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WHO report urges stronger action against global tobacco epidemic
Medical News
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June 23, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, warning that action is needed to maintain and accelerate progress in tobacco control as rising...
Tobacco control efforts protect 6.1 billion people – WHO’s new report
Pan American Health Organization
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June 23, 2025
Geneva, 23 June 2025 (PAHO) — The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, warning that action is needed to maintain and accelerate progress...
ECOWAS older than EU, yet struggles with integration -Dagunro
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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June 23, 2025
Nigerian public affairs analyst, Joe Femi Dagunro, has criticised the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for failing to fulfil its integration promises, despite being established before the European Union. During a media interview,...
Nigerian Newspapers: Top Stories For Today (23/06/25)
Daily Independent
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June 23, 2025
2 Read the full details on our digital edition when you join our WhatsApp Communities here. Here are the major headlines for today: Struggling Banks Face Hurdles To Navigate Recapitalisation … About 10 Lenders Under CBN Watch For Recapitalisation...
MF Brings Together 14 1st Ladies
Business Ghana
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Link to Live Stream of Inaugural Session of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative – MFFLI Summit 2025: https://apo-opa.co/3G1Afxo Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th...
AFRICA-EUROPE PARTNERSHIPS' new forms
Business Ghana
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The Sub-Saharan Component of the AFRICA-EUROPE PARTNERSHIPS FOR CULTURE programme represents an ambitious cultural cooperation initiative between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe. With an €8 million budget over 42 months, this Component forms part of...
INEC has no powers to stop our 100th NEC meeting – PDP
Business Day
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June 22, 2025
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday said the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC does not have the powers to prevent the party from holding it 100th National Executive Committee NEC scheduled for Monday June 30, as it is purely...
Report ranks Cameroon world’s third la...
The Guardian Post
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Photo of Kola nuts The agricultural market intelligence and food product trade platform, Tridge, has revealed that Cameroon accounts for 15.4% Kola nuts production globally. The platform published the statistics recently. Per the report, Cameroon...
Tinubu to W’African Leaders: Turn Region’s Demographic Strength, Mineral Wealth into Jobs, Industry
This Day
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June 22, 2025
*Okonjo-Iweala: W’Africa must break trade barriers to unlock $500bn potential Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu yesterday urged the West African leaders to harness the region’s youthful population and abundant natural resources for...
Police recovered stolen vehicle and cannabis plants
Antigua News Room
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June 22, 2025
ROYAL POLICE FORCE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Office of Strategic Communications (STRATCOM) MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE POLICE RECOVER SUSPECTED STOLEN VEHICLES AND CANNABIS PLANTS IN FREETOWN St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda — Sunday, 22 June...
From Meseret, to history
NOW Lebanon
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June 20, 2025
🔊 Listen to Post The fifteen-year ordeal of an Ethiopian woman reveals the double torture of the kafala system: the violent one of the sponsor, and the subtle collusion of the Lebanese legal system. To which, nevertheless, Meseret Hailu appeals to...
Nigerian Newspapers: Top Stories For Today (22/06/25)
Daily Independent
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June 22, 2025
1 Read the full details on our digital edition when you join our WhatsApp Communities here. Here are the major headlines for today: We’ll Get Them, Military Vows As Terrorists Battle North-Central, North-East … Gov. Zulum Condemns Konduga Suicide...
West Africa must break trade barriers to unlock $500bn regional potential – Okonjo-Iweala
New Mail
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June 21, 2025
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has urged West African leaders to dismantle trade barriers, reduce costs, and think regionally to unlock the subregion’s $500 billion economic potential and secure...
I flew 6,000 miles to meet a stranger for a date
Metro
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June 22, 2025
Lucy Rout and her date spent 10 blissful days looking at temples and kayaking down the Mekong river (Picture: Getty Images) Among the passengers who boarded the packed airliner from London to Vietnam last November, one in particular was lost in...
Nigeria, Benin sign integration agreement
Premium Times
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June 21, 2025
Nigeria and the Republic of Benin signed an agreement on Saturday to deepen bilateral integration and serve as a model for broader regional cooperation within ECOWAS. The signing ceremony, witnessed by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu and Benin...
AFRICA/UGANDA - “Voices of Peace”: campaign by Sudanese youth to launch a sustainable peace process
Fides
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June 20, 2025
Friday, 20 June 2025 Internet Kampala (Agenzia Fides) – “Stopping the war has become a national demand”. This is the goal of a group of Sudanese youth who have launched the “Voices of Peace” campaign in Kampala, Uganda. Inaugurated on Saturday,...
LIVE: US enters war against Iran as Trump announces strikes on 3 nuclear sites including Fordow
The Indian Express
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June 22, 2025
Israeli air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP)Iran-Israel War Today News LIVE Updates: US President Donald Trump has announced that America conducted air strikes...
55-Year-Old Gold Dealer Found Brutally Murdered in Kono
Sierraloaded
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June 22, 2025
A 55-year-old gold mineral dealer, Abdulrahman Kuyateh, was found dead in a bush area known as the Captured Life Old Mining Site in Kumao Town, Nimikoro Chiefdom, Kono District, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. According to Thompson Peter Ndapi, Media...
The Real Reason Houston Stopped Taking All Major Cruise Lines
The Travel
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June 21, 2025
Houston, the largest city in Texas, is largely known for its robust oil and gas industry and for having one of the busiest commercial ports in the United States. For a brief time, city officials believed Houston would also become a major hub for...
‘I’d rather they killed us’ How rape became a weapon in war
Metro
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June 21, 2025
Drita* was a widow with two sons when Serbian forces entered her village in Kosovo. As they began separating the old men, women and children, she says her community ‘knew what was going to happen’. ‘They tore my clothes, they ripped them...