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Facebook banned a shocking number of 2.2 billion fake accounts in the first three months of 2019 — almost as many as the total number of real people who use the social network.  “We’ve seen a steep increase in the creation of abusive, fake accounts on Facebook in the last six months,” the company said […]

Taiwan’s parliament has become the first in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage following a vote on Friday. In 2017, the island’s constitutional court ruled that same-sex couples had the right to legally marry. Taiwan parliament Parliament was given a two-year deadline and was required to pass the changes by 24 May. Lawmakers debated three different […]

BOTSWANA : The government of Botswana has denied as unfounded media reports that it loaned US$600 million to Zimbabwe. In a statement signed by the permanent secretary to the Botswanian president, Carter Morupisi the two countries are currently holding discussions under a framework of Bi-National Commission, the results of which to be made public at an advised time. “The Office of the President wishes to inform members of the […]

The United States, United Kingdom, Norway and Canada have all expressed concern over Sudan’s “return to military rule”. “Allowing security forces to act with impunity will further erode human rights, governance and effective economic management” in Sudan, AFP quotes a joint statement by the four countries’ Khartoum embassies as saying. “The return to military rule […]

Nigeria on Sunday awaited results from its presidential election, as civil society groups warned that disorganisation and violence may have undermined the polls. Results from Saturday’s vote were expected to trickle in to Abuja after being collated at the state and local levels. Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the INEC election commission, will officially declare the […]

United States President Donald Trump has confirmed he will use emergency powers to build a wall on Mexico’s border, saying “walls work”,a move that Democrats vowed to challenge as unconstitutional. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, the US president insisted he had no choice but to declare a national emergency to deal with what […]

Four people lost their lives in a stampede at the presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Rivers State, on Tuesday. The Spokesman for the Rivers Police, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed this to Report Focus on Tuesday. According to him, Many others were said to have sustained […]

Bank of England has warned that Britain Faces its weakest economic growth in a decade The Bank of England announced that Britain faced its weakest economic growth in 10 years in 2019, the bank cited mounting Brexit uncertainty and the global slowdown. But the bank stuck to its message that interest rates will rise, if […]

US President Donald Trump said he has been fully briefed on an audio recording of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder but refuse want to listen to it himself. “Because it’s a suffering tape. It’s a terrible tape,” he said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday.” “It was very violent, very vicious and terrible,” Trump […]

Foreign nationals living abroad will be allowed to join Britain’s Armed Forces, the UK government is set to announce. Currently, citizens from Commonwealth countries can only join if they have lived in the UK for five years. But in a bid to recruit more servicemen and women to the Army, Navy and Air Force, the […]