Former Super Eagles forward, Peter Osaze Odemwingie, has announced his retirement from football at the age of 37. The former West Brom and Stoke striker who played for Nigeria more than 60 times, scoring at the 2014 World Cup, including scoring 36 goals in 129 Premier League appearances between 2010 and 2016, made the announcement… Read More Nigerian forward Peter Osaze Odewingie announces retirement from football
A Congolese rebel leader accused of orchestrating mass rapes and other atrocities has been caught, Democratic Republic of Congo’s army said on Thursday. Masudi Alimasi Kokodiko, leader of the widely feared Raia Mutomboki militia, was captured on Tuesday in South Kivu’s Shabunda territory after being wounded in a firefight, army spokesman Dieudonne Kasereka said. Raia… Read More Congolese soldiers arrest rebel leader Masudi Alimasi Kokodiko
Afghan security forces have arrested six alleged members of the Islamic State militant group and accused them of using hundreds of fake accounts on Facebook Inc and other social media to find recruits, authorities said on Thursday. The men, arrested in the capital, Kabul, also used Twitter Inc, Instagram and Telegram for fake accounts recruiting… Read More Afghan security forces arrest alleged members of Islamic State online recruiters
Police in Sao Paulo state shot and killed 10 assailants who were preparing to simultaneously blow up automated bank teller machines at two branches early on Thursday, authorities said. Sao Paulo state’s Public Security Secretariat said in a statement that about 25 suspects were involved in the attempts to blow up the machines to get… Read More Brazil police foil robbery attempt, shoot dead several assailants
Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops on Thursday to march on the capital Tripoli, taking his conflict with the internationally recognised government to a dangerous new level. Haftar posted his order in a video online hours after his forces took full control of Gharyan, a town about 100 km (60 miles) south of… Read More Eastern Libyan commander orders troops to march on capital
The Catholic archbishop of the U.S. island territory of Guam has been definitively convicted of sexual abuse of minors and removed from office, the Vatican said on Thursday in a ruling that advocates for abuse victims condemned as weak. Anthony Apuron, who was accused of abusing three young men decades ago, was first convicted by… Read More Vatican removes Archbishop of Guam Anthony Apuron following sexual abuse conviction
Villagers and a lawmaker in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state said on Thursday that a military helicopter attacked a group of Rohingya Muslims gathering bamboo, killing five and wounding 13. Major-General Tun Tun Nyi said the army would release true news about the alleged incident in time. Myanmar’s western Rakhine state came to global attention in… Read More Five dead, thirteen injured following military airstrike on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
Kenya briefly closed one departure terminal at the Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi after a fire sparked by a baggage system malfunction forced authorities to evacuate passengers and staff, the state-run airports operator said on Thursday. Operations at the terminal resumed shortly before midday local time, the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) said. There were no… Read More Passengers, staff evacuated following fire incident at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta airport
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