The United States vowed Friday that it remained committed to ending the violence in South Sudan, despite evacuating most of its remaining staff from the embassy in Juba. “Even as we draw down our personnel, we continue to be engaged in and strongly…
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The US Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to throw out a challenge from a nuns’ group against a birth control mandate in the Obamacare health reform law. The Little Sisters of the Poor had asked the US high court to exempt it from…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has restated the determination of his administration to continue to ensure that appointments in…
A group of nuns in Spain got a New Year surprise when they checked their answerphone machine to discover they had missed a call from the Pope, who left a message asking why they didn’t pick up. “What can the nuns be doing that stops them answering the…
The Governor of Delta State has been named The Man of The Year by another renowned Nigerian tabloid- Vanguard Newspaper.…
GOVERNMENT OF ABIA STATE 2014 BUDGET SPEECH, AS PRESENTED TO THE STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY BY HIS EXCELLENCY, CHIEF T.…
Two Weeks After Gov. Dickson Released N3B For Nembe-Ogbia Road; Bayelsa Dep. Gov Drives To Nembe; Urges Nembe Kingdom To…
Follow @{0}Meeting with government officials. Dozo hunters deny committing atrocities ABIDJAN, 3 January 2014 (IRIN) – Since fighting for Côte…
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Southampton striker Dani Osvaldo was fined £40,000 ($65,000, 48,0000 euros) and suspended for three matches on Friday for his part in a touchline brawl during an ill-tempered Premier League clash at Newcastle. Osvaldo, an Argentina-born Italy international…
BRUSSELS, Belgium — After five years of economic headlines dominating Europe, politics could be back in 2014. The states of southern Europe will be hoping their fragile signs of recovery after years of recession will firm up in 2014, but no one’…
A high profile French comic, who could be slapped with a rare ban from the national stage, ironically began his career fighting racism before falling from grace as a “trader of hate”. Dieudonne, the burly and bearded comedian known by one name, is no…
Egyptian police found a murdered Swiss couple buried in the garden of their house in the Red Sea resort town of Hurgada, an Egyptian security official said Friday. The security official said preliminary investigations revealed the two Swiss citizens…
An Al-Qaeda-linked Saudi suspect detained in Lebanon is being held in a military hospital because “he is in poor health”, a medical official told AFP Friday. Another official familiar with the investigation said the interrogation of Majid al-Majid “…
The number of people uprooted by conflict in the Central African Republic is nearing one million, with half of the residents of the capital Bangui driven from their homes, the United Nations said on Friday. “The humanitarian situation in the Central…
Rwanda’s murdered ex-intelligence chief agreed to scrap his South African security detail before he was strangled to death in a Johannesburg hotel room, according to a political ally. Patrick Karegeya, 53, was discovered slumped on a bed by staff at…
Al-Qaeda-linked militants advanced Friday into new areas of one major Iraqi city and held part of another, after days of violence sparked by the removal of an anti-government protest camp. Parts of Ramadi and Fallujah, west of Baghdad, have been held…
Israeli former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s health was in “slow, gradual” decline on Friday, according to the hospital where he has been in a comatose state for eight years. “Tests show a slow, gradual deterioration in the functioning of his vital…
The Foreign Office in London confirmed on Friday that a British national had died in tragic circumstances in Libya. Libyan troops on Thursday found the bodies of a British man and a New Zealand woman shot dead southwest of Tripoli, a security source…
Snow, high winds and a glacial chill hit the northeastern United States on Friday as a blast of brutal wintry weather bore down on many states and major cities, snarling air traffic. Temperatures in New York were expected to drop to 9 degrees Fahrenheit…