Four people have been arrested for direct links to Wednesday’s gun attack in Tunis that left 23 people dead, including 20 foreign tourists, the Tunisian presidency says.By Agency Report Four people have been arrested for direct links to Wednesday’s gun attack in Tunis that
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A gunman who carried out an attack that killed 17 tourists at Tunis’s Bardo museum was known to the authorities, Tunisia’s prime minister has said. Habib Essi told RTL Radio that security services had flagged up one of the attackers, Yassine Laabidi, but were not aware of “anything specific”, or of any links to known […]
By The New Times Of late, there have been a number of fatal road accidents that are pushing authorities to take drastic measures to curb them. At least 1.17 million deaths occur each year worldwide. Of those, 492 happened in Rwanda last year. The number might seem negligible compared to say, Kenya, where the […]
At least three people were killed and 21 wounded Thursday in fierce clashes in and around the airport in Aden, a port city in Yemen, officials told CNN. Supporters of President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi were fighting with rebel special forces, according to three airport officials. Passengers were stranded at the airport with flights cancelled […]
UNWTO is deeply saddened and shocked by the attack in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. UNWTO conveys its heartfelt sympathy to the families of the victims who lost their lives or were injured, and expresses its solidarity to the people and the Government of Tunisia and to the governments of all […]
ICC Sydney will be home to the first community-funded solar energy project of its kind in the country, allowing members of the public to to buy shares in a social venture that will own the building’s solar array. One of Australia’s largest solar arrays within a Central Business District is being built on the roof […]
Three UK judges have been removed and a fourth has resigned following an investigation into an allegation that they viewed pornographic material on office computers. The disciplinary inquiry was revealed by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office, which found that there had been “inexcusable misuse” of their IT accounts. “Three judges: district judge Timothy Bowles,
A law giving Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro the power to temporarily govern by decree has been met with criticism by opposition politicians. The law was passed on Sunday by the National Assembly, where Mr Maduro’s party has a majority. President Maduro asked for the extra powers to counter what he described as threats by the […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev speak during their meeting in the Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, March 16, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappeared in public following a 10-day absence, laughed off suggestions he had been forced to lie low because of poor health, saying on Monday that […]
Authorities in Pakistan said two suicide bombings outside Christian churches in the eastern city of Lahore have killed, at least, 15 people and wounded more than 70 others, and a militant gang allied to the outlawed Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility. The bombings minutes apart targeted a Catholic and a Protestant church in […]
The White House wants Congress to stop interfering in the negotiations with Iran about its nuclear capabilities. White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough warned Congress in a letter sent late Saturday that pending legislation requiring congressional approval for any deal reached with Iran about its nuclear capabilities could have a “profoundly negative
Heavens above! It’s the great eclipse: Next Friday morning, Britain will turn from day to night for the first time this century. Here’s all you need to know The Moon will pass between the Sun and the Earth in this landmark event It will cast a deep shadow over the planet’s surface in a partial […]
She loved Rihanna, clothes and make-up… then fell under the spell of Islamists: How the FIRST British schoolgirl, 15, fled to join ISIS Sharmeena Begum has been named as first girl to flee UK to join jihadis The 15-year-old is believed to be in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria She left her home in […]
The African Union (AU) has tasked the United Nations (UN) to institute a trust fund to finance a force to fight Boko Haram in Nigeria. However, reports coming in from the UN indicates that a draft UN Security council resolution has endorsed the creation of a force by Nigeria and its neighbors Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Benin […]
More trouble has come for South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, as his legal team have lost a bid to prevent prosecutors from appealing against his acquittal on murder charges. Judge Thokozile Masipa of the Johannesburg High Court in his ruling said that the application be rejected. Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in […]
North Korea has fired seven surface-to-air missiles into waters off its east coast, South Korean officials said on Friday, in the country’s latest missile test coinciding with joint United States-South Korean military exercises. According to a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry, who spoke on the customary condition of anonymity, the missiles were launched […]
A non-verified audio message that has purportedly come from an ISIS spokesman has revealed that the group has accepted the recent pledge of allegiance from Nigerian-based Boko Haram. The pledge according to the audio tape reveals was accepted by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The 28-minute message, which cannot be independently authenticated by experts was […]
Hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and other countries are playing a decisive role in Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram, operating attack helicopters and armored personnel carriers and fighting to retake towns and villages captured by the Islamist militant group. Though the government is yet to acknowledged the presence of the mercenaries, a senior […]
China’s top judge says the country saw a double-digit increase in the number of terrorism and separatism cases last year, and that more than 700 individuals were convicted. In an annual report to the National People’s Congress, Zhou Qiang, the chief justice of China’s Supreme People’s Court said Chinese courts carried out prosecutions for 558 […]
Pakistan and Afghanistan have announced plans to work together over the next four months to try to document about one million Afghans who are believed to be living illegally in Pakistani cities. The documentation effort is aimed at trying to determine the deadline for when all Afghan refugees in Pakistan are expected to be safely […]
