Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has questioned Nasir El-Rufai’s prolonged detention, asking whether the case reflects Nigeria’s anti-corruption fight or a political battle.
France announced fee-free citizenship for eligible foreign military personnel, including Legionnaires and wounded service members, via a Defence-backed route.
Pope Francis, warned by doctors not to travel to Ukraine in the immediate future, will Tuesday bear a message of peace instead to a tense Central Asia with a three-day trip to Kazakhstan. Francis is the second pope to visit Kazakhstan after John Paul II's trip in September 2001.
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Tuesday reported large-scale border clashes that left Azerbaijani troops dead in the latest flare-up between the arch foes. But Azerbaijan's defence ministry accused Armenia of "large-scale subversive acts" near the districts of Dashkesan, Kelbajar and Lachin on the border, adding that its army positions "came under fire, including from trench mortars".
Queen Elizabeth II's steely only daughter Princess Anne rarely lets her emotions show but the grief has been etched on her face since her mother's death. Nine months later, Anne married naval commander Timothy Laurence, a former equerry to Queen Elizabeth.
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