Monthly Archives: August 2013
SA bank ready to swoop on Nigeria
Absa Group Limited, one of the 'big four' consumer banks in South Africa, has shown interest in entering the Nigerian market in a move...
Demonstrations as Nazi war criminal turns 100
Demonstrators gathered in Rome on Monday 29 July outside the home of Erich Priebke, a former Nazi SS officer celebrating his 100th birthday.
Priebke is...
Seven dead in Florida hostage siege
Seven people were killed in a Florida apartment building last weekend when one tenant went on a shooting rampage, killing six before being taken...
Admiral killed in gang ambush
One of Mexico’s highest ranking military officials was killed at the weekend in an ambush on a rural road in the western state of...
Turkish embassy workers killed in bombing
In the latest of a series of blasts claimed by the militant group al Shabaab, a car loaded with explosives hit an office housing...
Sacked VP seeks to lead country
Riek Machar, the former vice president of South Sudan who was sacked last week, has said that he now wants to challenge President Salva...
