A Chinese professor has sparked a public backlash after he asked a visiting Kazakh diplomat how to make Chinese women “have children obediently, early and in large numbers” at a think tank event. Wang Xianju, a professor at Renmin University and a former counsellor at the Chinese embassy in Belarus, was speaking to Erlan Qarin, … Read more
Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel, The Country Girls, before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93. O’Brien died Saturday after a long illness, according to a statement by … Read more
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Monday adjourned JDS MLA HD Revanna’s plea on quashing the first information report (FIR) filed against him in a case of alleged abduction of a sexual assault survivor from her home in Mysuru district. The high court will hear the case on Friday. Revanna, a former minister and son … Read more
In a recent development of the Pune Porsche car accident, the Pune Police Crime Branch seized a Mercedes used for the abduction of the driver on May 28. Pune Police has recorded a fresh statement from the driver, where he confirmed and identified that this was the car in which he was abducted. Earlier, the … Read more
Gunmen have abducted the paramount ruler of Mbo Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State. Okon Abang was abducted on Saturday by gunmen who stormed his palace at Ebughu at about 9 p.m., Vanguard newspaper reported. The police spokesperson in Akwa Ibom State, Timfon John, confirmed the abduction to PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday. Ms John, an assistant superintendent of … Read more
Three persons have been reported killed and eight others abducted by bandits in two attacks reported in Kaduna State on Monday and Tuesday. The abductions happened at Unguwan Habuja, a village in Kakangi ward of Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of the state, where two persons were also reported killed. The village lies about three … Read more
A Nigerian journalist, Segun Olatunji, has regained his freedom after 14 days in a military detention facility in Abuja. Mr Olatunji’s release was announced on Thursday at a joint presser by the International Press Institute, the Nigerian Guild of Editors and the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Abuja. Mr Olatunji, the editor of FirstNews, was … Read more
