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The Head of the United State Embassy in Nigeria, David Greene, says the United States’ government has for over five years invested about $200 million in food security in Nigeria through its international development agency. The official made the disclosure Thursday while delivering his remarks during the launch of the US government’s Global Food Security Strategy Country Plan for Nigeria in Abuja. “USAID invested almost $200 million in agriculture over the last five years to improve food security and build…

The error message at the website for the U.S. embassy in Russia on Thursday after issuing a warning about a potential terror attack.Screenshot: U.S. State DepartmentThe U.S. embassy in Russia issued a warning on Thursday that Americans should avoid large gatherings in Moscow for the next 48 hours. The embassy said it was over a potential terrorist threat in the city, but didn’t elaborate beyond mentioning concerts as a potential target. And now the embassy’s website appears to be down.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings…

The U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday has died. The service member, who identified himself as Aaron Bushnell in a video he shot of the incident, said he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.” He added, “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” before dousing himself in flammable liquid and lighting himself on fire. He repeatedly yelled, “Free Palestine!” as he burned. According to The Washington Post, a D.C. police…

Pussy Riot called Vladimir Putin and the Russian government “murderers” at a protest Sunday in Germany following the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The group’s creator Nadya Tolokonnikova and fellow members of the protest and performance art collective staged the demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Berlin, where a makeshift memorial to Navalny was placed. “We came with one simple word – ‘MURDERERS’ He did not just die. He was murdered,” Tolokonnikova said in a statement Sunday of Navalny,…

The embassy said that it can "confidently Speak Now" to say that Taylor Swift can make the big game if there are no flight delays The Japanese Embassy in Washington moved to quell panicked Swifties over the the megastar’s chances of making it to see her boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the Super Bowl following her post-concert flight from Tokyo. Taylor Swift is set to take the stage in Tokyo to a sold-out concert as part of her massive Eras Tour the day before the big game. The 17-hour time…

This is getting silly. It was already silly, to be sure, but now the whole Taylor Swift/NFL/Travis Kelce/Super Bowl thing is truly getting surreal and more than a little off the rails. Here’s the latest: Japan’s embassy in Washington, D.C., has released a statement about Swift’s travel plans. In other words: Because a pop singer has to fly from performing shows in Tokyo to Las Vegas to watch a football game on a relatively short schedule, the Embassy of Japan has something to say — and it…

Photo: Handout (Getty Images)El Salvador, which has already lost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on its authoritarian millennial president’s beleaguered effort to embrace cryptocurrencies, now says it plans to open a “bitcoin embassy” in Texas. The Central American country’s continued commitment to bitcoin comes despite last year’s crypto winter and surveys showing the overwhelming majority of its citizens have simply never used it. Milena Mayorga, the country’s ambassador to the U.S. says she discussed the embassy…

More than 50 artists, including the poet Benjamin Zephaniah and the Turner prize co-winner Tai Shani, have protested over the Barbican arts venue’s collaboration with the Israeli embassy in London in putting on a concert.Arguing that the Israeli government must be “held to account for its policies towards the Palestinian people”, the artists say the concert this weekend is “a cynical attempt to re-brand apartheid as diversity and military occupation as tolerance”.The concert is to be performed by the Jerusalem Orchestra…

| Today, Iran shut down the cultural wing of the French embassy in Tehran as Iran's foreign ministry summoned the French ambassador to Iran, Nicolas Roche,  in support of the Iranian protest movement. Specifically, the cartoons focused on Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanani stated that "France has no right to insult the sanctities of other Muslim countries and nations under the pretext of freedom of expression. Iran is waiting for the French government's…

Born in Glasgow, Jim Kerr, 63, formed Simple Minds with Charlie Burchill in the late 1970s. The band had hits with Promised You a Miracle and Don’t You (Forget About Me) – which featured in the 1985 film The Breakfast Club – and had five UK No 1 albums. Their new album is called Direction of the Heart. Kerr has two children with former wives Chrissie Hynde and Patsy Kensit. He lives in Sicily.What is your greatest fear?I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about…