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40 UK lawmakers willing to vote down Brexit deal
At least 40 lawmakers in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party are willing to vote down her possible Brexit deal if it leaves European Union (EU), a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday. A lawmaker, Steve Baker, told BBC radio…
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un invites Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to visit, saying he would be “ardently welcomed”, South Korea’s presidency said on Tuesday, adding it would pass on Pyongyang’s message to the Vatican. South Korean President…
Nikki Haley resigns as Trump’s UN ambassador
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned, the latest departure from President Donald Trump's national security circle, a senior White House official said Tuesday. The former South Carolina governor had served since January…
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi ‘was killed inside Saudi consulate’
Turkish authorities have said that a prominent Saudi journalist who disappeared four days ago after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul was killed inside the building, according to sources. An official, speaking to Reuters…
French police probe Interpol president Meng Hongwei’s disappearance
Interpol president Meng Hongwei appears at an International Cybersecurity Congress in Moscow in July. Police in France have opened an investigation into the disappearance of Interpol president Meng…
Rape survivor wins Nobel Peace Prize for fight against ‘sexual violence as a weapon of war’
Nadia Murad, a rape survivor, who raised awareness about the abuses on 3,000 Yazidi women by the ISIS army, has won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. She was awarded for showing “uncommon courage in recounting her own sufferings and…
Swiss President Alain Berset Spotted Reading His Notes On The Pavement Outside The #UnitedNations HQ
A photo of the Swiss President sitting on a pavement in New York during the UNGA general assembly has excited netizens. President Alain Berset excited Kenyans in June he tweeted in Kiswahili to announce his trip to the country. Social…
Lawmaker loses $753,456, car, land in money-doubling scam
An unidentified Kenyan lawmaker has been revealed as one of the victims of a money-doubling scam, that was busted by police on Monday. According to Musa Yego, the head of the police team that arrested the money-doubling syndicate,…
Repression in Saudi Arabia has reached a new level
SAUDI dissidents who fled abroad to escape repression at home are looking over their shoulders. On October 2nd Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and government critic (pictured), went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to…
UK Crime Agency wins test case for new anti-corruption powers
A banker’s wife faces losing £22m of luxury property after failing to overturn the UK’s first use of a new power designed to combat international corruption.The woman has been fighting an Unexplained Wealth Order brought by the UK’s…
It’s Illegal to detain patient in hospital over bills, Kenyan court rules
Individuals detained in hospitals over unpaid bills have been given a reprieve after the High Court ruled that it was illegal to prevent them from going home. Lady Justice Wilfrida Okwany ruled that it is a violation of patients’ rights…
Mom arrested for allowing 10-year-old son get tattooed
A mom who allowed her 10-year-old son get tattooed, has been arrested and charged with first-degree misdemeanor child endangerment and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. 34-year-old Nikki Dickinson was arrested, after a…
Only skilled migrants will be allowed into the UK in new policy – Theresa May
Prime Minister Theresa May has said that Britain is introducing a migration policy that ends free movement allowing only skilled migrants from various parts of the world. She stated this in a tweet on Tuesday, writing: We’re…
British teenager offers her virginity for £1million
A British teenager has offered to auction off her virginity for £1million to pay for university fees and support her family. Amy, 19, created a profile on Cinderella Escorts, a website offering girls the chance to have sex for the first…
Saudi Arabia Bars Woman From Marrying ‘Musical’ Suitor
A Saudi woman has lost a judicial battle to marry the man of her choice as a court deemed him “religiously” unfit because he plays a musical instrument, a Saudi newspaper reported Tuesday. The ultra-conservative kingdom requires…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen battles cancer again
Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, revealed on Monday he is in a new battle with cancer. Allen said in a tweet and at his website that non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma he fought into…
Desperate quake-hit Indonesians turn to looting
Hundreds of desperate people in the tsunami-struck Indonesian city of Palu looted supermarkets and petrol stations Sunday, as an initial trickle of aid into the devastated area failed to relieve an acute shortage of water, food and…
Love portion turns woman to sex addict, sleeps with 47 men
A 36-year-old Zimbabwean woman Cynthia Mvhuma, who took a love portion to get back her husband who left her, has now become a sex addict. The Zimbabwean woman was given the love portion, after she was dumped by her husband Douglas…
CNN founder Ted Turner reveals he has Lewy body dementia
US billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, has revealed he is battling Lewy body dementia, a neurodegenerative disease that alters memory, mood, movement and behavior. In an interview to air Sunday on CBS, the…
Melania Trump to visit four African countries on first big solo trip
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump will visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt next month on her first solo trip abroad. Trump said her trip, set to begin on Oct. 1, will take her to “four beautiful and very different countries in Africa’’.…
India’s Supreme Court rules adultery not a crime anymore
India’s top court has ruled that adultery is no longer a crime, declaring the colonial-era law that punished the offence unconstitutional and discriminatory. The court ruled unanimously on Thursday that Section 497, a 158-year-old…
Man seals baby’s eyes, mouth with super glue in US
A Texas man Johnnie Lee Carter has been arrested for reportedly gluing an infant’s mouth and eyes shut at a motel. The 29-year-old Carter, allegedly choked a 14-month-old baby and punched her in the head and rib cage, before using a…
China doesn’t want me to win upcoming polls – Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump accused China on Wednesday of working against his Republican Party in upcoming midterm polls, saying Beijing wanted to see him suffer an electoral blow because of his hard line on trade. “Regrettably we…
Swiss police stop Abramovich over money laundering
Switzerland’s federal police advised that the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich posed a “threat to public security and a reputational risk” to the country if he became a resident, The Guardian reports. The Chelsea owner on Tuesday lost a…