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We Are Unhappy in Europe, some Iraqis are heading back home

At 25, Faisal Uday Faisal had high expectations when he packed his bags for Europe in September. After quitting his job making tea and cleaning for the Ministry of Education in Baghdad, he set off to Turkey to join more than a million refugees and migrants who have made their way to the continent in the past year. “My dream since I was a child was to go to Europe,” he said. “I was imagining a beautiful life, a secure life, with an apartment and a salary.” But despite a grueling month-long journey to Sweden, he went back home, one of a surging number of returnees, I

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China sends warning to Taiwan as it prepares to elect first woman president

As a British-educated admirer of Margaret Thatcher, Tsai Ing-wen, who studied in London, is the woman set to become leader of China’s fierce rival Taiwan was always likely to be regarded with suspicion by Beijing’s Communist Party apparatus. The fact that she is head of a party dedicated to promoting the island’s independence from the Chinese mainland only makes matters worse. Beijing duly met expectations yesterday by firing a warning shot across the bows of Tsai Ing-wen, favourite to become first woman leader of Taiwan - the first woman leader, in fact, in the modern C

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Full list of winners of 2015 Headies Awards

Below is the full list of winners of the very interesting Headies awards which held last night in Lagos.   Best Street-Hop Artiste Olamide (‘Bobo’) Best Pop Single ‘Godwin’ by Korede Bello Best Male Performance Timi Dakolo (‘Wish me well’) Best R&B single ‘Wish me well’ by Timi Dakolo Best rap single ‘King kong’ by Vector (more…)