Dozens of students abducted from forestry college in northwest Nigeria
Reuters :Gunmen in northwest Nigeria kidnapped around 30 students overnight from a forestry college near a military academy, three students said on Friday, in the...
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US House passes two Democratic-backed gun control bills
Reuters :The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a pair of gun control bills as Democrats seized upon a shifting political landscape that they...
Turkey says first diplomatic contact with Egypt since 2013
Al Jazeera :Turkey and Egypt have had their first diplomatic contact since breaking off relations in 2013, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. “We...
China’s parliament remakes Hong Kong in its own image
BBC Online :For almost 24 years, Hong Kong has been a kind of unwitting political laboratory, the subject of an experiment centred on the defining...
Confessed journalist killer details murder plot in Maltese court
Reuters :A man who has admitted to taking part in the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia gave his first detailed account of the plot...
Number of twins being born at ‘all-time high’
AFP :More twins — almost one in 40 children — are being born than ever before, according to research published on Friday, citing the rapid...
Brussels bombers ‘murdered elderly man as a test’
BBC Online :Two brothers involved in the Brussels suicide bombings murdered an elderly man earlier to see what killing was like, according to a Belgian...
Dutch inventor of audio cassette dies
International Desk :Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died, reports UNB.Ottens died on Saturday at the age of 94, according to...
‘People are starving’: New exodus in Ethiopia’s Tigray area
AP :Skinny, hungry, fleeing threats of violence, thousands of people who have been hiding in rural areas of Ethiopia’s Tigray region have begun arriving in...
Hong Kong activists urge EU not to ratify new deal with China
The Guardian :Hong Kong democracy activists have warned the EU it must not ratify its planned new investment deal with China at a time when...
Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 bill wins final approval in House
Reuters :The US House of Representatives gave final approval on Wednesday to one of the largest economic stimulus measures in American history, a sweeping $1.9...
Ivory Coast PM Hamed Bakayoko dies at 56
News Desk :Ivory Coast Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in Freiburg in southwestern...