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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A severe storm bringing flash flooding and tornadoes killed 11 people and injured dozens, leaving a trail of destruction across Arkansas, Missouri and Texas, officials said. The line of storms in Texas that spawned tornadoes were among several in parts of the South and Midwest that brought strong winds, thunderstorms and torrential rain in the […]
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North Korea, defying intense pressure from the United States and China, test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday from a region north of its capital. But the test appears to have failed, South Korea’s military said. Yonhap news agency said the missile appeared to have blown up a few seconds into flight. An official at South […]
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The Customs officials on Friday found 1.3 million dollars in luggage at Dusseldorf Airport. Police said that they have started investigating whether the money is connected with drug trade, since most of the money was in small notes. The notes were found in the luggage of two travellers who were flying to Turkey. The men, […]
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The Nigeria Union in South Africa has confirmed the killing of its member, Chinedu Eze, allegedly by a Somalian in the Western Cape Province of that country. The Chairman of the union in the province, Mike Ibitoye, told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone from Cape Town, South Africa, that Mr. Eze, 35, was […]
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A San Francisco judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities for immigrants. The ruling from District Judge William Orrick III said Trump’s order targeted broad categories of federal funding for sanctuary governments and that plaintiffs challenging the order were likely to succeed in […]
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A US submarine has arrived in South Korea, amid worries of another North Korean missile or nuclear test. The missile-armed USS Michigan is set to join an incoming group of warships led by aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. North Korea is celebrating its army’s 85th founding anniversary on Tuesday. Reports suggest it has marked the event […]
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