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http://ift.tt/2o5Qzjl A general views shows the Monastery of Marmina in the city of Borg El-Arab, east of Alexandria on April 10, 2017, as mourners attend the funeral of victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria the previous day. Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the deadliest attacks in recent memory on the country's Coptic Christian minority. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED Masked gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians on a visit to a monastery south of the Egyptian capital on Friday, killing at least 26 people, officials said. The assailants sprayed the bus headed for Saint Samuel monastery in Minya province with gunfire before fleeing, provincial governor Essam el-Bedawi told state television. “They used automatic weapons,” he said. Health ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed told state television that 26 people were killed and another 25 wounded. Be...

http://ift.tt/2rCTEwB US President Donald Trump (C) gestures as he is welcomed by European Council President Donald Tusk (L) at EU headquarters, as part of the NATO meeting, in Brussels, on May 25, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / THIERRY CHARLIER European Union president Donald Tusk said talks with US President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed no “common position” on Russia, a subject on which the US leader faces pressure at home. Tusk, along with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, also argued for the benefits of open trade and the Paris climate agreement that Trump is opposed to. Those issues “remained open”, Tusk said, though an EU official said the sides agreed to set up an EU-US task force on trade. “I’m not 100 percent sure that we can say today — ‘we’ means Mr President and myself — that we have a common position, common opinion about Russia,” Tusk said after meeting Trump at EU headquarters in Brussels. “Although, when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine it see...

http://ift.tt/2qOEUt0 The devices are available in Midnight Black, Orchid Gray and Maple Gold colours with internal memory of 64GB and up to 256GB microSD support. Samsung Electronics is investigating claims by a German hacking group that it fooled the iris recognition system of the new flagship Galaxy S8 device, the firm said Wednesday. The launch of the Galaxy S8 was a key step for the world’s largest smartphone maker as it sought to move on from last year’s humiliating withdrawal of the fire-prone Galaxy Note 7s, which hammered the firm’s once-stellar reputation. But a video posted by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a German hacking group founded in 1981, shows the Galaxy S8 being unlocked using a printed photo of the owner’s eye covered with a contact lens to replicate the curvature of a real eyeball. “A high-resolution picture from the internet is sufficient to capture an iris,” CCC spokesman Dirk Engling said, adding: “Ironically, we got the best results with laser pri...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A Virgin Atlantic flight was delayed at Dubai international airport on Tuesday after additional security checks were deemed necessary, a Dubai airport spokesperson said. “The security checks were carried out in close cooperation with Dubai police and the airline, following which the aircraft was cleared for departure,’’ the spokesperson added. Virgin Atlantic confirmed the plane was evacuated ahead of its departure to London. It added that the passengers were removed from the plane as a precautionary measure for additional security checks, not due to a credible threat. The incident took place after a suspected suicide bombing killed 22 people, including children, following a pop concert in the British city of Manchester on Monday.   The post Flight from Dubai to London evacuated for extra security measures appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qRFDIf

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Supreme Court, Monday, dismissed the application filed by the factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Modu Sheriff, against his rival, Senator Ahmed Makarfi wherein he prayed the court to stop the Supreme Court from hearing the appeal earlier filed by Senator Makarfi on March 16, challenging the February 27 ruling of the Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, which declared him, Sheriff, as the legitimate National Chairman of the party. . Sheriff had filed the application on March 21. Sheriff had argued that the Makarfi’s faction was not recognised by the party and that he (Sheriff) as the legitimate chairman did not authorise anyone to file an appeal on behalf of the party. But the Supreme Court in its ruling read by the Chief Justice of the Federation Justice Walter Onnoghen, said that, according to the laws of the apex court, appeals must be filed within three months after the appeal court ruling and the application in qu...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A don has advised the Centre for Black Arts and African Civilisation (CBAAC) to include intellectual activities as part of programmes for the celebration of FESTAC 77 @40. Prof. Olu Obafemi of the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ilorin, gave the advice in a telephone interview with newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos. He said that the celebration should not only centre on entertainment. It should include intellectual activities that would instill knowledge on foreign delegates and Nigerians on different cultural matters, he said. According to him, these should include symposia, lectures, dialogue and debate sessions to boost attendees’ knowledge on Nigerian culture, arts and craft, Obafemi said these areas were capable of endearing interests of foreign tourists to Nigeria. He lauded CBAAC’s plans to re-institutionalise the historic cultural festival as it had placed Nigeria on a unique stand amongst many nations of the world. “‘I will advise that we hav...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Abuja – A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old decorator, Manfred Madubuike, to one month imprisonment for stealing telephone valued N35, 000. Madubuike of no fixed address was convicted after he pleaded guilty of the offence and begged for leniency. The Area Court Judge, Mr Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict the option to pay N3, 000 as fine, and warned him to desist from crime. The Prosecutor, Dalhatu Zannah, had told the court that one Andrew Ayo of Jabi Dakibiyu village, Abuja, reported the matter at Jabi Dakibiyu Police Station on May 2, 2017. Zannah said that the convict criminally entered into the complainant’s shop while he was sleeping and stolen his telephone worth N35, 000. He said that the convict ran away to an unknown destination and that during police investigations, efforts to recover the stolen telephone proved abortive. Zannah said that the convict made a confessional statement, and that the offence ...