Hundreds of Ugandans and athletes paid their last respects at her funeral on Saturday for Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who was doused in petrol and set alight by her partner just weeks after running the Paris Olympic marathon. The 33-year-old marathon runner died on September 5 from severe, multiple injuries after being attacked on September … Read more
Peru will bury former President Alberto Fujimori on Saturday, who ruled with an iron fist between 1990 and 2000 and spent his final years in prison for corruption and crimes against humanity. Peru’s former strongman, of Japanese origin, died on Wednesday at the age of 86 at his home in Lima from cancer. After three … Read more
DUBLIN (Reuters) – A strike vote at Boeing could hit the U.S. planemaker’s output and reduce the number of planes Ryanair will receive next summer from 25 to 20, the Irish Air Force’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, told Newstalk radio on Saturday. According to the latter, the low-cost airline group, one of Boeing’s largest customers, … Read more
After eight years of work, months of negotiations and several false starts, the continent’s largest refinery, owned by Nigerian tycoon Aliko Dangote, began delivering its first liters of gasoline on Sunday. About 500 tankers were transported on Sunday by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) to the refinery located more than 70 kilometres east of … Read more