United States Democratic lawmakers have demanded documents from the White House as part of their impeachment inquiry into the nation’s president, Donald Trump. The documents relate to a call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July. In the call, Mr Trump pushed Mr Zelensky to investigate his leading Democratic political rival, […]

The death toll in anti-government protests that have swept Iraq the past four days has soared to at least 44, security and medical sources say. The figure has nearly doubled in the past 24 hours, as clashes between protesters and police intensified. The military said “unidentified snipers” had killed four people in Baghdad, including two […]

By Temisan Amoye It is no secret that without air superiority, winning a conventional war will be virtually impossible. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery gave credence to that assertion when he said: “if we lose the war in the air, we lose the war, and we lose it quickly”. From World War II to the ongoing […]

Environmentalists are offering a €30,000 (N11.3 million) reward for information about the presumed death of a wolf in Belgium. Last year, the wolf named Naya became the first to be sighted in Belgium for a century, according to BBC report. But local nature agencies said neither she nor her cubs had been spotted since May, […]

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has praised a senior government official for caning a group of secondary school students who were accused of setting fire to their dormitories. A widely-shared video shows regional commissioner Albert Chalamila administering beatings to a group of students who were lying face down, BBC reported. Earlier, a Tanzanian government minister had […]

Protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Ecuador have halted transport and blocked streets around the country for a second day on Friday as 350 people were jailed for unrest triggered by President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures. The 66-year-old president has set oil producer Ecuador on a centrist path after years of leftist rule under Rafael […]

France’s anti-terror prosecutor has taken over the lead in investigating a knife attack in which an IT worker at police headquarters in Paris killed four co-workers before a police officer shot him dead. Officials have not said there was a terror motive behind Thursday’s attack in the centre of Paris near Notre-Dame cathedral, but the […]

United States President, Donald Trump, on Friday said Iranian President Hassan Rowhani wanted to meet him at the UN in September, but Washington refused to partially lift sanctions on Tehran as such, the meeting did not hold. “They were trying to set up a meeting but he wanted sanctions lifted. “Rowhani wanted a meeting at […]

Members of the Oromo community, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia are trooping to the capital, Addis Ababa, to mark the annual Irreecha festival, an ancient thanksgiving ceremony. This is the first time the festival has been held in the capital city in over a century. Crowds have been gathering in the city dressed in […]

A paedophile dad fatally shot his daughter in the face after she went on a date because “he wanted her for himself”, a United States court has heard. Ronald McMullen, 45, has been convicted of murdering ex-cheerleader Kailee McMullen, 22, at his home in Oklahoma, US, according to The Sun UK report. A jury has […]

Hong Kong leader, Carrie Lam, on Friday, banned the wearing of face masks at “unlawful and unauthorized” protests in order to help quell the violent demonstrations that have rocked the city for nearly four months. “Although we are evoking the emergency regulation, Hong Kong is not in a state of emergency,’’ Lam said. She added […]

A British student hanged himself at his family home on the day he was due to attend his graduation after hiding the fact he had failed his degree, according to The Sun UK report. Nicholas Turner returned to his family home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, just before summer this year after completing a three-year course […]

A British bank worker accused of murdering his wife with a crowbar “deserved a medal” forever putting up with her, his mother-in-law has told a court. David Pomphret, 51, bludgeoned his wife Ann Marie, 49, after he finally “snapped” from all the abuse he suffered, Liverpool Crown Court heard. Pomphret, a technology expert with Barclays, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is helping China build a system to warn of ballistic missile launches. Since the cold war, only the United States and Russia have had such systems, which involve an array of ground-based radars and space satellites. The systems allow for early spotting of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The […]

The serving President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker has called on the British government to publish its Brexit plan in full after the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson was accused by Ireland’s prime minister of misleading parliament over the impact on the Irish border. The move came on a dramatic day […]