Iraq's request to the U.S.-led coalition for air strikes in the campaign to retake Tikrit from Islamic State insurgents is "imminent", a senior diplomat from a Western nation that is part of the coalition told Reuters on Tuesday.
There was...
Islamic State has recruited at least 400 children in Syria in the past three months and given these so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" military training and hardline indoctrination, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
The euro rose and European shares edged up on Tuesday, responding to signs the euro zone economy is gaining momentum, while a slowdown in factory activity in China kept oil and commodities-linked assets under pressure.
In a sign the European...
Brent crude oil held below $56 a barrel on Tuesday on signs of slowing growth in China and as Saudi Arabia said its production was close to an all-time high.
Factory activity in China, the world's second-largest economy and top...
South Korea's Hyundai Motor (005380.KS) aims to boost its U.S. sales by 4.7 percent this year, ahead of the industry's projected growth rate, despite a consumer shift to SUVs and pick-up trucks.
Sales of Hyundai's mainstay sedans, the Elantra and...
A U.S. law firm is asking Tesco shareholders to join a group that wants to bring a lawsuit and seek billions of pounds in compensation for losses relating to the British retailer's overstatement of profit last year.
Tesco said on...
Nigeria is presently standing naked before her peers. The love of money in the country is growing too disproportionately against our love of country. As it is widely known, the love of money is the root of all kinds...
We know that Okezie Ikpeazu, the PDP gubernatorial candidate wants to become the Governor of Abia State and we wish him all well but not through lying. Lying, that’s what Abians are tired of. The other is intimidation, intimidation,...
BEVERLY HILLS, March 23, (THEWILL) – The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Monday announced the selection of the first 1,000 African entrepreneurs for the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP).
TEEP is a $100 million initiative to discover and support 10,000 African...
Succour has come for well over 300 final year secondary school students displaced from their communities in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgency as a former chief of staff to Governor Kashim Shettima and a senatorial candidate for Borno...