Doctors from the Wuxi People’s Hospital in Jiangsu, China, extracted the organs of a chain smoker after the 52-year-old man, who had multiple lung diseases, died. Instead of being a healthy pink, they were charcoal in colour and extremely inflamed from decades of tobacco residue clogging them up. The video, recorded by the surgeons, has […]

The video, recorded by the surgeons, has been viewed more than 25million times on social media, with users dubbing it the ‘best anti-smoking ad ever’.

Rasheed Sobowale The United States President, Donald Trump has said Monday that he will testify if summoned by the House Intelligence Committee to testify in his impeachment inquiry. The US President, as usual, made this known to the public in his tweet. According to Mr Trump’s tweet, “…Speaker of the House…Nancy Pelosi, …, suggested on […]

Sri Lanka’s former defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 70, was sworn in Monday as the country’s new president after a record election victory, officials said. The swearing-in took place before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya in front of a historic Buddhist temple in Anuradhapura, 180 kilometres northeast of the capital. ALSO READ: Bayelsa Guber: Buhari tells opposition to […]

Lebanon slipped deeper into political crisis on Sunday after the withdrawal of a top candidate for prime minister narrowed the chances of creating a government needed to enact urgent reforms. Mohammad Safadi, a former finance minister, withdrew his candidacy late on Saturday, saying it was too difficult to form a “harmonious” government with broad political […]

Two men close to the ultra-right were indicted for “terrorist criminal conspiracy” and placed in pre-trial detention, as part of the investigation of a bombing project against French President Emmanuel Macron. Franceinfo, a French domestic rolling news channel, reported this on Saturday. The two suspects, aged 30 and 45 respectively, were believed to have planned […]

Bolivia’s major central cities, which includes the capital of La Paz, have been hit with fuel shortages due to the ongoing anti-government protests, the country’s new Hydrocarbons Minister Víctor Hugo Zamora said. The protests are coming after the resignation of former President Evo Morales and opposition senator Jeanine Anez assuming the post. On Thursday, protesters […]

At least 241 militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS, banned in Russia) and the members of their families have surrendered to the Afghan government forces over the past three days in eastern Afghanistan. This is contained in a statement issued by the Nangarhar provincial governor’s office. The Afghan government army’s eastern division, known […]

The United States President, Donald Trump, launched an attack at Democrats witness through his twitter account. Marie Yovanovitch is a former US Ambassador to Ukraine between 2016 and 2019. She took to the witness stand during the Trump’s impeachment inquiry hearings on Friday. Trump in his tweets challenged the integrity of Yovanovitch. “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch […]

United States poultry exports to China are projected to exceed 1 billion dollars annually as a result of Beijing’s decision to lift a ban on poultry imports from the U.S., the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said. The U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement on Thursday that the U.S. welcomed China’s decision to […]