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Belgium winger Jeremy Doku has become a father after temporarily leaving the Red Devils’ FIFA World Cup camp to be with his family, bringing a heartwarming conclusion to a story that sparked widespread debate across European football. The Belgian Football Association confirmed on Monday that Doku and his wife have welcomed a baby boy named Praise, just days after the Manchester City star travelled to London ahead of Belgium’s World Cup clash against Iran. According to the federation, the decision to allow Doku to leave the national team camp followed consultations with the team’s medical staff after it became clear…

Oprah Winfrey took the Croisette at Cannes Lions on Tuesday, drawing a crowd that filled the event venue’s stage-level seating to the brim about 30 minutes ahead of the 10 a.m. start time of her keynote appearance. Soon, folks started making their way to the upper level to ensure they could catch the TV host, producer, actress, author, philanthropist and outright media icon. And when Winfrey took to the stage, phone cameras lit up the room as the crowd erupted into a roar. Winfrey came to town to receive the 2026 Cannes LionHeart an honor celebrating “individuals who are driving positive change.”…

The police have confirmed eight deaths in a violent clash between crop farmers and cattle herders in Gulma Town, Argungu Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Reacting to the development, which occurred on Monday, the authorities have imposed a curfew and deployed additional security personnel to the area. The Kebbi State Police Command said the violence followed a dispute over alleged destruction of farmland by cattle. Police spokesperson Bashir Usman said in a statement on Tuesday that the incident began at about 3 p.m. when cattle being grazed by a herder, Yaron Dogo, allegedly stray into a farm belonging to…

Ebola has now infected more than 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an outbreak that has spread to a third displacement camp and killed an 18-month-old girl. Congo’s government confirmed that its death toll reached 254. The speed of its spread across three provinces of eastern Congo has prompted warnings from African health experts that the outbreak could eventually surpass the epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people across West Africa from 2014 to 2016. A Congolese health report stated that the 18-month-old baby was tested for Ebola on June 14 in the Hungbe displacement camp and…

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said that de la Espriella had “won easily”, even though his lead of 0.96 percentage points in the preliminary count is the narrowest in recent Colombian history.Writing on Truth Social, Trump said he was looking forward to working together “to build a powerful relationship”.The relationship between the two historic allies had suffered in recent years as Trump traded insults with Colombia’s outgoing president, the left-winger Gustavo Petro.Trump had called Petro a “sick man” and a “drug-trafficking leader” without providing any evidence, while Petro had said that the US president was basing his immigration policy…

Declines on Wall Street reverberate across global markets as SpaceX rally reverses

Ivorypay, a stablecoin payment infrastructure company operating across 17 African countries, has launched support for the X402 payment protocol, making it the first company on the continent to do so. The integration allows software applications and AI agents to make and receive stablecoin payments natively over HTTP, using the standard 402 Payment Required status code. X402 is an open protocol that enables machine-to-machine payments without human intervention. When a client application requests a paid resource from a server, the server responds with an HTTP 402 status code and a payment request. The client settles the payment in stablecoins on-chain, and…

•Tinubu should resign like Starmer, says Obi •Call childish, hollow, puerile — Presidency By Henry Umoru & Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA — THE Presidency and the presidential candidate of Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, for the 2027 elections, Peter Obi, were yesterday locked in a war of words over the resignation of British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. While Obi asked President Bola Tinubu to resign, having failed to deliver on his electoral premises as Starmer, the Presidency described his call as childish, hollow and puerile. Tinubu should consider resignation like Starmer, says Peter Obi Reacting to the resignation of the British Prime Minister…

We live in an increasingly polarised world – and I’m not talking about politics, I’m talking about exercise. There’s a fitness community obsessed with constant optimisation and hacks: how can you get from 50 press-ups to 100, from an eight-minute mile to seven minutes, or increase your deadlifts from body weight to double or triple body weight – ideally using just “one weird trick” or novel method no one has seen before.It seems as if no one is happy with basic fitness or steady progress. Or people are overly concerned with what’s secretly holding them back, from sleep to “I…

For about an hour on Monday night, the biggest trade of the NBA offseason to date involved Julius Randle. The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to trade Randle and the No. 28 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft to the Brooklyn Nets as part of a three-team deal that will route Nic Claxton to the Chicago Bulls, according to ESPN. As part of the deal, the Timberwolves will receive the No. 33 pick (the third pick in the second round) from the Nets. The deal came shortly before the Heat won the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade sweepstakes. Still, moving off Randle — acquired…