President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has warned that if his fight against drug peddlers became “very virulent”, then he’ll be forced to impose martial law....
No less than eight migrants who embarked on a journey across the Mediterranean Sea lost their lives when the boat ferrying them capsized. According to Italian...
A Syrian refugee identified as Anas Modamani has sued Facebook for failing to take down false and incriminating posts on the social media site linking him...
Justin Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister in a no-holds-barred comment took a swipe at American President-elect Donald Trump while expressing his view about his relationship with the...
57-year-old Ralph Stanley Elrod Jr, the man accused of killing 2 Georgia Deputies when he fatally shot both of them at his home could face death...
The African Union has warned headstrong Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh that it will cease to recognise him as the legitimate president of the West African country...
The leader of Kariba Church, Patrick Mugadza, in a prediction which may not go down well with friends and family members of President Robert Mugabe has...
The Supreme Court of Gambian has received an injunction filed by President Yahya Jammeh’s lawyer ordering the halt of the swearing-in of president-elect, Adama Barrow. Jammeh’s...
An ongoing expense scandal which is brewing in Australia has seen the resignation of Health Minister Sussan Ley. She threw in the towel after allegedly using...
A 45-year-old Frenchman who had carnal knowledge with a s*x partner who believed he was wearing a condom but actually did not, has been convicted of...
A knifeman who is now on the run fatally attacked two men in a Maryland mall near Washington even as police say they are working to...
The lower legislative chamber of Nigeria, the House of Representatives will on Thursday debate a motion seeking to provide a safe haven for Gambian President Yahya...
Jay Y. Lee, the Samsung Group leader appeared before special prosecutors in South Korea for questioning in connection with ongoing graft probe involving President Park Geun-hye...
Authorities in Pakistan have set an execution date for Khizar Hayat, a 55-year-old former police officer, who was sentenced to death in 2003 for shooting a...
A flight from Muscat, Oman, to the U.A.E was cancelled by Dubai-based Emirates after a snake was found in the cargo of the plane. The serpent...
Outgoing President of the United States of America, Barack Obama noted in an emotional farewell speech that his position on banning Muslims from entering US has...
A federal jury has sentenced a 22-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof who gunned down nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in the year 2015 to...
Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee has been summoned by special prosecutors in South Korea as a suspect over ongoing graft probe involving President Park Geun-hye...
There is a feeling of suspicion in Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni appointed his son as his senior adviser in a move many critics see as...
A 64-year-old South Korean monk died after setting himself ablaze during rallies against impeached President Park Geun-hye to protest against his country’s deal with Japan on...
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Jared Kushner, a New York businessman married to his daughter Ivanka to serve as his senior adviser in the White...
Rising after a one-day summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, ECOWAS leaders decided they will visit Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Wednesday in a second attempt...
A truck bomb attack on a checkpoint in the northern Sinai city of al-Arish in Egypt has claimed the lives of no fewer than eight police...
Three days after no fewer than 33 Brazilian inmates lost their lives following a prison riot in the Amazon region of Brazil, four other inmates were...
Three “violent terrorists” were shot dead in China in the latest clash with Islamist militants who the government says want to break the Xinjiang region away...
In furtherance of his mandate as mediator, President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria will on Monday host four other West African leaders to a meeting aimed at...
Ghana’s 54th president Nana Akufo-Addo got off to a worse possible start after he was accused of lifting portions for speech of two ex-American presidents into...
The incoming chief of staff of President-elect, Donald Trump has revealed that the business man turned politician has now accepted the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that...
A group of soldiers stationed at the popular promenade in Jerusalem got the shock of their lives when a Palestinian rammed his truck into them killing...
26-year-old Esteban Santiago, the man accused of opening fire at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida, killing five people and injuring six others has been charged by...
Rising from a meeting among regional leaders in Ghana’s capital Accra, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told reporters on Saturday that the ECOWAS regional bloc did...
Saudi police on Saturday gunned down two “dangerous terrorists” who were spotted in a house in Riyadh during an operation in the area. The suspects Tayeh...
The southern part of Thailand has been submerged by floods after torrential rains swept through provinces killing 18 people with more than 700,000 affected over the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday attended the inauguration ceremony of President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana at the Black Star Square Ghana. Photos: Courtesy Presidency RipplesNigeria ….without...
Florida police have detained the key suspect who killed five people and injured eight others in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport. Recall the attacker opened...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired 6,000 more police, civil servants and academics under emergency rule. The purge according to decrees issued in the Official...
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has somewhat gotten his pound of flesh after scornfully slamming celebrities who supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton at the last presidential election....
No fewer than 33 Brazilian inmates have lost their lives following another prison riot in the Amazon region of Brazil. However, few details were made available...
Asian neighbours Japan and South Korea are currently involved in a diplomatic row over a statue symbolising victims of Japanese wartime s*x slavery. The row has...
The son of late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been added to the US counter-terrorism blacklist after sanctions were imposed on him by America which...
The prime suspect of last year’s July cafe attack has been gunned down in Bangladesh by counter-terrorism police when they opened fire on two Islamist militants...
The Turkish city of Istanbul is said to be on high alert as security operatives are on the look out for the Reina night club attacker...
A military spat between two often uneasy Asia-Pacific neighbours may have been quelled after Australia expressed regret on Thursday and promised a thorough investigation of “insulting”...
The detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has now been extended by Egyptian authorities by 15 days pending investigation to the dismay of friends, colleagues...
There has been heightened fear over what has become of Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow following a report that he may have been assassinated. The CBN Television...
General Ousman Badjie, Gambia’s army chief has pledged his support for President Yahya Jammeh in the face of a possible regional military intervention by ECOWAS to...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been hit by flash floods which caused a river to burst its banks in the south of the country,...
Five suspected Islamic State group militants believed to be linked to the attack on the Reina club in Istanbul, Turkey have been arrested by police in...
Men suspected to have links to rebels attacked a prison in the Philippines killing a guard and freeing no less than 150 prisoners. Reports say the...
The electoral commission chairman in Gambia, Alieu Momar Njai is now on the run after he fled the country following threats on his life. According to...