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The abducted teachers and pupils were kidnapped on May 15, 2026, in the Esiele and Yawota communities of Ogbomoso

Afriifa:
You probably don't read the sentiments against Nigeria by other Africans. They just have this hate for Nigeria. Meanwhile, Nigeria, no send where you from, once ya gud at your craft, they give your support and love massively.

Afriifa:
Very truth. We show them love. While they hate us.

Ghanaian stars who once dominated Nollywood screens in the 2000s

The best deal the US and Iran could reach on the nuclear issue may resemble the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached during the Obama administration, former senior defense official and Iranian nuclear expert Avner Vilan warned in an interview with 103FM on Monday.

“At best, we will get an agreement like Obama’s deal (the JCPOA). There is a period in which the Iranians do not advance toward a nuclear weapon and are under supervision, which is fine,” he said.

Iran’s military has downed an Israeli surveillance drone in the southern province of Hormozgan and recovered the wreckage with the help of naval forces, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reports.

insidelife22:
this God100 or whatever he is called is so obsessed with Israel and the US.

N. B. People tend to hate what they love when the can't have it

France has banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir from entering French territory, Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrot announced on X.

Barrot said the decision followed Ben Gvir’s actions towards French and European activists aboard the Global Sumud flotilla, accusing the Israeli minister of threatening and intimidating civilians.

The French foreign minister also called on the EU to impose sanctions on Ben Gvir, citing what he described as repeated incitement to hatred and violence against Palestinians.

May 21 (Reuters) - Iran has already restarted some of its ​drone production during the ‌six-week ceasefire that began in early April, CNN ​reported on Thursday, citing ​two sources familiar with ⁠U.S. intelligence assessments.


US intelligence ​indicates Iran’s military is ​rebuilding much faster than initially estimated, the report added, citing ​four sources.

U.S. President ‌Donald ⁠Trump on Wednesday said the United States was ready to proceed with further ​attacks ​on ⁠Tehran if Iran did not agree ​to a peace ​deal, ⁠but suggested Washington could wait a few days ⁠to "get ​the right answers."

President Donald Trump said Monday he is calling off a plan to attack Iran on Tuesday after the heads of three regional powers in the Middle East asked him to “hold off.”

Trump, in a Truth Social post, said he has informed U.S. military leaders “that we will NOT be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow” in light of the requests from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

There had been no clear indication prior to Trump’s post that the U.S. was preparing to strike Iran on Tuesday, officially scrapping its tattered ceasefire with Iran. Trump had told the New York Post in an interview earlier Monday that Iran knows “what’s going to be happening soon,” though he declined to provide details.

Trump was considering resuming active military operations after Tehran’s latest response in ongoing negotiations over a deal to end the war was deemed insufficient, Axios reported.

The president claimed in Monday’s post that the three regional leaders had asked for the planned attack to be postponed “in that serious negotiations are now taking place, and that, in their opinion, as Great Leaders and Allies, a Deal will be made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of America, as well as all Countries in the Middle East, and beyond.”

“This Deal will include, importantly, NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN!” Trump wrote.

The president said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine that while Tuesday’s attack is off, they should “be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s notice, in the event that an acceptable Deal is not reached.”

The U.S. and Iran are locked in a sort of military and economic stalemate centered on the Strait of Hormuz, the vital global oil-shipping route that has been beset by dueling blockades amid the war, preventing most ships from passing through.

The battle to control the strait has deeply frayed an already shaky ceasefire, which began nearly six weeks earlier is nominally still in effect — though it has repeatedly been punctured by fighting, and Trump last week said it’s on “life support.”

Donald Trump has cautioned Taiwan against formally declaring independence from China.

"I'm not looking to have somebody go independent," the US president told Fox News on Friday, at the end of his two-day summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Trump earlier said he had "made no commitment either way" about the self-governing island - which China claims as part of its territory and has not ruled out taking by force.

The US has long supported Taiwan, including being bound by law to provide it with a means of self-defence, but has frequently had to square this alliance with maintaining a diplomatic relationship with China.

Washington's established position is that it does not support Taiwanese independence, with continued ties with Beijing being contingent on its acceptance that there is only one Chinese government.

Many Taiwanese consider themselves to be part of a separate nation - though most are in favour of maintaining the status quo in which Taiwan neither declares independence from China nor unites with it.

In his interview with Fox News, Trump reiterated that US policy on the matter had not changed.

"You know, we're supposed to travel 9,500 miles (15,289km) to fight a war. I'm not looking for that. I want them to cool down. I want China to cool down."

On the flight back to Washington, the US president had told reporters that he and Xi had spoken "a lot" about the island, but said he had declined to discuss whether the US would defend it.

Xi "feels very strongly" about the island and "doesn't want to see a movement for independence", Trump said.

"The Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations," Xi warned during the talks, according to Chinese state media, adding: "If mishandled, the two nations could collide or even come into conflict."

Asked if he foresaw a conflict with China over Taiwan, Trump had said: "No, I don't think so. I think we'll be fine. [Xi] doesn't want to see a war."

China has ramped up military drills around the island in recent years, raising tensions in the region and testing the balance that Washington has struck.

Late last year, the Trump administration announced an $11bn ($8bn) package of weapons to be sold to Taiwan, including advanced rocket launchers and a variety of missiles, which Beijing condemned.

Trump said he would soon decide whether that sale could go ahead, adding that he and Xi had discussed it "in great detail" and that he would speak to Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te first.

"I may do it. I may not do it," he told Fox News.

"We're not looking to have wars, and if you kept it the way it is, I think China's going to be OK with that. But we're not looking to have somebody say, 'Let's go independent because the United States is backing us'."

The US has previously provoked anger from China for seeming to soften its stance on independence.

Its State Department dropped a statement from its website reiterating Washington's opposition to Taiwanese independence in February 2025 - something Beijing said "sends a wrong... signal to separatist forces".

US officials in Taiwan said at the time: "We have long stated that we oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side."


Taiwan's Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said his team had been monitoring the US-China summit, and had maintained good communication with the US and other countries "to ensure the stable deepening of Taiwan-US relations and safeguard Taiwan's interests".

He said Taiwan had always been a "guardian of peace and stability" in the region and accused China of escalating risk with its "aggressive military actions and authoritarian oppression".

"I wouldn’t advise my own children to study or work in the US right now." That’s what [b]German Chancellor Friedrich Merz [/b]told a Catholic youth group on Friday. He said that his goal was to ease young people’s anxiety about their future in Germany.

Americans appear to be leaving the U.S. at once-in-a-century levels, fleeing divisive politics and a cost of living crisis.

In 2025, the flow of Americans ditching the 50 states for good caused the first estimated net outward migration of the U.S. population in decades, something that likely hasn’t happened since the 1929 Great Depression.

Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told The Wall Street Journal. “Now they’re ordinary people, like me.”

In 2024, Barnett joined in the trend, relocating to Yucatán, Mexico.

The U.S. government doesn’t officially track the number of Americans who’ve resettled abroad, so estimates of just how many people left can vary

In 2025, net outward migration was between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people, Brookings estimates, forecasting a similar negative trend for 2026.

Others have pegged the outflow at around 150,000 people in 2025.

Before 2009, a typical year saw 200 to 400 people renounce their citizenship. By 2025, that figure was nearing 5,000, with more renunciations expected this year because fees to do so have dropped steeply

Nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states have seen record levels of Americans arriving to live and work there in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

Outside of Europe, Mexico is another popular destination.

Approximately 1.6 million Americans live there, the State Department estimates, the largest overall concentration of American expats in the world.

Even more people are considering making the change.

A November 2025 Gallup poll found that one in five Americans would like to permanently move, double the figure from ten years earlier.

A variety of factors are driving the trend, according to the data, including political disagreements and affordability issues. Further, “golden visas” for foreign investors, remote work, and incentives for digital nomads all have opened new pathways for leaving the U.S.

For the better part of two centuries, the story of American migration ran in a single direction: inward,” Global Citizen Solutions, a citizenship advisory firm, wrote in a recent report on the trend. “The United States was the gravitational center of global human movement, the place people came to, not the place people left. That narrative is shifting.”

According to a February 2025 Harris poll, 68 percent of Americans considering leaving the U.S. cited unattainable home ownership and a sense they were “merely surviving instead of thriving.”

Meanwhile, 49 percent cited high living expenses and disagreements with the political situation in the U.S

Within the U.S., another migration is underway, as high-cost states like California and Hawaii have lost population in recent years.

U.S. intelligence assessments directly contradict Donald Trump’s repeated claims that Iran’s military has been “decimated.”

According to classified assessments obtained by The New York Times, Iran has restored operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz and retains roughly 70% of its mobile missile launchers and missile stockpile.

Intelligence officials also assess that about 90% of Iran’s underground missile facilities are now partially or fully operational despite the Trump administration’s repeated claims that Iran has little military capacity remaining as the war presses on

That means Iran remains fully capable of threatening U.S. warships and global oil shipments through one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints.

The report also reveals that the United States burned through enormous amounts of munitions during the conflict, including more than 1,000 Tomahawk missiles and 1,300 Patriot interceptors—stockpiles that could take years to replenish.
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