U.S. and South Korean wartime operational plans, including a plan to wipe out the North Korean leadership, were stolen by North Korean hackers last year, a South Korean ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday. Some 235 gigabytes of military documents were taken from South Korea’s Defense Integrated Data Center in September last year, Democratic Party […]
Continue Reading
The Nigerian mission in South Africa has confirmed the killing of a 25-year-old Nigerian, Mr Ibrahim Olalekan Badmus, a native of Lagos state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the killing occurred less than a week after Mr Jelili Omoyele, a 35 year –old cellular phone technician was shot dead at Doornfontein, near […]
Continue Reading
Tunisia’s navy rescued almost 100 migrants from a sinking boat off its Southeast Coast on Tuesday, authorities said, hours after eight people being smuggled to Europe drowned in the same stretch of water. The incidents coincided with the launch of joint patrols by the Tunisian and Italian navies to stem migrant flows and carry out […]
Continue Reading
The US Geological Survey, has disclosed that a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile early Tuesday. The tremor was said to have hit 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of the coastal city of Arica, which is near the border with Peru, the US agency said. The quake struck at a depth of 82 kilometers, it added. Chile is one of […]
Continue Reading
Russia has agreed to supply Saudi Arabia with a range of sophisticated modern weapons including S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said Monday. “An agreement has been reached with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the supply of S-400 air defense systems,” spokeswoman Maria Vorobyova was quoted as saying by […]
Continue Reading
Former Liberia football star, George Weah, will perhaps, never have a more realistic chance of winning the presidency than on October 10 when some two million of his compatriots go to the polls to replace Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Of all the contenders for president, his candidacy is seen as the one that poses the most credible […]
Continue Reading
Hurricane Nate has made its second landfall outside Biloxi in the U.S. state of Mississippi, the National Weather Service has confirmed. The storm moved ashore at 12:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum winds of 140 kilometres per hour, the agency’s Jackson, Mississippi office said. The storm is currently moving north […]
Continue Reading
A former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has described the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan as “arrogant”, “flamboyant” and “widely disliked”. Campbell aired his opinion in a piece he wrote on Friday, titled ‘Nigerian President Buhari’s Sisyphean Efforts’, which he posted on Council on Foreign Relations’ website. “Patience Jonathan as the first […]
Continue Reading
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday said Australians handed in 51,000 guns during a three-month amnesty, though he rejected calls to extend it following the weekend’s mass shooting in Las Vegas. “I am not suggesting we won’t have gun amnesties in the future, but this one has been very effective because it has, as I […]
Continue Reading
U.S. Republican Congressman Tim Murphy has announced his resignation after his affair with a young woman came to light, official statement said on Friday. “Upon further discussion with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position,’’ Murphy, an eight-term member of the House of Representatives, serving since 2003, said. The statement came […]
Continue Reading