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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday unveiled locally produced mine resistant ambush protected vehicles named Ezugwu and other armoured vehicles designed to carry out insertion and extraction of troops, assault, counter-terrorism, delivery of high fire power and urban warfare. The News Agency

A gas tanker exploded at a ceramics factory in Khartoum on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring dozens more. Eyewitnesses in the Sudanese capital said the tanker exploded while a shipment was being unloaded. Doctors at Bahari Hospital in

Germany expelled two Russian diplomats after prosecutors announced possible Moscow involvement in the slaying of a Georgian man in Berlin, pointing at Moscow’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation. The Russian Foreign Ministry promptly denied that the Russian government had been

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called out Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for failing to meet the target of spending 2% of national output on defense adding he was two-faced for comments he appeared to have made about him.

Australia’s conservative government on Wednesday repealed a contentious law that allowed ill asylum-seekers languishing in Papua New Guinea and on Nauru to travel to the country for medical treatment. The so-called “Medevac” law was passed in February, permitting refugee transfers from

Bangladesh is blocking hundreds of thousands of Rohingya children from accessing meaningful education, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, urging authorities to lift restrictions on schooling in refugee camps. In a report called “Are we not human?” Human Rights Watch accused

The conference president, Carolina Schmidt, joined by Prince Albert II of Monaco, unveiled the details of the online portal that will bring together the necessary information for oceans to be included in countries’ NDCs. “We have named COP25 the Blue COP,

France and the European Union are ready to fight back over the latest U.S. tariff threats on French products, French government ministers said Tuesday. On Monday, the U.S. government said it may slap punitive duties of up to 100% on $2.4