The United Kingdom Prime Minister is presumed will use the Queen’s Speech to propose a mandatory presentation of photographic identification by British voters before being allowed to vote. The draft legislation of the “Electoral Integrity Bill” would spell the end of people being able to vote simply by stating their address when they visit a […]

Oil prices eased on Monday as scant details on the first phase of a trade deal between the United States and China undercut last week’s optimism over a U.S.-Sino thaw that helped to lift crude markets by 2 per cent at the end of last week. Brent crude futures LCOc1 fell by 69 cents to […]

At least 10 people died after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in a house in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials say. The building collapsed due to the blast, which took place in a two-storey building in Mau district on Monday. Rescue efforts are ongoing as officials fear that more people could be […]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday he would meet Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Russia to discuss a dispute over a hydropower dam that the Horn of Africa country is building on the River Nile. A long-running diplomatic standoff over building and operating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has heightened tensions between […]

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo will introduce a Johnson & Johnson Ebola vaccine in November in the country’s eastern provinces, to counter the current outbreak, they said. The J&J vaccine will complement another vaccine manufactured by Merck, which has been administered to more than 225,000 people. It requires two injections eight weeks […]