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A little over a week ago, Syrian refugees began to notice men going around the camps in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, asking who wanted to vote for president and taking down names. The men identified themselves as members of a Lebanese...

Shares in AstraZeneca (AZN.L) fell 2.3 percent on Tuesday after U.S. drugmaker Pfizer (PFE.N) said it would not make a formal bid to acquire its smaller British rival. Pfizer's decision - announced on Monday during a public holiday - had...

Three former Barclays traders appeared in a London court on Tuesday as Britain formally began its first criminal proceedings against U.S.-based Libor traders, part of a global investigation into alleged rigging of benchmark interest rates. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO)...

Apple Inc supplier Foxconn Technology Group will buy a stake in Taiwanese mobile telecoms operator Asia Pacific Telecom for T$11.6 billion ($390 million) in a deal that would expand its presence in Taiwan's fledgling 4G telecoms market. Foxconn, which is...

Inflation in the euro zone will likely stay "significantly" below the European Central Bank's target this year and next, ECB Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny said in the Austrian National Bank's annual report. "But over the medium term it is...

NIGERIA'S CHIEF OF DEFENSE STAFF AIR MARSHAL ALEX S. BADEH, CENTRE, SPEAKS DURING A DEMONSTRATION CALLING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO RESCUE THE KIDNAPPED GIRLS OF THE GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOL IN CHIBOK, IN ABUJA, NIGERIA Nigeria's military has located nearly 300...

There is now a unanimity of position from the usually fractious segments of the Nigerian society that Nigeria is undergoing perhaps the toughest period in her political history since after the fratricidal civil war in which over three million...

At first they bombed the Churches. We blamed the Muslims for it. For some, they blamed no one, but yet remained criminally quiet about it. Perhaps for some it felt alright. Then they went after the Imams. Because we...

If one sells a member of one's household cheap, one will not be able to buy him back at a great value. If one does not throw a toad into hot water, and then throw it into cold water,...

Farewells are often melancholic but at the University of Nigeria the over one-week farewell that began May 22 has a celebratory tone to underscore the renewed pride and sense of mission inspired by the work of the outgoing Vice...