BREAKING - AIR ALGERIE PLANE DISAPPEARS FROM RADAR!

The Algerian news agency says an Air Algerie flight with 110 people nd 6 crew on-board, from Ouagadougou -Burkina Faso to Algiers has disappeared from the radar.

Information made available said air navigation services lost track of the plane 50 minutes after takeoff early Thursday, last sited at 0155 GMT.

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Police IG MD Abubakar and Wife welcome baby boy!

The Inspector General of Police, MD Abubakar and wife, Zarah had their first child recently.

The bouncing baby boy was delivered in Atlanta, USA and the excited father will leave Nigeria today to be re-united with his wife and the new baby.

The couple got married September 13, 2013 after the IGP lost his first wife, Maryam Abubakar to cancer in January, 2012.

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TERROR THREAT AGAINST NORWAY!

Norway's intelligence service revealed on Thursday that it received information about an imminent "concrete threat" against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria.

Head of Norwegian security service PST Benedicte Bjoernland, said the agency has received "reliable information" from a foreign partner about some kind of attack "within days."

"It was unspecific about what the target might be," Bjoernland said, adding PST has no information about how or when such an attack would take place.

According to PST's assessment last month, about 50 people have traveled to Syria from Norway as foreign fighters, half of whom have now returned to Norway. he declined to give further details.

The domestic intelligence agency could not exclude that people involved with the threat already were in Norway, adding it had called staff back from their summer vacation to further investigate the information.

CAR armed factions sign ceasefire pact!

Representatives of the majority-Muslim Seleka have signed a ceasefire agreement with Christian factions to end fighting in the Central African Republic.

The signing of the pact on Wednesday in Brazzaville, the capital of neighboring Republic of Congo, came after heavy pressure from regional mediators, aims to put an end to months of sectarian violence.

It is however not clear if the ceasefire will be respected by the fighters in Central African Republic.

Mohamed Moussa Dhaffane represented the Seleka faction. 

CAR has been gripped by ethnic and religious violence since northern Seleka rebels seized power in the predominantly Christian nation in 2013.

The Seleka left power in January under international pressure and since then anti-balaka Christian militias have targeted Muslims.

Those attacks have largely driven Muslims from the capital Bangui and the west, effectively partitioning the country, whose east is controlled mainly by Seleka.

A civilian transitional government is now tasked with organizing national elections by February.

Gen. Buhari's convoy attacked as deadly explosion rocks Kaduna!

Two explosions have ripped through the northern Nigeria city of Kaduna, killing at least 40 people, police say.

The first explosion targeted moderate Islamic cleric Dahiru Bauchi while the second one targeted senior opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari, a BBC reporter in the city says. Both escaped unhurt.

There are body parts and damaged cars on the busy Alkali Road in the city centre where the bomb targeting Mr Bauchi exploded, reports the BBC's Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar from the scene. 

Kaduna Police chief Shehu Umar said at least 25 people were killed in that blast, apparently caused by a suicide bomber. 

Another 15 were killed in the second blast, he said. 

Mr Bauchi had completed a preaching session in the nearby Murtala Muhammed square, and was driving through the area in an open-roofed vehicle, greeting well-wishers when he was targeted. 

It was revealed that followers of the renowned cleric have reacted angrily, throwing stones at the security forces and accusing them of failing to protect Nigerians, our reporter says; the security forces retaliated by firing tear gas. 

About 90 minutes after the first attack, a second explosion ripped through the crowded Kawo area, targeting the motorcade of Gen Buhari, a former military ruler of Nigeria and a senior member of the All Progressive Congress opposition party. 



Information given by BBC's reporters says gunmen rammed a vehicle into his convoy, firing shots at it, as a result, two of Gen Buhari's bodyguards were slightly wounded in the attack. 

Bodies of MH 17 victims arrive Netherlands!

Bodies of some MH17 victims arrived in Netherlands today...

Dignitaries and top government officials were present at the airport the receive the bodies.

A moment of silence was observed across the Netherlands, flags were flown at half mast.

As the planes touched the ground, trains reportedly stopped on the rail and buses pulled over on the road to observe a moments of silence.

The family members who were present at the airport were not shown on air out of respect.

The bodies were then taken to a military medical facility where a team of 75 technicians await for identification, a procedure believed to take a longer period of time.

The rest of the victim's bodies is expected to be brought back to the Netherlands latest by Friday.

BREAKING.....Passenger plane crash in Taiwan killing 45 people on board!

At least 45 people is feared dead and nine people are injured after  a passenger plane believed to be operated by TransAsia Airways crashed just outside Magong airport in Taiwan on Wednesday.

Information at our disposal says the flight, which was coded GE 222, took off at about 5 p.m. in Kaohsiung and was scheduled to land at Magong 35 minutes later. Unfortunately, it crashed after making emergency landing on the outlying island county of Penghu, outside Magog around 7 p.m,  local fire department said that the 45 had no life signs.

The reason the crash happened over an hour later was not immediately clear, but there are reports of severe typhoon 'matmo' weather in the crash area.