Moon Jae-In was sworn in on Wednesday as South Korea’s new president, just a day after his landslide election victory. He immediately declared his willingness to visit Pyongyang amid high tensions with the nuclear-armed North. Left-leaning Moon Jae-In, a former human rights lawyer, backs engagement with North Korea in the quest for peace — in contrast […]
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President Donald Trump of the United States of America, has sacked FBI Director James Comey amid the bureau’s investigation into members of the president’s campaign and his former national security adviser. The immediate reason, however, was Comey’s adamant position that there was no basis to charge Hillary Clinton over her email investigation. In a statement released […]
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Four out of five lions that escaped from South Africa’s main national park this week have been captured, the South African National Parks (SANParks) organisation said on Tuesday. The animals broke free from Kruger park on Monday morning close to Komatipoort, a town of 5,000 people, prompting a search by armed wildlife rangers and police […]
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The British Broadcasting Corporation has apologised to the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, over claims that he was under probe by anti-graft officials for alleged mismanagement of Kano Emirate fund. Jamie Angus, editorial director at BBC, informed Mr. Sanusi that an April 24 story that said the traditional ruler was amongst those being investigated […]
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Almost 200 people are feared to have died in two Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks during the weekend, according to reports on Monday. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Libya said that seven people were rescued off the north-western city of Zawiya, and one of them said 113 others were missing. The information was posted […]
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Emmanuel Macron has won French presidential election after beating rival Marine Le Pen. Exit polls showed that the 39-year-old centrist candidate, who won in the first round last week, claimed 65.5 per cent of the polls against his opponent’s 34.5 per cent. The new president is pro-business and a strong supporter of the European Union. […]
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Russian hackers are prime suspects in France as nine gigabytes of email belonging to the leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign was thrown online, hours to Sunday’s election. It is not clear yet the extent of the damage the leak may have caused for Macron. But he remains the frontrunner in an election billed as […]
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The visit of President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic to President Muhammadu Buhari scheduled for Friday has been postponed indefinitely. The rescheduling, according to a statement by Mr. Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, late on Thursday is at the instance of Mr. Issoufou who has another domestic engagement. “All arrangements had been concluded for President Buhari […]
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Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party in the 2016 Presidential Election in the U.S., has blamed her loss on negative events late in the campaign, including an FBI investigation. She also fingered “Russia-linked hacking” of her campaign for the defeat by President Donald Trump of the Republican Party. In New York on Tuesday, Clinton said she was […]
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Fox News says network co-president Bill Shine has resigned and Suzanne Scott, the network’s top female executive, is among two execs promoted as part of a management overhaul following allegations of sexual and racial harassment involving some of the conservative news network’s most well-known personalities and senior staff. Shine took over as co-president along with […]
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