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Cairo - An international human rights group urged Egypt on Thursday to end its policy of unlawfully detaining Syrian refugees, including children, and forcibly returning them to their homeland where civil war is raging. Amnesty International said that hundreds who have fled the bloodshed in Syria for sanctuary in Egypt — including many children without their parents — face prolonged detention in poor conditions or deportation, which has in some cases separated family members. The Britain-based group said that its activists found one-year-old Syrian twins among refugees in Egypt's custody. In a report released Thursday, Amnesty said appalling conditions in detention and the threat of being send back to Syria are prompting scores of refugees to flee again. Many embark on a treacherous journey by sea to Europe, Amnesty said, to escape the chaos that has prevailed in Egypt since the 3 July military coup in which President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood-led government ...

Abuja - The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it would begin the registration of its members nationwide "tentatively'' in November. The Interim National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, made this known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. “We have to plan the logistics, if you do not plan well you are not going to achieve anything. “So what we are doing now, we are at the level of planning because the exercise will take place all over Nigeria,” he said. According to him, the nationwide membership registration will strengthen the party and enable it to contest all future elections in the country. Mohammed said that the party had harmonised and finalised the process as well as create a format of its activities that would enable it  to participate in future elections. He told NAN that harmonisation of membership registration into the party would also be carried out from ward level to ensure that all its members are registered. He s...

Abuja- The Niger Delta Development Commission has commissioned two rural electrification projects in the Bayelsa State in line with government’s transformation agenda. The projects are in Otuabula and Sagbama. NDCC Acting Managing Director, Dr Christy Atako, said the move complemented President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda, which places electrification as a priority. “What we are doing now is bringing development to you, with electrification, there will be a lot of economic activities, electricity is key to any form of development”. She said the Federal Government was eager to turn the fortunes of the Niger Delta region around with a view to making it one of the world’s most developed regions. “The President is committed to providing conducive environment in our communities. He wants to modernize the Niger Delta.” She urged the communities to guard the projects against vandalisation. “As we handover these projects to you, they will no longer be NDDC projects, we want you t...

Istanbul - The rise of al-Qaeda in parts of Syria's north has left Turkey facing a new security threat on its already vulnerable border and raised questions about its wholesale support for rebels battling President Bashar Assad. Turkey has long championed more robust backing for Syria's fractious armed opposition, arguing it would bring a quicker end to Assad's rule and give moderate forces the authority they needed to keep more radical Islamist elements in check. But with Islamist groups such as Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil)  taking territory  in parts of the north near the border in recent weeks, it is a strategy that increasingly looks to have been a miscalculation. Ankara has found itself  facing accusations  that indiscriminate support for the rebels has allowed weapons and foreign fighters to cross into northern Syria and facilitated the rise of radical groups. "We are being accused of supporting al-Qaeda," a source clos...

Elaine Dang pretended to become dead, and perhaps because she did, she’s alive to inform her story. She made it last month’s terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate mall. A minimum of 67 everyone was wiped out throughout the 4-day siege. Among the chaos, Dang, 26, a united states expat, stated she handled to help keep her wits. “Within my mind I believed, like there should be an response to this. So for me personally, it had been like, this isn’t it. I have to continue thinking and discover a way out,” she told CNN’s Physical Violence Worsens throughout a job interview that broadcast Wednesday evening. “I stated, this can’t be it.” Dang what food was in a children’s cooking competition when militants stormed the mall on September 21. She heard screaming and just what seemed like distant booms. Among the presenters in the competition told everybody to operate towards the parking area. In the beginning, Dang adopted, however she stopped. “My instinct stated, don’t opt for...

Frederick the German Shepherd was adhering to existence when government bodies saved him. He was emaciated and dehydrated, his skin was engrossed in infection, and that he had heart earthworms. Everybody his owner left him chained to some tree for four straight years. Poor people pooch — whose title was transformed from Toby through the folks at Progressive Animal Welfare Society (Feet) in Ohio — is improving. He’s presently going through veterinary rehab. Joseph’s former owner, Jeremy Shane Temple, faces animal cruelty charges. “It is simply hard, really, visiting a dog that skinny,” Kassie Jadin, the facilities manager at Feet, told HuffPost Crime. “It’s so pathetic throughout. There’s not enough words to describe how sad it’s.Inch Officials told WCPO they found the five-to-7-year-old dog chained to some backyard tree in Middletown with a maximum of a couple of scraps of food and little water. Jadin states he was covered in fleas or painful bites. Temple apparently to...