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The Kenyan authorities are to deport a Chinese man for a racist rant recorded in a brief video where he referred to all Kenyans as monkeys, including President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s immigration department tweeted. Liu Jiaqi was…

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a colonial-era ban on gay sex in India at the centre of years of legal battles. “The law had become a weapon for harassment for the LGBT community,” Chief Justice Dipak Misra said as he…

An Israeli member of parliament has come under fire for saying that Africans have no culture and that Israel should stop African refugees from having children. The Israeli member of Israel’s Knesset or parliament (MP), Oren Hazan…

South Africa entered recession in the second quarter for the first time since 2009, according to data released on Tuesday by the country’s Statistician-General, Risenga Maluleke. The statistics show the economy contracted by 0.7…

Twenty-eight years after her affair with Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky appears not to have forgiven her former boss. Lewinsky on Monday stormed out of an interview in Israel, at a conference after the interviewer asked her a question…

A nursery school director has been sacked after young children were welcomed on the first day of school by scantily-clad pole dancers. Horrified parents watched as young women took turns spinning around the pole like strippers in front…

A russian woman, Yana Anokhina, has admitted to asking her fertility clinic to swap her husband’s sperm for her lover’s while she was undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment which resulted in the conception and birth of a baby boy.…

Uganda opposition member of parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine has arrived in the United States of America for medical treatment. The popular musician turned politician was tortured while in detention…

THE library at Woodgrove Primary School has been turned into a “MakerSpace”. After regular lessons end at around 2pm, pupils sign up for sessions like 3D design, stop-motion film-making and coding for robots. Instructors leave the…

One person died — apparently of a heart attack — and 18 people sought medical help when a plane skidded off a runway in Russia’s Olympic city of Sochi, slid into a river and caught fire during landing early Saturday, officials said.…

Two men have been charged this week with sexually abusing women seated near them on flights to Seattle. The unrelated cases come at a time when the number of sexual assaults reported on planes has increased at "an alarming rate," …

President Donald Trump on Thursday said the Russia collusion investigation headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is “illegal” as the probe continues to hone in on his inner circle. Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview that…

More critics of US Donald Trump found themselves unblocked from his Twitter account on Wednesday, in keeping with a court ruling that he can’t shut out opposing viewpoints. A federal district court judge in May ruled that blocking…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter early on Wednesday China hacked the emails of 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton but did not offer any evidence or further information. “Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many…

SHOCKING scenes have emerged from the streets of Johannesburg, where South Africa was experiencing yet another day of widespread looting and anti-immigrant attacks. According to Independent, at least four people have died in the past…

US President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that Google results were “rigged” because searches for “Trump News” brought up negative stories about him, and questioned whether this was illegal. The president has attacked US social media…

Britain supports South Africa’s land reform program provided it is carried out legally, Prime Minister Theresa May said in Cape Town on Tuesday, adding that she would discuss the issue with President Cyril Ramaphosa. “The UK has for…

Lawmakers in California have sent three bills to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk that call for stricter restrictions on firearms in a state that has one of the toughest gun laws in the country. The bill was sent to Brown’s desk one day after…

China appears poised to scrap the limit on the number of children couples can have. This is after a state-run newspaper on Monday cited a draft civil code that would end decades of controversial family planning policies. The…

A Canadian bride, simply identified as Susan, has cancelled her wedding after guests refused to pay to attend. Susan, who was due to tie the knot with her childhood sweetheart in a lavish $46,020 wedding had charged her guests, $1152…

Donald Trump rejected a statement prepared by his aides that praised John McCain, according to the Washington Post, underscoring the US president’s enduring scorn for the late senator and war hero. While tributes have poured in…

Foreigners will be barred from buying properties in a planned $100-billion Malaysian city, the country’s leader said Monday, after the huge development aimed at mainland Chinese buyers sparked widespread criticism. Forest City, an…

Iran will argue Monday against renewed sanctions imposed by the United States President Donald Trump, as a bitter legal battle between Tehran and Washington opens before the International Court of Justice, UN’s top court, also known as…

An international lawyer acting on behalf of Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, might not represent him in Uganda’s courts after the government reportedly declared him a persona non grata. Mr Robert Amsterdam is one…