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Austrian police on Thursday discovered the decomposing bodies of at least 20 — and possibly up to 50 — migrants stacked in a truck parked on the shoulder of the main highway from Budapest to Vienna.

Ukraine and rebels on Thursday reported the death of eight people in fresh clashes that endanger nascent talks on a new truce agreement for the war-torn separatist east.

(Nigeria) President Mohammadu Buhari's has appointed a Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief of Staff and other key positions.

Ukraine secured an agreement with Western creditors on Thursday to restructure around 18 billion dollars of bonds, the Finance Ministry announced, while President Petro Poroshenko held talks in Brussels on the country's security and economic challenges.

(Nigeria) The National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has nullified the purported suspension of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh.

(Nigeria) A 42-year-old man, Solomon Odo, who allegedly raped his co-tenant’s child, was on Thursday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court, Lagos.

(Nigeria) An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Ojota in Lagos State, has granted 31-year-old Mayowa Adeyemi arraigned for defiling a 10-year-old minor bail after he pleaded not guilty to the crime.

A radio broadcaster was shot dead on Thursday by an unidentified gunman in the southern Philippines, police said. The victim is the third media professional to be killed in the past two weeks.

(Nigeria) Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, has described Mr Godsday Orubebe, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, as an elevated thug and a political jobber, who is out to make noise as means of getting his next meal ticket.

(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as deceitful, obstructionist and provocative the petition written to President Muhammadu Buhari by the 16 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, federal lawmakers from Rivers over the State's Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, saying those who were blatantly obstructing the course of justice were the same ones now trying to play the victim.

Ten suspected Boko Haram members went on trial in Chad on Wednesday over their alleged roles in twin attacks that killed 38 people in the capital N'Djamena in June.

(Nigeria) The Senate on Wednesday, began probe into the allegation of diversion of over N1 trillion levelled against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, absent at the sitting.

(Nigeria) The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mrs Anastasia Nwaobia, on Wednesday said N511.8 billion was shared among the federal, states and local governments as revenue for July, 2015.

(Nigeria) The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Wednesday, said it had invited the entire crew on Arik Air flight W3101 that left the country for London Heathrow Airport for questioning over the apprehension in United Kingdom, of Chika Udensi in possession of 20kg of cocaine.

A serviceman shot an officer and two soldiers dead and committed suicide in a military camp near the Volga city of Kostroma, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service said on Wednesday.

One person was killed and seven injured in an explosion at a vegetable oil factory in the Volga region of Saratov, Russia, a local health official said on Wednesday.

Two United States journalists were killed Wednesday in a shooting attack while filming a live interview near the town of Moneta, Virginia, their broadcaster WDBJ7 reported.

(Nigeria) A 50-year-old trader, Muinatu Aliu, on Wednesday told an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos State that she denied her husband sex because she usually felt pains anytime he made love to her.

(Nigeria) The Delta House of Assembly on Wednesday confirmed the appointments of 14 members of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, governing board.

(Nigeria) Two suicide bombers killed an Air Force officer at a checkpoint in a late-night attack in Maiduguri, Borno State, witnesses and police said Wednesday.

Taliban insurgents took control of another district in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 25 soldiers and policemen, a local official said.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, making his second visit to Moscow in three months, says he hopes for Russia's help in combating terrorism in the region.

Saudi troops have pushed into a stronghold of Yemen's Houthi rebels, Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya reported Wednesday, in the first action of its kind since the kingdom led a military coalition against the Iran-backed rebels five months ago.

(Nigeria) Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Tuesday urged the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, to strike out some sections of a motion seeking biometric scanning of election materials.

(Nigeria) No fewer than 14 women died in two separate boat mishaps in River Sarkin Pawa and River Guni in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State.

(Nigeria) The Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu said on Tuesday that his committee would go ahead with the proposed probe of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde.

(Nigeria) President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration was building a new Nigeria and that the effort requires the support and participation of its citizens both at home and abroad.

Saudi Arabia has executed at least 175 people over the past 12 months, on average one person every two days, according to an Amnesty report.

ISIS has released images of a man suspected of adultery being stoned to death - as the United Nations said the terror group has executed at least 30 people for being gay.

(Nigeria) Member countries of the Lake Chad Basin Commission are to deploy 8,700 troops to stem the activities of Boko Haram insurgents in the region.

(Nigeria) The Acting Comptroller-General of Customs, Dr. John Atte, has approved the redeployment of five customs comptrollers.

(Nigeria) Former Rivers State Commissioner for  Agriculture,  Mr Emma Chinda,  who alongside former Governor Rotimi Amaechi allegedly diverted N4billion Central Bank of Nigerian, CBN agriculture loan for political purposes will be arrested if he fails to appear before the Justice George Omereji Judicial Commission of Inquiry, the commission has said.

(Nigeria) Relatives of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram said they would hold a youth march and candle-lit vigil on Thursday to mark 500 days since the abductions.

A South African judge has granted bail to one of Nelson Mandela's grandsons, accused of raping a 15-year-old girl.

(Nigeria) The members of Organised labour and pensioners on Tuesday demonstrated in Owerri, Imo State over the non-payment of more than 10 months arrears of pensions and salaries owed them by the Imo State Government.

(Nigeria) The Kingdom Coordinators and Chapters Leaders Forum of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP,  have condemned the increasing rate of Police extortion on the Eleme-Bori axis of the East-West Road.

Israel on Tuesday released hundreds of African migrants from a facility in the southern Negev desert, at the orders of the Supreme Court.

A Russian court convicted a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker on Tuesday of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in what critics called a politically motivated show trial.

A leader of the Jundullah militant group in Afghanistan's Kunduz province was killed in a United States drone strike, the national intelligence agency said Tuesday. 

A female suicide bomber killed at least 15 people at a bus terminal in of Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, hospital sources and witnesses said Tuesday.

(Nigeria) The four suspects paraded in connection with the recent bank robbery in Ikorodu, Lagos State, have dragged the Inspector General of Police before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, complaining that the alleged confessional statements given out to journalists, was extracted from them without the presence of their lawyer.

(Nigeria) The police in Lagos, on Monday said that the Head of Lagos State House of Assembly, Clinic, Caroline Oriola was found dead in her office.

(Nigeria) Department of State Services, DSS, has charged National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) to court for possession of illegal firearms.

(Nigeria) The Federal Government on Monday set up a committee to investigate the procurement of hardware and munitions in the Armed Forces from 2007 to date.

Ukraine's president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a "large-scale invasion," in an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday.

(Nigeria) The Chief of Naval Staff, CNS, Vice Adm. Ibok-Ette Ibas, on Monday tasked officers and ratings to sustain the fight against oil theft on Nigeria's waterways.

(Nigeria) A protest on Monday, under the Ogoni Springtime, was part of an unlimited season of resentment,  a series of civil disobedience mass protests, to end injustice against the Ogoni people in Rivers State. According to a statement by Beabubari Ndorbu, Media Coordinator for the Ogoni Springtime, “At the heart of the protests, is the self-declared self-government of the Ogoni people, which had abolished the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni people, MOSOP, founded by the executed famous writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. “President of Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority, heading the self-government, Dr. Goodluck Diigbo, who was the closest associate of Saro-Wiwa, said MOSOP demanded for self-government, and its lifespan ended with the actualization. “Diigbo is urging the Nigerian government to facilitate a genuine joint stakeholders’ review of the environmental assessment study on Ogoniland, a mission undertaken by the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP.

(Nigeria) The Police on Monday presented six suspected child kidnappers at the Force Headquarters in Abuja.

Twenty-three civilians were killed in shellings by Ukrainian forces from August 15 to 21, and 32 more people were injured, the office of the human rights ombudsperson of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR, said on Monday.