Eyewitnesses have given a gory account of how soldiers, police and civilians were killed in a fresh ambush in Kebbi state, amid the growing insecurity in Nigeria.
FG launches OHOPRS, targets lifting 50 million Nigerians out of poverty with N16 trillion plan, unified system, real-time data, and coordinated interventions.
Shares in the South Korean studio behind the ultra-catchy "Baby Shark" -- YouTube's most-viewed video -- surged as much as 60 percent on Tuesday as the company made its market debut in Seoul. In morning trade, the company's shares were up around 17 percent from their offering price of 38,000 won ($26), having earlier soared over 60 percent.
Asian stocks sank Tuesday, tracking more losses on Wall Street as investors grow increasingly worried about frothy tech valuations, with focus turned to earnings this week from AI chip titan Nvidia.
Gangs in Haiti are profiting from a lucrative trade in baby eels caught in the crime-ridden country's rivers and estuaries and sold abroad for thousands of dollars.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government faced potential collapse on Monday, with parliament set to vote on a budget he insists is essential to kickstart the country's tariff-battered economy. But hours ahead of the decisive vote in parliament, Liberals voiced optimism that parliament would approve Carney's spending package and avert a snap election.
Emirates, the Middle East's biggest airline, topped up its order of Boeing 777X planes on Monday despite years of delays, delivering a vote of confidence to the US manufacturer at the Dubai Airshow. Emirates, already the biggest customer for the Boeing 777, now has 270 777X, 10 777 freighters and 35 Boeing 787s on order.
The eurozone economy will grow less than expected next year, the EU executive predicted on Monday, as risks from international trade and geopolitical tensions weigh on the single currency area. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in October predicted the US economy would grow by 2.1 percent next year.
The EU on Monday cut its eurozone growth forecast for 2026 as risks from international trade and geopolitical tensions weigh on Europe's economy. "Persistent trade policy uncertainty continues to weigh on economic activity, with tariffs and non-tariff restrictions potentially constraining EU growth more than expected," the commission said in a statement.
Switzerland's economy contracted in the third quarter of the year, suffering from high US tariffs which abruptly curtailed exports across the Atlantic, the economy ministry said on Monday. Employer federation Swissmem last week reported an overall 14.2-percent drop of Swiss exports to the US in the third quarter compared to the period a year earlier.
Asian markets struggled Monday on simmering concerns that the Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates as hoped next month, while fears of a bubble continue to weigh on sentiment. That has been compounded by a weakening US jobs market that has fanned expectations the Fed will cut rates.
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