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4 children among 9 civilians dead in US Syria strike A US missile strike targeting an airbase in central Syria killed nine civilians, including four children, on Friday, state news agency SANA reported. The news agency said five of the civilians, among them three children, were killed in the village of Shayrat just outside the base of the same name. In this image released by the US Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. US President Donald Trump ordered a massive military strike on a Syrian air base on Thursday in retaliation for a “barbaric” chemical attack he blamed on President Bashar al-Assad. The missiles were fired from the USS Porter and the USS Ross, which belong to the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet and are located in the eastern Mediterranean. / AFP “An American missile also hit the village of Al-Hamrat, which killed four civilians including a child,” it added. “Another seven civilians were

Boko Haram kills troops after deadly raid on Borno farmers Boko Haram jihadists have killed four soldiers in an ambush in northeast Nigeria, where they torched an army base a day after killing seven civilians, a soldier and witnesses said. This handout image received courtesy of Doctors Without Border (MSF) on January 17, 2017, shows people standing next to destruction after an air force jet accidentally bombarded a camp for those displaced by Boko Haram Islamists, in Rann, northeast Nigeria. At least 52 aid workers and civilians were killed on January 17, 2017, when an air force jet accidentally bombed a camp in northeast Nigeria instead of Boko Haram militants, medical charity MSF said. / AFP PHOTO / Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MSF)” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS “Our men came under attack near Gubdori village yesterday,” the

I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking end ‘chemical’ attack – Trump  President Donald Trump ordered a massive military strike on a Syrian air base Thursday, in retaliation for a “barbaric” chemical attack he blamed on President Bashar al-Assad. In a brief televised address delivered hours after the UN Security Council failed to agree on a probe into the apparent chemical attack, Trump confirmed the first American targeted strike against Assad’s regime.     US President, Donald Trump  Declaring it in America’s “vital national security interest” to prevent the spread of deadly chemical weapons, Trump accused Assad of a “very barbaric attack” in which “even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered.” “Tonight I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end this slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types,” Trump said. Trump’s visceral reaction to the suspected sarin attack prompted a swift and massive resp

Breaking: U.S. fires 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria New York – The U.S. fired Tomahawk missiles into Syria early Friday in retaliation against the regime of Bashar al-Assad for using nerve agents to attack civilians, U.S. Department of Defense said. The Department said President Donald Trump ordered the attack on Al-Shayrat Air Base, the base from which the chemical attack on Syria’s Idlib province was launched. The statement by Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria, said the missiles were launched from U.S. Navy ships in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. “At the direction of the president, U.S. forces conducted a cruise missile strike against a Syrian Air Force airfield today at about 8:40 p.m. EDT (4:40 a.m., April 7, in Syria). “The strike targeted Shayrat Airfield in Homs governorate, and were in response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack April 4 in Khan Sheikhoun, which killed and injured hundreds of innocent Syrian peop

[REVEALED] North Korean Hackers Attack Banks In Nigeria, 17 Other Countries North Korean Nuclear Weapon North Korea hackers are allegedly attacking banks in Nigeria and 18 other countries according to a Russian online cyber security firm, Kaspersky. The organisation noted in its report on Thursday, April 6 that this could be regarded as the biggest bank heist in world history. Reports said banks and security researchers had previously identified four similar cyber-heists attempt on financial institutions in Bangladesh, Ecuador, the Philippines and Vietnam. According to a report on the hacking claims by CNN, two international security experts believe North Korea is likely spending the stolen funds on its nuclear weapons program. Researchers at Kaspersky said the same hacking operation, known as “Lazarus”, also attacked financial institutions in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Poland, Taiwan, Thailand, Uruguay and Nigeria. T

‘Biafrans Should Forget About Breaking Up Because We Will Never Allow It’ – Britain Biafra supporters have been advised to shelve the idea of seceding from the country. as the United Kingdom remains solidly behind one and indivisible Nigeria. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria Paul Arkwright made this affirmation at a public lecture titled “‎Brexit: Lessons, Challenges and Opportunities for Nigeria”, at the Federal University, Lokoja, on Thursday, April 6. Speaking on the position of Britain on the groups pushing to break from Nigeria, the envoy‎ said the UK remained firm in its support for one Nigeria. He noted that the unity of Nigeria should not be negotiable, stressing that the country will be better under one umbrella. “The strength of Nigeria is not in her money or oil but her greatest asset remains her well-endowed and resourceful people,” Arkwright said. Source: (nigerianmonitor)By  Hanuoluwapo