Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to clear his name on Thursday after being charged for financing his 2007 election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but admitted he was finished in politics. It might take me one, two, 10 years but I'll smash this group (of accusers) and will restore my honour, he said ...
At least 14 people were killed and several others wounded on Thursday when a car bomb blew up outside a popular hotel in the Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab group said it was responsible for the blast in front of the Weheliye hotel in the city centre, claiming it had targeted a gathering of government officials, army an ...
A former municipal councillor in Burkina Faso has been abducted in a northern zone bordering Mali which has been repeatedly targeted by jihadists, the security ministry said Thursday. Troops were combing the area after the abduction in Lassa village, Soum province, by five armed individuals on motorcycles on Wednesday evening, a statement said ...
The food security of around 124 million people worldwide was under acute threat at the end of last year, mostly because of worsening conflicts and drought, the UN and EU said Thursday. The worst food crises in 2017 were in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan, where nearly 32 million people were food-insecure and in need of urge ...
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy blasted what he said was a lack of evidence for the corruption charges against him over allegations that late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi funded his 2007 election campaign, in his court statement published Thursday. The morning after he was charged in one of France's most explosive political scandals in ...
A senior minister vowed Thursday to press on with a plan to bring white South African farmers to Australia, hitting out at criticism from crazy lefties who he said were dead to me . Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton sparked uproar last week by singling out the farmers' need to flee horrific circumstances for a civilised country . He is ...
The UN Security Council on Wednesday told the peace envoy for Western Sahara to press on with talks on relaunching negotiations to settle the dispute over the North African territory. Horst Koehler met with the council behind closed doors to report on his meetings with representatives from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania as well as the Polisario Fr ...
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