globally in…
Is ExxonMobil laying out investment recovery agenda in Deepwater Nigeria?
Sopuruchi Onwuka American oil multinational major, ExxonMobil, appears to have activated a tranquil plan to mount production pressure on its deepwater assets in Nigeria as it lays out investment capital for greenfield developments and enhanced recovery programmes for brownfield assets….
