US President Barack Obama allowed US sanctions against Iran to be renewed on Thursday, but in a surprise move declined to actually sign the legislation that brings the sanctions into force. “The extension of the Iran Sanctions Act is becoming law without the president’s signature,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest ...
Only last week two suicide bombers killed 30 people in northeastern Nigeria, but the governor of Borno state, the country’s terrorist heartland, told AFP in an interview that Boko Haram has been defeated. Kashim Shettima said the war against the terrorist militants was “over” and predicted that hundreds of thousands ...