Mexico’s lower house of Congress approved legislation to impose up to four years in prison for fan violence at sporting events, days after football aficionados fought police at a game. Thursday’s bill calls for prison terms ranging between three months…
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Joyous shouts of “Allahu akbar” echoed across the headquarters of the Philippines’ biggest Muslim rebel group as a pact to end four decades of bloodshed was signed, but there were also fears war clouds had yet to pass. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front…
A British coroner has recorded an open verdict in the death of Boris Berezovsky, saying he could not prove the Russian oligarch had meant to take his life. The Kremlin insider-turned-critic, 67, was found lying on the floor of the locked bathroom of…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, March 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Rotary Family Health Days (http://www.rotary.org) – an innovative international campaign providing…
Bala Nikyu’s girls failed in their bid to grab a semi final place at the ongoing Fifa U17 Women’s World…
27 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is increasingly concerned about the successive reports of new launches of ballistic missiles…
26 March 2014 – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on the Vietnamese Government to…
26 March 2014 – Stressing the need to ensure justice and accountability, the United Nations human rights chief today called…
26 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the timely holding of the parliamentary election in the Maldives, which…
27 March 2014 – The United Nations independent expert tasked with assessing the human rights situation in Côte d’Ivoire, expressed…
27 March 2014 – Getting more African youths involved in agriculture and investing in the continent’s vulnerable small family farmers…
27 March 2014 – United Nations and African Union officials today voiced deep concern at increasing violence affecting civilians in…
26 March 2014 – “With some of the most perfect palm-lined sands on the continent, it won’t be long before…
26 March 2014 – United Nations officials in the Central African Republic (CAR) highlighted today the lack of sufficient funding…
26 March 2014 – With more than 15 years of United Nations peace operations in Sierra Leone set to wrap…
27 March 2014 – The crisis in Iraq’s Anbar province, where three months of fighting has displaced over 66,000 families,…
26 March 2014 – The United Nations Security Council condemned the recent attack in Hadramawt, Yemen, in which 20 soldiers…
26 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of one of the five Iranian border guards who…
25 March 2014 – The international community has a duty to help end Syria’s tragic civil war, United Nations Secretary-General…
Former Borno State Governor, Senator Modu Sheriff; Governors Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto);…