The 10 American sailors captured Tuesday by Iranian officials after their two naval boats entered Iranian waters have been freed. The sailors were released on Wednesday, both the US and Iranian governments confirmed. Iran had earlier requested an apology from the US before the release of the sailors, but it was not certain if this…
A new president has been elected to lead the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, for one year and he is Mohammed Al Sada. He succeeds Nigeria’s Ibe Kachikwu, who is the minister of state for petroleum. Kachikwu took charged of the position replacing Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. On Wednesday, Kachikwu…
More than 500 children have been killed in war-torn Yemen since March, the UN children’s agency said on a day the United Nations passed a watered down resolution backed by Saudi Arabia to set up a national inquiry into human rights violations. During the six months since Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Iran-backed Houthi rebels began in…
Speaker of the US House of Representatives, John Boehner, has announced his intention to resign from office effective on October 30, 2015. Boehner has struggled with revolts from the conservative wing of his Republican Party in recent times. The lawmaker announced his resignation as the Congress Speaker on Friday. He said, “I’m doing this today…
The government of Saudi Arabia has directed a thorough investigation into stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which left more than 700 people dead near Mecca. Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohamed bin Nayef, who chairs the Saudi Hajj committee, during a meeting on Thursday, ordered a probe into the stampede and its reports submitted to…
Pope Francis has expressed his “sentiments of closeness in the face of the tragedy” that claimed the lives of over 700 pilgrimages who died in a stampede outside the Islamic holy city of Mecca a while ago. The Catholic priest, who is in the US on working visit, while speaking during an evening prayer service…
Refugees numbering almost 4,700 were rescued off the coast of Libya by Italian coastguards, a statement has disclosed. They were rescued on their way to reach the country for a greener pasture. Several Africans have embarked on this deadly in a quest to escape poverty that has ravaged some African countries. The statement by the…
Two Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to three years’ jail after being found guilty of “aiding a terrorist organisation” have arrived back at Tora prison in southern Cairo, according to Egyptian media. Security sources told the Egyptian MENA state news agency that Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy had arrived at the prison, just hours…
The Global Executive Vice President and Managing Director of CNN, Tony Maddox, on Thursday, flew to Kenya to apologise to the country for being described as a “hotbed of terror” prior to the visit of the United States President, Barack Obama few weeks ago. Maddox was at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, to…
President Barak Obama of the United States, on Friday, met again with his family in Kenya, a East African country. The US President is in the country of his father’s birth on a two-day visit. He arrived Nairobi, the Kenyan capital on Friday, where he was welcomed by the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta. He was…