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A train carrying, wreckage of Boeing-777, which crashed near Donetsk, heads for Kharkov, TASS correspondent reported from the site on Sunday. A train of twelve cargo carriages, which were sealed by the Dutch specialists, and one passenger carriage left the Pelageyevka village.

(Nigeria) The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, on Sunday in Abuja expressed worry over recent reports from some states on the involvement of youths in cult activities and thuggery. A statement issued by the force spokesman, Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, said Abba expressed concern that the involvement of youths in such activities had left to the death of some while others sustained injuries.

New missiles provided by Iran have changed the equation in Hezbollah’s fight against Israel and has given the resistance an upper-hand, the party’s deputy head Naim Qassem said Sunday, reports The Daily Star. “Such issue [missiles] is a trump card in the equation of war between the resistance forces and the Israeli enemy,” Qassem told Iran ’s Tasnim News Agency, which is known to be close to the revolutionary guard. The comments came after news emerged that Tehran has equipped Hezbollah with a new grade of medium-range missiles, known as Fateh-class missiles.

( Nigeria ) The Nigeria ’s Defence Spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade has appealed to the international community to be more objective by showing understanding for the peculiarity of Nigeria ’s current security situation. He particularly criticised the hard stance of some western countries over perceived negative human rights record of Nigerian military saying it is ill informed and based on wrong mindset.

(Nigeria) Following the re-opening of public primary schools in Maiduguri last week, the Borno State Government on Sunday appealed to parents to send their children back to schools Dr Mohammed Dongel, Chairman of the State Committee on the Resuscitation of Primary School Education, made the appeal during interview with newsmen in Maiduguri.

(Nigeria)  The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, has denied ordering the arrest of any person involved in the disturbance of public peace at the National Assembly on Thursday. Abba said that the decision to arrest any suspect in connection with the incident lay with the police officers investigating the matter.

(Nigeria) Rivers State All Progressive Congress, APC, has dismissed calls by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, asking the Federal Government to arrest and prosecute  Governor Rotimi Amaechi for treason.

(Nigeria) Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday, stormed Benin City, Edo State to interact with Governor Adams Oshiomhole and leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state to support his ambition to secure the Presidential ticket of the party. Governor Oshiomhole who received the former Vice President in his office expressed the hope that the APC would put its internal issues in order ahead of the 2015 general elections so as to provide Nigerians with an opportunity to enjoy a new approach to politics and governance. According to him, “It is my hope and prayer that our party, over the next few weeks, would sort out all issues that we need to sort out so that Nigerians will have the opportunity to enjoy a new approach to politics and governance based on issues and pedigree of individuals so that we can move away from politics of religion, ethnicity and other pedestrian interests.” He continued, “That is what APC is bringing to the table and I am very

Israel's military says that militants in the Gaza Strip have test-fired rockets into the Mediterranean Sea. The military said Thursday that four rockets had been fired over a 24-hour period, suggesting Gaza militants are "experimenting."o Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers fought a 50-day war over the summer that claimed more than 2,100 Palestinian and 70 Israeli lives. It broke out after Hamas fired dozens of rockets at Israel following an Israeli roundup of Hamas activists in the West Bank, which was in response to the killing of three Israeli teens there. Rocket fire continued throughout the war, but was largely neutralized by Israel's "Iron Dome" aerial defense system. Rockets from Gaza now have the ability to reach Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other Israeli cities.

Six nurses and a janitor were killed Thursday in a knife attack blamed on another employee at a military hospital and resort in a northeastern coastal town favored by the country's Communist Party elite, police said, reports AP. A 27-year-old employee was detained following the early morning attack at Beidaihe Sanatorium in the seaside town of Beidaihe, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) east of Beijing, police said. A preliminary investigation showed no conflict between the employee and colleagues, and the suspect told investigators he had a history of mental problems, police said in a statement. The attacks took place in the dormitory for female staff at the facility, a hospital and resort for retired military officials. One person also was injured, police said. The location of the attack was likely to draw particular scrutiny from the Chinese public because Beidaihe is home to numerous guesthouses used by China's leaders during the summer to vacation and hold informal meeti

( Nigeria ) The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of Justice Mahmud Mohammed as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN. The confirmation followed President Goodluck Jonathan’s letter to the parliament requesting Mohammed’s appointment to be approved to replace outgoing Justice Aloma Muhktar.

( Nigeria ) Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State said on Tuesday that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP congresses in the state were “totally unacceptable’’ to its members and the people of the state. Chime made the declaration at a PDP stakeholders meeting in Enugu on Tuesday, saying the congresses were not subjected to the will of the people of the state.

Nine persons have been confirmed dead in an army helicopter crash in Thailand , the military officials said on Tuesday, reports dpa. The Army spokesman, Col. Winthai Suvaree told newsmen in Bangkok .

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday adjourned till December 15, the trial of 10 men charged with vandalism of oil pipeline and murder at Arepo in Ogun. The accused are--Joel Inerepamu; 25, Rueben Oluwole; 60, John Isaiah; 28, Ineye Okposa; 40, Timi Gunugunu, 22; and Olisa Saheed, 25.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday asked   for a separate trial of former Governor Chimaroke Nnamani of Enugu State in a N5 billion money laundering case. Nnamani is facing trial alongside seven other accused on a 105 count charge before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

Human Rights Watch, HRW,  has accused police in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, on Tuesday in New York , of summarily executing more than 51 people in an anti-gang operation and the disappearance of  33  others, reports Reuters. The report was based on witness testimony, and it was the second high-profile inquiry into Operation `Likofi', or 'punch' in the Lingala language.

A Fort Carson soldier has been charged with murder in the shooting death of another soldier while they were deployed to Jordan in May, reports AP. The Army said Tuesday that Spc. Jeffery T. Page of Perrysburg, Ohio, is accused in the death of Spc. Adrian Perkins of Pine Valley, California.

The arrest, detention and torture of eight people since the beginning of the month as part of a crackdown on “homosexuality” by the Gambian authorities reveals the shocking scale of state-sponsored homophobia, Amnesty International said. “These arrests took place amid an intensifying climate of fear for those perceived to have a different sexual orientation or gender identity,” said Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa. 

The deadly Ebola virus spreading throughout West Africa may affect agriculture and economy of the whole region, the chief of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, said in an interview on Tuesday, reports Tass.

There is no military solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Tuesday at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, reports Tass. According to the German foreign minister, the Minsk ceasefire agreements are “not perfect” but it is necessary to work further to improve them.

President Barack Obama says West Africa is "nowhere out of the woods" on fighting Ebola. He said the disease remains a world threat as long as the outbreak continues, reports AP.

Russia is ready to take part in all talks on the embattled eastern Ukraine, but with participation of its representatives, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said commenting on Kiev’s appeals to Moscow for EU and US brokered talks on Donbass on a neutral territory. Kiev authorities called Moscow for talks on Donbass (the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions) on a neutral territory, brokered by the European Union and the United States, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a joint news conference with Norwegian counterpart Erna Solberg.

The Russian agribusiness is capable of making up for a shortfall of products hit by Russia’s food embargo in response to western sanctions, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, reports Tass. “If we and I didn’t feel that Russia’s agribusiness is capable of solving these tasks, we would not have imposed any counter sanctions as in this case it would have cost us much and we would have created a problem for ourselves,” Putin said at a meeting of the All-Russian People’s Front political movement. “Naturally, we need to take advantage of this,” Putin said.

Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city's bloodiest attack in years. Police killed the attackers in a shootout, reports AP. The attack ratcheted up fears of sustained violence in a city already on edge amid soaring tensions over its most contested holy site.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, adjourned till January 28, 2015 to hear a suit by a lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, challenging the monthly Environmental Sanitation exercise in Lagos State. The lawyer is seeking a declaration that the restriction of his movement, and that of other residents of Lagos State on the last Saturday of every month, constitutes a breach of their rights to freedom of movement.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, adjourned till January 29, 2015, for the continuation of trial of Francis Atuche and Charles Ojo charged with N125 billion fraud. Atuche, a former Managing Director of defunct bank PHB, is standing trial alongside Ojo, a former Managing Director of defunct Spring Bank Plc on an amended 45-count charge bordering on the offence. Justice Saliu Saidu, adjourned the case, following an application for adjournment by the prosecution.

(Nigeria) The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described as false, baseless and unfounded a newspaper report credited to a governorship aspirant in the state, Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs that the Ward congresses recently conducted in the state had been cancelled.

( Nigeria ) A civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP,  has sent two Freedom of Information requests to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, asking them to “urgently provide information about the spending (and the sources) on the electoral campaigns and other operations linked to the February 2015 general elections.”

(Nigeria)   Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on  Tuesday commissioned three blocks of 18 classrooms at Ekiuwah Primary School, Uteh, Ivbiyeneva Primary School and Idogbo Primary School all in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state.

Work to remove the wreckage of doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 may probably be completed by the end of the week, a spokeswoman of the Netherlands’ Security Council, Sarah Vernoy, told journalists on Monday, reports Tass. She said recovery work at the wreckage site was conducted on Monday as planned.

Ukrainian President, Mr Petro Poroshenko has confirmed the release of 17 Ukrainian troopers from captivity in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, reports Tass. “Seventeen troopers who were held in captivity in Donetsk have been released. They include four National Guard fighters; seven army servicemen and six members of Ukraine’s voluntary battalions,” Poroshenko tweeted on Monday.

( Nigeria ) The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal on Monday withdrew his suit challenging the withdrawal of his security details by the Inspector-General of Police, IG, Mr Suleiman Abba. The IG had withdrawn the speaker’s security aides following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressive Congress, APC.

( Nigeria ) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos , on Monday, partially upheld a no case submission by Femi Fani-Kayode, and acquitted him of 38 out of 40 counts of money laundering charges. Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, was charged on an amended 40 count charge, bordering on the alleged offence.

Sophisticated Russian weapons including surveillance radar, rocket launchers and tanks have been spotted in the hands of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, a new expert report has found, reports The Age World The separatists are rapidly growing to resemble a conventional army rather than a guerilla force, one of the authors of the armaments survey said.

 (Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has accused some politicians in the opposition,Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state of importing mercenaries to register in their wards to boost their numbers for the forthcoming elections in the state.

In a tweet on November 17, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that Ukraine wants peace but is prepared for “total war” with Russian-backed separatists, reiterating a statement he made to the German Bild newspaper on November 15, reports KyivPost.  The statement comes during continued clashes between Ukrainian and Moscow's proxy forces in the industrial eastern Donbas oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk.

 ( Nigeria ) A Federal High Court in Lagos , on Monday, dismissed a suit seeking to stop the ongoing inquest into the collapsed Synagogue building. Justice Ibrahim Buba described the suit as lacking merit, and accordingly, dismissed it. It will be recalled that on September 12, a six-story building within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, collapsed in Lagos, killing over 100 people most of whom were foreigners, with several others injured.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has raised alarm over an alleged Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led and police-backed acts of impunity in Ekiti State, where only seven members of the 26-strong House of Assembly on Monday morning convened the House to carry out an agenda, dictated by Governor Ayodele Fayose that includes the impeachment of the Speaker.

A surgeon who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone has passed away in a hospital in Nebraska, where he had been flown for treatment, officials announced Monday, reports CBS news. Dr. Martin Salia, 44, had been described repeatedly by health workers as being much sicker than the Ebola patients previously brought to the United States for treatment.

A team of 163 medics of China's National Liberation Army has arrived in Liberia to open an Ebola virus treatment centre, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday, reports Tass. The center will start operating on November 25, the spokesman said calling it a unique project among international Ebola aid campaigns.

The European Union’s sanctions against Russia should be aimed at ensuring the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements rather than hurting Moscow , the Ukrainian foreign minister said on Monday, reports Tass. “Sanctions are an important tool for stabilization. Sanctions are not aimed at harming Russia ,” Pavlo Klimkin said after talks with the representatives of the European Commission in Brussels .

Court documents revealed by Amnesty International has expose the fact that Shell has repeatedly made false claims about the size and impact of two major oil spills at Bodo in Nigeria in an attempt to minimize its compensation payments. The documents obtained last week also show that Shell has known for years that its pipelines in the Niger Delta were old and faulty.

 The Islamic State group has beheaded Peter Kassig, releasing a video Sunday showing a masked militant standing over the severed head of a man it said was the former United States Army Ranger-turned-aid worker, who was seized while delivering relief supplies in Syria last year, reports AP. President Barack Obama confirmed Kassig's slaying after a U.S. review of the video, which also showed the mass beheadings of a dozen Syrian soldiers.

A pair of car bombs targeted busy commercial areas in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 31, officials said, reports AP. In the first attack, a car detonated on a commercial street in the Meshtal neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding 15, police officials said.

The European Union, EU countries are not ready to continue the sanctions war with Russia, according to statements made by EU foreign ministers on Monday, reports Tass. The ministers are becoming more and more convinced in the inefficiency of sanctions and the need to build up a dialogue.

( Nigeria ) Activists have sent an open letter to members of the United Nations Security Council urging the council to “urgently initiative, support and adopt a resolution expressing grave concerns about the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in several parts of the North-East of Nigeria in the context of the armed conflict between the Nigerian Government and the Islamist group Boko Haram.”

(Nigeria) An official of Lagos division of the Federal High Court, Tunde Fagbuyiro, has petitioned the Managing Director of Zenith Bank, Peter Amangbo over alleged theft of funds from his trapped Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card. Fagbuyiro, who maintains a current account with Access Bank, had attempted to withdraw funds from his account using the ATM of Bourdillion branch of Zenith Bank in Ikoyi.

A Kenyan catholic priest was sentenced to capital punishment by the Kenyan Court of Justice for killing an Italian bishop in 2005, rereports Tass. A Catholic priest Guyo Waqo from Kenya and four of his accomplices were sentenced to death for the murder of the 77-year-old Bishop of Isiolo (250 km from Nairobi) as reported in a communique of Public Service Commission of Kenya. According to the document, this criminal group attacked the bishop in July of 2005 in order to get the endowment fund of Isiolo’s bishopric. Luigi Locati who had been widely popular was killed, as reported, in a fight over control of bishopric and its finance after he retires. After an eight-year trial the priest Guyo Waqo was found guilty of plotting the crime and involving four more accomplices: Mohammed Molu Bagajo, Aden Ibrahim Mohamed, Mahati Ali Halake, and Roba Balla Bariche. The judge, Fred Ochieng, said the five accused were “directly involved in the planning and killing of the bishop”. However, as t

The leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has reached a preliminary agreement with the Netherlands to transport the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing that crashed near Donetsk on July 17 to Kharkiv. The OSCE is going to act as mediator, a DPR official told TASS on Thursday. A. Malaysia Airlines plane was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed over eastern Ukraine on July 17. All the 298 passengers onboard, including 193 Dutch nationals, died in the crash. “Today, we have held talks involving the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Dutch experts and representatives of the Emergencies Ministry, the Interior Ministry and the Transport Ministry of the Donetsk People’s Republic. A preliminary agreement was reached to take the debris out on November 7,” Ella Karakut, a spokesperson for the DPR’s Transport Ministry, said adding the republic’s Interior Ministry would ensure the cargo’s safe transportation. The Emer

Police in Brussels used batons, tear gas and water cannons against a group of participants of the trade union protest against austerity measures announced by the new government, reports Tass. It was originally reported of four injured — two protesters and two policemen. In the district of Brussels South Station, demonstrators pelted police with stones, overturned and burned cars. A group of young people occupied the building of the Belgian federation of industrial enterprises. According to police estimates, the demonstration attracted a total of over 100,000 people. The action is part of a general strike of public sector employees against austerity measures announced by the new government of Belgium. According to the organizers of the demonstration, the number of participants reaches 120-130 thousand. The working people are not satisfied with the fact that purchasing capacity of the two thirds of country’s economically active population will decrease following the budget expense