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By Emmanuel Nduka President of the World Bank Group, Mr. David Malpass has asked the Nigerian Government to rethink its policy on fuel subsidy, stating that the huge amount being expended on the policy could be...

Fresh anti-government protests spread across Sri Lanka on Wednesday, a day after police shot dead a demonstrator and triggered international condemnation just as the crisis-hit country appealed for an IMF bailout. Regular blackouts, acute shortages of...

Sweden has arrested 26 people after weekend clashes between police and protesters rallying against plans by a far-right group to burn copies of the Koran, police said on Monday. Eight people were arrested in the city...

China Eastern Airlines resumed flying Boeing 737-800 aircraft on Sunday, flight tracking data showed, just weeks after it grounded 223 planes over a crash that killed 132 people. Flight MU5843, operating the 800 variant of the...

Libya’s National Oil Corporation announced on Sunday the closure of production at a major oil field in the country’s south region. “On Saturday, the Al-Fil field was subjected to arbitrary closure attempts, due to the entry...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for peace in Ukraine during this “Easter of war” as he delivered the traditional Easter Sunday Urbi et Orbi address on St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. “May there be peace...