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Woolwich attack: Michael Adebowale’s mother ‘tried to prevent radicalisation’

The mother of a suspected Islamic terrorist who allegedly hacked a British soldier to death tried desperately to turn him away from extremism but “could not get through”, according to friends. Michael Adebowale, the 22-year-old son of a Christian probation officer and a member of staff at the Nigerian High Commission, was filmed holding a [...]

Written by: newsacross on May 25, 2013.

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Nigerian docked over acid attack on another Nigerian in London

May 1, 2013 No Comment

After a young Nigerian woman, Naomi Oni’s face was left severely scarred by acid thrown on her in east London in December, police have charged another Nigerian woman, Mary Konye, over the incident. Naomi Oni, 21, was partially blinded and needed skin grafts after acid was thrown on her by a person wearing a veil [...]

Written by: newsacross on May 1, 2013.

Cameroon Says Kidnapped French Family Of Seven Released By Boko Haram-Reuters

April 19, 2013 No Comment

By Reuters UK YAOUNDE (Reuters) – A French family of seven kidnapped in Cameroon’s Far North Region and taken to Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram militants have been released, a senior Cameroonian official said in a statement on Friday. “They are all alive and well,” Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, the Secretary General of Cameroon’s presidency said [...]

Written by: Reuters UK on April 19, 2013.

Anti-cuts protests erupt on streets of Athens and Madrid

September 26, 2012 No Comment

ATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) – Demonstrators have clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being imposed on two of the euro zone’s most vulnerable economies. In some of the most violent confrontations on Wednesday, Greek police fired tear gas at hooded rioters hurling petrol [...]

Written by: newsacross on September 26, 2012.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth leads giant river pageant

June 3, 2012 No Comment

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is to sail on a royal barge down the River Thames Sunday as part of a huge pageant marking her diamond jubilee, in one of the biggest events of its kind in London’s history. The flotilla of more than 1,000 boats is the high water mark of the national celebrations for [...]

Written by: newsacross on June 3, 2012.

What Is So Special About UniLag? by IYOBOSA UWUGIAREN

May 31, 2012 No Comment

The decision by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday to rename University of Lagos, popularly called UniLag, as Moshood Abiola University has created a pointless controversy. Some people, especially members of the opposition, have described it as You may also like-FG renames UNILAG after Abiola

Written by: newsacross on May 31, 2012.

UK aid worker freed after 86-day kidnap ‘ordeal’

May 30, 2012 No Comment

A UK aid worker freed after a kidnap ordeal of nearly three months in Sudan’s Darfur region arrived in the capital Khartoum on Wednesday following his release. Patrick Noonan stood silently on the steps of a VIP airport terminal, flanked by officials, after a flight from conflict-plagued Darfur. “He’s been through an ordeal. We were [...]

Written by: newsacross on May 30, 2012.

UK economy in double-dip recession

April 25, 2012 No Comment

The UK economy has returned to recession, after shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012. A sharp fall in construction output was behind the surprise contraction, the Office for National Statistics said. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction. The economy shrank by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of [...]

Written by: newsacross on April 25, 2012.

Thieves make off with two trains in Switzerland

November 20, 2011 No Comment

Two trains, including one weighing almost a tonne, have been stolen from a miniature train park in western Switzerland, the park said Saturday. The Swiss Vapeur Park said in a statement online that “the offenders have forced open the doors of two different depots, and took the two trains”. One is a petrol-run train called [...]

Written by: newsacross on November 20, 2011.

Twitter shuts down – then reactivates – account of group fighting for Wall St. protesters for 'spam'

October 8, 2011 No Comment

Trouble keeps finding the Occupy Wall Street protesters and their supporters – even when city cops are not squirting them with pepper spray. A legal advocacy group that is suing the city on behalf of protesters who were arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge last Saturday got a smackdown – and then a reprieve – from [...]

Written by: newsacross on October 8, 2011.

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