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Iran said on Sunday that an accord it struck with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme in exchange for an easing of sanctions will take effect from January 20. The United States confirmed the news although President Barack Obama warned of…
BANGUI, Central African Republic, January 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As was done by the Secretary-General, the Special Representative…
NEW YORK, January 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council…
A Texas hunting club auctioned off a permit to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia, raising $350,000 towards conservation efforts for the animal, but not without controversy. The Dallas Safari Club, which on Saturday said all money would be given to…
JERUSALEM — Dissonance. That is the word chosen by David Landau, the Israeli author and journalist, when asked to describe the essence of Ariel Sharon. “The dissonance between what people expected and what they got from him,” Landau said. The final…
11 January 2014 Following the resignation of the Central African Republic’s two interim leaders, the top United Nations official…
The Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, said, yesterday, that 43, 375 former staff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria,…
Saturday’s local government elections in Anambra witnessed very late arrival of materials in many of the polling units in the…
Prof Wole Soyinka on Friday in Ibadan paid tributes to late Ms Iyetade Soyinka, first daughter of the Nobel laurel…
The 2013/2014 academic calendar for public primary and secondary schools in Abia might be hindered following the indefinite strike by…
The response of Alhaji Bamangar Tukur, PDP National Chairman, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter. . “It is an honour…
A chastened Gov. Chris Christie did everything he could yesterday to quell the burgeoning Bridgegate scandal, but the investigations are likely to continue for months, with an Assembly committee preparing to subpoena a parade of current and former Christie…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s US presidential ambitions ran into a jam when he was forced to admit his staff lied to him about their role in blocking commuter traffic onto a major bridge. Christie, a larger-than-life Republican seen as a frontrunner…
National chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, on saturday, pleaded with former President Olusegun Obasanjo not to quit the…
Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has written another letter, few weeks after his letter to President Goodluck Jonathan caused an…
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma on Saturday kicked off his party’s election campaign with a slew of promises to crack down on rampant graft and poverty, in a bid to woo disenchanted voters. The ruling African National Congress is facing a tough…
Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon died in hospital near Tel Aviv Saturday after eight years in a coma, prompting a flood of tributes in Israel but contempt from Palestinians. He was 85. “He’s gone,” his son Gilad told reporters at the Sheba Medical…
Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside a London police station Saturday to condemn an inquest which found that police lawfully shot dead a man in 2011, in a killing that sparked nationwide riots. They condemned the “perverse” jury verdict returned…
Fighting between rival tribes in southern Libya killed 19 people Saturday and wounded another 20, a local official said. “Violent confrontations broke out between Toubous and Awled Sleiman early this morning,” Ayoub al-Zarrouk, chief of the local council…