A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea’s Southern-Highlands-province early on Monday, disrupting communications and oil and gas operations. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) the tremor hit near the centre of Papua New Guinea’s main island around 560 km (350 miles) from the capital, Port Moresby, at around 3.45 a.m. local time (1545 GMT […]
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Canadian skier David Duncan was arrested on charges of stealing a car in South Korea, where he was competing at the Winter Olympics, officials and Canadian media said on Saturday. Duncan’s wife Maja and manager Willy Raine were also arrested, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) said. Raine was charged with impaired driving, CBC News and […]
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The United States of America says plans are on to open its embassy in Jerusalem in May, the State Department has revealed. This will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in Palestine. “We are excited about taking this historic step, and look forward […]
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German car-maker BMW has resolved to recall 11,700 cars to fix their engine management software after it discovered that the wrong programming had been installed on its luxury 5- and 7-Series models. “In the course of internal tests, the BMW Group has discovered that a correctly developed software update was mistakenly assigned to certain unsuitable […]
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Five Congolese refugees were killed and more than 20 injured when Rwandan police broke up a crowd demonstrating against a cut in food rations, police said on Friday. The Thursday incident followed days of sit-in protests against the reduction in food aid at Kiziba refugee camp in western Rwanda. “Violent demonstrators armed with stones, sticks […]
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South Sudan civilians had their eyes gouged out, were castrated and were forced to rape each other by the country’s warring sides, according to UN rights investigators. The investigators collected evidence against more than 40 senior military figures. The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan on Friday presented information pointing to crimes against […]
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Police have reportedly intercepted nearly 400 kilos of cocaine stored in 16 bags from a Russian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The country’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, Thursday said the operatives also arrested several members of a drug trafficking gang. Bullrich told newsmen that the drugs discovered in an annex of the embassy had a […]
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A suicide attacker threw an explosive device at the U.S. embassy in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica on Thursday morning and subsequently blew himself up with another bomb. Both devices were probably hand grenades, the first thrown into the embassy yard and the second, which killed the attacker in the street outside, the government said on […]
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The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), has warned that at least one out of the world’s estimated 6,000 languages disappears every two weeks. According to the UN cultural agency, at least 43 per cent of the estimated 6,000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. UNESCO said only a few hundred languages have […]
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ECOWAS has inaugurated a. Regional Centre for Disease Control in Abuja to strengthen regional disease surveillance and outbreak response programmes. The Togolese Minister of Health, Prof. Mustapha Mijinyawa, while declaring the centre open on Wednesday, said the facility would help the ECOWAS region in its efforts at curbing diseases. The minister noted that ECOWAS member […]
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