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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies is planning to hand out 2 billion yuan ($286 million) in cash rewards to staff working to help it weather a U.S. trade blacklisting, the company said on Tuesday. Reuters reported that, the world’s largest telecoms equipment provider has said it has been trying to…

The Interactive Advertising Bureau reported Monday that U.S. digital ad venue rose 17% to $57.9 billion during the first half of 2019, compared with the year-ago period. The latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report prepared by PwC U.S. shows that search rose 13.7% to reach $26.0 billion during the first…

British government has lifted flight ban between the Egyptian Red Sea resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Britain, this was made known Tuesday. Flights were suspended to and from Sharm el-Sheikh in 2015 after a bomb exploded on a Russian passenger jet shortly after take-off, killing all 224 people on board.…

Eleven people have been reported dead in a heavy rain fall in Tanzania’s Eastern Region of Morogoro on Tuesday. Among the dead are five pupils a senior police official said. The Morogoro Regional Commissioner, Wilbroad Mutafungwa, said the five pupils drowned in a flooded river while going home from school.…

Sierra Leone President, Julius Maada Bio. A presidential aid in the Sierra Leonean government has been sacked from office after she testified at Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN). Until her sack, Edna Kargba, was the State Chief of Protocol to the President of Sierra Leone, Julius Bio. According to…

President Trump Two senior Senate Democrats on Wednesday asked President Donald Trump to withdraw his $5 billion request for border wall funding and use the money on initiatives to combat gun violence in the aftermath of back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. In a letter, Senate Democratic leader Chuck…

President Donald Trump on Monday seemed  to blame video games, in part, for the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend that took the lives of 31 people, adding to comments made by other prominent Republicans about the tragedies. According to Media post, the video game industry…

Russian police taking away a demonstrator. Dozens of opposition demonstrators were in the early hours of Saturday detained by Russian police in Moscow. The demonstrators were among Russian opposition supporters who took to the streets in defiance of a formidable security presence, in fresh protests calling for fair elections in…

A 7-year-old boy said to have 526 teeth according to CNN A 7-year-old-boy with 526 teeth inside his mouth has been discovered by doctors in an India hospital. “He always complains of jaw pain,” the hospital that treated him said. The boy whose name was not mentioned, was admitted last…

Saudi Arabian women. Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticized male guardianship system at a time of heightened scrutiny over its human rights record. A series of royal decrees published by the official gazette…