Two Canadian women working for an aid agency were kidnapped outside a hostel in Ghana’s second city of Kumasi on Tuesday, police said. The women, aged 19 and 20, were volunteers for Youth Challenge International, officers added. Earlier, a police statement had said the women were taken from the city’s Royal Golf Club, but regional… Read More Kidnappers abduct two Canadian aid workers in Ghana
One cadet from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, died and 22 cadets and soldiers were injured on Thursday when a tactical vehicle carrying them flipped over during a training mission, officials said. The accident occurred near the Camp Natural Bridge, a summer training site for cadets, the academy said. Video from… Read More Cadet killed, twenty-two injured as military vehicle flips over in New York
The African Union (AU) on Thursday suspended Sudan until there was civilian rule, intensifying global pressure on its new military leaders to stand down after the worst violence since Omar al-Bashir’s fall in April. Ethiopia – where the continental bloc is based – planned a mediation effort, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed due on Friday… Read More African Union suspends Sudan, demands transition to civilian rule
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it would buy Looker, a privately held big-data analytics company, for $2.6 billion in cash, in the first major acquisition for new Google Cloud Chief Executive Thomas Kurian. Google’s cloud computing division is a distant third globally to Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp in terms of revenue from renting… Read More Google set to acquire analytics company Looker in $2.6billion deal
A former nurse was jailed for life on Thursday for murdering 85 of his patients, the worst killing spree in Germany’s post-war history. Niels Hoegel injected people with lethal drugs and then played the hero by appearing to struggle to revive them, the district court in Oldenburg heard. “Your crimes are impossible to grasp,” judge… Read More German court sentences killer nurse to life imprisonment
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