Category: Foreign

59-year-old Kyriakos Amiridi, Greece’s ambassador to Brazil was murdered in a plot hatched by his Brazilian wife and her police officer lover, who confessed to the crime, officials said Friday. Amiridi was killed on Monday by the officer, Sergio Gomez Moreira, Rio homicide division chief Evaristo Pontes told a news conference. Amiridis’s charred body was found Thursday in Rio in his burned-out rental car, a day after his wife, Francoise de Souza Oliveira, declared him missing. Oliveira, 40, and Moreira, 29, both admitted to having an affair, police said. The…

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British pop star George Michael is dead. He died at his home near London on Sunday aged 53. “Farewell my Friend! Another Great Artist leaves us. Can 2016 Fuck Off NOW?” Madonna wrote in a post on Instagram accompanied by a video of her presenting Michael with an award. Elton John also published a picture of himself with Michael, saying: “I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend – the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist”. Michael shot to fame with the 1980s band Wham!…

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Mario Soares, former Portuguese president is presently in a deep comma. Mario Soares, seen as the father of Portugal’s modern day democracy, was in a deep coma and in “critical” condition, at the Red Cross hospital in Lisbon Monday. “Mr. Soares is in a very critical situation, in a deep coma, and the prognosis remains uncertain,” spokesman Jose Barata told journalists. Soares, 92, has been in the Red Cross hospital’s intensive care unit since December 13 after taking ill for an undisclosed reason. After briefly improving, Soares’s health took a…

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A Technology Bank has been officially established by the UN General Assembly on Friday, to accelerate the technological Advancement of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Mr Gyan Acharya, UN High-Representative and Under-Secretary-General for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) disclosed this in a statement in New York. Acharya said the new UN institution was viewed as a significant achievement for the development of science, technology and innovation in the world’s poorest countries. He said the Technology Bank is intended to help least developed…

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A Libyan plane was today hijacked by persons claiming to have a grenade. The Libyan plane was diverted to Malta before the hijackers released everyone onboard and surrenders to authorities, officials said. “Final crew members leaving aircraft with hijackers,” Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Twitter. Minutes later he added: “Hijackers surrendered, searched and taken in custody”. Libyan Foreign Minister Taher Siala said the two hijackers were supporters of slain dictator Moamer Gadhafi and had requested political asylum in Malta. Siala, from Libya’s internationally backed Government of National Accord,…

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A story picked up and widely circulated by US media has it that the male passenger was ejected from the Florida-bound plane before it departed New York, after berating President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter. “Your father is ruining the country,” the man told Trump. “Why is she on our flight? She should be flying private,” he shouted. Trump, 35 — traveling with husband Jared Kushner and her three children — ignored the man and tried to distract her children with crayons. Eventually the passenger was removed from the flight. The man…

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71 year old Moshe Katsav, Former Israeli president has been freed from prison today in Ramla. Katsav was freed from prison after prosectors declined to appeal a parole board decision to release him after he served five years of a seven-year term for rape. Katsav, 71, did not speak to a crowd of journalists gathered outside the Maasiyahu prison near Tel Aviv as he left while surrounded by family. Katsav was convicted in December 2010 of two counts of rape, sexual harassment, indecent acts and obstruction of justice. The Iran-born…

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Yahya Jammeh, the defeated Gambian President insisted Wednesday that he would not leave office at the end of his mandate in January until a court rules on his challenge to the outcome of this month’s election. Jammeh, who has been in power in the west African country for 22 years, has rejected the victory of opposition candidate Adama Barrow in the December 1 vote. “Unless the court decides the case, there will be no inauguration (of Barrow) on the 19 January,” said Jammeh, who had initially conceded defeat but then…

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