A senior FBI agent removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe this year referred to Donald Trump before his election as an “idiot,” in emails turned over to the Senate, US media reported. Peter Strzok, a senior counterintelligence investigator, also suggested that the Republican Party “needs to pull their head out of their ass,” […]
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Professor Wole Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, has won this year’s The Europe Theatre Prize. Announcing the award, the General Secretary, The Europe Theatre Prize, Alessandro Martinez, said Professor Soyinka won the Special Prize category of the award for his consistency “as a proponent of an ideal bridge between Europe and Africa […]
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New York Police Division has arrested one person after an explosion rocked Manhattan on Monday. It has described the explosion as “unknown origin”. It said people had been evacuated. The blast occurred near the Port Authority transit terminal, close to Times Square. Early media reports said the blast came from a pipe bomb, and that […]
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Residents in a small town in the north-eastern Australian state of Queensland said they have been “held hostage,” by 200,000 bats. No fewer than 200,000 flying foxes, the world’s largest bats, have overrun the Charters Towers’s residents since Friday, the mayor of the town told dpa on Monday. A resident Elizabeth Schmidt said: “It’s an […]
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Timothy Adeoye, a Nigerian teenager living in London, the United Kingdom, has been declared missing. The 14-year-old is one of nine cases of missing teenagers in Enfield borough. Dami Adeoye, 27, who is Timothy’s cousin says: “Our family have been encouraged by the overwhelming support shown by everyone who have circulated Timothy’s picture. “No information […]
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for one billion dollars donor contributions to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to fund life-saving works in Nigeria and other countries. Mr. Guterres said at a pledging conference in New York that over the past 12 years, CERF has been at the forefront of humanitarian response. CERF is […]
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Not less than 14 UN peacekeepers have been killed and 53 wounded in an attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to BBC, the UN’s Monusco mission said the peacekeepers were attacked by suspected rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in North Kivu province. Five Congolese soldiers also died. UN […]
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President Donald Trump of the United States of America, on Wednesday made a historic decision by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump called his decision the right thing to do. “I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” Trump said from the White House. “It’s the right […]
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Russian air strikes killed 21 civilians early Wednesday in a village held by the Islamic State group near the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raids hit the village of Al-Jerzi on the eastern bank of the river, which cuts across Deir Ezzor province. […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. The nine-member court, with two liberal justices dissenting, granted his administration’s request to lift two injunctions imposed […]
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