Fuel scarcity: Nigerias VP to plead with marketers

Worried by the continued scarcity of petroleum products in the market, Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo, Monday night, intervened with a crucial call to marketers on the best way to end the current fuel crisis, which had engulfed the country in the last couple of months.
The call came as a proposed meeting between the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. IbeKachikwu, suspended a meeting between him and major marketers, scheduled to hold in Lagos Monday.

The Minister told Vanguard that the

See how phone screens have evolved, iPhone 6S Plus display is 514 TIMES better than the Nokia 5110's

If you were among the 160 million people who owned a Nokia 5110, you probably cherished it for its changeable covers and didn't bat an eyelid at its small and basic screen.

But now there's an interactive infographic that highlights just how far phone screen resolution has come in just under two decades.
In fact, it shows that Apple's iPhone 6S Plus is 514 times clearer than the popular Nokia handset in terms of screen resolution.

Boko Haram destroys Nigerian military base

Residents say Boko Haram destroyed a military base as soldiers fled and only self-defence fighters prevented the insurgents from retaking a northeastern Nigerian town.
Resident James Ularamu said civilian fighters held Gulak town on Sunday night until the military sent reinforcements who fought off the extremists.
The attack came as a military intelligence officer confirmed that 107 soldiers remain missing five days after a battle in which the

Defiant Turkey urges Russia to retract sanctions

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu urged Moscow on Monday to reconsider economic sanctions that it issued after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane last week, but refused to apologize for the incident.
"We hope that Russia will reconsider these reactions, these measures, which will be against our interests both," he told journalists during a visit to Nato headquarters in Brussels.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the sanctions on Saturday

Obama pushes for calm in angry Russia-Turkey row

US President Barack Obama pushed on Monday for a "de-escalation" of a furious war of words over Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane, a White House official said.
Obama called for an easing of inflamed Russia-Turkey tensions in a closed-door meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin on the eve of a climate summit in Paris, the official said.
Hours earlier, Turkey sent back to Russia the body of a pilot killed when his plane was shot down by the Turkish air force on November 24 for allegedly violating its air space on the Syrian border, reports said.
One of the Russian pilots aboard the downed plane was shot dead in Syria after parachuting from the burning aircraft, while the second was found safe and sound. One Russian soldier was killed in a rescue operation.

Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been locked in a furious war of words

Serena Williams poses topless for Annie Leibovitz’s 2016 Pirelli calendar

One of the world's most exclusive calendars, Pirelli is known for featuring glamorous supermodels. This year however, the team behind the celebrated calendar took the 2016's issue in a whole new direction by featuring some of the world's most inspiring women including artists, athletes and bloggers. The 43rd edition, which was created by Annie Leibovitz, features the likes of Serena Williams, Amy Schumer and Chinese actress Yao Chen.

Schoolgirl, 15, found hanged after 'developing an allergic reaction to the WiFi at her school'

A schoolgirl was found dead in woodland after her life was made a misery when she apparently becoming allergic to WiFi, an inquest heard today.

The parents of 15-year-old Jenny Fry claim that she suffered from electro-hypersensitivity (EHS), which caused her to suffer tiredness, headaches and bladder problems.

Her mother Debra told the hearing that Jenny was badly affected by the wireless internet connections at Chipping Norton School in Oxfordshire, where she was a pupil.

After becoming increasingly distressed by her symptoms - which were never investigated by a doctor - the schoolgirl was found hanged in Brooke Woods, near her home in Chadlington, in June 11 this year.

Earlier in the day she had texted a friend telling her she was not going to school that day.

TB Joshua fails to appear for building collapse trial

Nigerian preacher TB Joshua and two contractors facing trial for criminal negligence over a church building collapse that killed 116 worshippers failed to appear in court on Monday, prompting the judge to adjourn the case.
The case at the Lagos high court followed a coroner's ruling in July that blamed Joshua's Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) and two engineers for the September 12, 2014 tragedy.
Most of the victims were South African.
Coroner Oyetade Komolafe in his verdict attributed the collapse to structural failures and said the church should be prosecuted as the six-storey guesthouse did not have planning permission.

Joshua, who maintains the collapse was caused by a mysterious "hovering" aircraft seen over the building beforehand or a controlled explosion,

Turkish President: Turkey will not apologise for downing Russian fighter jet

Turkey will not apologise for downing a Russian fighter jet along the Syrian border but urged Moscow to reconsider retaliatory sanctions in the hope of calming the crisis, Turkish Premier Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday.
"Protection of our airspace, our border is not only a right but a duty for my government and no Turkish premier or president ... will apologise [for] doing our duty," Davutoglu told a joint press conference with Nato head Jens Stoltenberg after talks in Brussels.
Davutoglu added that "we hope Russia will reconsider these measures in both our interests", referring to the sanctions that Moscow imposed after the shooting down of the jet earlier this month.

Boko Haram abducts more girls in Borno

An unspecified number of girls have reportedly been abducted by Boko Haram members after an attack in Bam Village which is about 7 kilometres away from Buratai village, the hometown of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai in Borno state.

A resident of Bam village, Ali Bam told The Nigerian Tribune that the sect members arrived their village in the early hours of yesterday November 29th, shooting and setting the place on fire. Four people were

Turkey Says Pilot's Body to Be Flown Back to Russia

The Turkish prime minister says Turkey has taken delivery of the body of a Russian pilot who was killed after Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian warplane.

Ahmet Davutoglu says the pilot's body was brought to the border province of Hatay "through Turkey's initiatives" early on Sunday and will be flown back to Russia. He said the local Orthodox church in Hatay

16 dead in fighting for south Yemen province

Yemeni pro-government forces were battling on Sunday to oust Iran-backed rebels from a southern province where they have made gains in recent weeks.
Ground fighting and air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition killed 12 rebels in Daleh province, military sources said. Four loyalists were also killed.
Daleh is one of five southern provinces which the coalition-backed loyalists retook from the rebels in a July offensive.
But the Shi’ite Huthi rebels and their

Five killed by female suicide bombers in north Cameroon

Five people were killed on Saturday in a double suicide attack by two women in the restive far north of Cameroon, the governor of the region said.

"Two women blew themselves up at around 6:00 pm" in the town of Dabanga, the governor of the far northern region, Midjiyawa Bakary, told AFP.

"The initial death toll is seven dead, including the two suicide bombers."

Kendall Jenner shares nude photo of model Elisa Meliani

Kendall Jenner shared a nude photo of Paris based model, Elisa Meliani on top of a horse. She didn't say what the photoshoot was for.

IceT and Coco welcome baby girl

Coco and her husband Ice-T have welcomed their first child together, a beautiful baby girl named Chanel Nicole, who was born early Saturday morning in New Jersey. Coco posted a photo of their daughter on her Instagram page today and wrote "Surprise! Look who came early! Welcome the new arrival of Chanel Nicole.. A beautiful healthy 5.7 pound and 18 inch baby girl. Ice and I are so proud! I cried while she was coming out I was so excited to meet her!".

Saudi Arabia sentences maid to death by stoning for adultery

A married woman has been sentenced to death by stoning in Saudi Arabia after admitting to adultery - while the man she had sex with has escaped with a punishment of 100 lashes.

The 45-year-old Sri Lankan woman who had worked as a maid in Riyadh since 2013, and her partner, also a migrant from the island nation, were both convicted of adultery in August.
However, their sentences were very different.

Putin Orders Sanctions Against Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called for sanctions against Turkey, following the downing this week by Turkey of a Russian warplane.

The decree published on the Kremlin's website Saturday came hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had voiced regret over the incident, saying his country was "truly saddened" by the event and wished it hadn't occurred.

The decree includes a ban on some

Boko Haram claims responsibility for Kano suicide attack

Boko Haram on Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a Shi'ite Muslim procession near the northern Nigerian city of Kano that killed 22 people.


The hardline Islamist group said in a statement in Arabic on social media its bomber "detonated his explosives which led to the death" of the victims on Friday.

Rocket attack on UN base in Mali

The spokesperson for the United Nations mission in Mali says an attack on a UN base in the country's northern Kidal area has killed at least three people and injured 20.
Olivier Salgado said on Saturday that attackers fired rockets into the peacekeeping base early in the morning, killing two UN peacekeepers and a mission contractor. He said that four of those wounded were in serious

Couple jailed for forcing girl, 13, to carry out humiliating sex assault on teenage boy

A couple were jailed yesterday for forcing a 13-year-old girl to take part in a humiliating sexual assault on a 14-year-old boy.

Jemma Baskerville held the boy down during the attack while her former partner Stephen Lawrence put on a pornographic video to try to stimulate the victim.

The boy endured a 45 minute ordeal in which he was held down while the girl put her hand down his trousers and assaulted him.

Baskerville was jailed for four years and Lawrence for four and a half after a judge at Exeter Crown Court ruled they both posed a risk to children.

The boy suffered months of bullying and teasing at school after the girl spread rumours about what had happened to him in Lawrence's flat in Bideford, Devon.

They were the only adults present at Lawrence's flat in Bideford but instead of protecting children at a teenage party, they spurred them on to take part in the sex act.

Baskerville started the sexual activity during a play fight and then urged the 13-year-old girl to touch the boy and 'make him horny'.

He fled to a bedroom but Baskerville followed him and held him down and forced him to watch a television where her partner was playing the pornographic DVD.

Baskerville, 39, of Bideford, and Lawrence, 45, of nearby Northam, were found guilty of causing the 14-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity without consent and inciting the 13-year-old to engage in sexual activity.

Recorder Andrew Oldland told the pair: 'This went way beyond normal behaviour. You were in positions of trust and took advantage of the victims' naivety.



'Baskerville took what started as play fighting into a serious sexual assault. The 13-year-old girl was the means by which she carried out this offence, and that is deeply disturbing.

'She humiliated the boy by laughing at him and commenting about how long it was taking. A reference to that was used against him at school and in his victim personal statement he describes how horrible that was.

'He says he felt worthless and humiliated and felt a sense of shame.'

Three suspected ISIS extremists held in Spain

Three suspected backers of the extremist group Islamic State have been arrested in Spain, the Interior Ministry in Madrid said on Saturday.
The two men and one woman had been taken in the autonomous region of Catalonia in the north-east of the country, it said.
The men, aged 42 and 32 and hailing from Tangiers in Morocco,

Turkey's president warns Russia not to 'play with fire'

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Russia not to "play with fire" after reports emerged that Turkish businessmen had been detained in Russia.
Moscow said it would suspend visa-free travel with Turkey, and its tourism agency head announced on Friday it will ask more than 9 000 Russians currently in Turkey to return home by the end of December.
Relations between the former Cold War antagonists are at their lowest in recent memory after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet near the Syrian border on Tuesday. The pilot was machine-gunned dead by rebels on the ground in Syria as he parachuted down.
Russia has threatened economic retaliation - a response Erdogan has dismissed as emotional and indecorous.

"It is playing with fire to go as far as mistreating our citizens who have gone to Russia," Erdogan told supporters during a speech in Bayburt, in northeast Turkey, on Friday.

Nigerian who sold guns, bullets to criminals in the UK jailed for 16 years

A notorious 'godfather' who sold machines guns to criminals in Birmingham while at the heart of a gang which gunned down two innocent girls in a botched attack has been jailed for 16 years. Nigerian Nosakhere Stephenson, 41, (pictured left) masterminded an operation to sell antique firearms and specially-made bullets to criminals around the West Midlands city. Fitzroy Ducram (right), known as one of Nosa's right hand men was jailed for more than seven years 

Police say the gun dealer, known as 'Nosa', believed he was 'untouchable' as he ran the operation alongside fellow gang members from inside the infamous Burger Bar Boys gang.

The gang - which for years fought a bloody and protracted feud with the rival Johnson Crew - trafficked weapons including a MAC 10 machine gun, a brutal weapon which was used in one of Birmingham's most

Amber Rose shares sexy pic showing off waist trainer

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Samson Siasia's mother released by kidnappers

The mother of Nigeria's U-23 coach, Samson Siasia, Madame Ogere Siasia, 72, who was abducted from her home in Bayelsa on November 17th has been released by her kidnappers. The woman was released a few days ago unharmed. The Bayelsa police command confirmed her release but did not say if a ransom was paid for her release or if anyone has been arrested.

Daughter moves wedding to dad's hospital room so he could be part of it

A North Carolina woman decided to hold her wedding in a hospital room so her terminally ill father could be a part of her big day.
Kaila Kirby, planned to tie the knot in July, but after her father's pulmonary fibrosis took a turn for the worse, she decided to improvise.

“I just kind of wanted my Dad to give me away on my wedding day,” Kalia Kirby told WBTV.

Waffle House waitress fatally shot in the head after she asked customer not to smoke

Biloxi police Sgt. Donnie Dobbs said Julie Brightwell, 52, who was an employee of a Waffle house in Biloxi, Miss. was shot in the head after arguing with a customer about smoking inside the restaurant around 1 a.m. Friday because the restaurant had a no smoking policy.
Broghtwell died at Merit Health Biloxi a short time later.
The customer, Johnny Max Mount, 45, who was a former firefighter was arrested as he was walking out of the restaurant. He was booked at the Harrison County jail on a charge of first-degree murder.

Mount, Dobbs said, was armed with a 9 mm handgun at the time of the shooting.

Former police officer accused of shootout hoax found dead

A former part-time Massachusetts police officer accused of shooting up his own patrol cruiser and calling in a hoax bomb threat has died after apparently committing suicide.
Bryan Johnson, 24, was found dead early Thanksgiving morning in his Millis, Mass. home, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said.
Prosecutors said there were no signs of foul play and his death is not considered suspicious.

Tyga moves out of Kylie Jenner's house but they are still dating

Kylie Jenner and Tyga are still together but are no longer living together. E! News reports that a source said that Tyga moved out of Kylie's $2.7 mansion in Calabasas on Friday.
Kylie confirmed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday that they're not broken up. Tyga joined her family for Thanksgiving on Thursday.

EFCC arrests ‘Pastor’ For N200m fraud

Press statement from EFCC...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested one Jonathan Ibinabo Alatoru, a self-acclaimed pastor and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Chemtronics Nigeria Limited, for conspiracy, forgery and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N200 million. The suspect, who had earlier jumped the administrative bail granted him by the Commission, was arrested by operatives of

Photos from the Kano bomb blast today, 21 people, mostly women and children confirmed dead

21 people mostly women and children were killed in the bomb blast attack in which a male suicide bomber penetrated a Shitte Muslim procession in Dakasoye village in Kano today. More photos below. Warning: Pictures are very graphic, viewer discretion is advised...

Man blows up himself with Russian wife during sex in car

A glamorous local Russian MP and her husband - both semi-naked on the back seat of their Toyota RAV4 - died when a bomb exploded in the vehicle.
The face of Oksana Bobrovskaya, 30, who was in Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party, was ripped off in the blast in Siberia's largest city, Novosibirsk.

While she and husband Nikita appeared to be having a late-night romp when the car exploded in temperatures of minus 6C near her office, police fear the husband may have detonated the explosives in a fit of jealousy.
Police sources alleged the couple has rowed before the fatal incident and he had accused her of 'cheating' on him with a wealthy lover.

Eyewitnesses who rushed to the scene said that when the bodies were removed from the car, both the MP and her husband were 'naked below the belt'.

They said the bodies were in the rear seat of the car. The couple had a four-year-old daughter.
'There is a version that he held in his hands a kind of grenade, or a piece of TNT,' said a police source, according to The Siberian Times.

Man raped and murdered woman (Lawyer) while staying as a lodger in her house

A 23-year-old mechanic strangled a 'beautiful and talented' lawyer to death in her bedroom while he was staying as a lodger in her family home.
Peter Kibisu murdered Elizabeth Nnyanzi, 31, while lodging at the house in Harrow, north west London, where she had lived with her parents and two sisters for 15 years.
Kibisu, who was said to be so close to Miss Nnyanzi that she called him her cousin, is also accused of raping his victim before the killing. He is yet to enter a plea to that charge.
Miss Nnyanzi, a former pupil at the prestigious Cheltenham Ladies' College who studied medicine before pursuing a career in law, died in August this year.

The court heard how, at the time, Kibisu had been welcomed into the £600,000 semi-detached home and was a close family friend.

Appearing in the dock at the Old Bailey today, the defendant showed no emotion as he pleaded guilty to murder.

Body of Texas Woman Found After Her Car Was Swept Away in Flood

Authorities found a Texas woman’s body this morning after her car was swept away in high water, officials said.

Sandra Jones, 33, was found dead at 8:41 a.m., according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Her body was found downstream from where her car was located after an overnight rain storm caused flooding, officials said in a press

Sirens ring out as airstrikes hit ISIS stronghold

In the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold of Raqa, sirens ring out whenever a warplane approaches as jihadists flee their posts and vehicles to hide, activists say.
A US-led coalition and Russia have stepped up airstrikes on the jihadists' de facto Syrian capital since ISIS claimed to have downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt's Sinai in October and the deadly jihadist attacks in Paris two weeks later.
"The sirens are on the roofs of high buildings, in the squares and in the streets," Taym Ramadan, a city resident and anti-ISIS activist, told AFP.
"When a warplane enters Raqa's air space, the sirens ring out to warn (ISIS) members," said the activist from the "Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently" campaign group.

"As soon as they hear the sirens, they immediately leave their posts," he said. "Some of them have been seen to leave their vehicles in the middle of the road" to hide.

6 children die as migrant boats sink off Turkey

At least six children drowned on Friday in two separate incidents when their boats sank off Turkey while trying to make the risky crossing to Greece, state media reported.
A first boat loaded with 55 Syrian and Afghan migrants sank in strong winds and high waves in the Aegean after setting out from near the town of Ayvacik for the Greek island of Lesbos, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Turkish coastguards have so far recovered bodies of four Afghan children, it said.
Another two children perished when their vessel heading for the Greek island of Kos sank off the coast near the southwestern resort of Bodrum, Anatolia said.

The boat capsized because of heavy rains and stormy weather, it added.
Turkey, which is hosting 2.2 million refugees from the conflict in neighbouring Syria, has become the main transit point for people fleeing war and misery for a better life in Europe.

Russia targets Turkish economy over downed warplane

Russia on Thursday vowed to carry out broad retaliatory measures against Turkey's economy to avenge the downing of one of its warplanes as Moscow and Ankara traded furious verbal volleys.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily rebuffed the Kremlin's demands for an apology and said his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had snubbed a phone call from him after Tuesday's incident.
The downing of the plane on the Syrian border has raised fears it could fuel a wider geopolitical conflict, and highlighted the difficulty of forging consensus on Syria as French President Francois Hollande held talks with Putin in Moscow.
Hollande is trying to cobble together a broad coalition, including Russia, to crush the ISIS

France commemorates victims of terrorist attacks in Paris

The French tricolour hung solemnly from the balconies and windows along misty Parisian streets Friday as some 2,000 people gathered at the city's military museum to pay homage to the victims of the November 13 terrorist attacks.
In a mid-morning ceremony, the names and ages of the 130 victims of the attacks were read aloud. They were killed when a group of terrorists attacked a national stadium, a concert hall and a string of bars and restaurants on a Friday evening two weeks ago.
Many of the deaths occurred at the Bataclan music hall, where people were gathered for a rock concert, and on the crowded terraces of restaurants in the 10th and 11th arrondissments near the Boulevard Voltaire and the popular Canal St Martin.
The victims included an architect, photographer, television programme editor, students, musicians, a lawyer, and many others from some 20 different countries. While many were young, the average age of the victims was 35 there were also couples and

ISIS militant who transported the Beirut suicide bombers killed

ISIS militant Abdul Salam Al-Handawi arranged and drove from Raqqa, the two suicide bombers who carried out suicide attack in beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday, November 12. Al-Handawi was killed on Thursday in Homs countryside. At least 43 people were killed and around 200 injured in the twin suicide bomb attack. His corpse after the cut...

The explosions claimed by the Islamic State tore through crowds on a busy street in the neighbourhood of Bourj el-Barajneh, close to Beirut's airport.

Governor Ambode commissions Helicopters, gun boats, Armoured Personel Carriers

In a bid to enhance security in the state, the Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode today commissioned some security apparatus worth N4. 765 billion. Among the items commissioned include 100 4-Door Salon Cars, 55 Ford Ranger Pick-Ups, 10 Toyota Land Cruiser Pick-Ups, 15 BMW Power Bikes/Cycles, 100 Power Bikes, Isuzu Trucks, 3 Helicopters , 2 Gun Boats

5 Armoured Personnel Carriers Revolving Lights, Siren and Public

7-year-old boy shot by gang members

Christian Hickey was shot in the leg on October 12 alongside his mother, Jayne, 30, by two men. According to the police, two men knocked on the door and reportedly asked for the boy's father, Christian senior. After a brief conversation, one of the men fired a number of shots which resulted in Jayne being hit twice in her legs and Christian being shot once in his right leg.

Model has 6 of her ribs removed to achieve cartoon character look

Former electrician from Sweden and just 25 years old, Pixee Fox, has spent more than $119,200 (£79,160) on surgical procedures to achieve her desired look. She's had six of her lower ribs removed in a bid to shrink her waist to a record breaking 14 inches. And the doctors actually removed the ribs? See more of her photos after the cut...

Tech company (Humai) working on resurrecting humans after death

A technology company says it's working on a project which would allow a human's consciousness to be transferred to an artificial body after their death.
In what sounds like a plot from a science fiction blockbuster, tech company Humai are working on human resurrection through artificial intelligence.

They're hopeful that the technology - bionics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence - will be ready in just three decades.

First woman jailed for 'revenge porno'

A woman has become the first female in the UK to be sent to prison for posting sexually explicit ‘revenge porn’ photographs of her ex-girlfriend on Facebook.
Samantha Watt, 31, from Enfield, London, was today sentenced to 18 weeks in jail today at Highbury Magistrates’ Court.
The mother-of-four posted intimate images of the 20-year-old female victim – including one of her performing a sex act on Watt – through her Facebook account, without her consent.
Watt pleaded guilty to disclosing private sexual photographs with

Fifa President: "I am not a bad man" says Sepp Blatter

Sepp Blatter said Wednesday that he was the target of "an inquisition" by FIFA's ethics committee, which has suspended him for 90 days and called for further sanctions over corruption charges.
Blatter, who led for FIFA for 17 years until his suspension in October, appeared in several Swiss media on Wednesday, defending himself against a range of allegations that have sparked

Goalless United worries Van Gaal

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal conceded he was "worried" about his team's goal-scoring problems after a goalless draw with PSV Eindhoven left their Champions League campaign in the balance.
Victory on Wednesday would have taken United into the last 16, but with Jesse Lingard blazing their best chance over the bar in the second half, they must now win away to

Bayern not worried about Guardiola's future

Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stressed on Thursday that "no-one is irreplaceable", ahead of a decision on the future of club coach Pep Guardiola.
"No-one in the world is irreplaceable at a given time. Players come and go. That also goes for coaches," said Rummenigge in Munich on Thursday at the announcement of a new sponsor for the German champions.

18 killed in Boko Haram attack in Niger

Eighteen people were killed and 100 homes torched in an attack by Nigeria's Boko Haram fighters on a southeastern village, local authorities said on Thursday.
"The toll is 18 dead, 11 hurt, almost 100 homes burned down" in the village of Wogom, said the mayor of the nearby town of Bosso, Bako Mamadou.
A humanitarian worker said the Islamists came from Nigeria and crossed the Komadougou Yobe river, the border between Niger and Nigeria.
Armed jihadists and suicide bombers from Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist group have staged repeated attacks since February in Niger's southeast Diffa region near Nigeria, leaving hundreds of people dead.

The United Nations has registered around 50 attacks and clashes between Islamist fighters and Niger troops since February.
The last came in late October when they shot dead

See what Russia did to 39 Turkish business men due to Russia plane downing

Russia has deported 39 business men from Turkey saying the businessmen were on tourist visas instead of business visas. The businessmen say they didn’t know they had violated immigration laws but were arrested and deported by authorities. This comes after the downing of a Russian war-plane by Turkish military after the plane tried to cross Turkish borders and enter Turkish airspace.

Both pilots ejected from the plane and one, Captain Konstantin Murakhtin, was rescued by Russian special forces after he landed in the forest in rebel-held territory but the other, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov was shot dead by rebels.