Turkish warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Syria and police detained hundreds of suspected militants across Turkey on Friday, a sign that Ankara may have shed its hesitancy in taking a front-line role against jihadist fighters.
Turkey has long been...
China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday the United States was trying to influence a South China Sea arbitration case filed by the Philippines after a senior U.S. official said China would be obligated to abide by the tribunal's decision.
China...
Anthem Inc said on Friday it would buy Cigna Corp in a deal valued at $54.2 billion, creating the largest U.S. health insurer by membership.
The deal - the biggest ever in the health insurance industry - comes three weeks...
The battered energy sector may begin to brighten a little as companies report second-quarter results, but barring a big increase in the price of oil, the sector won't be able to sustain even current share prices going forward, analysts...
Nigeria's state oil company has yet to assess the damage to a key pipeline carrying gasoline to Lagos and the southwest region following a major explosion, a spokesman said on Thursday.
The trunk line was shut down on Wednesday following...
BEVERLY HILLS, July 24, (THEWILL) – A directive by President Muhammadu Buhari has blocked Nigerian owned oil companies from lifting crude oil in what concerned insiders say is the first step in a larger plot to freeze out indigenous...
Since May 29, 2015 that the current Federal Government came on board, I have endeavoured to read through the inaugural address of President Muhammadu Buhari over and over again.
On the last count, I discovered I have digested it a...
Before General Muhammadu Buhari travelled to the United States on a four-day  official trip, one of the issues dominating the national discourse was the missing $20 billion money in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The issue was first...
With over 20,000 lives wasted by the Boko haram sect, millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed, more than 500,000 people displaced from their homes, insecurity is unarguably the biggest headache facing the Nigerian government.
The trillions of naira wasted...
11 p.m., springtime, a hospital between Ifrane and Fes. A potbellied man in his fifties and a young woman negotiate payment for an illegal procedure. Hugging her, the man tells her to undress, and she begins to shiver. Meriem*...