Abuja, May 4 (IANS) Pirates have released a Singapore-registered tanker off Nigeria, Xinhua reported.
All 24 crew members BW Rhine are safe. “We are all very relieved and our immediate priority is to ensure the well being of our employees,” CEO of BW Maritime company Andreas Sohmen-Pao said in a statement. The tanker was seized off Togo April 28.
A member of the provincial assembly of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was among 20 people killed in a bomb blast Tuesday, a media report said.
The Maldives anti-corruption watchdog has ruled out any corruption in the deal to award the country's only operational international airport to Indian infrastructure giant GMR group, a media report said Tuesday.
At least 32 people were killed and over 50 injured in twin suicide bomb attacks at a mosque in the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said.
