Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a military operation in Ukraine, with explosions heard across the country and Ukraine’s foreign minister warning a “full –scale-invasion” was under way.
What do we know about the invasion so far?
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President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine on Tuesday, speaking starkly of the “needless death and destruction” Moscow could cause and international outrage Putin would face.
In a … Read the rest
Donald Trump
The Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump in a 57-43 vote in his second impeachment trial.
The vote came on the fifth day of trial after the House impeached Trump last month on a charge of incitement of … Read the rest
Kamala Harris
And with a final “so help me God,” Kamala Harris was sworn in Wednesday as the new vice president — the first woman, first Black person and first person of Asian descent to hold the office.
Harris, 56, took her … Read the rest
On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford University’s Eretgun House that if Donald Trump was elected President … Read the rest
President Muhammadu Buhari and Joe Biden
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has congratulated the United States President-elect, Joe Biden, for his victory at the poll.
This is according to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on … Read the rest
Joe Biden and Donald Trump
Joe Biden was elected president of the United States on Saturday, defeating President Trump after campaigning on a promise to restore civility and stability to American politics and to expand the government’s role in guiding the country through the surging … Read the rest
Joe Biden
Former U.S. vice president, Joe Biden, has been elected the 46th president of the United States of America.
Mr Biden, 78, won the keen-fought election by scoring 273 electoral college votes against incumbent President Donald Trump’s 214.
An hour earlier, … Read the rest
By Afua Hirsch
I wanted to believe the comforting thought that, when it comes to coronavirus, we are all in this together. That knowing we’re all equally at risk, we’re pulling together in the same direction, bearing the strain … Read the rest
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
Hollywood actor Tom Hanks says he and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
In a statement posted on his Instagram page, Hanks said he and his wife were traveling in Australia when they were tested after … Read the rest
