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Nigerian born nurse punished for wearing cross necklace to work wins religious discrimination case in UK
A British tribunal has ruled that a Christian nurse who was forced to resign from a hospital over her refusal to stop...
Mali’s military regime calls ECOWAS bluff, rejects sanctions
Barely 12 hours after ECOWAS slammed some sanctions on Mali, the Col Assimi Goita-led interim authority has rejected the sanctions, describing them...
Coup: ECOWAS Tightens Noose on Mali Interim Govt. to Return to Constitutional Order
ECOWAS, the regional bloc, on Sunday announced further sanctions against Mali’s military-dominated interim authority including financial squeeze, border blockage and withdrawal of...
Snow storm kills 21 in Pakistan
No fewer than 21 people have died in cars trapped by heavy snowfall and traffic jams near a popular hill station resort in...
Nigerian nurse in U.S. jailed three years for sexually abusing patients
A Nigerian health worker, Godbless Uwadiegwu, who pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving memory care patients in the United States, has...
Former US Senate leader Harry Reid dead at 82
Former US Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who rose from humble beginnings to lead the upper chamber during the presidencies of George...
Sex-starved, Viagra-induced octogenarian stabs wife to death for refusing him sex
An 80-year-old Italian man has stabbed his wife to death after she promised to have sex with him at Christmas...
Somalia’s president suspends prime minister over land scandal
Somalia’s prime minister has been suspended by the country’s president amid accusations that he interfered with an investigation into a scandal involving...
Extremists behead pastor, force wife to carry his severed remains
Suspected ISIS-linked extremists beheaded a pastor, handed his severed head to his wife and forced her to carry the head to the police...
Anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu dead at 90
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, has died aged 90, the presidency...
Unknown Mystery disease kills over 100 in South Sudan
As the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to investigate a mystery illness in South Sudan, the disease has claimed another victim. Up until...
Franch force kills ISIS leader Soumana Boura in Niger Republic
French forces has announced the killing of a regional ISIS leader wanted in connection with the killing of French aid workers in Niger...
Chile takes the lead among progressive nations, elects 35-year-old as President
The streets of Santiago erupted in celebration Sunday after leftist millennial Gabriel Boric became Chile’s youngest-ever president-elect with an unexpectedly large victory...
US Congress passes bill to combat global Islamophobia
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill largely along party lines that would create a State Department office given the task...
Intractable lnsecurity: Burkina Faso Prime Minister, Govt Quit
Amid wave of protests mounted against inability to combat ceaseless jihadist attacks that have killed thousands, Burkina Faso’s Premier and government have...
Finland is world’s happiest nation, says Prime Minister
In a rare interview with foreign media and monitored by Persecondnews.com, Finland’s prime minister Sanna Marin, disclosed that the Nordic nation is...
