The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has lifted a ban on passengers on Saudi Arabian Airlines carrying large electronics like laptops onboard U.S.-bound flights. The airline was the last carrier under the restrictions to be granted the reprieve. In March, U.S. officials imposed restrictions on passengers carrying laptops and other large electronic gear in cabins on […]
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Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter was rushed to hospital on Thursday after becoming dehydrated at a charity house-building project in Canada. His charity organisation, Habitat for Humanity however said he is doing “OK.” Carter, 92, became unsteady at the construction site and slumped away from his work area to a chair, according […]
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Aviation Authority of the Indian Ocean archipelago said on Thursday possible debris from a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared in 2014 has been found on the Seychelles. The Seychelles Islands Development Company (IDC), said, rangers found two pieces of debris suspected to be from an aircraft while tagging turtles and birds on North Island. The […]
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Former Brazilian leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was convicted on corruption charges on Wednesday in the first of five graft trials he faces. The two-term president was sentenced to nine and half years in prison but would remain free on appeal. The ruling marked a stunning fall for Lula, Brazil’s first working-class president who […]
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No fewer than 16 marines were killed when a U.S. military plane crashed in rural Mississippi on Monday evening, a regional emergency management official said. The plane crashed into a soybean farm in northern Mississippi’s LeFlore County, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Jackson, the state capital.The Clarion-Ledger newspaper said debris of the crash […]
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America is getting impatient with Kim Jong Un and his North Korea government for defying the world in testing missiles and building nuclear war heads. The United States ambassador to United Nations cautioned on Wednesday it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea’s nuclear missile programme. But it said it […]
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North Korea on Tuesday claimed it had successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the news agency Yonhap reported, despite international condemnation and calls for dialogue. In a special broadcast on state-run television, Pyongyang said the Hwasong-14 missile had reached a cruising altitude of 2,802 kilometres and had flown 933 kilometres before landing in […]
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has called for the full implementation of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA), especially the African Standby Force (ASF) and the Peace Fund. Osinbajo, made the call in his capacity as the Chairperson of the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) for the month of July, while reporting on the […]
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Three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Sunday, the biggest of such attack in the Syrian capital since a series of suicide attacks in March. A police officer said seven people were killed in one of the blasts,the Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA reported. One of the suicide bombers blew himself up in Tahrir square […]
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One armed robber has been killed in a shootout and another arrested following an attack on O.R. Tambo International Airport in South Africa. Reports say the incident occurred Saturday at a highway ramp after robbers allegedly fled from the airport’s Swissport warehouse in a seized cargo truck. The robbers had held up security guards in […]
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