There are fears that the extremists will commit more atrocities in an attempt to spread fear as they try to hold on to their last major Iraqi bastion.
The World Health Organisation has recommended that people potentially exposed to the Zika virus should practice safe sex.
Yellow fever continues to spread. The disease, which has caused 200 deaths in Angola, has now killed 21 people in the DRC.
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes Sepp Blatter is not only innocent, but deserves a Nobel prize for his stewardship of Fifa.
A co-pilot who hijacked and diverted an Ethiopian Airlines flight in search of asylum, is being questioned by police, say authorities.
Nicholas Kay, UN special representative for Somalia, says troops in the East African country require more resources to combat al-Shabab.
Zimbabweans themselves must resolve a row over President Robert Mugabe’s decision to call an election on July 31, says the head of the AU commission.
China’s plan for the next five years will put a hard target on energy use, capping consumption at four billion tonnes of coal equivalent by 2015.
No image available
/ 22 January 2008
China’s state-backed miners have looked at Xstrata but are unlikely to bid for it, leaving Brazil’s Vale or Anglo-American best placed to snap up the Anglo-Swiss miner. Vale, which produces a fifth of the world’s iron ore, said on Monday that it was in talks with Xstrata about a takeover.
No image available
/ 11 December 2006
Shell’s experience in the Russian Federation proves the Kremlin has slammed the door on foreign investors who want control of strategic projects — and other investors would do well to take heed, analysts and fund managers said on Monday. Shell has offered to cede control of its $22-billion Sakhalin-2 project to the state gas monopoly.