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The head of the World Health Organisation has said he is “very disappointed” China has denied its experts access to investigating the origins of coronavirus. A ten-strong team of international scientists and virologists had been due to set off in early January as part of a long-awaited mission to probe …

The 56-year-old billionaire founder of the Alibaba and Ant Group, Jack Ma, has vanished. In more than two months, he hasn’t been seen publicly, Jessica Yun posted on Sunday for Yahoo Finance. As China has cracked down on his business empire, Ma has been in the spotlight lately. Chinese regulators …

A group of US senators say they will refuse to certify Joe Biden’s election victory unless a commission is set up to investigate alleged voter fraud. The 11 senators and senators-elect, led by Ted Cruz, want a 10-day delay to audit the unsubstantiated allegations. The move is not expected to …

A very unethical incident has been said to have happened as a male nurse in a hospital in Indonesia has been said to have engaged in sex with one of her female patient who was sick of the deadly coronavirus in the washroom. According to reports, the patient who didn’t feel shy …

The father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.   Stanley Johnson told France’s RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France. The 80-year-old former Conservative …

Boris Johnson has said the UK has “freedom in our hands” and must make the most of it as the country prepares to leave EU trading rules at 11pm. Historic changes to rules on travel, trade, immigration and security are to come into force as the UK enters a new …

Reports by some international media outlets say a Ghanaian man has been arrested in Italy for murdering his employer, a famous Ethiopian refugee. According to one such reports, Adams Suleimani, the Ghanaian, allegedly raped his employer, Agitu Gudeta, after hitting her with an object. “A Ghanaian employee on the farm …

The post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU takes effect at 23:00 GMT on Thursday, after it was signed into law. Parliament overwhelmingly backed the agreement in a high-speed process on Wednesday, following the two sides reaching agreement on Christmas Eve. It takes the UK out of the EU’s …

Agencies critical to US security have suffered “enormous damage” at the hands of the Trump administration, US President-elect Joe Biden has said. Mr Biden said his team was not getting the information it needed, including from the Department of Defense, as it makes its transition to power. He spoke after …

News information coming in from a court in China has revealed how a journalist by the name of Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years imprisonment after her live broadcast of the virus in Wuhan a town in China. According to reports, the former lawyer was said to have been arrested in …