A female suicide bomber blew herself and another bomber up near a police checkpoint in northeastern Nigeria, the epicentre of a seven-year Boko Haram terrorist group, authorities said. One other suspected bomber survived the attack and is being questioned, said Victor Isuku, a police spokesman for the northeastern state of ...
Sri Lanka’s former ambassador to Washington was arrested on Friday accused of misappropriating more than $350,000, the latest member of strongman ex-president Mahinda Rajapakse’s family to be investigated for corruption in office. Jaliya Wickramasuriya, a cousin of former president, was detained at Sri Lanka’s main international airport as he tried ...
