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Belgium’s richest man, multi-billionaire entrepreneur Albert Frere, has died aged 92, his investment company GBL announced Monday. According to Forbes magazine, the self-made former scrap metal merchant turned media,…

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will lose one of its members, Qatar, in January 2019. In a series of tweets on Monday, the Arab country said the exit is as a result of the decision to…

America’s national farewell to George H.W. Bush begins Monday with the transfer of his casket aboard the presidential plane from Texas to Washington, where he will lie in state in the rotunda of the US Capitol.…

Any prosecutor familiar with the prosecution of mob bosses and other major racketeering leaders will tell you that one of the first signs that investigators are making headway in an investigation are guilty pleas and cooperation…

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he hoped to organize a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in early 2019, perhaps as soon as January or February. Trump told reporters traveling home to Washington with…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put the global debt at $180 trillion, warning highly indebted emerging-markets and low-income countries against what it termed pro-cyclical fiscal policies. IMF Managing…

Israeli police on Sunday said its investigation has found sufficient evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife in a third corruption case against the…

The United States and China have announced a ceasefire in their tariffs war, hours after US President Donald Trump upended another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change. Over a…

A Sino-US showdown on trade loomed on Saturday as G20 leaders wrapped up tense summit talks with a rare show of unity over the death of former president George Bush. There was an implicit contrast in some of the tributes…

President Donald Trump will attend the state funeral of former president George H.W. Bush, who has died at 94, the White House said Saturday. Trump’s spokeswoman said: “A state funeral is being arranged with all of the…

Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA), whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated — whether it wants to or not. He is scathing about…

George Herbert Walker Bush, the president who managed the end of the Cold War and forged a global coalition to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait, has died at age 94. In a political career that spanned three decades, he lost his bid…

India’s most expensive movie to date has fallen prey to piracy. On Nov. 28, Lyca Productions, the producer of 2.0, starring Tamil megastar Rajnikanth and Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, filed a civil suit …

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in a New York court Thursday to misleading Congress over the ongoing Russia investigation.The 52-year-old exited a Manhattan federal court…

The governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando Pezao, was arrested on Thursday over allegations he received bribes as part of the sprawling “Car Wash” graft probe, according to Brazilian media.The Globo News television channel…

The impoverished state of Central African Republic landed a windfall on Tuesday, at least on paper, when Russian state bank VTB reported it had lent the country $12 billion -- but the bank then said it was a clerical error and…

ROMAN ABRAMOVICH is to try and double the living space of his Tel Aviv pile amid visa issues in the UK, it emerged this week. But the £17.1million former hotel - which Chelsea'sowner is planning to turn into a 12-bedroom…

Turkey’s top diplomat, for the first time, described grisly details from audio tapes purportedly of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in Istanbul on Oct. 2, in an interview with a German newspaper. A forensic doctor…

Christopher Blair takes a sip of his coffee. Then he carefully focuses on one of the three screens in front of him. He’s in his home office, 45 minutes outside Portland, Maine, on the US East Coast.…

Matthew Hedges, the British man who was jailed for allegedly spying in the UAE, has landed back in London after receiving a presidential pardon. The 31-year-old academic arrived at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday…

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine against any “reckless acts” on Tuesday after Kiev declared martial law in response to Moscow’s seizure of three of its navy vessels.The Ukrainian parliament late on Monday voted in…

US President Donald Trump has suggested the establishment of a national television station to counter what he termed “the unfair and false way” CNN is portraying the country.Trump, in a tweet, alleged that CNN was not doing great…

Mexican authorities said Monday they have deported almost 100 Central American migrants after hundreds rushed the US border before being repelled by tear gas and rubber bullets. “Ninety-eight people were handed over to the…

Vernita Lee, the 83-year-old mother of media mogul, Oprah Winfrey, is dead.According to Daily Mail, Lee died last Thursday on the United States Thanksgiving Day.The death was first revealed by Oprah’s niece, Alisha Hayes, on…