US lawmakers were poised Friday to seize a chance to take the initiative in reforming America’s vast digital surveillance network, after President Barack Obama opened the door to them. Under pressure after fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden…
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Officials are to announce on Saturday the results of a constitutional referendum likely to set the stage for a presidential bid by the army chief who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected head of state. Initial tallies suggest this week’s two-day referendum…
Two Britons were among the 21 people killed in a Taliban attack on a popular restaurant in Kabul, the Foreign Office in London said on Saturday. “We can confirm the deaths of two British nationals in Afghanistan on the 17th of January,” a spokeswoman…
US clothing chain American Apparel has sparked controversy by putting mannequins sprouting pubic hair in the windows of their shop in New York’s boho Lower East Side. Passersby stopped to gawk, take photographs, chuckle or raise a horrified eyebrow…
DELTA State Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning, Chief Kenneth Okpara has justified the development of Economic Dashboard for the…
MEZEIN TERCHITT/NOUAKCHOTT, 16 January 2014 (IRIN) – For decades in the Sahel, working-age men have left their rural villages to…
NOMBORI, 16 January 2014 (IRIN) – The region around Bandiagara, in central Mali’s Mopti Region, is struggling to cope with…
17 January 2014 – United Nations personnel may be among at least 14 civilians killed in a suicide bombing of…
17 January 2014 – A United Nations independent human rights expert today urged Government and opposition parties in Cambodia to…
Follow @{0}Bissau-Guineans will go to the polls in March to end yet another post-coup regimeDAKAR, 16 January 2014 (IRIN) -…
17 January 2014 – More than 6,000 child soldiers may now be involved in the conflict in the Central African…
17 January 2014 – A United Nations human rights expert today called on the Myanmar Government to investigate reports of…
17 January 2014 – With more and more people fleeing the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, the United Nations refugee…
16 January 2014 – The recovery process in the Philippines has been steady but uneven, the United Nations top relief…
17 January 2014 – Fighting in South Sudan has turned into a horrifying humanitarian and human rights disaster with mass…
Justice M. L. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court Enugu, Enugu State on Friday January 17, 2014 convicted and sentenced…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one Obinna Okoro at Owerri, Imo State over allegations of obtaining money…
Justice B. O Quadri of the Federal High Court, Gombe has sentenced one Muhammadu Chubado to 4 years imprisonment on…
Despite the seeming crisis in the People’s Democratic Party, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State says the party will get…
Chief Theodore Orji says his government is serious and committed to achieving the proposed Abia airport project. The governor stated…