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The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday slammed rights abuses in Syria, whose UN envoy launched a furious onslaught against Saudi Arabia for pressing the initiative. A resolution that has become an annual event since the start of Syria’s civil…

Prioritising sanitation can be hard for decision-makers in developing countries but little investment in infrastructure, billing and collection goes a long way

Home Office says measure should help an extra 1,500 slavery victims a year in Britain

A drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war. “Some” of the dead in Thursday’s strike near the central town of Radaa…

• Review proposes greater authority for spying on foreign leaders

• Government ‘should be banned from undermining encryption’

• Forty-six recommendations in 300-page report released early

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan lost his majority in parliament on Wednesday after 37 lawmakers bolted his party for a new opposition coalition, the latest political blow to hit the embattled leader. In a letter presented to the speaker of the…

The Akasoba of Kalabari and Chairperson of the Akasoba Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ACPCR), Akasoba Duke-Abiola has informed…

A Workshop aimed at building capacities and enhancing understanding of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) procedures has been organised for SURE-P…

The House of Representatives Committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has expressed satisfaction with the Agency’s road maintenance and…

As part of the social responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources and its agencies, the National Water Resources…

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has revealed that at least 16,470 officially registered internally displaced persons (IDP) are presently…

The Supervising Minister of Environment, Darius Ishaku has reaffirmed the commitment of the Nigerian Government to ensuring healthy living for…

South Africa’s “Dr Death” Wouter Basson, who headed the apartheid regime’s germ warfare programme, was found guilty on Wednesday of unprofessional conduct by the country’s health council. The cardiologist, 63, now risks being barred from practising…

The United States flew 120 people out of South Sudan on Wednesday in three plane-loads amid fierce fighting in the capital, US officials said. Two C-130 planes plus a charter aircraft took off from Juba “carrying non-emergency chief of mission personnel…

The photo of a young Italian woman kissing a police officer’s helmet visor during a protest has gone viral, with a police union threatening to sue her for “sexual violence”. The 20-year-old student, Nina De Chiffre, was snapped by a photographer working…

Mideast peace efforts are being “hampered” by Israeli settlement construction, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem said Wednesday in his traditional Christmas message. “The Israeli-Palestinian talks resumed in late July, after three years of interruption…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, December 16, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU),…

The European Commission said Wednesday it would ban meat from cloned animals but stopped short of imposing restrictions on produce from the offspring of such animals, a hugely sensitive issue. Animal rights groups attacked the plan as not going far…

Talks between experts from Iran and world powers on implementing last month’s nuclear deal will resume on Thursday in Geneva, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Wednesday. “The technical talks will be resumed tomorrow and…

Syria said Wednesday that a British doctor alleged to have been effectively murdered in custody had hanged himself after being arrested for “unauthorised activities.” Regime warplanes meanwhile pounded Aleppo for a fourth straight day in raids that…