Turkey continues to shell Kurdish forces in Syria, hampering their operations against Al-Nusra terrorists, and at the same time funneling supplies to the militant-controlled areas at the border, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. Turkish activities in the region are undermining the ceasefire and crippling the efforts aimed at launching the inter-Syrian[…]
A Palestinian woman injured an Israeli soldier in a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank on Friday before troops at the scene shot her dead, the army said. “An assailant rammed her car into a soldier guarding the Gush Etzion junction,” it said in a statement. “Forces on site,[…]
LAGOS, March 4 A sophisticated attack on a sub-sea pipeline in Nigeria’s Delta might herald a return to the kind of widespread militant violence that crippled the oil industry in Africa’s top producer less than a decade ago. Attacks on oil facilities have been on the rise in the swamps[…]
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s former president, has been detained in the city of Sao Paulo for questioning amid a sprawling corruption probe centred on the state-owned oil giant Petrobras, local media reported. Federal Police Officer Jose Cyrispiniano said on Friday that police searched Lula’s home and offices linked[…]
Conservation group Greenpeace warned on Friday that the environmental impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis five years ago on nearby forests is just beginning to be seen and will remain a source of contamination for years to come. The March 11, 2011 magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake off Japan’s northeastern coast[…]
At least 16 people were killed on Friday when unknown militants targeted a home for the elderly in Yemen’s southern city of Aden. The attack took place in the centre of Aden, which has seen an uptick in attacks and assassinations over recent weeks, Sky News Arabia reported. Four of[…]
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and the military to be in “pre-emptive attack” mode, state media said. The comments, carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency on Friday, marked a further escalation of tension[…]
Gombe accounts for half of Nigeria’s malnourished children – UNICEF ‘480 children died of malnutrition in Zamfara’ CSOs decry absence of maternal nutrition in budget NPHCDA tasks religious scholars on immunization 300,000 kids likely to die from malnutrition this year amidst poor funding Up to six out of every 10[…]
Research by scientists in Brazil indicates that a mosquito more common than the one primarily known to transmit Zika infections may possibly be able to carry the virus, a development that could further complicate efforts to limit its spread. The mosquito species Aedes aegypti has been identified as the main[…]
Riot police outnumber the labourers they protect while the orange-coated workmen demolish “the Jungle” in Calais. The police wear transparent, disposable galoshes to protect their black leather boots from the mud that is the migrant camp’s most salient feature. While the migrants slept off the exhaustion of another night’s fruitless[…]
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