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Thursday, April 11th, 2019
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he had been holed up since August 2012 and the British police have arrested him. The arrest followed Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno’s announcement that the country has withdrawn asylum from Assange, following repeated ‘aggressive and discourteous behaviour”. A statement by the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been ousted in a military coup and consultations are under way to form a transitional council to run the country, government sources and a provincial minister said on Thursday. He is the second African leader, after Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria to fall in the wake of a tsunami of protests. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
An Italian man,Leopoldo Scalici, 41,has been arrested for allegedly murdering a Nigerian prostitute, identified as Benedicta and dumping her body in a ditch. According to Italian website, Modena Today, Scalici approached Benedicta on the streets of Modena Nord for sex over the weekend. Benedicta was reportedly killed after the duo had had sexual intercourse and an argument […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election yesterday, with religious-rightist parties set to hand him a parliamentary majority despite a close contest against his main centrist challenger, a vote tally showed. With more than 97 percent of votes counted as at press time, Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party looked likely to muster enough support […]
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMM), otherwise known as Shiites, have halted both human and vehicular movement around the British High Commission, Abuja, over the continuous detention of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The Shiites accused the British government of complicity in the detention of El-Zakzaky, which they said, had […]
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Rwandans gathered on Sunday to begin a solemn commemoration of the lives of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus murdered during the Rwandan genocide, a three-month-killing spree that began 25 years ago. The ceremony marks the beginning of a week of events to honour the dead. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is scheduled to lay a wreath […]
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Thursday, March 28th, 2019
By Arlene J. Schar & Dr. David Leffler | NNP | March 28, 2019 – Three days after the terrorist attack in New Zealand, another shooting has taken place in Netherlands, leaving three dead. While both the Netherlands and New Zealand are considered safe and peaceful nations, violence has still managed to find its way […]
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
BBC Theresa May has promised Tory MPs she will stand down if they back her EU withdrawal deal. She told backbench Tories: “I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to do what is right for our country and our party.” The PM said she knew that Tory MPs did […]
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Africa & World Politics, Canadian Politics, Headlines
Sunday, March 10th, 2019
The Canadian Politician (Toronto)- Global Affairs Canada has confirmed that Carleton University professor, Pius Adesanmi, was among the 18 Canadians who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday. There were no survivors in the plane carrying 149 passengers and 8 crew members. Until his untimely death, Professor Adesanmi was the director of Carleton […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, March 10th, 2019
A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to require Germany to pay damages over genocide and property seizures by colonialists in what is now Namibia more than a century ago. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said Germany was immune from claims by descendants of the Herero and Nama tribes, depriving […]
