Africa Parrot

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman announced the launch of Ceer, the first Saudi electric vehicle brand that will contribute to Saudi Arabia’s automotive manufacturing sector. “The launch comes in line with the strategy of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) to focus on unlocking the capabilities of promising sectors locally that can help drive […]

White House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, has returned home after being hospitalized due to serious injuries allegedly inflicted by a home intruder. Paul Pelosi, 82, underwent surgery for a fractured skull and other injuries suffered last week. He had been kept in an intensive care unit at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital for […]

On Thursday, the smog air pollution in New Delhi hit “hazardous” levels. Smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other pollutants to create a noxious grey cocktail enveloping the megacity. According to monitoring firm IQAir, levels of the most dangerous particles, PM2.5, so tiny they can enter the bloodstream were 588 […]

President Joe Biden of the United States of America spoke on Wednesday night, condemning the rising violence which is fueled by political differences and urging Americans to vote in the upcoming election as a way to save the country’s democracy. He warned that democracy itself is in peril. President Biden called on Americans to use […]

President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia has won the 2022 Imam Hasan bin Ali International Peace Prize presented by the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace. The award, under the patronage of Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, was presented on Wednesday. Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, President […]

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has sustained a bullet injury in his leg after a gunman opened fire where he was leading a rally in Wazirabad on Thursday, according to Al-Jazeera. Azhar Mashwani, an official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said that Khan was shot in the leg but was not in danger. Mashwani, however, […]

U.S. President Joe Biden has revealed on Wednesday his intent to exclude Burkina Faso from a U.S.-Africa trade pact, citing a lack of progress toward protecting the rule of law and political pluralism. Biden said that Washington will terminate Burkina Faso’s designation as a beneficiary sub-Saharan African country under the African Growth and Opportunity Act […]

Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James in Florida on Wednesday, accusing her of abusing her position to wage a “war of intimidation and harassment” against him. The 41-page lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County, where Trump lives, accuses James of breaking the law in Florida and […]

Dozens of Sri Lankan students at a school in a suburb of Colombo were hospitalised on Wednesday after exposure to a toxic vapour, the police said. Dozens of Sri Lankan students at a school in a suburb of Colombo were hospitalised on Wednesday after exposure to a toxic vapour, the police said. The students were […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s has lead over her Republican challenger, Rep. Lee Zeldin, is widening in the state’s gubernatorial race one week from the midterms, according to a new poll. An Emerson College Polling-Pix11-The Hill survey released on Tuesday found 52 percent of very likely voters supported Hochul compared to 44 percent for Zeldin. […]

The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a network of arms traffickers and associated businesses for supporting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s Somali branch, ISIS-Somalia. The ISIS-Somalia-linked individuals have been designated under the Bush-era Executive Order 13224, which allows the U.S. Government to sanction individuals and […]

The South African grocery retailer Pick n Pay has announced that it has completed the first phase of a pilot that allows customers to pay in-store using the Lightning Network bitcoin payment protocol. As it makes transactions cheaper and faster than dealing directly with the bitcoin blockchain, the Lightning Network is gaining traction in the […]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) must testify in the Georgia investigation into alleged election interference by former President Donald Trump. The justices, in an unsigned order, lifted a temporary hold on an appeals court’s order compelling Graham to appear before an Atlanta special grand jury probing Trump’s efforts to […]

Amid rising food, energy and housing prices, it is no surprise that many New Yorkers are ranking the economy as one of their top issues when headed to the ballot box. Governor Kathy Hochul pledged she won’t raise taxes. On Halloween night, Gov. Kathy Hochul was at Veselka, a Ukrainian restaurant in the East Village, […]

A New York program has opened up applications to help the state’s residents pay their energy bills. New York’s Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) program opened for applications starting Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, and will continue until funding for the program runs out during the winter. The program helps low-income people pay the cost of […]

Ghana on Tuesday assumed the presidency of the UN Security Council for November as debates on violent extremism and terrorism in Africa top its agenda. Harold Agyeman, the permanent representative of Ghana to the UN, disclosed this while briefing journalists at the UN headquarters on the programme of work and Ghana’s priorities during the month. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi with N326million and $ 140,500 cash. Atumeyi who is seeking to represent Ankpa 11 Constituency in the Kogi State House of Assembly was arrested on Sunday, October 30, 2022 […]

THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has cautioned Nigerians and other residents in the country against embarking on non-essential travel to Uganda for now. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the NCDC Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, on Monday in Abuja. According to him, the warning is to enable public health authorities to […]

Russian airstrikes on Kyiv Tuesday have left Ukraine’s capital city without water for about 40% of its residents as Moscow continues to batter the country’s infrastructure. Taking out Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, including electrical power and water, has been part of the Kremlin’s new military plan for weeks as the typical harsh Ukrainian winter season approaches. […]

A city correction officer at the Rikers Island prison complex have been seriously injured on Monday when a detainee stabbed him more than a dozen times in the back of the head, the correction officers’ union said in a statement. The officer, who police said is 28 years old, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital after […]