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It was packing maximum sustained winds of 75 kph and gustiness of 90 kph.

The assault – which passed off in Deffa province close to Nigeria, elements of whose northeast are underneath Boko Haram management – was the deadliest in Niger by the jihadist group since a raid in April killed 74 individuals.

Francis, the first Latin American pope, will become the first pontiff to address a joint session of the US Congress during the much anticipated September 19-27 trip.

Saudi Arabia plans to invest up to $10 billion in Russian Federation over the next five years in the latest bid by the kingdom to endear itself to a traditional energy rival.

It will be raised to £50,000 although don’t necessarily expect this on Wednesday. With cuts to come the government can avoid being attacked for lowering top rate and appearing to be “the party of the rich”.

According to survivors, a man dressed in white blew himself up at the Yantaya Mosque as cleric Sani Yahaya, the national chairman of the Jama’atu Izalatul Bidia organization, was addressing worshippers. Jos is located where Nigeria’s majority Muslim north and mainly...

Current members include China, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The primary objective of the organization is to strengthen the confidence and relationships among the member countries.

That has forced the negotiations to stretch into the weekend.

Traders are increasingly nervous about the unusually large number of Chinese companies asking for their shares to be suspended from trading, fearing that many of them are looking for excuses to duck out of the market turmoil.

“There is some evidence that transactions for Sunday shopping are actually growing faster than those for Saturday”, Mr Osbourne said. “Simply spreading consumer spend over a longer period adds cost to businesses with little extra benefit, but it punishes the...

If the rumoured cut to tax credits goes ahead, Barnado’s have estimated that around 49,500 children in the borough stand to be affected.

The nominally civilian government in office since 2011 has made lauded reforms though progress has stalled. “The Union Election Commission will announce further details later”, Thant Zin Aung, deputy director of Yangon’s election commission, told French news...

A Calgary taxi driver has had his license suspended following a complaint delivered to the Livery Transport Services on July 4.

Though Fogles attorney has stated that Fogle has not been arrested or charged with any crime, according to The Washington Post earlier today the Federal Bureau of Investigation was seen interviewing the ex- Subway spokesperson and removing computers and electronic equipment from...

The Palestinian Authority has made its first submission of evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes to the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.