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Israel supports Donald Trump’s decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks, but said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. The office said Israel backed the US move, provided Tehran immediately opens the strait of Hormuz and stops attacks against the United States, Israel and countries in the region. The Pakistani …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump over the course of a day went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that the battered Islamic Republic’s leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a 14-day ceasefire that he expects to pave the way to end the nearly six-week-old war. The dramatic shift in tenor came as …

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that, based on conversations with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, he will delay the “bombing and attack of Iran” for two weeks. Trump said the decision came after the leaders requested the U.S. “hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran,” which the president previously threatened would …

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday called for maximum restraint and full respect for international law amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. It stressed its rejection of any threats against critical civilian infrastructure. “We have always said that diplomacy is the answer,” Anitta Hipper, the European Commission’s lead spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, said at …

The Nigerian government on Tuesday started the mass trial of suspected terrorists charged with terrorism offences at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports previous mass trial of terrorism suspects took place in Kainji in Niger State. Federal High Court judges are generally on vacation from 7 April (today) till 13 April. Regular court …

Over Taiwan’s Qingming holiday weekend, as families cleaned ancestral graves and crowded around dinner tables, a familiar debate has resurfaced: should this island democracy rely more heavily on the United States for its security or try to reduce tensions by engaging with China? For some, the war in Iran has raised urgent questions about how much attention the US can …

  In December 2016, SaharaReporters reported how Wike, then as Rivers State Governor, was caught on tape as he held telephone conversations with INEC officials, political thugs, youth groups, and community representatives handpicked by him. An audio recording of FCT Minister Nyesom Wike threatening an INEC official in 2016 has resurfaced amid public outrage over his recent threat to shoot …

Explosions have been reported on Iran’s Kharg Island, from which almost all the country’s oil is exported, according to the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr. Mehr reported “several explosions” but provided no further details. US President Donald Trump has on several occasions threatened to bomb the island or to seize it. On March 30, Trump said in a social media …

Abuja: Residents of the FCT), have expressed optimism that with the approval of N3.3 trillion by the Federal Government to settle the long-standing debts owed generation companies, electricity supply will improve. The residents spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. NAN reports that Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and …

The crew of the Artemis 2 lunar mission has travelled further from Earth than any humans ever before, the US space agency NASA announced on Monday. The four astronauts travelled 406,711 kilometres from Earth, eclipsing the 400,171 km record set in 1970 by the crew of the Apollo 13 mission. The Artemis 2 crew – U.S. astronauts Victor Glover, Christina …