The US Senate has rejected repeated Democratic attempts to secure new evidence in President Donald Trump’s impeachment as his trial began. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell meanwhile backed off on a plan to fast-track the […]
The world’s billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60 per cent of the global population, the charity Oxfam said on Monday. It said poor women and girls were at the […]
Iran says its military “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board, Iran’s state TV reports. The statement said it had done so due to “human error” after the plane […]
In a rebuke to President Donald Trump, the US House voted Thursday to restrict his future military action against Iran, as lawmakers sought to claw back congressional war powers from the White House. The non-binding […]
In what looks like reconciliatory move, Unites States of American President Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon advised Iran to embrace peace amidst raging fallout over the killing of its top general last week. To this end, […]
American rapper and songwriter, Cardi B, has expressed dissatisfaction with the killing of a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, by the United States government. The songwriter made this known in a tweet, where she criticised […]
Israel has put its military on heightened alert on Friday following the U.S. killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East and Iran’s top regional foe, has not publicly […]
Following the assassination of top Iranian commander, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad, the US State Department on Friday told US citizens to leave Iraq immediately. The US State Department has also suspended all consular operations in […]
After Iran threatened to revenge following the killing of Qasem Soleimani, top Military commander, United States President Donald Trump tweeted, “Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!”
Iran’s supreme leader named the deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign operations arm Esmail Qaani to replace its commander Friday after he was killed in a US strike in Baghdad. “Following the martyrdom of […]
A US strike killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad’s international airport Friday, dramatically heightening regional tensions and prompting arch-enemy Tehran to vow “revenge”. The Pentagon said US President Donald Trump had ordered Soleimani’s […]
Iran’s most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a US air strike in Iraq. The 62-year old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran’s elite Quds […]
A Saudi criminal court sentenced a Yemeni man to death Sunday for a knife attack on a Spanish theatre group performing in Riyadh last month, state television said. The court also sentenced an accomplice to […]
Five people have been sentenced to death over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but two top figures investigated over the killing have been exonerated, Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said Monday. “The court issued death […]
U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter to ask his millions of followers to say a prayer, as the House of Representatives was readying to impeach a president for only the third time in the […]
Former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won Algeria’s widely unpopular presidential election without the need for a second-round runoff, the electoral commission said on Friday. Tebboune, 74, took 58.15 percent of the vote, trouncing his […]
Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has been re-elected for a second term, the country’s electoral commission says. Mr Geingob polled 56.3% in Wednesday’s election, well ahead of his nearest rival Panduleni Itula with 29.4%. However, Mr […]
The White House is on a lockdown after a plane entered restricted space on Tuesday, the CNN has reported. Fighter jets were mobilised immediately, and they scrambled over the unauthorised aircraft. The North Lawn of […]
Former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg launched a video ad Sunday to formally announce his campaign for president in the 2020 U.S. election. The minute-long campaign ad portrayed the 77-year-old media mogul as […]
Mexico said Monday it has granted asylum to Bolivia’s recently resigned president Evo Morales, after the leftist leader’s departure left the South American nation reeling amid a power vacuum. “Several minutes ago I received a […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his forces have captured ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wife, sister and brother-in-law in Syria. ‘The United States said Baghdadi killed himself in a tunnel. They started a communication campaign about this,’ […]
President Muhammadu Buhari and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, agreed to put Nigeria-Russia relations on a fast track, and pursue the completion of partially completed and abandoned projects initiated by both countries. […]
An explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan as dozens of people gathered to offer Friday players, causing the roof to collapse and killing 62 worshipers, provincial officials said. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, […]
Conservative political outsider Kais Saied has won Tunisia’s presidential election by a landslide taking 72.71 per cent of the votes, the North African country’s electoral commission said on Monday. Saied garnered 2.7 million votes against […]
Five persons were critically injured after being shot in a Chicago neighbourhood on Saturday evening, according to Chicago Fire Department officials. CFD officials said the victims were shot in the 6700 block of West Irving […]
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