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Taylor Swift is getting political for possibly the first time. The “Delicate” singer submitted a lengthy Instagram post on Sunday to express her political beliefs... Read more via ET Canada – https://ift.tt/2INP9FD Get more World News

Atiku Abubakar, a retired Customs officer and Nigeria’s vice president between 1999 and 2007, has been elected the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). At a PDP national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, held Saturday and Sunday, Mr Abubakar defeated 11 other...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite into space Sunday and for the first time landed a first-stage booster back at its California launch site. The primary purpose of the mission was to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite... Read more via Montreal Gazette –...

Prisoners disarmed guards and seized control of part of a detention center in Juba, the capital of the country South Sudan early on Sunday, the state security service said. A National Security Service (NSS) statement said the stand-off started when one prisoner, Captain Keribino Wol...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Friday, 5th October, 2018, to attend the 5th Edition of the Financial Times Africa Summit taking place in London, United Kingdom from 7th to 9th October. The Summit, being held on the theme “Africa Means Business”, is featuring “high …...