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March 24, (THEWILL) – The United States Government has announced a new package of sanctions on Russian lawmakers and elites, defence companies, as punishments designed to ramp up pressure on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. The measures announced Thursday...

March 24, (THEWILL) – Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War II, but rose to become the first female US secretary of state, has died at age 84. Madeleine Albright's family...

March 21, (THEWILL) – Mali’s former prime minister, Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga, who was being held on suspicion of corruption has died, his family said on Monday. He died on Monday morning at a Bamako clinic, at the age of 67. He...

March 21, (THEWILL) – France has seized around €850 million ($920 million) of Russian oligarchs’ assets on its soil. “We have immobilised … €150 million in individual’s accounts, credit lines in France and in French establishments. "We have immobilised €539 million in...

March 21, (THEWILL) – A China Eastern Airlines passenger jet with 132 people on board crashed in the mountains of southern China on Monday, while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, China's Civil Aviation Administration of...

March 19, (THEWILL) – Italy’s data privacy watchdog has launched investigations into possible “potential risks” that Russian antivirus software, Kaspersky, could be used to launch cyberattacks. The development followed what it called “alarms sounded by many Italian and European organisations...

March 12, (THEWILL) - Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 convicts, the highest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history. The executions carried out surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the...

March 12, (THEWILL) - Former Zambian President, Rupiah Bwezani Banda, has died at age 85. The former President, who ruled Zambia between 2008 and 2011, died on Friday at his home after a prolonged battle with colon cancer, diagnosed in...

March 11, (THEWILL) - Russia on Friday said it was opening a criminal case against Meta for “calling for the murder” of Russians. The development, according to Russia, followed Meta's (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) action relaxing...

March 09, (THEWILL) - David Bennett, the first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig, has died two months after the medical milestone. David Bennett, 57, had received his transplant on January 7 and passed away...