Harrods store in London, Britain, December 20, 2020. Harrods is owned by the Qatar Investment Authority. Photographer Toby Melville/File Photo By Reuters Qatar has launched a review of its investments in London after the city’s transport authority this week banned the Gulf state’s tourism advertisements on the capital’s buses, taxis and Underground train system, Saturday’s

By The African Exponent A 30-year-old Botswana woman – caught smuggling heroin into Bangladesh faces execution today, (25 November 2022). Molapisi’s goose was cooked when she arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Bangladesh, on a Qatar Airways flight from South Africa, which came via Doha. Dressed in white and wearing a medical mask,

By Anadolu Agency Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told the media Friday that Ankara’s security concerns will be addressed as part of a tripartite memorandum between Finland, Sweden and Turkey for NATO membership of the Nordic nations. Kristersson underlined that Turkey’s security concerns will be addressed as part of the memorandum between Finland, Sweden and

Malawi Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima: Credit to Photo/Facebook By Reuters Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested the country’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said on Friday. Chilima would be taken to court where he was expected to be charged with three counts of corrupt practices by a public officer, among other

Troubled cop Ahmed Rashid and the late Jamal Mohamed and Mohamed Dahir Kheri/File By Daily Nation It was supposed to be a brief encounter between two suspected criminals and the then powerful crime buster, Ahmed Rashid. Mr Rashid was an officer at the Pangani Police Station. But the events of Friday, March 31, 2017, changed

Nurses react as they treat a COVID-19 patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Milton Keynes University Hospital, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Milton Keynes, Britain, January 20, 2021. Photographer Toby Melville By Reuters Chukwudubem Ifeajuna, a nurse in the south of England, loves his job, but next month will

Nairobi Eastleigh corrupt police officer Ahmed Rashid: Credit to Photo/Facebook Eastleigh has been facing different types of crimes including the one of stabbing by a gang that consisted mostly of youths who had been deported from other parts of the world. This forced the local business community to ask for the deployment of Rashid and

Ghana’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia is sworn in at the Independence square in Accra, Ghana January 7, 2017. Photographer Luc Gnago/File Photo By Reuters Ghana’s government is working on a new policy to buy oil products with gold rather than U.S. dollar reserves, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said on Facebook on Thursday. The move is meant to

Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Police’s Commissioner – Danny Lawson/PA The Daily Telegraph By Gareth Davies Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has told the public if you get a text from the force in the next 24 hours – you have been the victim of fraud. Scotland Yard’s most senior officer acknowledged that

By Anadolu Agency Moscow has criticized the European Parliament’s decision to designate Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism.” “I think it is obvious to all sane people, I don’t have a medical degree,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in response to a question on the matter during an interview with Moscow TV on the