29 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged maximum restraint by all sides after Sunday’s rocket attack on Israel from…
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Double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva on Monday said she was devastated and shocked by two deadly attacks that have rocked her hometown of Volgograd in southern Russia. “It is hard for me to talk now,” Isinbayeva told the ITAR-TASS news…
The families of Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks appealed Monday against the imminent release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners as part of US-brokered peace talks, media reported. The Supreme Court has always rejected such appeals. Israeli…
The eurozone is finally set to return to growth in 2014 but the single currency bloc may not have put its crisis behind it as efforts to shore up its banks could boomerang. After beating back market panic that the eurozone was set to break up, eurozone…
Tanzania has been hit by a sharp upsurge in poaching, with at least 60 elephants killed in the two months since the government was forced to halt a controversial crackdown, a senior official said. This month Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete sacked…
At least 10 people were killed on Monday in a bombing that destroyed a packed trolleybus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, a day after 17 people died in a suicide strike on the city’s main train station. The new attack will further heighten…
Heavy gunfire erupted in several areas of the Congolese capital Kinshasa on Monday, including the international airport and the military headquarters, causing panic among residents. Police also said amed youths had taken hostage several reporters from…
29 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council strongly condemned the terrorist attack that occurred at the…
29 December 2013 – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan today voiced concern about reports of large numbers…
29 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned a “cowardly” attack on a convoy of the African Union-United…
28 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday welcomed the appointment of a mediation team to work with Government…
The Nigerian military operations geared towards tracking the insurgents who carried out the recent pre-dawn attacks on the Mohammed Kur…
Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku has said that stamping out insurgency remains the topmost priority of the Federal Government as…
Thousands of young South Sudanese fighters loyal to ex-vice president Riek Machar have peeled away from an advance on a key town, the government said Sunday, but there was no immediate confirmation from Machar’s supporters. As the UN voiced concern…
Porsches, Range Rovers and even Maseratis… luxury cars are no strange sight weaving through the old bangers that rumble along Abidjan’s chaotic streets, another indication of the emergence of a wealthy class in Africa. Each of the vehicles costs at…
Gunmen on Sunday killed a former security officer who served under slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi in the violence-ridden eastern city of Benghazi, security and medical sources said. “Retired colonel Muftah Najem was shot dead,” said a spokeswoman for…
Dr Kayode Fayemi It seems a new dawn for politics in Nigeria as the All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to…
28 December 2013 – The deadline set for the removal of the most critical chemical weapons material from Syria for…
27 December 2013 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged Cambodian authorities to continue to exercise restraint…
Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned against celebrating the New Year’s Eve in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom, the local Okaz daily said on Sunday. The Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, known unofficially as…