WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG   What was the outcome when our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the U.S. President Barack Obama met in the White House last Thursday? Well, Many people expressed their thoughts by saying that they have never seen so many American people excited about the visit of our Canadian PM. But I would add that ...

WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG As a matter of fact, the HOLY SPIRIT of God is not meant to be recklessly applied on wild animals like African’s lion who have no respects for a being with two legs, especially mankind. [Lesson learned: Never approach a lion while it is feasting/Rumble] A South African man recently learned the hard way that ...

James Harden scored 32 points and Dwight Howard added 12 points and 12 rebounds to spark the Houston Rockets past Boston 102-98 Friday, snapping the Celtics’ 14-game NBA home win streak. Five days after halting Toronto’s 12-game home win streak, the Rockets ended the longest Boston home victory run since a franchise-record 18-game streak in 1990-91. At 33-32, the Rockets ...

The cabinet is expected to convene on Saturday morning to approve the trash management file after an agreement that was reached on Friday by a concerned ministerial panel, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday. Ministerial sources told the daily that “all political powers are represented in the deal.” “The crisis is no longer up for debate and it can be approved ...

The Islamic State extremist group released a video in which two of its Lebanese members threaten various Lebanese officials, as well as Hizbullah. The video showed the two members urging Lebanon’s Sunnis to “revolt,” while saying that Hizbullah is “the source of crime and oppression in the country.” “The Syrian regime invaded Lebanon primarily through Arab consent and secondarily through ...

The United Nations’ top humanitarian officials on Friday welcomed “fragile glimmers of hope” in Syria after a ceasefire allowed more aid deliveries, but warned this progress was “just not enough.” In a joint statement issued ahead of the fifth anniversary of the war, the heads of aid agencies said they were “extremely concerned” about the situation in northern rural Homs ...

A North Korean submarine is missing, reports said Saturday, as the reclusive state issued a fresh threat of retaliation against U.S. and South Korean forces involved in joint military drills. The unknown class of vessel had been reportedly operating off the North Korean coast earlier in the week when it disappeared. A South Korean defense ministry told AFP Seoul was ...

Israeli planes struck Hamas bases in the Gaza Strip early Saturday, killing a child living near one of the targets and injuring his sister, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Yasin Abu Khussa, 10, died in a raid on a base of the group’s military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassem Brigades, at Beit Lahiya in the north of the strip, ...

Secretary of State John Kerry said U.S. and Russian officials would meet later Saturday on Syrian opposition complaints of truce violations but that peace talks should go ahead as planned. Asked at the end of a visit to Saudi Arabia whether indirect dialogue in Geneva between the Syrian regime and opposition could go ahead as planned on Monday, Kerry said: ...

WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG The U.S. has renewed its campaign against the terrorists groups known as Al-Shabab (Youth) in the eastern African nation Somalia. The air strike has killed more than 150 terrorists in their training camp on Saturday, March 5, 2016. This is a big blow to the radical Al-Shabab in the Horn of Africa that has been ...