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From  Mohammed Tawfeeq,CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS Four police officers were killed Three truck drivers also died This comes after attacks Tuesday (CNN)  -- An attack in western Iraq toppled a bridge and killed seven people Wednesday, continuing a recent wave of attacks in the area. The suicide attack occurred near a police checkpoint on a bridge in the town of al-Rutba in the province of Anbar, police said. Four police officers and three truck drivers were killed. The attacker also died and the bridge was destroyed, authorities said. This comes after attacks in the same town at security checkpoints Tuesday left at least 12 police officers dead and 24 wounded, police said. The town of al-Rutba, is a predominantly Sunni Muslim community that for a few years was an al Qaeda stronghold after the 2003 U.S-led invasion of the country. Sunnis, who represent a minority of Iraqis, have felt politically marginalized since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 b...

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...

Formulations they are under way on India’s new england in front of Saturday’s expected landfall of the massive cyclone now gathering strength within the Bay of Bengal. Government bodies are shuttling multitudes of individuals from its path, carrying out a practice developed following a similar cyclone wiped out 1000′s over about ten years ago. They’re giving citizens no choice within the matter. “We’ve taken a zero-casualty approach,” stated Odisha condition disaster manager Kamal Lochan Mishra. “If people don’t move, pressure will be employed to evacuate them.” Tropical Cyclone Phailin is anticipated to create landfall somewhere close to the border of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states in India. The cyclone, that is packing sustained winds of 155 miles per hour (about 250 kph), with gusts as high as 190 miles per hour, could hit densely populated areas which are susceptible to flooding. Roughly 200,000 individuals have been evacuated from low-laying areas in the area, wi...

Ousted Egyptian Leader Mohamed Morsy is slated to face trial beginning on November 4 on charges of carrying out and inciting violence, condition media stated Wednesday. Facing trial alongside him are 14 other people from the Muslim Brotherhood movement, condition news agency MENA stated. Morsy, who’s supported by the Brotherhood, is going to be attempted at Egypt’s Court Arrest on charges relevant to his alleged participation in violence that happened round the Ittihadiya Presidential Structure, this news agency stated. U.S. to chop some military help to Egypt after coup, turmoil Egypt’s military intentionally removed Morsy from office at the begining of This summer. He has been around detention since that time, along with a military-backed interim government has been around energy. In September, an Egyptian court banned all activities from the Muslim Brotherhood and froze its finances, drawing complaints in the worldwide community. The Brotherhood, an Islamist group ...

INTERVIEW Nigeria's Minister of Trade and Investment Olusegun Aganga Washington, DC — Nigeria, which has long been Africa's leading oil producer - and most populous nation, is aggressively pursuing investment to diversify its petroleum-dependent economy. Leading the campaign on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan is Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga , who has been Minister of Trade and Investment since June 2011, after serving for 14 months as Finance Minister. He is a chartered accountant who spent 20 years at Ernst & Young and Goldman Sachs International. In several U.S. appearances this month, Aganga is making the case that reforms implemented by Nigeria's government have dramatically changed the investment climate but remain little understood outside or inside Nigeria. Following are excerpts from his AllAfrica interview following his presentation as part of a ministerial roundtable hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa on 20 September. What is the essence of ...

BY HIR JOSEPH (LAFIA) & RONALD MUTUM   Bank MD, branch manager, driver found dead Hundreds of soldiers have been deployed to Nasarawa State to contain a wave of deadly violence blamed on the Ombatse militia, which broke out at the weekend. Army spokesman Brigadier General Attahiru Ibrahim, who announced the fresh deployments in Abuja yesterday, did not give the numbers but said they were up to a "battalion minus." In the Nigerian Army, a battalion is a unit with about 750 soldiers that consists of six to seven companies, experts told Daily Trust. Security sources said the troops deployed were in hundreds. The violence erupted when Eggon youths from the Ombatse militia attacked the Alago people in Adabu on Friday, and the crisis spread to neighbouring areas in Obi and Lafia local governments, leaving dozens dead according to some accounts. "The Federal Government has ordered the deployment of troops in aid of civil authority in order to prevent further e...

BY ISMAIL MUDASHIR Kano — Insurgents now hide explosive devices in a new tactics to unleash terror on citizens during the sallah cerebration, Weekly Trust reports. To continuously wreck havoc on citizens during the forthcoming sallah, terrorists are now packaging Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in school bags for suicide bombers, the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano State has raised alarm. The innovation, according to the JTF, was copied from Boston in the United States where two bombers strike, killing three and injuring many during a marathon last April. Security operatives made the disclosure after raiding a bomb making factory in Guduwawa village in Gezawa Local Government Area of the state last Tuesday. According to them, the IEDs were well packaged in school bags for the suicide bombers in the factory. An operative of the JTF told newsmen that the IEDs can be packaged in any type of school bags, saying the control switch of the IEDs is stitched at the handle of the b...

BY CHRIS EZE Yenagoa — States in the Niger Delta region have demanded upward review of the current 13% derivation paid to oil producing states to 50%. This was the high point of their presentation yesterday to the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as the commission rounded off its zonal public hearing on the best way to share the nation's revenues among the three tiers of government. If approved, revenues accruing to oil producing states of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Abia, Delta, Ondo, Imo and Anambra which joined the league recently will multiply by close to 300 per cent. With the existing 13% derivation, the abrogation of the onshore/offshore dichotomy during the Obasanjo regime had created a wide gap in revenues between oil producing and non-oil producing states. Many states in the later group complained that they have been impoverished by the legislation. In addition, the Niger Delta zone is pushing for...

BY ANDREW AJIJAH About 7000 people displaced from the violence in Nasarawa State are said to have taken refuge in the southern part of Plateau State. The Plateau State Commissioner of Information, Yiljap Abraham, made the disclosure on Monday in Jos, at a news conference after an emergency Plateau executive council meeting presided over by the deputy governor, Ignatius Longjan, at the government lodge, Jishe. According to Mr. Yiljap, the internally displaced people from the neighboring state have taken refuge in Qanpan and Shendam Local Government Areas of the state, hence the need to assist them with basic necessities. "We do hope that the situation over there returns to normal, so that they can go back and live as it used to be," he said. Mr. Yiljap said government has concluded arrangements through the Plateau State Emergency Agency, SEMA, to provide basic and immediate needs to the victims, stressing that the deputy governor will this week lead a government del...

The African Union has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to defer cases against sitting leaders until they leave office. The current presidents of Kenya and Sudan both face ICC trials, and African leaders have long complained that the court unfairly targets them. The AU meeting in Ethiopia had discussed withdrawing from the ICC, but the idea failed to gain support. Senior figures including Kofi Annan have criticised plans to quit the ICC. Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists: "Sitting heads of state and government should not be prosecuted while in office. Continue reading the main story "We have resolved to speak with one voice to make sure that our concerns are heard loud and clear." The AU summit in Addis Ababa is expected to formally adopt the request later. The Ethiopian foreign minister said the AU would ask for the trials of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Sudan's Omar al-Bashir to be deferred. ...