Category: Foreign

UK introduces new visa rules for care workers, salary threshold raised

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In a bid to reduce immigration and prioritise local recruitment, the UK Government has confirmed new visa regulations affecting care providers, foreign workers, and students. From April 9, care providers seeking to hire staff from overseas must first demonstrate efforts to recruit foreign workers already residing in England who require new visa sponsorship, according to measures presented in Parliament on Wednesday. The Home Office stated that these changes aim to curb dependency on overseas recruitment while ensuring fair opportunities for care workers already in the UK. The salary threshold for…

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Trump to Gaza: ‘you are dead’ if hostages not freed

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Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened further destruction of Gaza if all remaining hostages are not released, and issued an ultimatum to Hamas leaders to flee. Strongly backing Israel as a ceasefire teeters, Trump said he was “sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job” as his administration expedites billions of dollars in weapons. “Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform after meeting…

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Zelensky ready for Russia talks, mineral deal -Trump

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President Donald Trump of the United States said Tuesday that Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky has told him Kyiv was ready for talks with Russia and finalization of a US minerals deal, days after a White House clash. “I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine. The letter reads, ‘Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians,’” Trump said in an address to Congress. “He said, ‘My team and I stand ready…

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Dolly Parton loses husband

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Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton, died Monday aged 82, the country music superstar said, after nearly 60 years of marriage kept out of the spotlight despite the singer’s chart-topping fame. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years,” Parton wrote in a post on X. The singer-songwriter and actor met Dean in 1964 outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee on the day she moved to the country music capital. She was 18 and…

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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, wife, found dead

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95-year-old US actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found dead inside their home on Thursday in New Mexico. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said the couple were found dead on Wednesday afternoon, adding that there was no immediate indication of foul play, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican, Variety and Sky News. Mendoza did not provide a cause of death. The couple reportedly died along with their dog. Hackman, who was 95, was once voted as likely to flop in showbiz but instead went…

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Trump to sell US residency permits for $5m

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President Donald Trump of the United States of America has unveiled plans to sell new “gold card” residency permits for a price of $5 million each — and said Russian oligarchs may be eligible. Trump said sales of the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit. “We’re going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re going to be putting a price on…

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Two men sentenced to public flogging in Indonesia for gay sex

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Two men found guilty of sexual relations by a court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday, have been sentenced to be publicly flogged, an official said. While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation — it is illegal in Aceh province, which imposes Sharia, the Islamic law code. In November, locals raided a rented room in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh and found the two men — both students at a local university — together. They were taken to Sharia…

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US to deport Nigerian convicted for fraud after serving jail term

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The United States Department of Justice has made it known that a Nigerian, Edwin Okoronkwo, who was sentenced to 75 months imprisonment for defrauding some Americans, will be deported after completing his jail term. Okoronkwo was said to have connived with his wife, Julie Okoronkwo, who was also sentenced to 25 months imprisonment for her role in the catfishing scheme that targeted unsuspecting Americans. The conviction was contained in a statement obtained from the US Department of Justice website on Thursday. The statement disclosed that the convicts who were permanent…

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Nigerian professor, Dubem Okafor kills wife, self in US

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One of Nigeria’s respected poet and professor of English Language and Literature, Dubem Okafor is dead. He died last Sunday in the United States after shooting his wife Cheryl. According to reports from the US, Okafor aged 64, and cousin to the late poet, Christopher Okigbo apparently distraught that his wife had left him a few days earlier, arranged to meet her at his sister’s Reading home, in Pennsylvania, where he shot her several times and also shot himself once in the head at 3:45 p.m. A small-caliber handgun was…

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US-based Nigerian cardiologist ‘commits suicide’ after losing child support case

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Ikenna Erinne, a 36-year-old Nigerian cardiologist based in the United States, has reportedly taken his own life after a court ruling in favor of his ex-wife in a child support case. The tragic incident was reported to have occurred on Sunday, January 26. Dr. Erinne, originally from Anambra State, had been involved in a prolonged divorce battle with his estranged wife, particularly over the custody of their children. He lost the case when a U.S. court ordered him to pay $15,000 in monthly child support. Clayton Udo, a Nigerian-American, confirmed…

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