South Korean President Park Geun-Hye apologised Tuesday for her government’s failure to prevent a ferry disaster that left some 300 people dead or missing. Two days after her prime minister resigned over the tragedy, Park voiced profound regret at the…
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About 100 Venezuelan students chained themselves Monday to the front gate of a UN agency’s Caracas office, calling for an end to a new high court ruling requiring government approval for protests. Shouting defiantly “so where is the damn law that bars…
Clashes between rival tribes have left at least 34 people dead with homes and barns torched in a village in central Nigeria, the state government told AFP on Sunday. The violence erupted Saturday when a militia from the Eggon tribe attacked the Gwandara…
Shareholders of state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland will not get to vote on allowing its bankers to earn an EU bonus cap of twice their salary, the government said Friday. UKFI, the body that manages the government’s 81-percent stake in the lender,…
Israel cancelled a session of peace negotiations with the Palestinians scheduled for Wednesday after the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hamas pledged to form a joint government, an aide to Israel’s prime minister said. “Israel cancelled the negotiations…
Fresh clashes erupted in Venezuela’s capital, with hooded anti-government protesters hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails at riot police who returned fire with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon. Four people were reported injured in the unrest…
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week, although the other 44 were free, the state government said on Saturday. Monday’s mass abduction…
Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki announced on Friday his decision to voluntarily take a two-thirds pay cut as the government grapples with a financial situation it has described as “critical.” “We are facing a financial and economic crisis. The state…
Kiev’s interim government must leave power before pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine will abide by an international deal to vacate seized government buildings, a separatist leader said Friday. “We agree that the buildings should be vacated, but…
Personal data for as many as 900 Canadian taxpayers was stolen after being made vulnerable by the “Heartbleed” bug, officials in Ottawa said on Monday. Andrew Treusch, Commissioner of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), said government security agencies notified…
Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Ukraine on April 22 to stress US support for Kiev and steps to improve its energy security amid a crisis with neighboring Russia. During his meetings with government leaders and civil society groups, Biden will…
Italy has rescued 896 migrants crossing the Mediterranean by boat overnight, the navy said on Friday, after the government warned of an “emergency” caused by a surge in new arrivals. Three navy warships and two coast guard patrol boats took on the migrants…
Mali’s new Prime Minister Moussa Mara formed a government, with the outgoing foreign minister becoming reconciliation minister as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of ruinous conflict. Former planning minister Mara, 39, was promoted to…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said that the federal government overspent by N105.47 billion in January due to decline…
A son of fugitive Mexican cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and is cooperating with the American government, US authorities revealed. Arrested in Mexico in 2009 and extradited to the United…
One person has been confirmed dead and five others lying critically ill, following the outbreak of Lassa fever in Plateau…
A bomb tore through a bustling fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, police said, the latest violence to hit government peace talks with the Taliban. The blast took place around 8:00 am (0300 GMT) at the wholesale…
Mali’s new prime minister said on Wednesday he was forming a government which would prioritise security and reconciliation as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of ruinous conflict. Former planning minister Moussa Mara, 39, was promoted…
Global oil prices advanced on Tuesday on renewed Ukraine tensions after pro-Russian protesters seized government buildings in the eastern city of Donetsk. New York’s West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in May won 77 cents to $101.21 per barrel…
Nigeria’s top human rights body on Monday said that eight people shot dead by intelligence agents in Abuja last year were civilians and not Boko Haram militants, as the government claimed. The Directorate for State Services (DSS) said on September 20…