Reports reaching ViewPointNigeria from the Vatican indicates Pope Benedict XVI has said that he will resign on February 28. Reverend Father Federico Lombardi who is the Vatican spokesman said the ailing Pope was resigning because of advanced age. The 85 year old Pope told the College of Cardinals at the Vatican that “Strength of mind […]

Cairo — Egypt’s military deposed the country’s first democratically elected president Wednesday night, installing the head of the country’s highest court as an interim leader, the country’s top general announced. Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi said the military was fulfilling its “historic responsibility” to protect the country by ousting Mohamed Morsy, the Western-educated Islamist leader […]

A suicide attack on a train station in Russia’s southern city of Volgograd has killed 16 people, officials say. Initial official claims that the bomber was a lone woman has been replaced by uncertainty about who carried it out. President Vladimir Putin has ordered security to be tightened at railway stations and airports across Russia. […]

More than 80 people have been killed by two blasts in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, activists and officials say. The explosions reportedly struck an area between the University of Aleppo’s halls of residence and the architecture faculty on the first day of exams. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll […]