African elephants at risk of extinction after more than 20,000 African elephants killed for their ivory in 2013, a U.N.-linked wildlife conservation agency says.
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DFA asks Filipinos in Libya to come back home
Once again, the Department of Foreign Affairs is asking Filipinos in Libya to voluntarily repatriate as the political situation in the country continues to worsen. The Philippine government will shoulder the expense of the repatriation.
Dozens killed in massacre in eastern Congo; pregnant women among victims
(Reuters) – Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday in an attack that government officials blamed on a dispute over cattle. The victims, who included several pregnant women, had been shot, stabbed or burned inside their homes. A Reuters cameraman on the scene in the village of Mutarule counted 37 bodies, some of them lying inside a village church. Residents […]
Militant group attacks in Nigeria result in 500 deaths
Casualties reach up to 500 in the worse attack in five years by a militant group in Nigeria.
DFA calls on OFWs in Libya to avail of voluntary repatriation
The Department of Foreign Affairs continue to advise OFWs in Libya to leave the country immediately, due to the increasingly volatile situation there.
DFA points out four exit routes in Libya
Because of the worsening civil war in Libya, the Department of Foreign Affairs indicated four exit routes that Filipinos can use to leave the country.
Nigeria bomb kills at least 14 at northeast football TV showing
(Reuters) – A bomb blast targeting a television viewing center for football in northeast Nigeria killed at least 14 people and wounded 12 on Sunday, police and the military said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in Gavan in the Mubi area of Adamawa state. Islamist militant group Boko Haram, whose struggle for an Islamic state is concentrated in the Northeast, would be the prime suspect. “So far we have 14 […]
Scores die in worst attack in Central African Republic
At least 11 people were killed when a church was attacked by Muslim gunmen in the Central African Republic.
Successive explosions in Nigeria result in hundred deaths
The Nigerian president condemns the three successive explosions that resulted in 118 deaths.
Iran says it watered down, converted over 200 kg of enriched uranium
DUBAI Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:31pm EDT (Reuters) – Iran said on Saturday it had completed watering down and converting more than 200 kilograms (440 lb) of enriched uranium under a deal reached in Geneva last November with world powers over its disputed nuclear program. “Based on the agreement with the West, we were supposed to have half of our 200 kilogram stock of uranium diluted and the other half converted to uranium oxide,” Iran’s […]
Bomb blast in Cairo kills police officer: Egyptian state media
CAIRO Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:05pm EDT (Reuters) – A bomb exploded in a Cairo square late on Friday, killing one police officer and wounding another, the Egyptian state newspaper Al Ahram reported on its website. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Since the army toppled Egypt’s first freely-elected president, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in July, Islamist militants have stepped up attacks on members of the security forces, killing hundreds. On Tuesday, […]
Death sentences by Egyptian court condemned
Amnesty International has condemned Egypt in the wake of death sentences handed out by an Egyptian court against more than 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were even sentenced in absentia.
