John Prescott, the former British Deputy Prime Minister who played a pivotal role in the transformation of the Labour Party alongside Tony Blair, has passed away at the age of 86, his family confirmed on Thursday, November 21. Prescott’s death on Wednesday was described as “peaceful,” and he was surrounded by his wife Pauline, his two sons, and the music of jazz artist Marian Montgomery. “We are deeply saddened to…

The Russian domestic intelligence service, the FSB, has reportedly arrested a German citizen in Kaliningrad on Wednesday for allegedly planning acts of sabotage. Upon entering the Russian Baltic Sea exclave from Poland, 50 grams of liquid explosives were allegedly seized in his car, which he had driven from his home in Hamburg. According to the Russian news agency, the FSB alleged that the man had received orders from a Ukrainian…

A charity organization on Wednesday organized a mass wedding ceremony for about 240 grooms and brides in western Afghanistan’s Herat province. Mawlawi Abdul Sadiqi, head of the organization said each newlywed couple was gifted household appliances, including carpet, blanket, and kitchen tools valued at 100,000 afghani (about 1,460 U.S. dollars). Young people may have to wait for years to have their wedding ceremonies due to unemployment, the economic crisis, the…

Ukraine has urged Western embassies, which closed today over fears of Russian shelling, not to stoke tensions, stressing that since Russia’s invasion began, the threat of Russian strikes it is “everyday” in the country, France Press reported, BTA reported.At least five Western embassies – of the US, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Greece announced they were temporarily closing today due to the threat of an air strike amid increasingly harsh rhetoric…

US President-elect, Donald Trump has picked World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) co-founder and his transition co-chair, Linda McMahon as his nominee for education secretary. McMahon, a retired professioner wrestler, led the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first presidency and donated millions of dollars to his presidential campaign. Announcing his pick on Truth Social, Trump said McMahon would “use her decades of leadership experience, and deep understanding of both Education and Business,…

A 41-year-old migrant, Anicet Mayela, who sexually defiled a 15-year-old girl in a drunken attack and impregnated her has been sentenced to ten years and ten months imprisonment. Mayela had been granted asylum in the UK after repeated attempts to deport him reportedly failed. A court on Tuesday heard how he forced the girl to remove her clothes before launching the assault. Judge Maria Lamb was told an investigation began…

The leadership of the G20 has changed with South Africa taking over from Brazil during a handover ceremony at the Rio de Janeiro summit in Brazil. President Luiz Lula da Silva of Brazilian handed over the reins of leadership to South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Tuesday. South Africa is the only African country in the G20 and will be the host of the 2025 summit. Ramaphosa told his counterparts…

Four Nigerian students have been jailed in the United Kingdom (UK) over a violent street brawl in Leicester City centre. Destiny Ojo, Joshua Davies-Ero, Ridwanulahi Raheem, and Habib Lawal, all aged 21, used knives, a baseball bat, and a crutch as weapons during the fight that took place at about 03:00 GMT on November 4, 2021. The defendants were found guilty of various offences at the Leicester Crown court on…

…Until after his presidency President-elect Donald Trump’s six-year New York criminal odyssey might need to continue for at least another four, prosecutors said Tuesday. Lawyers for Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg wrote in a letter to Justice Juan Merchan that Trump should not be sentenced for his crimes until after he completes his second term in office. That would be the year 2029, more than a decade after the investigation…

In the city’s largest national security trial, a Hong Kong court on Tuesday, sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists under its national security laws, with former law professor, “mastermind” Benny Tai receiving the longest term of 10 years. The defendants were charged with subversion for holding an unauthorised primary election in 2020 aimed at selecting pro-democracy candidates. International condemnation was swift, with Western countries and rights groups slamming the sentencing as evidence…

Russia says Ukraine has fired US-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. Ukraine used the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) in a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region this morning (Tuesday), the ministry of defence in Moscow said. Five missiles were shot down and one damaged, with its fragments causing a fire at a military facility in the region, it said. The…

The UK on Tuesday slapped sanctions against 10 people and entities behind Russia’s “forcible deportation and attempted indoctrination of Ukrainian children”, 1,000 days after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The curbs target “those who prop up this insidious programme”, the foreign ministry said, and follow similar sanctions in 2022 and 2023 against individuals and bodies involved in the alleged forced deportations. They include several Russian officials and the All-Russian Young…