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Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents stoned to death on Wednesday a woman it accused of having 11 husbands, residents of a town in the south of the country said. Residents of Sablale town in Lower Shabelle region gathered to witness the…

Dozens of Bangladeshis were killed in lightning strikes as pre-monsoon thunderstorms wreaked havoc across the South Asian country, an official said Thursday. Farmers harvesting rice in open fields made up the majority of victims,…

Israel’s strikes on Syria saw 28 planes take part in raids with a total of around 70 missiles fired, Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday. “28 Israeli F-15 and F-16 aircraft were used in the attack, which released around 60…

President Donald Trump welcomed three former U.S. prisoners at a military base near Washington on Thursday, thanking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their release and sounding upbeat on a planned summit between the two sides.…

Iranian forces in Syria shelled Israeli army outposts across the Syrian frontier overnight, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli strikes in Syria since its civil war began in 2011. The attack into the Israeli-occupied Golan…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was “silly and superficial”, Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday, according to his official website. “You heard last night that the…

North Korea has freed three US citizens from prison, according to a tweet from US President Donald Trump. The move is viewed as goodwill gesture ahead of a historic meeting between Mr Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Mr Trump said…

The leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom have expressed regret and concern over President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. In a joint statement from Prime Minister…

US President Donald Trump says he will withdraw the US from an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran. Calling it "decaying and rotten", he said the deal was "an embarrassment" to him "as a citizen". Going against advice from European…

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the Icelandic athlete and actor who plays Ser Gregor Clegane, aka The Mountain, in Game of Thrones, is now officially the World’s Strongest Man. The 29-year-old, who has placed in the top three every year…

New York state’s top prosecutor and a public champion of the #MeToo movement resigned on Monday, just hours after being accused by The New Yorker of physically assaulting four women. It was an abrupt fall from power for Eric…

Canada is trying to curb the number of asylum seekers from Nigeria who are flooding into Canada via the United States, officials said Monday. About 2,500 migrants, mostly Nigerian nationals, entered Canada illegally in April,…

West Virginia Republican voters will decide Tuesday if they want an ex-con coal baron as their US senator, even though President Donald Trump himself has warned the candidate is too radical to prevail in November’s mid-term elections.…

United States Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said Donald Trump’s ‘communication style’ has made her uncomfortable, and has proven to have complicated relationships in the diplomatic sphere. “He has his communication style, but…

The Vietnamese government on Friday said that it had decided to extend visa exemption for citizens of Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain till 2020. In the past, people from the five Western European countries were exempted…

A young mother has been jailed for 11 years for stabbing her occasional boyfriend as they had sexual intercourse after texting him to say men should only be used as “human sacrifice”. Zoe Adams, 19, has dressed up as a clown and put…

Personnel on US military bases can no longer buy phones and other gear manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE, after the Pentagon said the devices pose an “unacceptable” security risk. Concerns have heightened at the Pentagon…

Former US president George H.W. Bush, hospitalized shortly after the death of wife Barbara, has been released from the hospital after treatment for an infection, a spokesman said. Bush, 93, was admitted to intensive care on April 22, a…

Meghan Markle’s father Thomas will walk her down the aisle when she marries Britain’s Prince Harry, a royal spokesman announced Friday, despite claims from her half-brother that she had snubbed her family. Thomas Markle and the…

The Nobel Prize in Literature will not be awarded this year, revealed the  Swedish Academy on Friday, reports Guardian U.K The cancellation comes as the organisation responsible for selecting and awarding the prize is dealing with the…

A key architect of the push to lift the veil of corporate secrecy in UK overseas territories has vowed to now pursue a similar initiative against Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. Andrew Mitchell, a Conservative MP and former…

A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction. Julien’s Auctions announced Wednesday it sold the artwork…

Meghan Markle’s estranged half-brother, Thomas Markle Junior has stirred a major controversy ahead of May 19 royal wedding with Britain’s Prince Harry, demanding that it be canceled.The elder sibling shared a handwritten letter to the…

Donald Trump reimbursed his long-time lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday, appearing to contradict the president’s own statements on the…