At least 26 people were killed and some 20 others wounded after a gunman opened fire inside a church in a small town in southeast Texas on Sunday. The gunman was killed after fleeing in a vehicle from the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, about 40 miles (65 km) east of San Antonio, local media […]
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would end the popular US green card lottery as police said a radicalised Uzbek staged the deadly truck attack in New York after entering the country under the programme. The move could spell the end to the US immigration hopes of millions of people around the world who […]
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said eight persons were killed on Tuesday when a terror suspect plowed into cyclists and pedestrians in Lower Manhattan, and rammed another vehicle on Halloween. The man left the vehicle holding up fake guns, before being shot by police and taken into custody, officers said. The motive was […]
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The United Nations on Tuesday said it will help about 40,000 refugees who fled Cameroon’s violence-hit regions into Nigeria. The UN refugee agency and Nigerian authorities have so far registered some 2,000 Cameroonians who have fled into southeastern Nigeria since October 1, while another 3,000 were awaiting registration. “We are preparing to help up to […]
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was conspicuously absent at the All Progressives Congress’ caucus meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the new Banquet Hall, Aso Rock, Abuja. It was however, gathered that the Turakin Adamawa might have travelled out of the country. NAN reports that the meeting which started at about 8.45p.m. […]
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A political associate of President Donald Trump turned himself in at the field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Washington, D.C. Mr. Manafort is Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman. He was shown on CNN as he turned himself in at 7:15 a.m. The development came minutes after The New York Times reported […]
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Police in Kenya have been using “unlawful force’’ against protesters after chaotic elections last week, Amnesty International said in a strongly worded statement on Monday. The London-based rights watchdog detailed excessive police violence in parts of Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu, pointing to several fatal police shootings. The violence came after Kenya’s controversial […]
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Catalonia’s parliament declared independence from Spain on Friday in defiance of the Madrid government, which at the same time was preparing to impose direct rule over the region. Although the declaration was in effect a symbolic gesture as it will not be accepted by Spain or the international community, the moves by both sides take Spain’s worst […]
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A Chinese court on Wednesday ruled that couples must undergo a compulsory three month “cool off” period before being allowed to divorce. The People’s Court of Shizhong District in Jinan, the provincial capital, ordered that all divorcing couples must take three months to become “calm” and “reasonable. “No one shall object to observing the mandate […]
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Morocco’s king has dismissed several ministers and top officials “for failing to improve the economic situation in a region” amid protests. Morocco’s King Mohammed IV dismissed the ministers of education, planning and housing and health, as well as other officials, after an economic agency found “imbalances” in implementing a development plan, state news agency MAP […]
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