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Abuja, May 8: Nigerians celebrated the release, on Saturday May 6, 2017, of 82 girls from Boko Haram militants. The girls' kidnapping in 2014, from the northeastern town of Chibok, made global headlines and launched the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, which resonated with millions of people around the world, including former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. The girls were set free

Paris, May 8: Three years ago, hardly anyone knew his name. But in a once-unimaginable scenario, Emmanuel Macron - at 39, the boy wonder of an aging political establishment - won the French presidency Sunday with a tidal wave of popular support. He will soon be France's youngest head of state since Napoleon Bonaparte as well as its first modern president not to belong to either of the center-left

Dar es Salaam, May 7: Thirty-two school children, two teachers and a minibus driver where killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into a roadside ravine in the northern tourist region of Arusha on Saturday, a senior police official said. "The accident happened when the bus was descending on a steep hill in rainy conditions," Arusha regional police commander Charles Mkumbo told Reuters by

New Delhi, May 6: Admiral Scott Swift, Commander of the US Pacific Fleet, who held extensive talks with Navy Chief Sunil Lanba and Defence Secretary G Mohan Kumar on Friday, categorically said that China's 'One Belt, One Road' project has caused "anxiety" in the region. The top American Naval Commander made it clear that US is not relaxing its position on the South China Sea issue to garner China

Washington, May 5: The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives plans to turn to tax reform in earnest, after concluding a lengthy healthcare debate this week with a vote to repeal and replace Obamacare. But even as Republicans predicted that tax reform would succeed before year-end, lawmakers encountered new uncertainties about what a final tax package might contain, as well as doubts

Washington, May 4: Walking in the footsteps of many of his predecessors who delved into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking — but ultimately failed — US President Donald Trump launched Wednesday his own “process which hopefully will lead to peace.” Trump, striking an optimistic note during his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, pledged that “we will get this done.” The Trump-Abbas

Kabul, May 3: A powerful blast targeting a convoy of foreign forces near the US embassy in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 25 Wednesday, mainly civilians, officials said, the latest attack in the Afghan capital. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirmed the toll from the attack, which came during the busy morning rush hour, telling AFP: "Unfortunately most of (the victims)

Seoul, May 2: North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic US bombers flew over the area in a training drill with the South Korean air force. The two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers were deployed amid rising tensions over North Korea's dogged pursuit of its nuclear and missile programmes in defiance of United

Washington, May 1: As many as 352 civilians have been killed in US-led strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since the operation began in 2014, the US military said in a statement on Sunday. The Combined Joint Task Force, in its monthly assessment of civilian casualties from the US coalition's operations against the militant group said it was still assessing 42 reports of the

Istanbul, Apr 30: Turkey and the US can join forces to turn Daesh's de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria into a “graveyard” for the terrorists, the Turkish president said on Saturday. “The huge America, the coalition and Turkey can join hands and turn Raqqa into a graveyard for Daesh,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an Istanbul meeting. “They will look for a place for themselves to hide,” he said.Erdogan