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With less than 24 hours to this year’s Valentine’s Day, music icon Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Face, has proposed to Edo State lawmaker Natasha Osawaru in a moment captured on a video that went viral on Thursday. The footage shows the pair dancing together before 2Face presents a ring to Osawaru, sparking cheers from onlookers. The couple then shared a long embrace, solidifying the proposal. The proposal comes just a day after 2Baba publicly confirmed his romantic relationship with Osawaru, following his recent separation from his wife, Annie Idibia. The revelation has ignited conversations across social media platforms.  Speculation…

Russian leader wants a new security architecture to give his country a sphere of influence in Europe Vladimir Putin’s initial plan to capture Ukraine in a few days ended in disaster. But after Donald Trump set up direct peace talks with Moscow, bypassing Kyiv and European allies, the Russian president is now closer than ever to getting what he wanted from his three-year-long invasion. Putin’s main ambition, said people who have spoken to him during the war, is to establish a new security architecture that gives Russia a sphere of influence in Europe — much as the Yalta conference…

Europe must admit to itself that it was too weak to come to Ukraine’s aid alone The chances of Ukraine pushing Russia back out of its territory is now zero. If that were ever possible it would have required far greater support from the US and Europe much earlier in the war. Instead a self-deterring West, led by the vacillating former President Joe Biden, failed to provide Kyiv with sufficient arms or the freedom to use them to greatest effect. That was only too obvious when Ukraine launched its failed counteroffensive in 2023. The American defence industry could have generated a…

President’s plans to transform region raise questions about where the Palestinian population would go and the impact on the hostage deal. Donald Trump is “committed to buying and owning Gaza”, but could allow sections of the Strip to be rebuilt by other states in the Middle East. He later attempted to retract the comments but said: “We’re going to take it. We’re going to hold it, we’re going to cherish it. We’re going to get it going eventually, where a lot of jobs are going to be created for the people in the Middle East…” “We contribute a lot of money to…

U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine. “We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform. The Kremlin said Putin and Trump had spoken for nearly an hour and a half by telephone and that the two men had agreed to meet. Trump has long said…

Don’t let age hold you back: it’s never too late to build a more resilient brain and body We used to think that the only thing that could happen when you get older is that things go downhill. Thankfully we’ve moved past that phase. We now recognise for example that dementia is an abnormal trajectory of ageing. While some change in our cognition is expected, it does not need to interfere with our daily lives. In 2008 Prof Emily Rogalski at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, coined the term SuperAger, defining them as someone over the age of 80 that has memory performance at least as…

If walking is becoming difficult and physio isn’t working, cutting-edge treatments could be the next step. But which ones are worth trying? You probably know someone with a dodgy knee, if you don’t suffer yourself. Around 5.4 million people in the UK are estimated to have knee arthritis, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), the most common type in the body. This represents about one in five adults over 45 years old accounting for almost 5 per cent of the global population. The need for effective management and treatment of knee arthritis is critical to avoid the…

Home Office releases footage and photos of previously secret, high-security removals Videos and photos of foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers being deported from Britain have been published for the first time – revealing that up to five security escorts are needed for every migrant. In an attempt to show Labour’s tougher approach to illegal migrants, the Home Office has released pictures showing five escorts in high-viz yellow vests with body-worn cameras surrounding a single migrant as he is ushered up the steps onto a chartered plane to be returned to his home country in Europe. The previously secret, high-security deportation…

Elements of long-awaited blueprint to end war will be revealed this weekend as European nations are promised seats at the negotiating table Donald Trump’s administration has paused its peace plan for Ukraine to give Europe a seat at the negotiating table, The Telegraph can disclose. The US president’s envoy for Ukraine has promised to hold individual talks with Nato allies before finalising the long-awaited blueprint to end the war. Gen Keith Kellogg said he would seek views on the shape of any peace deal and what governments could contribute to the process in recent talks with European diplomats. He promised to hold those…

Karim Khan is the only member of the court to be sanctioned so far, with his wife and children also affected Karim Khan, the British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has been barred from entering the United States by Donald Trump. The 54-year-old lawyer was named by the White House on Monday morning as the sole member of the ICC to be sanctioned by the US so far. His wife, children and other immediate family members are also affected. Any property owned by Mr Khan in the US will be subject to being seized. Mr Trump last week signed an…