world news 080618

A NASA robot has detected more building blocks for life on Mars — the most complex organic matter yet — from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. The unmanned Curiosity rover has also found increasing evidence ....... Read more via Channels...

New Vision Editor-in-Chief Barbra Kaija on Thursday received the Women in News Editorial Leadership Award 2018 at a ceremony at the ongoing WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress and World Editors’ Forum in Estoril-Cascais, Portugal. The award recognises an exemplary...... Read more via The...

Former President Robert Mugabe so terrified Zanu PF supporters that most only publicly backed him out of fear for their very lives, the ruling party’s national chairperson has claimed. The long-time Zimbabwean strongman was toppled by popular military coup last November, ending what critics...

Disturbing events in Mozambique’s Mocímboa da Praia area in the Cabo Delgado region, close to Tanzania, have hogged the limelight since October 2017. However, the past few weeks have seen an escalation in attacks by alleged jihadist insurgents. These attacks have created scary news headlines...

(CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China for a state visit Friday, his third trip in just over one year as Beijing and Moscow look to promote their special relationship. Warmer ties between the two countries have been highly-publicized in Russian and Chinese state media in recent...

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in China sent its second alert in two weeks Friday to its citizens over unexplained health issues that have prompted the evacuation of a number of U.S. government employees working at a consulate in a southern city. The alert urged Americans … Read...

He once called Donald Trump “a con man,” but Mitt Romney now predicts that Trump would “easily” win his party’s presidential … Read more via ABC News – https://ift.tt/2Lz2Yrr Get more World News

Austria will expel “several” foreign-funded imams and shut seven mosques in a crackdown on “political Islam”, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced on Friday. Kurz said the moves came after an investigation by the religious affairs authority into images which emerged in April of children in...

A baby could become the first person without a legal mother if a transgender man wins a historic court battle. Lawyers representing the parent told a judge that he had been biologically able to get pregnant and give birth but had legally become a man when the child … Read more via The...

Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, on Thursday said in a surprise announcement that he will not run in the 2020 elections, in spite of a recent referendum allowing longer term limits. “Our presidential mandate will end in 2020. “I am ready, with all my heart and … Read more via...

Ethiopia received 29,211 refugees in the first five months of 2018 ending May 31, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday. The UNHCR said the refugee arrival figures for 2018 has pushed the total number of refugees sheltering in Ethiopia to 920,262, … Read more via...

Philippine police arrested on Thursday almost 500 people, including some foreigners, allegedly involved in an online multi-million investment fraud that had victimised people overseas, including in Australia, Russia and South Africa. Police officer Marni Marcos said the suspects were operating...

US President Donald Trump said he would consider inviting North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to the White House if their summit in Singapore goes well. Mr Trump made the comment after meeting Japan’s … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2JDnoCe Get more World News

Facebook has acknowledged that a software glitch changed the settings of some 14 million users, potentially making some posts public even if they were intended to be private. The news marked the latest in a series of privacy embarrassments for the........ Read more via Channels Television –...