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Nanky and King Promise hit sweet spots on new single and video ‘Cassette’
If Ghanaian music was your haven in 2020, Nanky was surely one to notice. The singer’s latest offering ‘Cassette’ slots in as his second...
Rockets hit near Baghdad airport, housing for US forces
Three rockets hit near a main airport in Baghdad, an area that houses US forces, the Iraqi army said on Friday, in the latest...
Pro-Navalny protesters to hit streets across Russia
Supporters of ailing Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny plan to defy authorities and stage protests across Russia on Wednesday to demand he receive life-saving medical...
Credit Suisse execs to leave after big hedge fund hit
(dpa-AFX) - Credit Suisse said Tuesday that it expects to report a pre-tax loss of about 900 million Swiss francs (960 million dollars) in...
Australians lose US$65 million to investment scams in 2020, projected to hit US$100 million...
Data acquired by Finbold indicates that Australians lost $65 million (AUD) to investment scams across 2020. The losses are projected to surge 51.9% in...
Five civilians killed as rockets hit hospital in Syria’s Aleppo
dpa/GNA – At least five civilians were killed after a shelling by Syrian government forces hit a hospital in western Aleppo on Sunday,...
New cluster of European nations hit pause on AstraZeneca vaccine
France Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Cyprus are the latest cluster of European countries to join the growing ranks of their peers suspending the use...
Northern China hit by strongest sandstorm in a decade
dpa/GNA - The strongest sandstorm in ten years has swept across northern China on Monday. The authorities in Beijing issued a "yellow alert"...
Global ad market is set to hit US$769.9 billion by 2024
This is the right time for media vendors to grab their share as the race between companies to increase their ad expenses intensifies, says...
Sahara desert dust forecast to hit Europe in coming days
dpa - Substantial quantities of Sahara desert dust are forecast to hit Europe over the weekend, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) said...
China’s internet users hit almost 1 billion
The number of China's internet users hit 989 million by the end of last year, an increase of 85.4 million from March 2020. The...
Bitcoin to hit fresh highs – but standby for regulator-triggered price swings
The Bitcoin price nears $50,000 and will continue to reach new highs in this first quarter of 2021 – but investors should also expect...
Audi set a new sales record in China in 2020
FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. announced that its Audi brand set a new sales record in China in 2020.
A total of 726,288...
Eritrea’s confirmed COVID-19 cases hit 1,320
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Eritrea rose to 1,320 after the Red Sea nation reported 68 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the...
Eritrea’s confirmed COVID-19 cases hit 1,252
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Eritrea rose to 1,252 after the Red Sea nation reported 32 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday,...
Water crisis hit Aboadze, Abuesi communities
Residents of Aboadze and Abuesi, two fishing communities in the Shama District of the Western Region, have been battling perennial water shortage for the...
Namibia’s export abattoir hit by cattle shortages
Namibian state-owned meat processing and marketing firm Meatco has been hit by a shortage of cattle at its export abattoir following a devastating drought...
Rockets from Ethiopia hit Eritrea’s capital
Rockets from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region struck the capital of neighbouring Eritrea on Saturday night, diplomats said, as tensions between the Ethiopian federal government...
Shortage of blood hits Effia-Nkwanta Blood Bank
The Blood Donor Organizer at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital Blood Bank Unit, Mr. Emmanuel Essien has appealed to churches, schools and other organizations to...
Storms in Vietnam kill 28 as fears grow over 17 men hit by landslide
Ten people were reported dead amid ongoing torrential rains in Vietnam on Tuesday, bringing the total death toll from storms in the country to...
Germany daily virus cases hit post-peak record once again
Germany set a new record for coronavirus cases in a day - compared to the second half of April, when case counts were peaking...
East Africa tourism sector hardest hit by COVID-19 pandemic: report
East African Community's (EAC's) tourism sector will face a 92 percent decline in cash flows due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, says...
3 missing, 20 wounded as floods hit Indonesian capital
Flash floods and landslides have struck Indonesia's capital of Jakarta and its surrounding areas, leaving three people missing and 20 others injured, a...
Egypt COVID-19 cases hit 101,500 with 160 new infections
Egypt reported 160 new COVID-19 infections late on Wednesday, bringing the total cases registered in the country to 101,500.
Meanwhile, 17 patients...
New record hit in COVID-19 infections in single day – WHO
The number of COVID-19 cases reported in one day hit a new record, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Sunday.
There were...
WHO says new record hit in COVID-19 infections in single day
The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Over 350,000 pure electric vehicles hit the road in Beijing
More than 350,000 pure electric vehicles had been put into operation in the Chinese capital Beijing by the end of August 2020, Beijing Municipal...
Kenya’s tourist arrivals hit 14,000 in August amid COVID-19 disruptions
Kenya's tourist arrivals reached 14,049 since the reopening of the international borders on Aug. 1, tourism and wildlife ministry said on Friday.
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Trump accepts Republican Party nomination for reelection
U.S. President Donald Trump has accepted the Republican Party's nomination for reelection, in a speech from the White House South Lawn on Thursday night.
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3 rockets hit Green Zone in Iraq’s Baghdad
Three Katyusha rockets on Thursday landed in the heavily fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital Baghdad without causing casualties, the Iraqi military said.
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