The United States has suspended further review of its humanitarian assistance to Nigeria pending the visit of Secretary of States, John Kerry. It, however, announced additional increase of about $35 million to help Ethiopia. Kerry is to pay an official visit...
Authorities in Malaysia have arrested rapper, Wee Meng Chee, who goes by the stage name Namewee for releasing a video he produced that allegedly insulted Islam....
The murder of iconic LGBT activist, Hande Kader has sparked protests in Turkey with scores of peaceful demonstrators thronging the streets of Istanbul calling for justice...
Over the weekend in Iraq, 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre of hundreds of military recruits, were hanged following the country’s prime minister’s recent vow...
Five-year-old Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh, who elicited global pity after he was pictured at the back of an ambulance when pulled from the rubble after airstrikes...
Authorities in Ethiopia say a probe into the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces during anti-government demonstrations will soon begin but also denied that...
A wedding ceremony in the Turkish city of Gaziantep turned into a blood fest when a suicide bomber struck, killing 30 people and injuring 94 other...
At least five bodies of drowned migrants and 534 others were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea by Italian coastguards following a number of rescue operations carried...
United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, has been scheduled to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja next week. Kerry, who will also be meeting...
A tribunal has found 13 anti-slavery activists culpable of inciting illegal riots in Mauritania last June and has slammed each of them with a 15-year sentence....
Thousands of demonstrators are accusing Amnesty International of promoting anti-India sentiments following a seminar organized by the rights group on human rights abuses in Kashmir. The...
Scores of onlookers have thronged parks in America to take selfies with life-sized nude statues of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meant to ridicule the estate...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received in farewell audience the outgoing ambassadors of some countries to Nigeria, at the State House Abuja. The included H.E. Daniel...
A terrorism suspect was gunned down in the Rwandan capital of Kigali after engaging security forces in a three-hour shootout. According to police, the suspect who...
Spokesman of South Sudan’s former vice president and opposition leader has revealed that his boss Riek Machar has fled the country in a bid to escape...
Tragedy struck again in the Turkish city of Ankara after a bomb laden car exploded close to a police station in the eastern province of Van...
Over half a million protesters thronged the streets of Conakry, Guinea in protests over alleged government corruption as one man was shot dead and 12 others...
A week after retracting his comments when he claimed during his south Florida campaign rally that President Barack Obama and his first secretary of state Hillary...
A search to uncover weaponry by Israeli army at the al-Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron has led to the killing of a 17-year-old Palestinian after an...
About 133 protesters have been arrested by police in Zambia who accused them of attacking perceived supporters of President Edgar Lungu after disputed election result. Supporters...
Four police officers and three civilians lost their lives when a bomb planted in a car exploded outside a police station near the southeastern Diyarbakir city...
Almost two decades after she snatched a newly-born baby from her biological mother’s hospital bedside, a 51-year-old woman who cannot be named to protect the identity she...
In a move described as strange and eccentric, a Chinese couple decided to mark their wedding-in their own special way by suspending themselves underneath a glass...
Tragedy struck in the North Kivu town of Beni, DR Congo when at least 64 people were killed by machete wielding assailants suspected to be rebels...
A warrant has been issued by Jordanian authorities for the arrest of writer Nahed Hattar for sharing a cartoon on Facebook deemed deeply offensive to Muslims....
According to police authorities, a lone gunman killed a Muslim cleric and his associate who were walking together in the New York City borough of Queens...
Days after Cannes imposes ban on full-body swimsuits worn by some Muslim women, rights group are opposing the prohibition in French courts. A French human rights...
Two days after Donald Trump claimed during his south Florida campaign rally that President Barack Obama and his first secretary of state Hillary Clinton were the...
The decision by the United Nations to deploy 4,000 strong troops to Juba, has been disapproved by authorities in South Sudan. Moments after the UN Security...
Police in Canada have revealed that the terror suspect gunned down at a house in Strathroy, a town about 225km west of Toronto was a supporter...
At least four people lost their lives and many more were wounded across the country after multiple bomb attacks hit Thailand some days after adoption of...
Republican nominee Donald Trump has denied being invited over by the Secret Service after he delivered what was seen as an incitement to violence against Hillary...
French authorities have arrested a 16-year-old girl in Paris for allegedly using a social media app to spread ISIS propaganda in a bid to further incite...
Public accusation of state mismanagement and corruption is expected to be on the increase after 11 premature babies were burnt to death after a fire outbreak...
The impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws is expected to begin anytime soon after Brazilian Senators voted 59 to 21...
The campaign team of Donald Trump has denied any pointer to claims that there are plans to hit Hillary Clinton following Trump’s recent comments which suggests...
A day after no less than 50 Republican national security experts warned in an open letter that nominee Donald Trump “would be the most reckless president”...
Tension is on the high in the Philippines as a day after the chief justice criticised President Rodrigo Duterte name-and-shame campaign in his war on narcotics,...
16-years after embarking on a hunger strike in protest of alleged military brutality in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur, 44-year-old activist, Irom Sharmila has decided...
There was blood letting in the Oromia and Amhara regions of Ethiopia as security forces unleashed terror killing scores of people in a bid to suppress...
Republican nominee Donald Trump has called the mental fitness of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton into question when addressing a crowd of supporters saying he’s not sure...
Incumbent Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared that he doesn’t care about human rights after vowing to maintain his “shoot-to-kill” order against drug dealers. Duterte’s comments...
No less than 45 people lost their lives and scores wounded when a suicide bomber attacked a group of mourning lawyers who were gathered to accompany...
Retired 65-year-old boxing legend, Roberto Duran says he would like to step into the ring with Donald Trump, to see just how strong the presidential hopeful...
Two female police officers have been badly wounded by a machete-wielding man who yelled “Allahu Akbar!” (God is greatest) before attacking the cops in the Belgian...
Japanese authorities in Tokyo have lodged a strong protest to Beijing over Chinese vessels sailing into disputed waters close to East China Sea islets. This is...
Tragedy struck at a busy Indian market located in Kokrajhar town in the northeastern Assam state of the Asian country, when 14 people were killed and...
A fire outbreak during a birthday celebration at a bar in the northern French city of Rouen has claimed the lives of at least 13 people...
The spate of insecurity in the country has been raised a notch higher as the United States of America, USA, has raised a travel alert for...
In a move seen as a slap in the face of mouthy estate mogul turned politician, Donald Trump, wealthy Republicans who are unhappy with their presidential...