SECURITY has been stepped up at Mediclinic heart hospital, the South African hospital where Nelson Mandela is receiving intensive care for a fourth day.

According to theguardian,  six uniformed police officers guarding the Mediclinic heart...

• Britain denies using U.S. spy schemes to circumvent law

• ‘Canada eavesdropping on phone, Internet records too’

CONTROVERSIES surrounding America’s intelligence surveillance programmes have also  linked Canadian security...

S’African govt says Madiba remains in serious but stable condition

THE Chairperson, African Union (AU) Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have joined others in sending get well messages and prayers to ailing...

THE Buckingham Palace Monday disclosed that Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, is in “good spirits” in hospital where he will stay for up to two weeks, but will then require two months of convalescence.

Philip, who spent his 92nd...

THE United States (U.S.) government could make a decision as early as this week on whether to arm Syrian rebels, U.S. officials said Monday, as Secretary of State John Kerry put off a Middle East trip to attend meetings on the subject.

However...

DIRECTOR of United States (U.S.) National Intelligence, James Clapper, has canvassed a criminal probe into bombshell leaks of government monitoring of Internet users and phone records, amid a furor over the secret programmes’ threat to...

AFTER what is seen as months of tensions and threats of nuclear war, North and South Korea Sunday held their first official talks for more than two years with a view to set up a high-level meeting in Seoul.

The working-level discussions –...

ISREALI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that his country has been the target of a growing number of cyber attacks from Iran and its militant allies Hezbollah and Hamas.

Netanyahu told a cyber security conference at Tel Aviv...

THE Swiss voted overwhelmingly Sunday in favour of a government move to tighten the country’s asylum law amid a spike in refugees, in what opponents of the changes decried as a “disaster”.

A full 78.4 per cent of voters embraced changes...

FORMER President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in South Africa with a lung infection.

A presidential spokesman said he is in a "serious but stable condition", although he was able to breathe on his own - a "positive sign".

Mr...

The new Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mustafa Pulat, who recently presented his letters of credence to President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, was in Lagos recently. He attended the Lagos Motor fair and Spare Parts Exhibition at the Federal Palace...

IT is a big annual interface between (first world) Japan and third world, Africa. In a sense, that old Asian tiger is in some kind of alliance with the countries mostly in the south of the hemisphere, to see if there can be some coaching on how to...

EXCESSIVE  police force against demonstrators "has no place" in a democracy, European Union Enlargement Commissioner, Stefan Fule, told Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, urging a probe into a week of violent unrest in Turkey, a...

PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed that Russian peacekeepers  should replace departing Austrian troops monitoring the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line in the Golan Heights that has been the scene of an upsurge in fighting in recent...