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ABUJA – PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed the Minister of Heath, Prof. Isaac Adewole to investigate reports of an ‘unknown disease’ that has led to the death of several children in Jigawa State. The President also directed the Minister to … Read More

Netanyahu associates were detained in recent days as part of probe into wrongdoing in the sale of German submarines, a case in which Netanyahu has not been interrogated as a suspect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being questioned by Israeli … Read More

Beijing (CNN)President Donald Trump lavished praise on China for the very trade practices he once lambasted as unfair during a remarkable morning session in Beijing. Emerging after two hours of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said he doesn’t fault … Read More

North Korea shot back at President Trump’s rough rhetoric by saying the United States should oust him from power “to get rid of the abyss of doom,” state-run media reports. State-run media in North Korea is referring to Trump as … Read More

Hassan Rouhani says Riyadh is interfering in Yemen and Lebanon, and its allies, US and Israel, dominate to ‘plunder oil and wealth’  Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, stepped into a growing dispute with Saudi Arabia, saying Riyadh orchestrated the resignation of … Read More

Water storage devices on show at the 2016 AidEx event in Brussels. (Photo: Flickr) The EU spends vast amounts on development aid, but new research shows that much of this money is being spent within Europe, calling into question the definition … Read More

SEOUL — Arguing that the world cannot tolerate a “rogue regime” that threatens “nuclear devastation,” President Trump called on all countries Wednesday to ratchet up economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea and demand that Kim Jong Un’s government give … Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his administration are offering a public vote of confidence for Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince who, in just days, has upended the royal family, ramped up the kingdom’s confrontation with Iran and issued war … Read More

Image copyright: Anatoly Krivodeov/YouTube Image caption: Local people gathered to see one time capsule opened in northern Murmansk To mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, time capsules that were buried 50 years ago across the country are being unearthed. … Read More

© Sachelle Babbar / Global Look Press The German military has outlined six “worst-case” scenarios for the future of Europe by 2040. The leaked secret document predicts that more states will leave a disordered, chaotic and conflict-prone EU – to … Read More

Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons program must be halted by diplomacy and not military action, South Korea’s foreign minister told NBC News ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the country. “Another war on the Korean Peninsula must not happen,” … Read More

Israeli leaders should push for more military restraint, and to moderate their jingoistic rhetoric, to avoid further escalation. The situation on Israel’s northern border isn’t ‘intolerable’- yet. It’s still not clear whether the current escalation to the north of Israel … Read More

The standoff between Spain and the leaders of Catalonia, its autonomous northeastern region, has worsened in recent days. A new future awaits the region after December 21, the date Spanish Prime Minister Mariono Rajoy has set for elections for the … Read More

A DEADLY outbreak of a rare and highly fatal virus has broken out in eastern Uganda and five cases have already been identified, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed. The disease, known as Marburg virus disease (MVD), is similar … Read More

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — A lone gunman’s gruesome assault on a rural church here that killed 26 people appears to have stemmed from a domestic dispute and is not being investigated as terrorism, authorities said Monday. The Texas Department of … Read More