Kerry, Gulf leaders hold talks on Iran deal

Kerry met the Emir of Qatar on Monday morning ahead of a separate meeting with the GCC foreign ministers [Awad Joumaa/AlJazeera]

 John Kerry, the US secretary of state, is meeting senior officials of Arab Gulf states to reassure them over last month’s nuclear deal between world powers and Iran.
Kerry met the Emir of Qatar on Monday morning ahead of a separate meeting with the foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Jessica Alba's Honest Company Responds to Sunscreen Complaints: 'We Take All Consumer Feedback Very Seriously'

Jessica Alba's all-natural product line, the Honest Company, has issued a public response after some customers took to social media to complain about the company's sunscreen line.

Kids who died in Lagos fire incident begged mum not to lock them in, this is so Sad

The three siblings, Christiana, Feranmi and Pelumi, who were burnt to death in the fire that engulfed some shops at Mechanic village, Oke-Afa, Isolo area of Lagos State, would have escaped death last Thursday, had their mother granted their wish.

Buhari releases N5bn for victims support fund for Boko Haram victim

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Head of Service of the Federation Danladi Kifasi to facilitate the immediate release of the N5 billion which the federal government pledged last August for terror Victims Support Fund.

Buhari gave the directive at the State House in Abuja yesterday after receiving a briefing from the Victims Support Fund committee headed by a former minister of defence, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd).

Death toll rises as Myanmar faces flood emergency

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Rescue workers in Myanmar are racing to help tens of thousands of people facing severe floods, as the death toll climbed to at least 46, officials have said.

The country’s Relief and Resettlement Director Daw Phyu told Al Jazeera that at least 217,000 people have been affected in the country, after monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides, destroying thousands of houses, farmland, bridges and roads.

He also said that four people remain missing since the floods began.

Authorities have declared the four worst-hit areas in central and western Myanmar “national disaster-affected regions”.

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In the northern Sagaing region, residents said the flood waters caught them off guard as they swept into villages, engulfing homes and fields.

The Okonjo-Iweala who worked for me is different from the Okonjo-Iweala who worked for Jonathan – Obasanjo

Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, took some time off his busy schedule to speak to a PREMIUM TIMES team at his Abeokuta home about some of the issues he wrote about in his book, “My Watch”.

The era of impunity is gone,answer audit queries within 24 hours - Buhari to civil servants

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