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Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
Former News of the World editor, Andy Coulson on Tuesday was convicted over phone hacking but fellow editor Rebekah Brooks was acquitted, after a month-long trial revolving around illegal activity at the heart of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire.A jury at London’s Old Bailey unanimously found Coulson, the former spin doctor of British Prime Minister David […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
A horde of journalists gathered in London this morning to protest against the seven-year jail terms slammed on three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt, BBC reports. A court in Cairo found Australia’s Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed guilty of sedition, though the trio had denied the charges against them and are expected to appeal. […]
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
United States (US) President Barrack Obama has endorsed dispatch to Iraq about 300 armed American forces, positioned in and around the country to help secure US assets just as he considers other options for combating the insurgents. Among likely options to be deplored include airstrikes, use of drone or a contingent of Special Forces. The […]
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Sunday, June 15th, 2014
The Iraqi Sunnis insurgents who have captured much of northern part of the country have posted pictures showing shooting of scores of the captured national soldiers in a province north of the capital Baghdad. The pictures on the dissidents – Levant or ISIL website showed masked fighters, loading the captives onto flatbed trucks before forcing […]
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Saturday, June 14th, 2014
As muscles continue to be flexed in Iran between the warring factions, Iran has expressed readiness to assist Iraqi government in her battle against the Sunni insurgents, reported BBC. Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani has also denied ever sending troops to fight in Iraq. However, an Iraqi source told the BBC that 130 Iranian Revolutionary Guards […]
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Friday, June 13th, 2014
United States (US) President, Barrack Obama has vowed US will not send troops to Iraq, to douse the ensuing insurgency in the oil-rich middle east country, but said other options were being considered. President Barack Obama made the declaration on Friday in response to the lightning advance by Sunni militant fighters in Iraq that could […]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2014
June 12, 2014 A court in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi on today ordered government to lift a travel ban on the country’s former Military ruler, Pervez Musharraf in 15 days’ time. AFP indicated quoted the former ruler Counsel a Farogh Naseem.as saying “The court has allowed our appeal and ordered to strike down Musharraf’s […]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2014
A Jordanian television discussion on the crisis on Syria has descended into chaos, with the participants destroying part of the set. Journalists Shaker al-Johari and Mohammad al-Jayousi were debating the conflict on Jordan’s Seven Stars programme on Thursday. Al-Jayousi accused al-Johari of supporting the revolution in Syria, and was in turn accused of backing President […]
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Sunday, November 17th, 2013
(Reuters) – A French engineer who had been held hostage by Islamist militants in northern Nigeria for almost a year has escaped his jailers, President Francois Hollande said on Sunday. “This man showed exceptional courage. At the risk of his life, he took advantage of an opportunity and then, in conditions worthy of an adventure […]
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Malawi President Joyce Banda named a former African Union economic commissioner as finance minister on Tuesday in a cabinet reshuffle triggered by a graft scandal that started with the shooting of the national budget director. Paul Mphwiyo survived last month’s shooting but the incident sparked an investigation by the landlocked southern African nation’s Anti-Corruption Bureau […]
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
The Libyan man who was seized earlier this month in a US raid in Tripoli has been transferred to the US to face charges in New York. Officials said Abu Anas al-Liby, whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, had been questioned on board a navy ship while travelling to the US. He is accused […]
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
India’s east coast braced on Friday for a cyclone covering half the size of the country, with tens of thousands of residents in low-lying areas fleeing their homes after authorities forecast a risk to life and extensive damage once the storm hits land. Satellite images showed Cyclone Phailin 600 km (360 miles) off the coast […]
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
The OPCW, the body overseeing destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee said it was in honour of the OPCW’s “extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons”. The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons convention. It recently sent inspectors […]
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Thursday, October 10th, 2013
By Chigozie Chikere, Lagos It was the thriller maestro James Hadley Chase who wrote the novel, A Coffin from Hong Kong, in which Nelson Ryan a private investigator arrives his office to discover a dead Chinese girl, obviously murdered. With this development, Ryan is pitched right into the teeming and sordid nightlife of Hong Kong to […]
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Sunday, October 6th, 2013
Fourteen people have been killed in violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in an isolated town in eastern Central African Republic that began last week, police and a senior Catholic official said on Sunday. The mineral-rich but impoverished nation has descended into chaos since northern Seleka rebels seized the capital, Bangui, and ousted President Francois […]
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Sunday, October 6th, 2013
Libya’s prime minister has called on Washington to explain a special forces raid on its territory, one of two by US commandos in Africa on Saturday. Ali Zeidan’s office said he had asked for clarification and stressed Libya was “keen on prosecuting any Libyan citizen inside Libya”. The raid captured al-Qaeda leader, Anas al-Liby, whom […]
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
At least 130 African migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. A total of 103 bodies have been recovered and more have been found inside the wreck, coast guards say. Passengers reportedly threw themselves into the sea when a […]
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
The African Examiner, Abuja, Nigeria – The State Department and USAID have taken steps to continue working to advance the US national interest, regardless of the challenges created by the government shutdown. The agency also said they will continue, “to operate to advance our national interests and protect health and safety of U.S. citizens abroad.” […]
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
The U.S. government partially shut down for the first time in 17 years on Tuesday as a standoff between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans over healthcare reforms closed many government offices, museums and national parks and slowed everything from trade negotiations to medical research. Federal agencies were directed to cut back services and up […]
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Monday, September 30th, 2013
Voters in Cameroon went to the polls on Monday in local and parliamentary elections expected to be dominated by supporters of President Paul Biya, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders. Biya, 80, has ruled over Central Africa’s largest economy for three decades after coming to power in 1982 following the resignation of his predecessor. His Cameroon […]
