Thousands of migrants who have stuck at a Budapest railway station for some days have resulted to trekking, vowing the walk will be terminated at the Austrian border. This is amidst the Hungarian authority’s effort to contain the desperate migrants from accessing the Western Europe. Alongside drive by the European Union states to agree on […]
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU. As thousands of men, women and children – many fleeing Syria’s civil war – continued to arrive from the east, authorities let thousands of undocumented […]
Police authority in the State of Virginia, US has confirmed that the attacker who killed Wednesday, two journalists on live TV has killed himself. The killer, Vester Lee Flanagan, aged 41, was an ex-employee of WDBJ7 TV and popular known as Bryce Williams, committed the suicide when his car was surrounded by Police who were […]
Thailand’s defence minister has said those who planted a bomb at a Bangkok shrine deliberately targeted foreigners to harm tourism and the economy. Prawit Wongsuwan vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of the attack in the capital, which killed at least 21 people and injured more than 120. The Erawan Shrine is a major tourist […]
An Orthodox Jew who stabbed marchers at a Jerusalem gay pride parade 10 years ago launched another knife attack at the same type of parade in the same city Thursday, stabbing and wounding six people who were on the streets for the event, police said. Video aired on Israel’s Channel 10 shows what appears to […]
Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, the only daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, died Sunday, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub of her home, her family said. Brown has been unresponsive in hospitals and hospice care since she was found in a bathtub of her Roswell, Georgia, home on […]
Bill Cosby lost his latest bid to fend off a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1974, as the California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the comedian’s petition to review the case. The accuser’s attorney, Gloria Allred, said the decision cleared the way for […]
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14km per second. Earlier, the space agency released the most detailed picture yet as it hurtled towards the dwarf planet on Tuesday. The probe was set to grab more images and other data as it passed just 12,500km from the little […]
Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of on-off negotiations with an agreement that could potentially transform the Middle East. Under the deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations would be lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on […]
Eighteen people have been evacuated from a shopping centre north of Paris, after up to three armed men entered the building early on Monday. A police source said they had been hiding in a canteen in the Qwartz centre in Villeneuve-la-Garenne. It was unclear whether anyone else was still trapped in the centre or whether […]
The biting economic recession in Greece Monday took another dimension as the country’s outspoken Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis has resigned appointment, some hours after referendum which supported his call to reject creditors’ demands for more austerity. Speaking after the resignation, Varoufakis disclosed that his departure would be helpful in finding a solution to the country’s […]
Reports say a training plane belonging to Bangladesh Air Force Monday, crashed into the sea, leaving its pilot missing in the Bay of Bengal. Wing Commander Noor-e Alam, Manager of Shah Amanat International Airport, said the F-7 trainer crashed soon after it took off from an air-base at Patenga, some 220 kilometres South-East of the […]
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos – United States (US) President Barrack Obama will play host to his Nigerian counterpart, President Muhammadu Buhari next month – July 20, 2015. This is contained in a press statement issued Wednesday from the White House. The release informed that the visit would underscore the United States’ “longstanding friendship with Nigeria, […]
France has summoned the US envoy in Paris over claims that the US spied on President Francois Hollande and his two predecessors, officials say. Whistleblower website Wikileaks reports the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on Mr Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac between 2006-12. Mr Hollande called an emergency meeting and said France would […]
Reuters – Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw’s Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said. The computer system was hacked in the afternoon and fixed after around five hours, during which 10 of the state-owned carrier’s […]
Five days after last Wednesday deadly shooting attack by the young Dylann Roof, in which nine people were killed, the African-American church in the South Carolina, Sunday was reopened and worshipers in their hundreds, trooped in for weekend services. Amid tight security, services began at 09:30 (13:30 GMT), with a black cloth being displayed on one of the […]
Tens of thousands of anti-austerity protesters massed outside Britain’s parliament on Saturday to demonstrate against the newly re-elected Conservative government’s plans for further public spending cuts. Holding banners saying “End Austerity Now” and “Defy Tory Rule”, protesters had marched from the Bank of England in the heart of London’s financial district, in a rally which […]
Members of the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN are alarmed at the horrendous killings of 9 believers in church on Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina. America’s relative reverence for a place of worship, and the nation’s peace has been rudely interrupted by the action of the alleged gun man, 21-year old Dylann Roof. This […]
South Carolina’s governor Nikki Haley says the suspect in the shooting and killing of 9 black worshipers at an African-American church in Charleston should face the death penalty if convicted. Speaking on shooting the governor said “We will absolutely want him to have the death penalty.” The governor also asked residents to remain calm and […]
