Intelligence checks on 153 Chinese passengers on a missing Malaysian airliner produced no red flags, China said Tuesday, as Malaysia marshalled ships and planes from 26 countries to search an area the size of Australia.

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that Russia did not seek the split of Ukraine but said the West had “crossed a line” with its behaviour over the ex-Soviet country.

The police on Tuesday arraigned a barber, Godtime Sunday, 27, in an Upper Area Court in Mararraba, Nasarawa State, for abducting an 11-year old girl.

A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people at a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, despite a tightening of security for presidential elections less than three weeks away.

The Kremlin said Tuesday that it now considers Crimea part of Russia following the signing of a treaty, despite strong objections from the international community which insists the Black Sea peninsula is Ukrainian territory.

The Anambra State House of Assembly has pledged its support for the newly inaugurated Willy Obiano-led administration in the state, to ensure that the state government achieve greater heights

Some U.S. officials have expressed frustration at Malaysia’s handling of the investigation of the missing Airlines flight MH370

Ministerial delegations from Congo and Angola on Tuesday in Brazzaville agreed to resolve the border dispute between the two countries.

The Nigerian Navy has arrested four ships and 22 persons , suspected to be Chinese, who allegedly entered Nigeria’s territorial waters illegally.

The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Tuesday said it had registered 2,000 persons displaced by the attack on three villages in Kaura Local Government Area.