Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow An Indian Supreme Court has struck out a controversial law which allowed police to arrest people for comments considered offensive on social networks and other internet sites. The court ruled that section 66A of the Information Technology Act was unconstitutional. Several people have […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Former Australian tennis Grand Slam champion, Bob Hewitt, has been found convicted by a South African court of raping underage girls. Hewitt, 75, had denied two charges of rape and a third charge of sexual assault. The alleged rape took place in the […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Singapore has started a seven-day national mourning after the death of its founding father, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee, who died at 91, led Singapore’s transformation from a small port city to one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Many world leaders have […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Internet giant, Yahoo, is closing down its China office as part of a worldwide consolidation aimed at cutting costs. The Beijing research center is Yahoo’s only remaining physical presence in the country after it sold its Chinese operations to Alibaba in 2005. A […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow China and Japan are holding their first high-level security dialogue in four years, following recent tensions over territorial and historical issues. The meeting in Tokyo among officials comes ahead of trilateral talks with South Korea on Saturday. The last round of talks was […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Former Thailand Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, has been ordered by a Thailand Supreme Court to stand trial for negligence over a controversial rice subsidy scheme. If convicted, the ex-PM faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. It is the latest blow to […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Sierra Leone’s Vice-President, Samuel Sam-Sumana, has been sacked for seeking political asylum in a foreign embassy, the president’s office said on Wednesday. President Ernest Bai Koroma said the Vice President was sacked because he had “abandoned” his duties. On Saturday, March 14, Sam-Sumana […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Seven foreigners and a Tunisian were killed after gunmen targeted a museum in the Tunisian capital, officials say. The tourists killed were, Italian, French and Spanish nationals. The shooting happened at the Bardo Museum, which is next to the parliament building in central […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Pakistani authorities have hanged 12 convicts, the largest number of people executed on the same day since the country overturned a ban on executions recently. According to an interior ministry spokesperson, the hanged convicts were terrorists and murderers guilty of “heinous crimes”. At […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow WriteHouse Publishing House in collaboration with Patabah Books Limited, a Lagos bookstore is set to host top Nigerian authors, Olubunmi Familoni and Dami Ajayi, on Sunday, March 22, 2015. The event, which will take place at the Adeniran Ogunsanya Shopping Mall, Surulere Lagos […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Venezuelan National Assembly has granted President Nicolas Maduro the power to govern by decree until December 31, 2015. The president requested the approval of the Enabling Law after the United States issued new sanctions against Venezuelan officials. He said he needed the special […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigeria’s militant group, Boko Haram, according to an audio message. In the tape, Mohammed al-Adnani, who identified himself as ISIS spokesperson, said the aim of establishing a caliphate has now […] More
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