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By: Ex SportsIn this episode of Sports Cruise, Selase Ken Bannor, a former player, coach, referee, and Acting Chairman of Ho Municipal Football Association joins host Rustum Senorgbe to discuss his new role and plans to improve division 3 and juvenile football at the local level in Ho Municipality of the Volta Region of Ghana. The full interview with Selase ...

Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Lagos A curfew has been imposed in Nigeria’s second-biggest state, Kano, after protests against the high cost of living were “hijacked by thugs” who engaged in widespread looting and the destruction of property, the governor’s office has said. Kano saw the largest crowds on the first day of nationwide protests that forced many businesses to shut. ...

Lucy Fleming & Natasha Booty BBC News Four schoolchildren in South Africa are to face a disciplinary hearing over a virales video in which black students are seen being auctioned off as slaves, the authorities in Cape Town have told the BBC. The footage, showing pupils in a cage while other students bid for them, caused outrage when it was ...

João da Silva Business reporter Dozens of staff at the Singapore office of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, have been hospitalised in an apparent food poisoning outbreak. Health and food safety officials in the city state are investigating the incident, which left 60 people with symptoms of gastroenteritis on Tuesday. Fifty seven of them were treated in hospital. ByteDance has also ...

The United States on Monday was managing 94 large wildfires that have burned 843,124 hectares, the National Interagency Fire Center said. More than 27,000 firefighters and support personnel have been deployed to combat the fires nationwide, the fire center said. In addition to California, where the largest fires raged, the center reported that fuel and fire advisories have been issued ...

Hannah Ritchie BBC News, Sydney A mother has become the first person to be jailed under Australia’s forced marriage laws, for ordering her daughter to wed a man who would later murder the 21-year-old. Sakina Muhammad Jan, who is in her late 40s, was found guilty of coercing Ruqia Haidari to marry 26-year-old Mohammad Ali Halimi in 2019, in exchange ...

By Nutifafa Bequine The clock continues to wind down to the historic Opening Ceremony of 2024 Olympics in the “City of Light”, Paris. Let’s delve deeper into personnel, logistics and security arrangement ahead of the main opening ceremony that is expected to be unique and be watched by millions across the world. The ceremony will be historical and audience expectancy ...

By:Annabelle Liang BBC News The Philippine Coast Guard is preparing to deploy floating barriers and suction hoses to contain an oil spill and prevent it from reaching the capital, Manila. Authorities are racing to stop the oil spill from the MT Terra Nova, which capsized on Thursday as monsoon rains battered large swathes of the country. The leak appeared to ...

By:Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and Fan Wang in Taipei and Singapore Rescue officials in Taiwan are searching for a cargo ship with nine crew members that has sunk off its southern coast. The Tanzania-flagged freighter had been off the southern port city of Kaohsiung when Taiwan was struck by Typhoon Gaemi. The storm has also brought relentless rain to the Philippines, where ...

By Madeline Halpert, President Joe Biden surprised American voters on Sunday when he announced he would drop out of the race for president after weeks of resisting calls to step down. Though he will carry out the rest of his presidency, he has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place as the Democratic Party’s nominee. The decision throws ...