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January 03, (THEWILL) - United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday with mild symptoms. He said he would attend meetings virtually as he quarantines at home for the next five days. Lloyd in statement issued...

January 01, (THEWILL) - The requiem mass for the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu began on Saturday morning in Cape Town's Anglican cathedral, a ceremony he had arranged himself and which he wanted to be sober and simple. The ceremony is...

December 31, (THEWILL) - Have you received any bribes lately? Embezzled from your company? Got any stolen goods? The IRS would like to know if you are an American. Shocked at those questions? Don't, because the United states' Internal Revenue Service...

December 30, (THEWILL) - Germany on Thursday said it would lift in early January strict travel rules for people arriving from countries hardest hit by the Omicron variant of the COVID-19. All countries currently listed in the “virus variant” category,...

December 28, (THEWILL) - Malaysia has lifted the travel ban on the eight southern African countries that first reported the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin, who disclosed the development on Tuesday, said given the rapid spread...

December 26, (THEWILL) - South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid movement, has died at the age of 90. The Nobel laureate, often described as the moral conscience of his nation, died on Boxing Day...

December 22, (THEWILL) - Hundreds joined the funeral procession of a Sudanese protester who was shot during recent mass demonstrations against the military takeover and a subsequent deal that reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. Abd al-Moneim Mohamed Ali died on...

December 22, (THEWILL) - South Africa's North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday granted former president Jacob Zuma leave to appeal last week's court ruling that declared his medical parole release unlawful. This came after the same court ruled on...

December 22, (THEWILL) - Turkish authorities have arrested an American diplomat working at the U.S. consulate in Beirut, for allegedly helping a Syrian national fly to Germany on a fake diplomatic passport. The police on Wednesday, said the diplomat, identified...

December 22, (THEWILL) -French police have uncovered 182,000 fake COVID-19 health passes since the documents were introduced this summer in a bid to control the spread of the disease. THEWILL reports that President Emmanuel Macron had in July this year...