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Friday, May 27, 2016

British Airways Too

An Airbus A320 passenger aircraft, operated by British Airways, prepares to land in London. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)

British Airways is evaluating its routes to Nigeria, adding to aviation-industry pressure on the government as sister carrier Iberia and U.S. competitor United Airlines halt flights to the oil-based market as traffic stutters and currency controls delay access to revenue.

Governor Godwin Emefiele

Nigeria’s central bank may soon give bond and stock investors what they have been pleading for: a weaker Naira.

Harvard's 'The Most Powerful' Graduation Speech, Ever

It's the speech Harvard University is calling "the most powerful, heartfelt" speech "you will ever hear."

New Russian military vehicles, including the T-14 Armata tank, making their way to Red Square.

A new book by Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's deputy supreme allied commander for Europe from 2011 to 2014, evokes a potential scenario that leads to a devastating future war with Russia.

United Airlines will stop flying to Nigeria next month, ending the carrier’s only route to Africa because of weakness in the energy sector and difficulty in collecting money from tickets sold in that country.

In Hiroshima, Obama hHonors 'Silent Cry' Of Bombing Victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) —

President Barack Obama paid tribute Friday to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 victims of the atomic bomb dropped 71 years ago on Hiroshima, and called on the world to abandon "the logic of fear" that encourages the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

The revelation by Nigeria's auditor general that $16bn (£11bn) of oil revenue went missing in 2014 has emphasised the scale of the task facing President Muhammadu Buhari in his efforts to clean up the oil sector. Neil Ford, an expert on oil, crime and security in Nigeria, outlines some of the ways in which huge amounts of money are stolen and assesses the president's chance of success.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari won elections in March partly on a promise to crush the militant Islamist group Boko Haram - and gave his military chiefs until the end of the year to beat the insurgents. Ahead of the deadline, the BBC's Martin Patience joined the army on patrol in the combat zone.

President Muhammadu Buhari came to power promising Nigerians "change". Novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani gives five examples of what has changed in Nigeria since 29 May 2015 when he was sworn in.

1. Are we safer?

Those of us who travel regularly in Nigeria's north-east had become used to what should be a 15-minute journey turning into an hour-long ordeal.

'Incredibly Rare' 19th Century Shipwreck in Boston Construction

A 19th century shipwreck buried underground in Boston is being excavated today after it was unearthed by chance late last week.

Iran Could Destroy Israel in ‘Minutes’: Commander

An Iranian military adviser has said that Iran could wipe out Israel “in less than eight minutes” if the order was given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Even social-media billionaire Mark Zuckerberg draws a line at oversharing.

A bride’s decision to reply to congratulatory text messages from relatives and friends following her wedding ceremony resulted in the demise of her marriage, Gulf News reports.

Japan's Inustrialization

What supported the startling industrialization of Meiji Japan was not the direct import of vain invocations from the West. It was individual businessmen of strong character who, burned with zeal and the proud engineers, who absorbed new learning like a sponge absorbs water and raced around the machines that equipped the factory floors. Japan during the period of its industrial revolution was very much like a living museum packed with energetic industrialists.

These days it's hard to control how fast stories can spread across social media — especially those with misinformation. One father found this out after a viral Facebook post wrongly accused him of being a pedophile.

Were EgyptAir Flight 804 Pilots Killed Before They Could Send a Mayday?

Whatever triggered a meltdown of the Airbus’s flight controls could also have brought instant death in the cockpit.

Among the many questions raised by the EgyptAir Flight 804 tragedy, the most perplexing concerns one thing that did not happen: Why was there no Mayday distress call from the pilots?

The Pentagon says it launched an airstrike in Afghanistan Saturday targeting the Taliban's overall leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansur, who was killed, according to Afghan and Taliban officials.

A U.S. official said Saturday, however, that Mansur was "likely killed" in the airstrike. Afghan intelligence confirmed Sunday to ABC News that Mansur was killed. And Senior Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Rauf also told The Associated Press Sunday that Mansur had been killed in the airstrike.

Egypt President On EgyptAir Crash

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi says "all the theories are possible" as investigators probe the EgyptAir plane crash (AFP Photo/)
Cairo (AFP) - President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Sunday no theory was being favoured on why EgyptAir MS804 plunged into the Mediterranean and that Egypt was using a submarine to locate the black boxes.

(Scott Olson/Getty Images) Donald Trump.
Donald Trump made an unprecedented move this week that could go a long way toward shoring up his support among the Republican Party establishment.

As investigators pored over the physical remains of EgyptAir Flight 804 on a ship tonight, tapes of the voices of the men who flew the plane have been made public for the first time.

Law enforcement officers shot a man who brandished a gun near the White House on Friday while President Barack Obama was out golfing, and the man was taken to hospital in critical condition, officials and witnesses said.

China & Taiwan On One China

China has threatened to cut off regular communication with Taiwan unless the country's new president acknowledges the so-called One China principle.

Friday, May 27, 2016

1. Are we safer?

Those of us who travel regularly in Nigeria's north-east had become used to what should be a 15-minute journey turning into an hour-long ordeal.

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