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Brent oil rose on Tuesday as strong European economic data and a year-on-year increase in Chinese crude imports outweighed concerns about Asia's economic growth and global oil oversupply. German exports in July climbed 2.4 percent on the month and imports...

China's imports tumbled in August, raising concerns about the health of the world's second-largest economy and its contribution to global growth. The data will add to the pressure on Beijing policymakers trying to ensure China's economy avoids a hard landing,...

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday rejected a request for the temporary release of former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on health grounds weeks before the start of his trial. Gbagbo, 70, is accused of plunging his...

Pope Francis, making the most substantial changes to Catholic marriage annulment procedures in centuries, radically simplified them on Tuesday and said bishops should provide greater help to divorced couples. In a move that again showed his desire for the Church...

Kurdish militants killed 14 police officers in a bomb attack on a minibus in a Turkish province bordering Armenia and Iran on Tuesday, a government official told Reuters, widening a conflict with the Turkish state. More than 40 Turkish warplanes...

The Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwean lion Cecil, sparking a global outcry from animal lovers, returned to work on Tuesday at his suburban Minneapolis office to shouts of "murderer" and "leave town" from a half dozen protesters. Walter Palmer, 55,...

The World Health Organization says a child has been paralyzed by polio which was detected in Mali. It is the first case of polio in Mali since 2011 and WHO says the 19-month-old child was stricken in Guinea before arriving...

The Senate will begin a probe of the Nigerian Power Sector on Tuesday, September 8, in -Senate-House-Reps-on power probeAbuja. The probe is expected to cover the regimes of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the late Umaru Yar’adua and former President Goodluck...

The alleged asset declaration by President Mohammadu Buhari and his Vice Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as presented by his media aide is apparently fraudulent not only to hoodwink Nigerians but to further use same to cover serial violations of their...

There is no shortcut to economic redemption for a nation caught up in a downturn already foretold. Certainly, there is no cut-and-paste approach to economic recovery and good governance; there cannot be quick fixes without well thought-out plans.  For decades,...