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Tunis — Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said yesterday it was responsible for a recent attack on the home of Tunisia’s interior minister that killed four policemen, the first such…
Some of Nigeria’s abducted girls ‘may never return’
Abuja — Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo told media some of the schoolgirls kidnapped by militant group Boko Haram in April may never return, in the most pessimistic comments yet…
MH370 families receive $50,000 compensation
Families of seven passengers on the missing MH370 flight have received an initial compensation payment of $50,000 from Malaysia Airlines, a Malaysian government official has said.
Russia accused of sending tanks to Ukraine
Ukraine has accused Russia of allowing three tanks and other military vehicles to cross the border into east Ukraine to help pro-Russian separatists there.
West Africa ‘should decriminalise drugs’
A report by a panel of experts has called for minor drugs offences to be decriminalised in west Africa, saying trafficking, consumption and production is undermining development and causing a…
US says Sudan increasing attacks on civilians
The US ambassador to the UN has accused Sudan of intensifying attacks on civilians and of deliberately bombing schools and hospitals. Samantha Power condemned the attacks in the southern states…
Two more towns fall to armed fighters in Iraq
Rebels in Iraq have gained more ground in Iraq overnight, moving into two strategically-important towns in the province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, after security forces abandoned their posts.
Woman cares for 100,000 roaches, calls them her kids
A 37-year-old woman in China shares her countryside home with the estimated 100,000 cockroaches she breeds. The South China Morning Post reports that Yuan Meixia cares for the roaches that…
Woman jailed 55 years for driving with dying man on windscreen
LOS ANGELES — A substance-abuse counsellor was sentenced on Thursday to 55 years to life in prison for hitting a pedestrian with her car and driving through a Los Angeles…
$8.5m found in wooden box in flat
A television crew recording a documentary about bailiffs were stunned to find £5 million stashed in a wooden box hidden in a flat. The money, the equivalent of about £5…