Section: Africa&ME
Nigeria, four others end United Nations Security Council tenure
The United Nations Security Council’s five non-permanent members including Nigeria, have ended their two year tenure in 2015. They will be replaced by Egypt, Japan, Ukraine, Uruguay and Senegal for the next two years up to 2017. Nigeria served as non-permanent member of the Security Council for the years 2013 to 2015, thus listing the The...
Coca-Cola’s Happy New Year upsets Russians and Ukrainians alike
In a New Year’s message on VK, the most popular Russian social media network, Coca-Cola published a map of Russia that did not include Crimea. …read more Source: Muscat...
‘We Would Have Been Frozen’: People of Frigid Ukrainian Town Thank Russia for Gas Supply
TEHRAN (FNA)- People in a freezing town in southern Ukraine have thanked Russia and President Putin for restoring gas supplies on Monday evening. The town’s residents, who have been without gas for several days, pleaded for Russian help during a bitter cold spell. …read more Source: Fars News...
MKs step up efforts to make sure French immigrants’ degrees are recognized
In the last three years, 1,594 medical professionals moved to Israel, mostly from Russia, Ukraine, US and France. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Airline ‘bans checked bags on flights’
Malaysia Airlines temporarily banned checked-in baggage on its flights from Kuala Lumpur to Europe due to strong headwinds. ||| Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia Airlines on Tuesday temporarily banned checked-in baggage and limited the weight of cabin bags on its flights from Kuala Lumpur to Europe due to strong headwinds.Starting late Tuesday...
Bellingcat: New evidence against Russian soldiers on MH17
Dutch prosecutors are to look at fresh evidence on the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine found by citizen journalist platform Bellingcat. Eliot Higgins explains why Bellingcat believes Russian soldiers were involved. …read more Source:...
Bellingcat: Evidence against Russian soldiers
Dutch prosecutors are to look at fresh evidence on the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine found by citizen journalist platform Bellingcat. Eliot Higgins explains why Bellingcat believes Russian soldiers were involved. …read more Source:...
‘No reason’ for Russia to view US as threat: Pentagon
Russia has no reason to consider the United States a threat to its national security, the Pentagon said Monday after Moscow published a report highlighting Washington and NATO for the first time. Russia’s new national security document, signed by President Vladimir Putin on New Year’s Eve, names as threats both the United States and...
Brown Ideye: Wife of Super Eagles striker still sticking with him despite claims of love children
The woman called Alex through a series of Instagram posts, has been accusing Ideye of fathering her son and daughter Wife of Super Eagles striker Brown Ideye is standing behind her husband despite claims that he fathered two children in Ukraine.The woman called Alex through a series of Instagram posts, has been accusing Ideye of fathering her son...
The BRICS – A Fable for Our Time
The BRICS – A Fable for Our Time The story of the BRICS is a strange one. It starts in 2001 when Jim O’Neill, at that time the chairman of the Assets Management division of Goldman Sachs, the giant investment house, wrote a widely-commented article about what we have come to call “emerging economies.” O’Neill singled out four...
