Category: Foreign

The tourism minister in Algeria has been sacked by Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Sunday days after he was appointed to the post, the presidency said, claiming he had a criminal r ecord. A terse statement from the presidency, carried by the APS news agency, did not say why Bouteflika had fired Messaoud Benagoun, who became minister of tourism and crafts just three days earlier. Algerian media had criticised Benagoun’s appointment, claiming that the 38-year-old had never had a job before joining the new government that was formed on Thursday.…

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World’s first “operational Robocop” has started its tour of duty on Sunday in Dubai, the first in the Emirate’s planned robot police force, according to the Daily Mirror. The Robocop, five feet five inches tall and weighing 99kg, speaks six languages and reads facial expressions. “He can chat and interact, respond to public queries, shake hands and offer a military salute,” Brigadier-General Khalid Nasser Al Razzouqi, Director-General of Smart Services with the Dubai Police, said. Residents can use the Robocop to pay fines or report crimes, and it also can transmit…

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A suspected terrorist attack has killed 19 people during a pop concert by US star Ariana Grande in the northwest English city of Manchester, police said Tuesday. There were scenes of panic as Grande’s audience of youthful fans fled the 21,000-capacity venue after what eyewitnesses described as a “huge bomb-like bang” in the foyer area at the end of the concert. A fleet of ambulances was seen rushing to the venue and bomb disposal teams were dispatched soon after, as city residents opened up their doors to stranded concert-goers after…

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A 23-year-old law student in India has cut off a man’s penis after he allegedly tried to rape her at her house in the southern state of Kerala, police said on Saturday. The woman was at her residence in the state capital Thiruvananthapuram late Friday when she says she was attacked by the 54-year-old man, who had claimed to her family to be a religious guru. “She used a knife in her defense and cut off his penis,” district police chief G Sparjan Kumar revealed. “The man, Hari Swami, was…

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Kosaka Kumiko, a 42-year-old Roman Catholic nun stands accused of helping five priests sexually abuse deaf children. The nun allegedly helped the priests cover up anal and vaginal rapes, fondling and oral sex at the institution for deaf students in Argentina. The abuse allegedly took place in the bathrooms, dorms, garden and a basement at the school in Lujan de Cuyo, a city about 620 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Authorities began investigating Kumiko when a former student claimed she made her wear a nappy to cover up bleeding after…

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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President has said that his country is not a failed state and accused the US of being fragile because of its economic dependence on China. Mugabe pointed to Zimbabwe’s 90-percent literacy rate to support his claim that the southern African country, which has battled economic chaos in recent years, is one of the best resourced on the continent. “We are not a poor country and we can’t be a fragile country, I can call America fragile, they went on their knees to China,” he said during a…

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The Life sentence against Chad’s former president Hissene Habre for war crimes has been upheld by a special court in Dakar on Thursday, but the Court acquitted him of rape. The Extraordinary African Chambers, a body created by Senegal and the African Union (AU), sentenced Habre last May to life behind bars, an unprecedented ruling seen as a blow to the impunity long enjoyed by repressive rulers on the continent. The president of Thursday’s appeal court Wafi Ougadeye said he confirmed the life sentence but quashed the rape ruling. The…

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Commercial sex workers in the UK have kicked against the idea of sex robot brothel as the United Kingdom prepares to open its first sex robot brothel. It has only been a few months since Lumidolls set up its first doll brothel in Barcelona, Spain. But they say they’re already looking for an investor in the UK. The Spanish company says demand for lifelike androids is rising because they are legal (it’s illegal to run a traditional brothel in the UK) and men can “perform any of their sexual fantasies…

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At least, 38 people have been killed in two Egypt church bombings which the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for, as worshippers gathered to mark Palm Sunday. The attack is considered the deadliest attacks on the Coptic Christian minority in recent memory. Crucifixes and icons are seen at the heavily damaged Church of the Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh (also known as Hamdaniya), some 30 kilometres east of Mosul, on April 9, 2017, as Christians mark the first Palm Sunday event in the town since Iraqi forces recaptured it from…

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