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Tanzanian President, John Pombe Magufuli has warned the country's health officials against acquiring COVID-19 vaccines. “The ministry of health should be careful, they should not hurry to try these vaccines without doing research, not every vaccine is important to us, we should be careful. We…

(AP) - Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87. King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his production company, Ora…

Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, vowing to end the ‘uncivil war’ in a deeply divided country reeling from a battered economy and a raging coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 Americans. With the U.S. Capitol encircled by thousands of…

Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni has been re-elected for another five-year term. Museveni was declared the winner of Thursday’s presidential election by the country’s Electoral Commission (EC) on Saturday. The 76-year-old garnered 5,851,037 votes (58.64 percent) ahead of his closest…

The US has announced it will not observe Uganda’s general election slated for Thursday. US Ambassador to Uganda, Natalie Brown on Wednesday said the move was informed by the electoral commission’s refusal to accredit American observers. She accused the commission of failing to issue US diplomatic…

Twitter banned President Donald Trump's account Friday, citing "the risk of further incitement of violence." The social platform has been under growing pressure to take further action against Trump following Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Twitter initially suspended Trump's…

Trump Administration Cabinet secretaries have discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office, according to reports from ABC News and CBS News. The 25th Amendment allows the vice president and a majority of principal officers of executive departments “or of such…

Twitter has permanently deleted three of President Trump’s tweets following the violence that broke out in and around the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Following Facebook’s decision to delete President Trump’s video addressing the violent protests, Twitter released a statement on the app explaining…

(AP) Protesters supporting President Donald Trump violently clashed with law enforcement Wednesday, sending the U.S. Capitol into chaos, locking the building down and halting the vote to certify Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Dozens of people breached security perimeters at the Capitol and…

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma has reportedly gone missing amid a conflict with the Chinese government. The Alibaba founder has not made any public appearance in more than two months, raising questions on his whereabouts. His disappearance comes after he criticized President Xi Jinping’s…