Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired the governor of the country’s central bank and replaced him with a former finance minister after a record slump in the lira in recent months raised the spectre of a currency crisis. Murat Uysal was just 16 months into his four-year term at the helm of the central […]
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci resigned Thursday to face trial in a war crimes court in The Hague, a dramatic downfall for a politician who has dominated the former Serbian province for over a decade. The 52-year-old said he would step down to appear before the court after it confirmed an indictment against him dating back […]
Rescue workers were searching eight wrecked buildings in Izmir Sunday despite dwindling hope for survivors as the death toll from a powerful magnitude earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 51. The 7. 0-magnitude quake also injured 896 people , the Turkish emergency authority AFAD said , after it struck Friday afternoon near the west […]
The Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church only recently arrived in Europe, officials say. The suspect, 21, had an Italian Red Cross document, issued after he arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa by migrant boat last month, reports the BBC. He was shot by police and is in a critical […]
A Nigerian living in Florida, Durojaiye Monsuru Obafemi Lawal, has been arrested by agents of US Drug Enforcement Agency, along with some policemen, in a sting operation against Sinaloa cartel. According to court documents, Lawal described himself as “involved in money laundering and politically affiliated in Nigeria”. Also arrested were two Miami Dade policemen Roderick […]
An unknown Knife attacker has murdered at least three people and injured several others at a church in Nice, France. Mayor Christian Estrosi, a former MP with the right-wing Republicans party who confirmed the incident on Twitter said it was a terror attack. He disclosed that two women and one man died. Another injured person […]
A suicide bombing at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul killed 24 people including teenage students and wounded dozens more on Saturday, officials said. A Ministry of Interior spokesman, Tariq Arian, said security guards had identified a bomber who detonated explosives in the street outside the Kawsar-e Danish centre. Most of the victims were […]
A mother confessed Saturday to killing her three young daughters in an apartment in Vienna, Austrian police said, without giving a motive. The 31-year-old called the emergency services in the early hours saying she wanted to kill herself, and when police turned up they found the bodies of an eight-month-old baby and a three-year-old girl. […]
The Nigerian government has demanded for justice for her citizen who was burnt to death on Oct. 7 in Tripoli, Libya. Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, after meeting with the Libyan Ambassador to Nigeria, Ayad Attayary, in Abuja. The […]
Police said they were investigating the shooting death of a Ghanaian lawmaker on Friday after he attended a political event in his constituency, in an apparent robbery case . Ekow Quansah Hayford, a member of President Nana Akufo-Addo ’ s ruling New Patriotic Party, was campaigning ahead of the December elections in his constituency, some […]
