A REPORT said on Friday in Jakarta that a Nigerian facing execution in Indonesia for drug smuggling had written a heart-rending letter to say a final goodbye to his lover. It said
BARELY 22 days to the conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the country, the PDP in Benue has taken its presidential rallies to the villages. The Coordinator of the
EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said Friday a “good deal” was near as an end-March deadline looms over talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme. US Secretary of State John Kerry is
CHINESE relatives of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said Friday they were still waiting for permission from authorities to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. Two-thirds of the
GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has requested a meeting with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, a government source said Friday, after Athens got no help from the European Central Bank to address
A FORMER college student was sentenced to death in Taiwan Friday for killing four people and wounding more than 20 others in a subway stabbing spree that shocked the island last year.
MYANMAR authorities defended a crackdown on a Yangon rally, which saw police and men in civilian clothes beat unarmed protesters, as security forces made fresh arrests on Friday. In a defiant statement
SOUTH Korea has reacted with shock and a little shame to a violent knife attack on the US ambassador that jarred harshly with the self-image of a largely safe, well-ordered society. Civic
OIL prices rose in Asia on Friday as dealers focused on increasing tensions in the Middle East and Ukraine, while shrugging off concerns about surging US stockpiles, analysts said. US benchmark West
HONG Kong’s democrat lawmakers called British MPs “honourable” Friday for highlighting concern over the erosion of freedoms by China in a new report — but said the city has to fight its
