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Ten people including the shooter are dead after an assailant opened fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday in one of the country’s deadliest mass casualty events in recent history. The outburst brought to Canada the type of mass shooting more common in the neighboring United States, and was carried out by a shooter described as female, police said. Six people were found dead inside a high school in the town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia, two more people were found dead at a residence believed to be connected to the incident, and another person died…

President Donald Trump will host Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday where the Israeli prime minister is expected to press him to widen U.S. talks with Iran to include curbs on Tehran’s missile arsenal and other security threats that go beyond its nuclear program. In his seventh meeting with Trump since the president returned to office nearly 13 months ago, Netanyahu will be looking to influence the next round of U.S. discussions with Iran following nuclear negotiations held in Oman last Friday amid heightened Middle East tensions. Trump has threatened to carry out strikes on Iran if an agreement is not reached,…

 France’s National Rally has yet to win over the business elite, who fret over its shifting economic positions and are wary of engaging with a far-right party many still regard as toxic, according to over a dozen sources. Little more than 14 months before a presidential election, polls indicate party leaders Jordan Bardella or Marine Le Pen have a solid shot at power after a decades-long march from fringe movement to mainstream force. But despite growing appeal among once-wary voters, CEOs, founders, business group heads, lawmakers and party officials interviewed by Reuters say the nationalist, anti-immigrant party has made little headway with France’s economic establishment. Executives…

Fresh tensions erupted within the Labour Party on Tuesday night after the Julius Abure-led faction announced that it had reclaimed the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, barely 24 hours after the Nenadi Usman-led caretaker committee took over the facility. The Abure faction, through its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, made an announcement in a statement issued in Abuja late Tuesday night. Ifoh confirmed that the party’s national headquarters, which was ‘forcefully’ invaded in the early hours of Tuesday, has been reclaimed. The spokesman also sent photographs showing the banners and billboards carrying the image of the National Caretaker Committee  Chairman,…

The management of United Nigeria Airlines and Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the industrial training of engineering students of the university at the airline’s facility. The Vice-Chancellor of ABUAD, Prof. Smaranda Olarinde, said the partnership would enable engineering students of the university to “undergo a robust, hands-on and industry-driven training programme in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering.” The Vice-Chancellor spoke in Ado Ekiti on Saturday during the signing of the MoU. She said, “Under the terms of this MoU, about 20 400-level students of our College of Engineering will be enrolled annually under the…

In a key address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Annalena Baerbock repeated her call to uphold multilateralism amid “trying times” globally. She noted that just 40 days into 2026, the world has already seen crises around Venezuela, Iran and Greenland, on top of continuing devastation in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. International order ‘under attack’ “The international order is not only under pressure, it is under attack,” she told lawmakers.  “And we face a new and more troubling kind of crisis: conflicts waged not even under the pretence of self-defence or respect for international law but often carried out in open defiance of it.” She warned that at precisely the moment the world most needs cooperation and the UN, “powers – even those who have a special…

Music industry titan Quincy Jones, who produced some of Michael Jackson’s best-known albums and collaborated with legends including Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, has died aged 91. He was surrounded by family at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air at the time of his death on Sunday, his publicist Arnold Robinson said in a statement that did not specify a cause. “Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” his family said, according to the statement. “And although this is an incredible loss for our…

News » Premier League news » Leeds United newsFebruary 10, 2026 21:07 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin Why James is absent for Leeds game? Chelsea captain Reece James has been left out of the matchday squad against Leeds United tonight due to illness, according to manager Liam Rosenior. The England international missed the games against Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers due to a minor injury, but was expected to return against the Whites.However, James has not made the squad for the Premier League encounter. Rosenior has revealed that a flu has kept the right-back out of the game tonight.He said: “Yes [it’s the same bug].…

The Benue State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of 14 passengers travelling from the Igede axis of Oju and Obi Local Government Areas of the state. The police spokesperson, DSP Udeme Edet, confirmed the incident, which occurred along the Okpokwu axis of the state on Monday evening, saying investigations were ongoing. “Concerning the abduction of passengers on the Okpokwu road, it is true that it happened. Investigation into the incident is ongoing, and we are on top of the situation,” Edet said. The passengers were reportedly travelling to the South-West when their vehicle was intercepted around 7pm on Monday…

Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday called on opposition political parties to unite in advocating for transparent and credible elections, stressing the urgent need for a fully electronic transmission system to reduce confusion in Nigeria’s electoral process. At a press briefing in Minna, Niger State, following a closed-door meeting with former Military President General Ibrahim Babangida, Atiku said the current mixture of electronic and manual transmission could create challenges for voters and electoral officials. “The expectations of Nigerians, Nigerians who are expecting real-time electronic transfer to the various levels of the elections, but what we got is a mixture of…