Here is a list of nominees in the major categories for the 67th annual Grammy Awards, which will be handed out on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles. Beyonce leads all nominees with 11 on the strength of her groundbreaking country album “Cowboy Carter”: READ ALSO: 2025 Grammys: Burna Boy, Yemi Alade, Davido, Tems Among Contenders For Best African Music Performance – Album of the Year – “New Blue Sun” – Andre 3000 “Cowboy Carter” – Beyonce “Short n’ Sweet” – Sabrina Carpenter “Brat” – Charli XCX “Djesse Vol. 4” – Jacob Collier “Hit Me Hard and Soft” – Billie Eilish “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” – Chappell Roan “The Tortured Poets Department” – Taylor Swift – Record of the Year, recognizing overall performance on a song
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A bombing claimed by Pakistani separatists killed 25 people including 14 soldiers at a railway station in the southwestern Balochistan province, police said Saturday. The blast hit as passengers waited on a platform at the main railway station in the provincial capital Quetta. “Fourteen army personnel are among the 25 confirmed dead,” said Muhammad Baloch, […] The post Pakistani separatists kill 22 in railway station blast appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
Featured Premiumtimesng.com Nov – 09 – 2024 , 07:51 Nigeria has announced that free emergency Caesarean sections will be made available to “poor and vulnerable” women in an ambitious plan to bring down the high number of mothers dying in childbirth. At 1,047 deaths per 100,000 live births, Africa’s most populous nation has the fourth highest maternal mortality rate in the world and the lack of access to Caesareans is thought to be one of the reasons. Many pregnant women, particularly in rural Nigeria are unable to receive emergency medical care partly due to the cost. “No woman should lose her life simply because she can’t afford a C-section,” Health Minister Muhammad Pate said while announcing the “powerful move”. While the price may vary across Nigeria’s different states, on average
Lucy Wambui was laid to rest this week, and details about the funeral went viral as top celebrities attended the event Her husband penned a sweet but moving tribute noting how much she meant to him days after b breaking silence about her death TUKO.co.ke featured the top stories of the week, including politician Mike Sonko recalling his friendship with Lucy’s husband Businessman Francis Ng’ang’a is still pursuing justice for his late wife, Lucy Wambui, who died after allegedly undergoing liposuction. Francis Ng’ang’a noted how his wife was his best friend for over 24 years. Photo: Brian Ng’ang’a.Source: UGC While breaking the silence after her death, the wealthy man revealed how Body By Design was shut down after his wife underwent a procedure. His wife’s death left many talking about
Getty Images A Brazilian businessman, with ties to one of the country’s most powerful criminal groups, has been shot dead at Guarulhos Airport in Sao Paolo. Antônio Vinicius Gritzbach had recently entered into a plea bargain with local prosecutors to provide information about Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) – or First Capital Command. He received death threats from the gang as a result, local media reports. Three others were injured in the attack, with footage online showing the aftermath. Police said officers had been deployed to the airport and surrounding area. The moment two hooded men exited a car holding sub-machine guns and began firing outside the airport terminal was caught on security camera. Gritzbach, a former member of the PCC, dropped his bag and tried to run away –
US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. Photo: SERGIO FLORES / AFP/FileSource: AFP Donald Trump has pledged to launch — on day one of his presidency — the largest deportation operation of undocumented immigrants in US history. Carrying it out may be another matter. “Rhetoric is one thing,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law at Cornell University. “Actual implementation is something else.” “The Constitution provides due process for everyone in the country, not just US citizens, so Trump cannot just round up people and send them out of the country the next day,” Yale-Loehr told AFP. “There already is a backlog of over 3.6 million cases in our immigration courts.” Aside from the legal and humanitarian issues, a mass deportation of millions of
Two of the individuals are now in custody. November 8, 2024, 12:47 PM Three people have been charged in an alleged Iran-linked plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, an Iranian-American activist and two Jewish Americans living in New York, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in New York. Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt are charged with murder-for-hire, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Rivera and Loadholt have been arrested, while Shakeri, who the FBI described as an “asset” of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is believed to be in Tehran. The IRGC tasked Shakeri with surveilling and killing Trump to avenge the death of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020, according to the
“His words about his desire to restore relations with the Russian Federation and to help resolve the Ukrainian crisis, in my opinion, deserve attention,” Putin said referring to Trump. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF NOVEMBER 8, 2024 18:22 U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they meet in Helsinki, Finland July 16, 2018 (photo credit: REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE) Russia is confident in its imminent victory against Ukraine following president-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Following the US election, Putin officially congratulated Trump on his victory while speaking at the Valadai forum in Sochi, saying that the West’s post-Cold War monopoly on global power was “irrevocably disappearing.” He then went on to praise Trump for behaving “courageously” during the assassination
Featured Graphic.com.gh Nov – 08 – 2024 , 15:31 The government, through the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), is converting the Cocobod Scholarships Scheme, which operated at the senior high school level, into scholarships at the tertiary level. The decision comes in the wake of the successful implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, which caters for thetuition, feeding, accommodation, books and uniforms – some of which were covered by the scholarship. Thus, children of cocoa farmers, who previously enjoyed from the Cocoa Scholarship Scheme, will now enjoy scholarships at the tertiary level, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has announced. Dr Bawumia, who is the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Election 2024 made the disclosure on Friday [Nov 8, 2024] while speaking at Jacobu in
An excavator clears rubble and debris at the site of an overnight Israeli air strike on town of Sarafand, between Sidon and Tyre in southern Lebanon, on October 30, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) Lebanese state media said the Israeli army on Friday detonated explosives planted inside houses in three border villages that have been battered by the Israel-Hezbollah war. Hezbollah says it is engaged in fighting Israeli forces in the area, more than a month into an Israeli ground invasion aimed at pushing the Iran-backed group away from the border. Rescuers walk in front of a destroyed building following an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese town of Ghaziyeh on November 3, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate from a wildfire northwest of Los Angeles as fierce seasonal winds blew flames into ranches and neighbourhoods, destroying dozens of homes. The wildfire has destroyed 132 structures in less than two days, fire officials said on Thursday. Firefighters and police cleared residents from neighbourhoods near Camarillo before homes were set ablaze by embers blown 3.2km (2 miles) from the firefront, Ventura County Fire Department Captain Tony McHale said. “It’s like trying to put out a blowtorch with a squirt gun,” said McHale of the fire, which started in a hillside canyon on Wednesday and tore west, driven by Santa Ana winds. Fuelled by abundant grass and scrub, with wind gusts up to 130km/h (80 mph), the blaze had burned more than 8,094
The discovery occurred during one of many raids carried out by the 9th Reserve Brigade against Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure and underground infrastructure. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF NOVEMBER 8, 2024 14:35 A tunnel shaft and weapons located in the Hezbollah terrorist training center. (photo credit: IDF) IDF troops in Lebanon discovered a Hezbollah terrorist training center just 200 meters from a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) outpost, the IDF announced on Friday. The discovery occurred during one of many raids carried out by the 9th Reserve Brigade against Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure and underground infrastructure. The Hezbollah terrorist training center, in close proximity to the UNIFIL base, was used by Hezbollah for training, studying, and storing large quantities of weapons, the IDF said. Footage of a tunnel shaft and weapons located
The initiative was announced by President Biden in June. November 7, 2024, 9:17 PM A federal judge has struck down the Biden administration’s program known as “Keeping Families Together,” dealing a major blow to the estimated half a million undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens that DHS estimates would have benefited. The administration announced the program in June, but a coalition of 16 Republican-led states — led by Texas and Stephen Miller’s America First Legal — quickly filed a lawsuit after applications were made available in August. A federal judge put the program on hold just days after hopeful applicants filed their paperwork. The program would have provided temporary relief from deportation for undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens through a process known as “parole in place.” It would have
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on November 6, 2024. – Republican former president Donald Trump closed in on a new term in the White House early November 6, 2024, just needing a handful of electoral votes to defeat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday made his first cabinet appointment after his decisive election win, while signalling his intent to ditch the outgoing administration’s policies by talking to Vladimir Putin. Trump’s campaign manger Susie Wiles will serve as his White House chief of staff, the first woman to be named to the high-profile role and the Republican’s first
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has expressed concern over the paltry provision of N1.6 billion to cater to the immediate needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country. Speaking when the Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees Migrants and IDPs, Ahmed Tijani Ahmed paid him a courtesy […] The post N1.6b budget not enough for IDPs’ needs in Nigeria – Kalu appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.