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Manchester attacker Salman Abedi was flagged to UK authorities five times about his extremist views before committing the atrocity that killed 22 people on Monday, The Daily Telegraph reported. The newspaper noted the times Abedi had been reported. Citing information also reported by the BBC, it said: He told friends “being a suicide bomber was okay,” something that led them to ...

The co-owner of London’s West Ham United Football Club has promised to give free accommodation to a homeless man who came to the aide of victims of Monday’s Manchester terror attack. The British businessman, David Sullivan, and his son, Dave Jr, said they wanted to help get the man “back on his feet” after seeing the compassion he had shown ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – One of Harvard University’s most famous dropouts, Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg, returns on Thursday to the Ivy League school to address its graduating class. The 33-year-old tech titan, who dropped out the college to found the pioneering social network company, has been on a nostalgia trip during the week leading up to Harvard’s commencement. On ...

Lagos – Nigeria said on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar seizure in the city, a spokesperson told AFP. “Following intelligence reports, our operatives on Monday inspected a 40-foot container at the Tin Can port in Apapa, Lagos, and found 440 pieces of assorted pump action rifles ...

Nairobi – Somali pirates have hijacked an Iranian fishing boat and taken it to a port in the north of the country, a watchdog group said on Wednesday. The ocean-going dhow with a crew of up to 20 was seized by pirates off Qandala in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on Tuesday, said John Steed, regional manager for Oceans Beyond Piracy, ...

Harare – President Robert Mugabe’s only daughter Bona has been appointed to the country’s Censorship Board, which determines which parts of steamy films the people of Zimbabwe can watch and which they can’t. To help her in this task is Mugabe’s longstanding friend and confidante, Father Fidelis Mukonori, who is a Roman Catholic priest, and former education minister Aeneas Chigwedere, ...

At least 20 migrants, some of them young children, have drowned after falling into the sea off the Libyan coast, Italy’s coastguard says. The overcrowded boat was carrying about 500 migrants and a rescue operation is under way, reports say. “There’s a critical situation… about 200 people fell into the water,” a coastguard spokesman said. The central Mediterranean route for ...

US President Donald Trump has met Pope Francis at the Vatican for a short private audience on the third leg of his overseas trip. He arrived for the meeting along with his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The meeting was keenly awaited as the two men have already clashed at a distance on issues including migration and ...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia will be the next director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). He will be the first African to head up the UN agency, after winning the most votes from 186 member states. He replaces Margaret Chan, who will step down from her 10-year post at the end of June. During her tenure, the WHO’s ...

Boko Haram militants have beheaded four internally displaced people in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday ( 20 May), local media reported. The victims were decapitated as they were hunting outside the Dalori camp in Maiduguri, capital of restive Borno state, the Premium Times reported. The victims were part of a 12-men-strong hunting group. Six of them managed to return to the ...