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It also wants to introduce a minimum residency period of at least 12 months in which the cap would still apply for those who move back to the UK.It is not currently clear exactly when Delo and Harborne returned to the UK.Under the current rules, foreign donations are illegal in the UK, but British voters living abroad can give as much as they want to political parties.MPs have supported the government’s proposals by approving amendments to the Representation of the People Bill. The bill is currently being scrutinised in the House of Lords.Speaking as the bill was debated by peers,…

UEFA has confirmed the stadiums that will host some of the biggest European football finals between 2027 and 2029. The selected venues span several major football cities across Europe, including Munich, Barcelona, Lyon, Cardiff, Bucharest, Belgrade, Turin, Budapest and Amsterdam. The fixtures cover the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Women’s Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Conference League and UEFA Super Cup. Here is the full list of stadiums that will host UEFA finals between 2027 and 2029: 1. Munich Football Arena – Munich The Munich Football Arena in Germany will host the 2028 UEFA Champions League final. The stadium, home…

The Zurich Film Festival will honor Berlin and Zurich-based distributor DCM with a Career Achievement Award at its upcoming edition kicking off on September 24. The award is being given to the company’s co-founders Marc Schmidheiny, Christoph Daniel, Dario Suter and Joel Brandeis as well as its Swiss managing director Stephanie Candinas for their long-standing commitment to culture They will be presented with the honor ahead of the screening of Wim Wenders’s documentary From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor, which DCM is distributing in Germany and Switzerland having also acted as a producer on the film. Founded in…

Zainab Bala, a former presenter of GIST Nigeria, a current affairs programme jointly produced by BBC Africa and Channels Television, has recounted how her decision to wear her hijab on air became an issue during her nine-month stint on the programme. Ms Bala disclosed this while appearing on the second episode of The HSM Tribe, a YouTube platform focused on Muslim women, which aired on 28 August 2026. She is an award-winning journalist and founder of The Scoop Storytelling Initiative. She won the 2021 Michael Elliott Award for Excellence in African Storytelling from the International Centre for Journalists for her…

Nigeria will begin their quest for continental honours when the senior men’s volleyball team takes to the court at the 2026 African Men’s Volleyball Nations Championship in Tunisia, with the ultimate target of reaching the final in Tunis. The Nigerian team has been drawn in Group C alongside Algeria and Chad, with their opening fixture against Chad scheduled for Wednesday, 16 September. The championship began on Monday and will also serve as an important qualification pathway towards the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, United States. Head coach Ryan Masajedi has assembled a 14-man squad for the continental battle, selecting…

Former Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, John Akpanudoedehe, alleges that Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State instigated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s probe against his predecessor, Udom Emmanuel. Mr Akpanudoedehe, the Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress, made the allegation during an interview over the weekend. “I am not speaking on behalf of Udom Emmanuel,” Mr Akpanudoedehe, a former senator, said. “This governor that used to kneel down for him, they have collected, including asking EFCC to seize Udom Emmanuel’s house in Lagos, the one he lives in. You are looking…

• New index covers 26 markets, with Nigeria attracting 7.4% weighting   •FG:  inclusion reflects growing investor confidence in current reforms Ndubuisi Francis in Abuja and Nume Ekeghe in Lagos Leading global investment banker, JP Morgan, has included Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bonds in its freshly launched Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets Edge (GBI-EM Edge), relaunching the country into the bank’s bond benchmark after 11 years. The development came days before FTSE Russell’s reclassification of Nigeria from Unclassified to Frontier market status, effective September 21, 2026, after the index provider concluded that the West African country had met the required market-accessibility…

An at-home wearable for the treatment of depression is now available by prescription in the US.With roughly one in six American adults taking an antidepressant medication, Swedish firm Flow Neuroscience is positioning its device as an alternative to traditional drugs. But at the current four-figure price tag, it might take a while for the futuristic-looking headset to catch on with patients.Worn on the forehead for 30 minutes a day and operated with an app, the device provides low-intensity electrical stimulation to the left frontal lobe of the brain, an area involved in regulating mood and emotions. People with depression tend…

The PCC said the theatre tour was not something he needed to mention to voters during the election campaign and he denied letting them down.Speaking to Chris Goreham on BBC Radio Norfolk, Sutton said the idea for the tour was proposed in 2025, however, he did not commit to the plan and asked promoters to “hold fire” when the PCC by-election happened. He said: “At the time I was being elected I had said I wasn’t going to do it unless I was confident….that it would not be incompatible with doing the job.”Sutton added that since then, the promoters announced…

Dawn has broken, and the air is cool and still. It’s at about this time that gibbons usually erupt into song, wa-oo-ing and wa-ing from the highest branches and filling the tree tops with rich melodies. But in this corner of Malaysian forest, bordered by housing and roads, the resident white-handed gibbons are quiet. All that can be heard is the hum of traffic from a nearby highway.This isn’t a rare occurrence for this group of gibbons, according to research, which found these particular gibbons, named Mambang and Walinong, appeared to be producing far fewer morning songs than others that…