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TIME Magazine has drawn negative criticism online after the paper unveiled its upcoming cover image on Friday, June 11. The magazine cover shows a sunglasses-wearing US President Biden with reflections of Putin non them. This comes ahead of the upcoming summit between Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on June 16. The illustration features Biden in his signature ...

The European Union Rights Agency has produced its annual report showing an increase in racism and child abuse. This according to them, has been fuelled by the coronavirus pandemic. “The pandemic and the reactions it triggered exacerbated existing challenges and inequalities in all areas of life, especially affecting vulnerable groups,” a report by the Vienna-based Fundamental Rights Agency,(FRA), said. The ...

A biotechnology company in Israel created a possible cure for the deadly Covid. It recently claimed a 100% success rate in the first 10 patients treated with this drug. This was a part of an early-stage clinical trial at Rambam Healthcare Campus in Haifa. The company presented the preliminary findings of its Phase I/II trial to colleagues at the International ...

Local authorities in Kisii county-Kenya have arrested a man after he allegedly defiled his two daughters on Sunday night. This incident happened after police detained the children’s mother overnight for not wearing a mask. The man sexually abused his two daughters aged 12 and 14 at his home in the Nyataro area. This happened when their mother was in custody ...

The Nigerian federal government yesterday Friday 4th June banned Twitter and went ahead to release a statement why it indefinitely suspended the operations of the social media app Twitter in the country. The Ministry of Information and Culture made the announcement in a statement yesterday. “The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the micro-blogging and social networking service, ...