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Spanish police detained 24 people during street violence late on Saturday following a large anti-austerity demonstration in Madrid in which dozens were injured, a police spokesman said. Tens of thousands of people, some having walked from the farthest…

Sudan’s rich but under-developed archaeological heritage has received an unprecedented $135 million (98 million euros) in funding from the Gulf state of Qatar, Sudanese officials said on Sunday. The money will support 29 projects including the rehabilitation…

Ukrainian flags flutter over a gathering atop famed stairs that drop down to the Black Sea in the mainly Russian-speaking western port of Odessa, where separatist tensions have bolstered patriotism. Since Russian forces took control last month of Crimea…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday congratulated the military for downing a Syrian warplane near its border and warned of a “heavy” response if its airspace was violated. “Our response from now will be heavy if you violate our airspace…

Gaza’s Hamas premier Ismail Haniya warned Israel Sunday it would pay dearly if it heeded its foreign minister’s call to reoccupy the enclave to try to halt rocket attacks. “We tell the enemy and (Foreign Minister Avigdor) Lieberman who is threatening…

The murder trial of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius for shooting dead his girlfriend has been extended until May 16, the South African court hearing the case said Sunday. The trial, which enters its fourth week on Monday, will continue until April 4, then…

Nigerian police rescued 16 people from an underground dungeon believed to be a ritual killing site, the local newspaper Leadership…

South Africa’s ANC looks set to win a two-thirds majority in May elections, according to an opinion poll published Sunday that appears to fly in the face of public perceptions about its performance. The party that has ruled South Africa since the first…

Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a “House of Horror”. Police also rescued several severely malnourished people founded wandering…

Attackers shot dead four worshippers on Sunday when they burst into a church service near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, spraying the congregation with bullets, police said. The attack, which also left about 17 people wounded, came amid heightened…

TOWARDS A HEALTHY ELECTIONEERING SEASON …LET THE CONVERSATIONS BEGIN An Address by His Excellency Dr. Kayode FAYEMI Governor, Ekiti…

Its shimmering azure chimney stacks towering into the sky, the latest cement works launched by Africa’s richest man lies idle in a Senegalese meadow — stopped in its tracks by legal action and cut-throat competition in a rapidly growing industry. Nigerian…

At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in northeast Nigeria in an attack blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday. The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote…

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Tinubu has described the various…

22 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday reiterated his message that only a diplomatic solution, based on the…

21 March 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged “real dialogue” between Kyiv and Moscow to peacefully resolve…

20 March 2014 – Leading diplomatic efforts to encourage all parties involved in the Ukraine crisis to find a peaceful…

Senate President, David Mark last Thursday escaped death as his convoy was allegedly attacked by yet to be identified gunmen…

The joint meeting of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) and the Board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company…

President Goodluck Jonathan rounded up his state visit to Namibia yesterday where he was conferred with “Order of Welwitschia”, the…