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Kanye West and former American football player Jim Brown visited US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday. West, a supporter of Trump, engaged the president on a number of social issues. The Chicago rapper talked…

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday said he would advise Labour Party lawmakers to vote down a Brexit divorce deal that Theresa May is trying to clinch with the EU. Nearly six months before the United Kingdom’s exit…

Africa’s youngest billionaire was kidnapped on Thursday morning by gunmen in Tanzania’s economic capital Dar es Salaam, officials said.Mohammed Dewji, 40, who heads the MeTL Group which operates in about 10 countries with interests in…

KFC and other fast food restaurants in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe are unable to purchase supplies because of a shortage of U.S. dollars, forcing many to close. Local news website Pindula reported Wednesday that the KFC…

Kelly Val Smith “created a fanciful world” to scam tens of thousands of dollars from her family and friends over a fake cancer diagnosis and other lies. The Adelaide woman told her victims she had ovarian cancer, that her son needed…

The US embassy in Liberia says it has asked forensic investigators to carry out a preliminary probe into the possible disappearance of $100 million in newly printed notes in the country. The currency scandal has sparked outrage and…

Pope Francis on Wednesday compared having an abortion to hiring a “contract killer”. “Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone,” Francis said in an address to worshippers in the Vatican. “Getting rid of a human being…

At a congressional privacy hearing this morning, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for an investigation into the data exposure that resulted in the shutdown of the Google+ social media network. Blumenthal said he plans to send a…

A woman fighting to keep her £11.5m London home, after becoming the first target for the UK's new anti-corruption law, has been named as Zamira Hajiyeva. Mrs Hajiyeva - who is originally from Azerbaijan - lost a legal battle to stay…

American students can now get a certificate in ‘Trumpaganda,’ as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign begins a course on the subject. According to a report by TheHill .com, students will examine Trump’s “war on facts, press…

British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed what is thought to be the world's first minister for suicide prevention. The move, intended to tackle the tragedy of 4,500 people taking their own lives in England each year, comes on…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…