As the U.S. celebrated its 250th birthday, Planned Parenthood cheered the return of hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid funding as lawmakers failed to extend the law banning its federal funding. The Republican-controlled Congress missed the deadline to extend the prohibition of Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding which expired on July 4. The nation’s largest…
France captain, Kylian Mbappe, has hit back at Celeste Amarilla after the Paraguayan senator targeted him with a racist attack on social media following the Les Bleus’ World Cup Round of 16 win against Paraguay. Mbappe, on Monday, called Amarilla, a senator from Paraguay’s Liberal Radical Party, a “despicable woman”. According to the Real Madrid forward,…
President Bola Tinubu has acted on complaints by local media platforms in Nigeria, and ordered for a probe into the activities of major global technology companies and Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms in the country including Google, Meta and X (formerly Twitter) among others. The president directed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to investigate…
[mc4wp_form id=33047] At least 18 people, including four police officers, were injured on Tuesday when explosions rocked the Syrian capital Damascus while French President Emmanuel Macron was inside the Presidential Palace meeting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syrian state television reported. The blasts occurred near the Four Seasons Hotel, where Macron had been staying, and near…
ACCRA, Ghana, July 7, 2026/APO Group/ — Ghana has strengthened its readiness to respond to future public health emergencies through its participation in Exercise Polaris II, a global pandemic simulation exercise involving 26 countries across all six World Health Organization (WHO) regions. The exercise, the second in a series of international pandemic response simulations, was…
China fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, sparking concerns among longtime U.S. allies in the region. A Chinese military official called the test part of a routine “annual military training schedule,” but Australia and New Zealand expressed concern that China’s actions disturbed the peace in the Indo-Pacific region, CNN reported. It…
