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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will lobby on behalf of Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts led by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry when she visits Israel on Monday. Kerry, who held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris...

Egypt's deposed President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday rejected the right of a court to try him and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders on charges related to a mass jail break in 2011, security and judicial sources said. Mursi and his comrades,...

China urged its neighbor Afghanistan on Saturday to embrace an inclusive political solution to its long-running conflict during a rare visit by a top Chinese official, who said the very security of his own country's western regions depended on...

Buoyed by growing demand from Europe and India, Nigerian crude oil export for March loading have sold well with less than 10 cargoes unsold from the March programme. More Nigerian crudes are expected to head to Europe in March compared...

Austria should not demand creditors of struggling state bank Hypo Alpe Adria HAABI.UL take a "haircut" on the debt, central bank head Ewald Nowotny said, contradicting the country's finance minister. Nowotny, who was on Friday put in charge of a...

HSBC will announce staff bonuses totaling just under 2.4 billion pounds ($4 billion) globally for 2013 and is expected to report a significant rise in pretax profit, Sky News reported on its website on Saturday without citing its sources. Europe's...

The world's top economies may agree to set an ambitious target for faster global growth at a weekend meeting in Sydney, where major central banks are also being urged to coordinate policies to avoid "surprises" that could further roil...

PRINCEWILL ARINZE NWOBODO   SAN FRANCISCO, February 22, (THEWILL) - Four gunmen on Thursday, abducted an alleged serial fraudster and suspect in two cases being handled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The suspect, Princewill Arinze Nwobodo (alias Aboki J....

A major flaw in Apple Inc software for mobile devices could allow hackers to intercept email and other communications that are meant to be encrypted, the company said on Friday, and experts said Mac computers were even more exposed. If...

News of the surging violence by the shadowy sect, Boko Haram, has continued to inundate us even if some no longer shudder at screaming headlines of dozens whose throats have been slit; the extremists have sustained the ongoing brutal...