The United Nations (UN) says more than 10,000 children were killed or maimed in conflicts in 2017 while more than 8,000 youngsters were recruited or used as combatants. The annual report of the secretary-general on Children and Armed Conflict covered 20 countries, including Nigeria, Afghanistan, India, the Philippines, Syria and Yemen. Virginia Gamba, UN’s expert […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling 5-4 has upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority. The decision Tuesday was the court’s first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy, the Associated Press reported. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the […]
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Security operatives attached to the presidential villa in Abuja, assaulted Oby Ezekwezili, former minister of education, who embarked on a solo march to the state house, on Tuesday. The protest which kicked off at the federal secretariat was disrupted at the villa gate. The security operatives stationed at the gate manhandled her while struggling to […]
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Saudi Arabia overturned Sunday the world’s only ban on female motorists, sending Saudi women in wild celebrations as they take the wheel for the first time in decades. The much-trumpeted move is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to modernise the conservative petrostate — but it has been dented by the jailing of […]
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Taliban fighters have killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday. This is the first major attack attack since a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday. The three-day Taliban ceasefire ended on Sunday. Provincial governor Abdul Qafoor Malikzai said the Taliban attacked two security posts in […]
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, said the number of people forced to flee their homes in 2017 rose to 68.5 million, warning that the world’s displacement hotspots “are becoming hotter”. Mr Grandi also said nearly three million more people were displaced year-on-year, citing ongoing, protracted violence around the globe and a […]
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The United States (U.S.) on Tuesday, announced its withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council, accusing it of being anti-Israel. Nikki Haley, the country’s ambassador to the United Nations announced the withdrawal, saying it did so after no other countries “had the courage to join our fight” to reform the “hypocritical and self-serving” body. “In […]
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A U.S.-based Nigerian woman, Princess Oyenike Oyedele Roberts, has declared for the presidency of Nigeria on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 presidential election. Nike Roberts, as she is called, while addressing supporters in New York, also dissociated herself from corruption, vowing never to accept any donation from corrupt […]
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One of the most powerful earthquakes to rock the Kansai region in decades struck Osaka and neighboring prefectures Monday morning, leaving at least three people dead and a number of others injured. The earthquake, measuring magnitude 6.1 and a lower 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7, hit at 7:58 a.m. and occurred at […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak will meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih on Thursday, according to the Kremlin schedule. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has previously said that the two delegations would discuss an agreement on cutting global oil production, which Saudi Arabia and […]
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