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Israel is to impose a new national lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus – with tough restrictions coming into effect on Jewish new year. The country’s second lockdown begins on Friday and lasts at least three weeks. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the measures would “exact a heavy price …

wo Los Angeles police officers are in a critical condition after being shot in what police are calling an ambush. Video of the incident shows a figure approach the officers’ vehicle, before opening fire and running away. Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the act “cowardly”. The suspect remains at …

United States (US)-based Ghanaian pastor, Ofori Slyvester, who murdered his beautiful wife, Barbara Tommey, by shooting multiple times has been brought before a court in the US. The 35-year-old pastor, who is the leader of Floodgates of Heaven, a church based in America donned blue-black apparel with his nose mask …

Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. In a Zoom call with about 250 of them, he said the party must not return to “miserable squabbling” over Europe. The EU has warned the UK it could face legal action …

A 28-year-old drug courier has been jailed in Australia after colliding with two parked police cars in a van filled with methamphetamines. Simon Tu had 260kg (570lbs) of the drug in the van when he swerved across the road and hit the vehicles in July 2019. Officers tracked down the …

The first peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have begun in the Gulf state of Qatar, after months of delay. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the meeting “historic” as he flew to Doha for the opening ceremony. The talks were due to start after a …

Israel and the Gulf state of Bahrain have reached a landmark deal to fully normalise their relations, US President Donald Trump has announced. “The second Arab country to make peace with Israel in 30 days,” he tweeted. For decades, most Arab states have boycotted Israel, insisting they would only establish …

The Facebook posts of a Ghanaian pastor who has made headlines in Ghana across the world for shooting his wife to death suggests he was deeply troubled. Sylvester Ofori murdered his 27-year-old wife, Barbara Tommey, in the United States outside an Orlando credit union where she works around 9 am …

Covid-19 patience have run for their lives after a ventilator in the ward the were admitted caught fire. The footage that was shared on social media shows four medics, who are dressed in hazmats, surrounding a patient on a hospital bed in Vadodara, India. Fortunately all the patients rescued as medics …

The EU is demanding the UK ditches plans to change Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal “by the end of the month” or risk jeopardising trade talks. The UK has published a bill to rewrite parts of the withdrawal agreement it signed in January. The EU said this had “seriously damaged trust” …