BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After last week declaration that he was no longer an atheist, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the task he has placed before himself in the year 2017 is to tour minimum of 30 US States, so as to understudy the way of life of the residents. Zuckerberg who […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A UK’s top diplomat in Brussels Sir Ivan Rogers, has resigned. Rogers, who was appointed to the role of Permanent Representative by former PM David Cameron in 2013, had been expected to play a key role in Brexit talks expected to start in few months time. The Foreign Office said […]
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico urged other European leaders on Monday to stop calling referendums on domestic issues, saying they posed a threat to the EU and to the euro. Last June Britain voted in a referendum to leave the European Union and last month Italian voters rejected a constitutional reform plan. Right-wing, anti-immigrant parties […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 28 people were killed, while over 50 injured Saturday, in a twin bomb which erupted in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital. The explosions which responsibility has been claimed by the so-called (IS), occurred one after another in the busy al-Sinak market. More than 50 people were injured. Many of the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russia authority has said it will react to the expulsion of 35 of her diplomats from Washington, as heated controversy over alleged Russian interference in the recent US presidential election rages. President Barack Obama had vowed to take action against Russia amid US accusations that it directed cyber-attacks against the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The famous British author of Watership Down, Richard Adams, is dead. Aged 96, Adams’ daughter confirmed his passage Tuesday. Richard George Adams was born 9 th May, 1920. was an English novelist who was known as the author of Watership Down, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The flight data recorder of the Russian military airliner which crashed into the Black Sea last Sunday has been recovered. Russian officials confirmed that this is the first “black box” of the flight to be retrieved from the Tu-154 jet, which came down leaving the 92 passengers and crew. The […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Berlin market attack suspect, Anis Amri, has been shot dead by police in Milan. Italy’s Interior Minister Marco Minniti confirmed that the man who opened fire on police, who asked him for ID during a routine patrol in the Sesto San Giovanni area in the early hours of Friday, was […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US outgoing President Mr. Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore oil and gas drilling in the “vast majority” of US-owned northern waters in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Mr. Obama declared that the designated areas are “indefinitely off limits” to future leasing. The White House said the decision was for […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Germany has released the only suspect held over Monday’s deadly lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market. The suspect, said to be 23-years-old, was reportedly known to police for minor crimes, but had no links to militant organisations. He arrived in Germany on 31 December last year and his asylum […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) boss Christine Lagarde has been found guilty of professional negligence by French Court. Although, the court held that Ms. Lagarde would not be penalized, but ruled that as a French Finance Minister in 2008, she approved an award of €404m ($429m; £340m) to a businessman […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ukraine’s biggest commercial bank, PrivatBank, has been nationalized. The move was aimed at protecting 20 million customers and “preserving financial stability in the country”. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has on Sunday declared that PrivatBank was insolvent. The government subsequently backed the nationalization. The country’s apex bank indicated […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The troops in Syria have commenced evacuations of last rebel enclaves in eastern Aleppo areas under siege in the northern part of the country, with civilian in some rebel-held zones now being allowed to leave. According to seven-year-old Bana Alabed, who tweeted about conditions in the city, said a linked […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the Middle East country to develop nuclear-powered ships. The President is alongside accusing the United States of violating last year’s international nuclear deal. In a statement by Mr. Rouhani, he criticised the US Congress move as a breach of the accord and said […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight with 48 people, including a renowned Islamic preacher, Junaid Jamshed and wife has crashed in the north of the country. The Flight PK-661 was reported to have “lost contact with the control tower on its way from Chitral to Islamabad”, according to the airline. […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Syrian forces have taken control of about 75 per cent of eastern Aleppo, held by the rebels in the last four years. Consequently, rebels have left the last areas they occupied in the city and reportedly calling for a five-day truce to allow the evacuation of civilians. Confirming the development, […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Negotiators on Brexit deal have directed UK to wait till October 2018, for the decisive agreement. EU’s Chief negotiator for Brexit, Michel Barnier disclosed this at press conference. Barnier said the “time will be short” for negotiations because the proposed deal needed to be ratified as part of […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A middle-aged man has been arrested and taken to police custody after firing a rifle inside a pizza restaurant in Washington. The eatery was the target of a bizarre fake US election story. The 28-year-old suspect was from North Carolina. Police have also confirmed that no-one was injured in the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chinese foreign Ministry has announced that it has lodged a complaint with the US after President-elect Mr. Donald Trump called and spoke on phone with the Taiwan’s leader The state news agency Xinhua reported that, China has urged the US “to cautiously, and properly handle Taiwan issue to avoid […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Latest reports confirm that Syrian troops have captured a key part of the eastern Aleppo and split the rebel-held territory into two. The local media reported that while troops were seen dismantling mines and explosives, they carried on with their advances. A monitoring group claimed that the rebels have currently […]
