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Nigeria Violence: 71 Killed In Abuja Bus Blasts
At least seventy people have been killed and several injured in a bomb blast on Monday at a crowded bus station, 8km southwest of central Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Security experts suspect the explosion occurred inside a vehicle, Air Commodore Charles Otegbade, said the director of search and rescue operations. The passengers were about to board the […]
UN: Call for ‘Massive Shift’ In Energy
A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the offspring of two UN bodies, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program, calls for an increase of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power thereby putting an end to the drastic climate changes. The report was released on Sunday 13 […]
China Water Contamination Affects 2.4m after Oil Leak
The severe water contamination in Lanzhou, capital of north western Gansu province, China, has affected over 2.4 million people in the region forcing the citizens to buy bottled water. State media said the city’s environmental protection chief, Yan Zijiang, blamed it on a leak from Lanzhou Petrochemical Co., China’s biggest oil company, a subsidiary of […]
Honduras Has the World’s Highest Murder Rate, Says UN Report
Honduras tops the list of world nations with the highest murder rate, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s report released on Thursday. The report analyzes the intentional homicides of about 437,000 people around the world in that year. The Central American nation had a murder rate of 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people […]
Washington Post and Guardian Share Pulitzer Prize
The Guardian and Washington Post have been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize on Monday In New York for public service journalism for their stories of US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance activities based on the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The prizes were administered by by a nineteen member panel of the […]
President Obama to Meet With Dalai Lama at the White House
US President Barack Obama will be meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Friday at the White House. Amidst the already strained relations between the U.S and China, the meeting is likely to draw further opposition from Beijing. Lama, who is a frequent visitor in the U.S, is in the country for […]
Missing Flight: Australia Moots System That Found Titanic
Australia plans to employ a system that helped detect the Titanic twenty nine years ago to trace the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared on March 8 with 239 passengers on board. The robotic mini-submarine that had been on its underwater mission focusing on an area where four acoustic signals were detected has not […]
Civilians Killed En Masse in Sudan
Armed rebels reportedly killed hundreds of civilians in a massacre that took place between April 17 and 17 in Bentiu, the capital of the South Sudanese state of Unity. The rebel forces were identified by the UN as Nuer people from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement , led by former vice president Riek Machar. The […]
German Newspaper Says US Kept Tabs on Leader
A leading German newspaper reported on Tuesday that the American intelligence services monitored former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder beginning in 2002 and perhaps earlier. The newspaper, Suddeutsche Zeitung, said that the information came from documents from well-informed United States sources, both in the government and in intelligence circles. One of the sources, who were not identified, […]
South African Police Disperses 3,000 miners
The South African police, on Tuesday, used stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse a mass of three thousand violent miners. The demonstrators “carrying dangerous weapons, such as knobkerries and sticks, blocked the road and were threatening to remove non-striking workers at the shaft,” said the police. The incident took place at Anglo American Platinum’s […]
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