LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari apologized Saturday for plagiarizing President Barack Obama's 2008 victory speech and said he will punish those responsible.
The announcement came as Obama is set to meet Buhari, the leader of Africa's largest economy and most populous country, next week in New York.
Several lines were almost identical to Obama's in a speech Buhari made Sept. 8 launching his campaign "Change Begins With Me." The campaign promotes a new way of thinking to rid Nigeria of widespread corruption.
PARIS – A terminally ill minor has been helped to die in Belgium for the first time since the country did away with age restrictions on euthanasia two years ago, according to the senator who wrote the law.
Liberal Senator Jean-Jacques De Gucht confirmed the death of the sick juvenile Saturday. He said the minor was from Belgium's Flemish region but declined to provide any further details about the patient to protect the privacy of the grieving family.
Belgium is the only country that allows minors of any age assistance in dying, De Gucht said. In Holland, the lower age limit for euthanasia is 12 years.
BAGHDAD – The governor of Iraq’s western Anbar province says families have begun returning to Fallujah three months after the city was declared fully liberated from the Islamic State group.
Suhaib al-Rawi says 40 families were cleared to return after they passed background checks and their neighborhoods were deemed safe.
Fallujah was declared “fully liberated” in late June after a monthlong operation by Iraqi forces aided with U.S.-led airstrikes.
Fallujah had been the first Iraqi city to fall to ISIS, in January 2014.
Associated Press
