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*US Denies Visa To Iranian President's Delegation To UNGA Three news outlets, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, said they were suing the Trump administration ⁠to protect their First Amendment ​rights after ‌President Donald Trump’s ‌announcement that he would ban ‌them from the White House’s building grounds. The First Amendment protects five core freedoms from government interference: religion, speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. The three news outlets said they had notified the government that they were ‌filing their lawsuit in the US District Court for ​the District of Columbia and could see emergency hearings in…

Kemi Badenoch has accused UK Prime Minister (PM) Andy Burnham of “fiddling while Europe is at risk of burning”, as she repeated her call for the PM to cut the welfare budget to fund increased spending on defence. Speaking to the Telegraph, the Tory leader, who grew up in Nigeria before emigrating to Britain where she presently heads UK's second largest political party, said that “Burnham may be a people pleaser but difficult choices cannot be avoided through dither and delay." She said the government had to “fund our defence properly” at a time when former military chiefs have raised…

Two Nigerians are among seven persons arrested in the United States (US) for allegedly illegally voting in past elections in the global superpower and for naturalization offence. One of them was paraded before Fox News crew. They were all indicted. Indictments and complaints are allegations and defendants are constitutionally presumed innocent until proven guilty. The US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas disclosed news of the arrests and indictments in a statement, sighted by People&Politics Tuesday night. The paper's checks on the Attorney's official website showed that the two Nigerians, a female and a male, were named as…

*He Had A Secret Son, But Kingmakers Pick Cousin Instead *President Museveni, Archbishop Express Concern Uganda's King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, once the world's youngest reigning monarch, was buried yesterday (Saturday), days after a row broke out over who would succeed him. People&Politics had reported, quoting Ugandan and Western media, that the 34-year-old Oyo, who had ruled the traditional kingdom of Tooro in western Uganda since the age of three, died last month while undergoing cancer treatment in the US. Tooro is one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms, which were abolished in 1967 but restored in the 1990s under…

He was at his desk at the Pentagon on 9/11. As the chaos unfolded, he refused to leave. "All day I had been a good soldier: stolid, resolute, unemotional, rational, and dispassionate,” writes Matthew Klimow, recalling the wave of emotion that overwhelmed him as he arrived home from the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. There was sadness for the lives lost. But there was another emotion, too: humiliation. “We, as a nation, had been humbled,” writes the retired Army Colonel, who remained at the Pentagon even after it was struck by a hijacked airliner, killing all 64 people onboard and…

*As Huge Row Breaks Out After Celebrity Journalist Picked To Succeed Deceased World's Youngest King *Late Monarch Had A Son, Heir To Throne, We Won't Accept New King -- Royal Family Kicks Heavily armed soldiers were deployed as a bitter succession dispute flared in one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms, days before the burial of its late king, who until his death had been the world's youngest reigning monarch. King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who ruled the Tooro Kingdom for more than three decades, was undergoing cancer treatment in the US when he died last month aged 34, reports…

A traditional Ugandan kingdom selected a television news anchor on Wednesday (yesterday) to succeed King Oyo Nyimba, who ​died last month aged 34 after becoming the ‌world's youngest reigning monarch when he took the throne at age 3. People&Politics had reported that king Oyo died on 27 August. He was in the United States (US) receiving treatment for cancer before succumbing to the deadly ailment. While Uganda is a ​constitutional republic, Oyo Nyimba ruled Tooro in western Uganda, ⁠one of the former British colony's ancient kingdoms, which ​wield enormous cultural and social influence. At a press conference in ​the kingdom's…

Alhaji Hafidh Ameir Hassan, the husband of Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan, has died while receiving treatment at a hospital in the country's semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar. Vice-President (VP) Deogratius Ndejembi - who made the official announcement of Ameir's death - said he had been suffering from a heart condition. Ndejembi added that funeral arrangements are under way in Kizimkazi, a village in Zanzibar. Ameir was an agricultural academic who largely kept a low public profile. He became Tanzania's first First Gentleman after President Samia took office in 2021. The First Gentleman rarely appeared in public alongside the President. He…

*Over Protests By Daniel Boffey The twins were 19 and still in high school when they were taken from their beds in the dead of night by masked men later identified as being sent by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). After four months of desperately seeking news from hospitals and state institutions, their mother, Marzieh Nourmohammadi, finally learned their fate: Taraneh and Romina Rahimi had been seized over their decision to join millions on the streets of Iranian cities during the January protests against the regime. The twins were unrecognisable by the time of their mother’s prison visit in…

An Egyptian court sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drug case, official media reported today (Saturday). The presenter, Sarah Khalifa, 39, is best known for her programme Mission Impossible, which dealt with issues concerning security and crime. The state-linked Al-Ahram newspaper said a Cairo court sentenced “Khalifa and 11 other defendants to death by hanging on charges of forming an organised criminal gang specialising in procuring materials used in manufacturing narcotics, with the intent to traffic them, and possessing and carrying unlicensed firearms and ammunition." The verdict came…