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Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out dawn...

The face stares out from multiple billboards in central Baghdad, a grey-haired general casting a watchful eye across the Iraqi capital. This military commander is not Iraqi, though. He's Iranian. The posters are a recent arrival, reflecting the influence Iran...

Visa Europe has announced a new, more secure way for consumers to pay retailers via smartphones, a move that could set the stage for Apple's (AAPL.O) Apple Pay and rival mobile payment services to be introduced into Europe in...

Indian tax officials searched the Mumbai headquarters of HSBC Holdings PLC (HSBA.L) last week as part of a probe related to allegations that the bank's Swiss business helped clients dodge taxes, a person with knowledge of the matter said...

World shares held near all-time highs on Tuesday on relief that Greece had submitted reform plans and the dollar was firmer on expectations that Fed chair Janet Yellen would keep the bank nudging towards U.S. rate hikes. European bourses traded...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 24, (THEWILL) – A bomb blast has occurred at a busy bus park in Potiskum, the economic hub of Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 10 persons. Reports from the town, where a girl suicide bomber targeted...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 24, (THEWILL) – The Ebonyi State House of Assembly was early Tuesday morning struck by a suspicious fire, which according to reports started from the accounts section of the complex before spreading to other areas. The cause...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 24, (THEWILL) – The Dangote Group has expressed optimism that with its ongoing agricultural projects across the country, Nigeria is on its way of being self-sufficient in the areas of food production. The Group reiterated its determination...

Anybody who sees Ayo Fayose, the so-called governor of Ekiti State should please beg him to see a psychiatric doctor before it is too late. From the look of things now I do not know if the man ever...

A storm rages. A flash of lightning announces the arrival of the following frightful thunder clap. It reveals briefly but with the clarity of a thousand daylights how and where the feckless ship of state called Nigeria tosses precariously,...