world news 081118

A gunman who opened fire and killed as many as twelve people inside a bar in California, has been identified..... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2RHOkBd Get more World News

Rwanda prosecutors on Wednesday requested the High Court in Kigali to hand both Diane Shima Rwigara and her mother Adeline Mukangemana 22-year prison sentences for, among other charges, inciting insurrection.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2Dt0Lh5 Get more World News

Drug Lord El Chapo has a simple request for the judge in his drug trial … he wants to hug his wife in the courtroom.... Read more via Stella Dimoko Korkus.com – https://ift.tt/2PeTKqG Get more World News

Two civil society groups, Access to Justice,AJ and the Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria, NOPRIN, have requested the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres to visit Nigeria as well as intervene in the alleged human rights violation in the country... Read more via...

Walmart is kicking off its in-store Black Friday sale at 6 p.m. local time on Thanksgiving. Black Friday deals arrive on Walmart.com on November 21.... Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s entertainment & lifestyle platform online – https://ift.tt/2F5FvzI Get more World News

Uganda on Wednesday started Ebola vaccinations for frontline health workers in the infected areas with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, a WHO country representative in Uganda, told newsmen that the operation kicked off in Uganda’s western district of...

In the South Sudanese town of Yei, preparations are underway to guard against the spread of Ebola from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Yei is some 300 kilometers from the DRC, which is battling an outbreak of the viral haemorraghic fever. A key concern is the … Read more via...

The White House on Wednesday suspended the press pass of a CNN reporter who earlier sparred with Donald Trump at a news conference, in which the US president branded the journalist an “enemy of the people..... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2QswYIq Get more World News

Vice's web traffic dipped to 27 million unique visitors in September and 2018 revenue is expected to be flat. Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc, who took over for Shane Smith in March is cutting some staff at the digital publisher, The Wall … Read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s entertainment &...