France’s highest appeals court ruled on Friday that International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde must stand trial for her role in a 400 million euros ($440 million) state payout in 2008 to businessman Bernard Tapie. She was French finance minister at the time when she signed off on the decision to seek a extremely rare […]
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Huffingtonpost: A Nigerian man who had recently fled to Europe to escape Boko Haram militants was beaten to death on the streets of Italy this week as he tried to defend his wife against racist abuse. Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, 36, and his wife Chimiary, 24, were walking through the north-central Italian town of Fermo on […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has empathised with British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to resign in October. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu. President Buhari said Nigeria had enjoyed remarkable goodwill, support and understanding under the capable leadership […]
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Britain and the European Union will both “remain indispensable partners for the United States”, President Barack Obama says, following a vote by Britain to leave European Union. “The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision”, Obama says, noting the “special relationship” between the US and Britain and pointing to its […]
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The leaders of the European Union (EU) have expressed regret over the decision of Britain to leave the union but say they respect the decision of the people. This is contained in a joint statement issued by the EU leaders on Friday in Brussels obtained from the Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria and […]
Read More David Cameron has resigned, bringing an abrupt end to his six-year premiership, after the British public took the momentous decision to reject his entreaties and turn their back on the European Union, reports by Guardian UK. Just a year after he clinched a surprise majority in the general election, a visibly emotional Cameron, standing outside […]
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday mourned boxing legend, Muhammad Ali, who died on Friday in Phoenix‚ Arizona, following a respiratory ailment. A White House statement quoted Obama as saying: “Muhammad Ali was the Greatest, Period. “If you just asked him, he will tell you, he will tell you he was the double greatest, that he […]
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An Idaho man will spend about four months in jail for taking his pregnant 14-year-old daughter to Missouri and having her marry a 24-year-old family friend who had raped her, abcnews report. The father pleaded guilty to injury to a child last week, and a judge put him behind bars for 120 days and ordered […]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Republic of Guinea Ebola-free again, today. “Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease tested negative for the second time,” WHO said in a statement. “Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to ensure that any new cases are identified […]
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The fact that one Chibok girl basically rescued herself last week shouldn’t make any of us feel better. The family of Amina Ali Nkeki has a reason to celebrate. The rest of the world does not. The response from the Nigerian government and the Obama administration to one abducted Chibok girl’s escape last week is […]
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Soldiers and police used sticks and bare hands Wednesday to dig through enormous piles of mud covering houses in three villages hit by massive landslides in central Sri Lanka, with hundreds of families reported missing. According to AP, By evening, rescuers had pulled 17 bodies from the mud and debris unleashed by several days of […]
Read More Flash floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, triggered by more than three days of heavy rain, have forced more than 130,000 people from their homes and killed at least 11, disaster officials said on Tuesday. Troops have launched rescue operations in inundated areas of the Indian Ocean island, with boats and helicopters pulling more than […]
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