Peter Williams, the father of the man responsible for shooting another at a business in Sydney’s south-west , has been released on bail after he was charged with discharging a firearm. Mr Williams, 52, was arrested at the sign-making business, after son Wayne Williams, 33, shot three brothers – one fatally – over what is believed to have been an ...

    WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG   Here are the latest news from Nigeria. It has been reported that the Nigerian Army Forces succeeded to cut off and besieged all routes that supply the terrorist groups with foods, weapons, and new recruits .The new tactics deployed by the Nigerian Army Forces has created agitation and confusion among the terrorist ...

WRITTEN BY EDITOR KALAHAN DENG African leaders are getting richer while their people are sinking in extreme poverty. The millionaires’ club is growing in Africa. At the end of 2014 there were 169,000 millionaires in the continent — a number expected to rise by 53% over the next 10 years, according to the Knight Frank Wealth Report 2015. In addition, ...

Before we even see the cell, we can smell it. It’s the suffocating stench of 86 men squeezed into a room built for 19. A warden shoves a key into a rusted iron grate. “Get back,” he shouts. The inmates stumble backwards to allow the door to swing open. The cell is a rectangular room with bunk beds stacked three ...

Family members of a 3-year-old Egyptian boy who was sentenced last week to life in prison say they feel relieved after receiving assurances from officials that neither the boy nor his father will be arrested. The boy’s father, Mansour Qorany Sharara, has returned to the family home in the southern Egyptian province of Fayyoum after nearly 18 months on the ...

Boko Haram fighters are crossing Africa to receive specialized training from Al Shabaab fighters in Somalia, the country’s national security chief told the media The Nigerian terror group were taught how to carry out suicide attacks and build weaponry in Al Shabaab training camps, said General Abdirahman Sheikh Issa Mohamed. Mohamed, who is the national security adviser to Somalia’s president, ...

For a second day, North Korea appeared to be flexing its military muscles in the wake of a United Nations vote meant to cripple the nation’s nuclear program. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country’s “nuclear warheads need to be ready for use at any time,” the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported Friday. “Under the extreme ...

A total of 135 people were killed in the first week of a fragile truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said. In areas held by the Islamic State and Al Nusra Front groups not covered by the ceasefire, 552 people were killed, the Britain-based Observatory said. The ...

Losing keys, forgetting names and not remembering important information for work or study? Many of us have first-hand experience with the frustrations of memory lapses, and it’s not unusual to be concerned that they are a sign of something sinister. But Professor Kaarin Anstey says most memory lapses are a normal part of the ageing process. Take the “tip of ...

He is known as the Diplomat Sheikh — and he has struck again. He beat three conservatives to win a landslide presidential election in 2013, led Iran through two years of tortuous negotiations to a nuclear and sanctions deal, and now Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani — as he is formally known — has again triumphed. If reformist voters felt marginalised ...