Ivory Coast President Ouattara, Names New Govt.
The Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced the composition of a new government on Wednesday, according to a stateme...Read More
Kenyan Opposition Forms Alliance In Unity Bid Before August Election
Kenyan opposition political parties announced an alliance on Wednesday to fight the August presidential and parliamentary elec...Read More
Gambian Minister ‘Quits In Protest’ Amid Political Impasse
The Gambia’s Information Minister Sheriff Bojang has resigned to protest President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to accept defeat in ...Read More
South Korea Scandal: Samsung Hier Lee Jae-Yong A Suspect
Samsung heir-apparent, Lee Jae-Yong, is to be interviewed as a suspect in a corruption scandal surrounding the South Korean Pr...Read More
Obama Pushes Values, Prods Trump In Final Emotional Address
President Barack Obama has urged Americans on Tuesday to stand up for U.S. values and reject discrimination as the United Stat...Read More
Germany To Deploy Helicopters, Soldiers To U.N. Mission In Mali
Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday approved the deployment of eight attack and transport helicopters as well as 350 additional sol...Read More
Russia Denies Claims Of Possessing Compromising Material About Trump
Russia has denied claims that its intelligence agencies have compromising materials about Donald Trump.The President's Sp...Read More
UN To Investigate Killing's in Nigeria
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary Executions, Dr. Agnes Callamard, has confirmed that she is probing t...Read More
Nigerian Senate Opposes Ban On Vehicle Importation Through Land Borders
Nigerian Senate is asking the Nigeria Customs Service to suspend, with immediate effect, the policy of an outright ban on vehicle i...Read More
Nigeria Currency To Weaken Further.
Nigeria Currency Note (Naira). The Nigerian currency naira is expected to weaken further in the forwards market, despite measures by t...Read More
EU privacy proposal could dent Facebook, Gmail ad revenue
Online messaging services such as WhatsApp ( FB.O ), iMessage ( AAPL.O ) and Gmail ( GOOGL.O ) will face tough rules on how they can trac...Read More
Huge crowd bids farewell to Iranian ex-president who fell out with supreme leader
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians massed in central Tehran on Tuesday for the funeral of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an i...Read More
Sessions takes questions on independence, record on civil rights
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions faced interruptions and questions on his ability to be independent and go against Donald Trump if n...Read More
Amid hacking row, pressure builds on Trump to soften pro-Russia rhetoric
President-elect Donald Trump is finding himself caught between his desire to improve relations with Russia and fellow Republicans who ar...Read More
Islamic State attack victims' families sue Twitter
The families of two US victims of Islamic State attacks in Brussels and Paris are suing Twitter for "having knowingly provided mate...Read More
Snake on a plane cancels Emirates flight to Dubai
An Emirates flight from Oman to Dubai was cancelled after staff found a snake on the plane. Flight EK0863 from Muscat was grounded after...Read More
Snapchat sets up international headquarters in London
Snap, the company behind messaging app Snapchat, says it has established its non-US headquarters in London. It will pay taxes on UK and so...Read More
US military tests swarm of mini-drones launched from jets
The US military has launched 103 miniature swarming drones from a fighter jet during a test in California. Three F/A-18 Super Hornets w...Read More
Swiss Muslim girls must learn to swim with boys, court rules
Switzerland has won a case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) obliging Muslim parents to send their children to mixed swimmin...Read More
Jeff Sessions, US attorney general nominee, faces rough ride
President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the new attorney general is poised to get a rough ride when he appears before US senato...Read More
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