Tag: world news
Prisoner Hangs Self After 1,000 Years Sentence
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper who held three women against their will for a decade, is dead after hanging himself…
ICC Wants Kenyan Arrested For Trying To Bribe Witnesses
The International Criminal Court based in The Hague said Wednesday it had issued a warrant against a Kenyan accused of…
Syria: UN experts scurry out as US strikes imminent
DAMASCUS (AFP) – UN experts probing a suspected chemical weapons attack quit Syria on Saturday, opening a window into a…
Black Jesus Killed
An infamous cult leader known as “Black Jesus”, who was suspected of cannibalism, has been chopped to death in a…
EU To Join War Against Sea Pirates In West Africa
The European Union said Wednesday that it was preparing to increase security efforts in the Gulf of Guinea, the West…
Drug Trafficking: Nigerian Sentenced To Death
A Nigerian and a Thai woman have been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Vietnam, within a week in…
Tunisia TV boss on trial for corruption
The trial of Tunisian television chief Sami Fehri, accused of corruption during the rule of now-toppled strongman Zine El Abidine…
Kuwait Offers $4bn Aid Package To Egypt
Kuwait offered Egypt on Wednesday an aid package of $4 billion, a minister said, bringing to $12 billion the total…
Vatican Approves Sainthood For John Paul II, John XXIII
Pope Francis gave the go-ahead on Friday for John Paul II to be made saint and granted a rare exception…
Lagos State sets world record in tooth-brushing
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria’s Lagos State has shattered the Guinness Book of World in tooth brushing previously set by India by…
Switzerland eyes new law on dictators’ loot
Switzerland, currently in the process of restituting assets to several former autocratic countries, is working on a new law aimed…
Gay marriage now legal in France
France became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage Saturday after President Francois Hollande signed the measure into law following…
Bride, 4 friends die in burning limousine on wedding day
A Filipino bride, identified as Neriza Fojas and four friends died desperately trying to scramble out of a rented limousine…
37 muslim fanatics killed in Bangladesh
DHAKA, (AFP) Bangladeshi police broke up a protest by tens of thousands of religious hardliners and shut down Islamist television…
More than 270,000 pedestrians killed yearly
More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the world’s roads each year, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, slamming decades…
Car bomb at French embassy in Tripoli
A car bomb hit the France embassy in Libya, wounding two French guards and causing extensive damage in the first…
Death toll in China’s earthquake crosses 150
More than 150 people were killed and 5,700 injured when a strong earthquake hit a mountainous part of southwestern China…
China quake in Sichuan kills many
The strong earthquake that hit southwest China’s Sichuan province Saturday killed nearly 30 people and left at least 400 injured,…
Saudis give Illegal foreign workers 3-month grace
Saudi Arabia has given illegal foreign workers a three-month grace period to legalise their status, after panic over reported mass…
Mandela discharged from hospital
Former South African leader, Nelson Mandela left hospital Saturday after a 10-day stay during which the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon was…
Top aide of Libya’s PM kidnapped
Gunmen posing as security personnel kidnapped a top aide of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, just hours after the premier…
UN approves first ‘offensive peace keepers’ for DR Congo
The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously approved the first-ever “offensive” UN peacekeeping brigade to battle rebels groups in Democratic…
Puzzles over Russian tycoon’s death in Britain
Questions surrounded the circumstances of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky’s death on Saturday, with his lawyer saying he may have committed…
Cyprus MPs under pressure to rethink bank levy
Cypriot politicians were facing increasing pressure to rethink their rejection of a levy on bank deposits, as a deadline to…
Zimbabweans vote on a new constitution
Zimbabweans are voting today in a constitutional referendum, with many having not read the draft charter. A Harare-based businessman who…
No new pope elected yet
VATICAN CITY (AFP) – Cardinals held a first inconclusive vote in the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday as they began the…
Cuba puts succession plan on course
Cuba has begun its transition to rule by someone whose last name isn’t Castro and is young enough not to…
Rwandan jailed 21 years for genocide
An Oslo court on Thursday sentenced a Rwandan man to 21 years in prison for his role in the massacres…
North Korea’s nuclear test rattles Obama
North Korea’s nuclear blast thrust President Barack Obama into an alarming new overseas crisis Tuesday, at the moment he hoped…
Algeria ends desert siege with high death toll
Algerian forces stormed a desert gas complex, In Amenas, to free hundreds of hostages but 30, including several Westerners, were…