KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Nigerian diplomat was found dead in his home in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Thursday, two security sources said, in an apparent murder that police said did not appear to be politically motivated. Source: Reuters World News
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time in the most extensive military exchange ever between the two adversaries. Source: Reuters World News
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska has handed back three private jets he was leasing because U.S. sanctions imposed on him last month make it impossible to keep using the planes, the firm retained by the owners to sell the aircraft said on Thursday. Source: Reuters World News
President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that five of the "most wanted" ISIS leaders have been captured. Source: Latest CNN News
BASEL (Reuters) - A 104-year-old Australian scientist killed himself in Switzerland on Thursday by lethal injection in an assisted suicide he hoped would trigger more lenient euthanasia laws in his home country. Source: Reuters World News
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Bucharest court acquitted former Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta on Thursday of charges of forgery, money-laundering and being an accessory to tax evasion. Source: Reuters World News
A thunderbolt from Zeus couldn't split the Earth with greater force. Source: Latest CNN News
Of the nine entrants in the first ever solo non-stop around-the-world sailing race, one finished, six retired, one was rescued and one disappeared -- believed to have committed suicide. Source: Latest CNN News
The Seychelles Cable System company and the government of Seychelles have agreed to invest in a second fibre-optic cable. The communications upgrade, likely to come late next year, is meant to ensure that residents and visitors are able to stay connected to the outside world should anything happen to the current cable. The Principal Secretary [...]
Weeks of torrential rain after a long drought have turned from blessing to curse in East Africa, killing hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands of others. In Kenya, which had suffered from three failed rainy seasons, 120 people have died in two months, including eight who were swept off a bridge in a [...]