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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President Donald Trump has been ranked as the worst U.S. President in history in a Presidents’ Day poll of political scientists that ranked all 44 of the people who have served as U.S. president. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Teddy Roosevelt respectively took the top four spots in the Boise State University […]
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Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone has dismissed reports circulating on Monday on social media claiming that he is dead. A message had appeared on Facebook claiming Stallone had been found dead at his Los Angeles home. Stallone who took to his twitter handle to debunk the reports expressed sadness over the death prank which emanated from […]
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Israel has successfully tested its new Arrow missile defense system arguably the most powerful in the world. The Defense Ministry announced this in a tweet, noting that it was an accomplishment of a program that had seen a series of delays and cancellations. The test was carried out in cooperation with the United States’ Missile […]
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Heavy Syrian bombardment killed at least 77 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on Monday, a war monitor said, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an imminent ground assault. The escalation came as pro-government forces were also expected to enter the northern Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin, to take a stand against a month-old Turkish assault […]
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Iran found the wreckage of the crashed Aseman Airlines ATR-72 plane on Monday and received condolences from Chinese, Russian leaders and UN for the victims of the incident and their families. The deputy governor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province in southwestern Iran said the wreckage of the aircraft, which crashed into the Dena mountain in […]
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The entire 65 passengers and crew in an Iranian airplane are reportedly feared dead after the plane crashed in central Iran on Sunday. Reuters reports that the plane crashed after the domestic flight flying to the southwestern city of Yasuj came down in bad weather in a mountainous region. A spokesperson for Iranian carrier Aseman […]
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A prolonged 7.2 magnitude quake that rocked Mexico on Friday left nearly a million homes and businesses without power in the capital and south but the only reported deaths came when a military helicopter crashed after surveying the aftermath. At least 50 homes suffered damage in the southern state of Oaxaca, which, along with Mexico […]
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