Category: Foreign

U.S President, Donald Trump, said in a CBS interview that there would be “severe punishment” for Saudi Arabia if it turns out that missing Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Riyadh and legal resident of the United States, disappeared on October 2 after visiting the consulate, reports the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday. “We’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment,” Trump said. Asked whether Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, gave an…

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The man said to be Africa’s youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by masked gunmen in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam, police say. Mohammed Dewji, 43, was abducted outside a swanky hotel gym where he was going for his routine morning workout. Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident and two of the abductors were believed to be foreign nationals, police added. The motive for Mr Dewji’s abduction is still unclear. Financial magazine Forbes puts his wealth at $1.5bn (£980m), and has described him as Tanzania’s only…

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At least 12 people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake which struck off the northwest coast of Haiti late Saturday. More than 130 others were reportedly injured while homes in the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation, were destroyed, authorities said. The epicenter of the quake was located about 19 kilometers (12 miles) northwest of the city of Port-de-Paix, the US Geological Survey reported. President Jovenel Moise said he and Prime Minister Jean-Henry Ceant had reached “the zone affected by the earthquake to bring assistance to the population” and coordinate relief efforts.…

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Gregorio De Santis, a Montreal man cleaning out a closet at his sister’s insistence received a shock when he found, in the lining of a jacket, a lottery ticket purchased 10 months earlier. The sisterly advice proved most profitable: Gregorio on Friday pocketed winnings of Can$1.75 million ($1.35 million). “When he went to have the ticket validated, he thought the number on the display screen was Can$1,750,” Loto-Quebec said in a statement about De Santis’s big day. “When he realized how much he had won, he says his heart almost…

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In a video shot by a passenger, an Indian driver was seen allowing a monkey drive his vehicle. The 36-year-old driver is seen smiling and patting the langur monkey as it sits atop the wheel of the moving bus . “Driver M Prakash has been taken off duty for allowing the monkey to sit on the steering wheel and handle it,” T.S Latha, a spokesperson for the government’s road transport corporation in southern Karnataka state said. “Passengers’ safety is paramount and the driver cannot risk it by allowing a monkey…

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Officials have reported that the death toll from multiple quakes and a tsunami in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province has risen to 1,424 on Thursday. Head of the planning department of the National Search and Rescue Office, Abdul Haris said that the search and rescue operation was hampered by poor access to the hardest-hit areas. He said that many people are still afraid of being trapped in the ruins in Palu, the provincial capital, and the districts of Donggala and Sigi. “Many roads leading to the affected-areas have been cut off…

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