Oil prices rise above $95 as US-Iran tensions fuel supply concerns
Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil prices, rose 5.38 per cent to $95.36 per barrel on Tuesday as renewed tensions between the United States and Iran heightened fears of supply disruptions from the Middle East.
Northern Ireland launches UK’s first COVID-19 tracker app
Northern Ireland on Friday launched the United Kingdom’s first COVID-19 tracing app and the first one that can also trace users in another country, Ireland, who have been in contact with someone suffering from the disease. The developer NearForm, which hopes the app will become a blueprint eventually synching up all of Europe, launched a […]
Moroccan Navy rescues 183 illegal African migrants
The Moroccan Navy has rescued 183 illegal sub-Saharan African migrants off the kingdom’s Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, official news agency, MAP, reported on Saturday.
Iran says it has arrested head of US-based ‘terrorist group’
Iran said Saturday it has arrested the head of a US-based “terrorist group” accused of being behind a deadly 2008 bombing in the southern city of Shiraz and of other, abortive attacks. “Jamshid Sharmahd, who was leading armed and sabotage operations inside Iran, is now in the powerful hands” of Iran’s security forces, state television […]
Nigerian-born politician, Okoye blazes trail in U.S. politics
A Nigerian, Mr Gabe Okoye, is on the ballot in a forthcoming Democratic Party’s senatorial primary runoff election in the U.S.
First US recipient of partial face transplant dead at 57
Connie Culp, the first US recipient of a partial face transplant, has died at age 57, according to Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic, where she underwent the delicate operation nearly 12 years ago. The health centre listed no cause of death in its tweet on Friday, quoting one of her doctors, Frank Papay, as saying she was […]
