Australia’s highest court on Wednesday ruled that a person can be legally recognised as gender neutral as opposed to male or female, ending a long legal battle by a sexual equality campaigner. “The High Court… recognises that a person may be neither…
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The appearance of rambling letters said to have been written by Uzbekistan’s once all-powerful first daughter Gulnara Karimova has heightened the mystery over her astonishing fall from grace in the ex-Soviet state. At least four different letters said…
About 30 students of the Baptist High School, Osogbo (formerly Baptist Girls’ High School), who were suspended for alleged cultism…
Borno state Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, Tuesday described the outlawed Boko Haram sect as a child born out of misinterpretation…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Warri Branch has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police (IG) over the gruesome killing of two…
Military authorities say over 288 rifles, 35 Rocket Propelled Guns and 35 locally made Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) were recovered…
Nine suspected armed robbers have been arrested along Sagamu/Benin Expressway and Ilese in Ijebu Area of Ogun State, the state…
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday said he had e-mailed the Ghanaian Parliament, requesting it to investigate the…
The Minister for Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Tuesday in Abuja said no fewer than 1.8 million graduates in the…
OTTAWA, Canada, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Today, Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced…
JUBA, South Sudan, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Aid agencies in South sudan warn of even more dire…
STASBOURG, France, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — There is “not a verdict” yet, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi…
More than 40 activist organizations and companies called Tuesday for an overhaul of US government surveillance authority that goes beyond President Barack Obama’s proposal. The coalition said Obama’s proposal to end bulk collection of telephone data…
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Council today launched an EU military operation to…
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Wednesday, 2 April 2014 at 15.30 Justus Lipsius building…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Despite being the third largest oil producing country in sub-Saharan Africa,…
KINSHASA, Dem. Rep. of Congo (DRC) April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Democratic Republic of Congo should adopt…
NEW YORK, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Secretary-General is concerned by the latest upsurge in violence in…
US Secretary of State John Kerry cancelled plans to travel Wednesday to Ramallah after both the Israelis and the Palestinians announced moves likely to scuttle the peace talks. “We are no longer travelling tomorrow,” a senior State Department official…
France’s new Prime Minister Manuel Valls set about forming a new government on Tuesday tasked with the mammoth challenge of reviving a battered economy, as the EU warned Paris not to renege on its reform pledges. President Francois Hollande nominated…