Rome, Italy | XINHUA | Plants are the source of 98 percent of the air humans breathe and 80 percent of the food that people eat, so keeping them free of diseases and pests is crucial to human survival, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Friday. In …

Madrid, Spain | XINHUA | FC Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has spoken out about his situation at the club in the wake of Barca’s 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League and the subsequent decision to replace Quique Setien with Ronald Koeman as first team coach. Barca President …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The People Power leader and President of the National Unity Platform Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu has described President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s comments about the incident in August, 2018 as vindication for all crimes committed against him and his associates by members of the security forces. …

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Moscow, Russia | XINHUA | The United States has no rights to restore United Nations (UN) sanctions on Iran as it has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and failed to honor its obligations, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. The United States continues its “dangerous” steps in the UN …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The chairperson of the Legal and parliamentary affairs committee of parliament Jacob Oboth Oboth says Justice Alfonse Owiny Dollo possesses the qualities that will enable him to excel in the office of chief justice. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Thursday appointed Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has been listed among the first seven countries that will benefit from the roll out of the vaginal ring used in prevention against HIV, the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) has revealed. IPM’s external relations director Dr. Leonard Solai told journalists that other …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kampala have arrested a suspected Automated Teller Machine -ATM fraudster who has been on wanted list for close to a year. The fraudster who also calls himself Ssalongo alias Computer was nabbed last evening as he was planning to hoodwink unsuspecting customers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appointed Her Worship Sarah Langa Siu as new judiciary’s chief registrar in the latest appointments in the judiciary. According to the letter dated August 14, 2020 addressed to the chairperson Judicial Service Commission Justice Benjamin Kabito, the President appointed …

Kaberamaido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Office of the Prime Minister- OPM has donated cattle to former abductees of the Lord’s Resistance Army- LRA in Kaberamaido. The beneficiaries are former students of Lwala Girls Boarding Secondary School who were abducted by the LRA rebels in 2003. More than 100 …