The death toll from twin jihadist bombings that struck a Shiite political rally in the Iraqi capital ahead of next week’s parliamentary election has risen to 33, officials said Saturday. Friday’s attack by a Sunni militant group came at the height of…
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A Japanese whaling fleet left port Saturday under tight security, marking the first hunt since the UN’s top court last month ordered Tokyo to stop killing whales in the Antarctic. Four ships departed from the northeastern fishing town of Ayukawa to…
Concerns are growing among anguished families that the bodies of those who died in the sinking of a South Korean ferry may never be found, as search teams suspended work Saturday because of bad weather. A looming storm and high tides put a temporary…
1. For over 2,500 years Iranians have been known for their beautiful and masterfully woven rugs. However, when Iranian…
President Barack Obama and top European leaders are moving ahead on a new round of sanctions against Russia, US officials said amid hints they could come within days. US sanctions could be imposed as early as Monday, a source close to the issue told…
The Group of Seven rich countries agreed Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, after Kiev accused Moscow of seeking to trigger a “third world war”. The G7 nations, in a joint statement, said they would “move swiftly…
Sequel to the approval given by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for it to operate as a political party,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Friday in Abuja said it has given approval for the registration of the Unity Party…
President GOODLUCK JONATHAN (R) WITH THE CROWN Prince OF BENIN, HRH EHENDEN EREDIAUWA WHO PAID HIM A VISIT IN Abuja…
A nearly two-week strike at a huge shoe factory in southern China appears to have ended after the Taiwan-backed company agreed to meet some of the workers’ demands, including raising their living allowance and benefit payments. More than 80 percent…
A key Palestine Liberation Organisation body was set to hold Saturday talks after Israel pulled out of US-sponsored peace negotiations in response to a Palestinian reconciliation deal with Hamas. The meeting of the PLO’s Central Council at its West…
US President Barack Obama was all about business even at a special sushi dinner in Tokyo, which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wanted to use as a bonding opportunity, reports said Saturday. “It was all about work,” Abe told his key ministers Friday…
Two Chinese coastguard ships sailed into waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea Saturday, the Japanese coastguard said, two days after US President Barack Obama declared his support for Japan. The vessels entered 12 nautical miles (22…
North Korea is a “pariah state” whose heavily militarised border with the South marks “freedom’s frontier”, US President Barack Obama told American troops in Seoul on Saturday. Obama, who was wrapping up a two day visit to South Korea, said Pyongyang…
For lack of a better and more civil way to express his opposition to the man his elder sister is…
Uniformed men suspected to be officers of the Nigerian Navy has shot dead a motor boy along Apapa-Oworonsoki expressway for…
Over 40 gunmen yesterday killed two children of a Health Officer, Mallam Nasiru Maccido Maradun in Maru area of Faru…
Kwara state Commissioner of Police, Ambrose Aisabor yesterday paraded fourteen persons including the gang leader suspected to have attacked the…
Jungle justice was yesterday carried out in different parts of Osogbo, the Osun state capital, as three suspected kidnappers were…
2, 650 hotels, restaurants and others in Lagos State may be shut down by authorities over inability to fulfill their…