Oil prices not expected to rise significantly as demand is slowing -IEA
The International Energy Agency (IEA) doesn’t expect oil prices to rise significantly because demand is slowing and there is a glut in global crude markets, its executive director said on…
Angry judge denies child-sex-abuse pastor bail, says pastor preyed on young girls
Leader of the 5 million-member Light of the World church Naason Joaquin Garcia was denied bail on child sex crime charges after a visibly angered Los Angeles Superior Court judge heard…
Extremists torture, rape woman before stoning her to death
Muslim extremists tortured and repeatedly raped a Christian woman for over nine hours before stoning her to death in the Syrian province of Idlib, a disturbing new report has revealed….
Over 900 killed in South Africa drug, gangster violence; govt deploys Army
South Africa has begun deploying its army to quell gang violence in impoverished parts of Cape Town after 900 people were murdered so far this year. While the deployment in…
Uganda plans to issue birth certificates to cattles, register farmers
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Plans have reached an advanced stage for the issuance of “birth certificates” for the animals as well as registration of all farmers and their cattle by…
June 2019 was the hottest June in 140 years, setting a global record – NOAA
June 2019 was the hottest June in 140 years, setting a global record, according to the latest monthly global climate report released on Thursday by the U.S. National Oceanic and…
Three ISIS extremists to die by firing squad for beheading two women
THE three extremists with strong allegiance to ISIS who beheaded two women in the Atlas mountains have been sentenced to death by firing squad in Morocco. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24,…
Congo Ebola victim may have carried virus into Rwanda, Uganda-WHO
A fishmonger who died of Ebola this week probably carried the virus from Congo into both Rwanda and Uganda, the World Health Organisation said, as health workers struggled to…
HIV prevalence worse in prisons than outside – UN agency
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says HIV prevalence among people in prisons is higher than in general population. Mr Oliver Stolpe, the UNODC Representative in Nigeria, made this…
Eni files fraud complaint against its former head of oil trading
Eni has filed a fraud complaint against its former head of oil trading over a suspect Iraqi crude oil shipment, amid concerns inside the Italian oil major that the failed…