New polling data from the Pew Research Center shows that U.S. President Joe Biden has received more positive ratings globally than former President Donald Trump. Conducted from January 5 to May 21, a survey of 40,566 people in 34 countries — not including the United States — showed a 43% median in confidence that Biden […]
Travellers planning trips to Europe’s Schengen Area will face slightly higher costs starting today, June 11, 2024. The European Commission has announced a 12% increase in visa application fees for short-stay Schengen visas (type C). The European Commission says the increase is down to “general Union-wide inflation rate and the weighted average of the salaries […]
Malawi’s Vice-President, Saulos Chilima, was among 10 people killed when a small military plane crashed in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said in a live televised address on Tuesday. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane on Monday after telling the pilot to turn back to the capital, […]
China has urged the BRICS bloc of nations to take on greater responsibilities and establish itself as being inclusive to the world, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday, in the wake of Western sanctions and trade restrictions imposed on the country. Many Chinese companies have faced Western sanctions over their support for Russia’s war […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held bilateral talks with his counterparts from Brazil, South Africa, Iran, Laos, Thailand and Ethiopia on Monday on the sidelines of the BRICS foreign ministers’ summit in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The two-day summit held on 10-11 June comes ahead of a major BRICS summit in October, when leaders of the […]
The Deputy European Union (EU) Ambassador to Ghana, Jonas Claes, has called on Ghanaians to protect the environment to help consolidate the gains of the Green Ghana Day initiative. He said practices such as deforestation, illegal logging and illegal mining were some of the human activities that could erode the gains so far made […]
Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest airline group in Africa, is delighted to announce the reinstatement of its daily passenger flights to the historic city of Axum as of today, June 9, 2024. Ethiopian is resuming its flights to the city of Axum following the successful completion of extensive maintenance work on both the airfield and […]
The crew of the Norwegian Research Vessel, R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, in partnership with the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture, has commemorated the 2024 World Oceans Day, whichcatalyses collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate. The World Oceans Day was first declared on 8th June,1992 in Rio de Janeiro at the Global […]
The European Union said it has earned €3.4m from rejected Schengen visa applications submitted by Nigerian citizens, Nairametrics reports. This, according to Schengen visa statistics on Saturday, occurred from Nigerian visa applicants in 2023. Globally, the EU governments raked in €130 million from rejected Schengen visa applications with African and Asian countries shouldering 90 per […]
The incoming president of the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan told AFP on Friday that his country would keep increasing fossil fuel production “in parallel” with investments in cleaner alternatives. Mukhtar Babayev defended his country’s hosting of the world’s most important climate summit despite its surging natural gas exports, even as UN chief Antonio Guterres renewed […]
