Six more people were killed in the capital Baghdad on Sunday and dozens of others hurt in clashes.
The head of the Iraqi parliament’s human rights commission told Al Jazeera that 319 people have died since October 1 with more than 15,000 wounded. Most of the casualties were anti-government protesters, but security officers also died in the violence.
Iraqi security forces in Baghdad fired tear gas at demonstrators and erected concrete barriers in a bid to block their movement.
Jordan on Sunday received two stretches of land it had allowed Israel to use for decades, amid tense relations between the neighbours 25 years after they signed a landmark peace deal.
Under the terms of two annexes in the 1994 treaty, the enclaves of al-Baqoura and al-Ghumar would remain under Jordanian sovereignty while Israeli farmers maintained access to the land.
But in 2018, amid mounting public pressure not to renew the arrangement relating to the two territories, Jordan’s King Abdullah II submitted a one-year notice of termination to Israel.
The commander of Bolivia’s armed forces called on embattled President Evo Morales to resign amid a growing furor over his disputed re-election.
Morales should step aside to help ensure stability in the country, armed forces commander Williams Kaliman told reporters on Sunday, heaping pressure on the leftist leader as he deals with a widening backlash over a disputed election.
“After analysing the internal conflict situation, we ask the president of the state to renounce his presidential mandate, allowing for peace to be restored and the maintenance of stability for the good of Bolivia,” said Kaliman.
Speaking on national television, General
Pro-democracy demonstrators vandalised a train station on Sunday in the central new town of Sha Tin in the New Territories region and smashed up a restaurant perceived as being pro-Beijing, overturning tables and smashing glass panels, two weeks before district council elections in the Chinese-ruled city.
Violence also spilled out onto the streets of Tuen Mun outside the “V city” mall with running battles between riot police and protesters.
Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received France’s Legion d’Honneur in 2003, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder after he was hauled out of the icy Moika River with a backpack containing a woman’s arms.
“He has admitted his guilt,” Sokolov’s lawyer Alexander Pochuev said, adding he regretted what he had done and was now cooperating with police.
Sokolov was reportedly drunk and fell in as he tried
The spokesman for the House of Representatives, Rep. Benjamin Kalu (APC-Abia), says there is no crack among the members of the House of Representatives.
In a statement he issuef on Sunday in Abuja, Kalu urged the public to ignore reports in the media suggesting there is division in the house.
He said that house led by Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has no division either among the principal officers or the membership and the leadership.
“It is important to note that comparatively, since the Fifth Republic , the 9th Assembly remains the most united house.
“Members are motivated by the leadership …
Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha has declared that his administration will give priority to vocational and technical education in order to tackle unemployment in the State.
This was made known by the state Commissioner for Education, Professor Viola Adaku Onwuliri, during an official visit to the Imo State College of Education, White Uboma.
Onwuliri further informed that the present admnistration had planned to achieve the foregoing, by revamping the four Technical Colleges in the State, neglected by the immediate past administration of Rochas Okorocha.
While addressing the Management of the Institution, the Commissioner who was acompanied in the visit by …
Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has said that he was misquoted on his recent comment about Nigerian roads, saying a section of the media quoted him out of context.
He said his comment that federal roads were not as deplorable as the public portrayed them was used against him by the opposition to score cheap political goals.
Fashola was quoted to have said that Nigeria road surfaces are not as deplorable as the public have made them out to be.
But, Fashola while commissioning a road constructed by Chief Michael Ade Ojo at Ilaramokin in Ifedore …
President Muhammadu Buhari has said indiscriminate killing of innocent people, the kidnapping of female students and forcing them into marriage and conversion are contrary to the teachings and personal examples of the Prophet Muhammad.
This is even as he has described extremism as a cancer that needs to be attacked early before it grows malignantly out of control and harm the society.
According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari in his goodwill message to the Muslim Ummah on the occasion of the Maulud celebration to commemorate the birthday of the …
It would be wise if every human were to obey the injunction to let sleeping dogs lie. When dogs sleep, it is not because they have lost their bark and bite; rather, the situation often merits a period of prolonged rest, after which the famous fang is unleashed once more on their unsuspecting victims.
Such is the developing situation between interested parties in the fortunes of Ondo State a few months before the landmark elections that would shape its political destiny for the next four years. The chief antagonists in this particular play are the governor of the state Chief …
The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has urged Muslims to emulate the good morals, and teachings of tolerance of Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W).
In a statement, Obaseki urged Muslim faithful to continue to show love and good neighbourliness espoused in Islam as they celebrate the birth of Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W).
He urged them to commit themselves to the teachings of the prophet not just as a matter of religious obligation but a means to promote peaceful living in a multicultural society.
According to Obaseki, “I felicitate with our Muslim brothers and sisters in Edo State and across Nigeria on this …
