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Elite divers on Sunday began the extremely dangerous operation to extract 12 boys and their football coach who have been trapped in a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand for more than two weeks, as looming monsoon rains threatened…

The peace process between the United States and North Korea suffered a setback after Pyongyang angrily rejected Washington’s “gangster-like” demand for rapid nuclear disarmament, despite two days of intense talks. When Mike Pompeo,…

TORRENTS of rainfall and flooding battered a widespread area in southwestern Japan yesterday, with local media casualty reports climbing quickly. Public broadcaster NHK said 38 people were dead, four were injured seriously and 47 were…

Kenya is set to impose tax on street preaching, taking phone photos commonly known as selfies and hawking of food on the streets. The new taxes are being proposed by different counties in Kenya. In Siaya County, street preachers will…

Britain is foolish if it believes Russia staged a new nerve agent attack in England in the middle of the soccer World Cup, Russia’s embassy to the Netherlands wrote on social media on Thursday. The embassy was…

Argenoves Pinales, a 25-year-old medical assistant and restaurant manager working two jobs is over the moon to become a US citizen. Now, he wants to vote Donald Trump out of office. “I feel great,” he beams, one of 200 immigrants…

Saudi police are hunting for arsonists who torched a woman’s car only a week after the kingdom lifted a decades-long ban on female motorists. Salma al-Sherif, a 31-year-old cashier based near the holy city of Mecca, told local media…

A jury in Philadelphia has convicted Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu, former number two to Charles Taylor in the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), according to Front Page Africa, a Liberian daily newspaper. He was convicted…

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has said he will respect the nuclear deal with world powers as long as the country’s interests are preserved. Speaking in Switzerland alongside President Alain Berset on Tuesday, Rouhani said Iran is…

Chinese embassy in Washington has issued a security advisory to Chinese nationals traveling to the US, the latest of such warning as trade tensions escalate between the two countries. The embassy warned Chinese tourists to be aware…

A "healthcare professional" has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill six others at a hospital. Cheshire Police said the woman's arrest was a "significant step forward" in an investigation into…

Former President Jacob Zuma and his family are in a state of mourning following the death of Vusi Zuma, son of the ex-president. Vusi reportedly died at the Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. According to reports, Vusi, who was the…

Malaysia has frozen over 400 bank accounts as part of a probe into a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, a task force said on Monday, as the stepson of former prime minister Najib Razak was summoned for questioning.…

President Donald Trump lashed out at OPEC with a warning to stop manipulating oil markets and piled pressure on U.S. ally Saudi Arabia to raise supplies to compensate for lower exports from Iran. Trump said in a tweet that Saudi…

Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of 11 people after their bodies were found blindfolded and hanging in a house in India. The victims were all from the same family and most had lived in the home where they were found in…

A well-known French criminal has escaped from prison by helicopter, the country’s prison authority has said. Local media reported that French-Algerian top gangster Redoine Faid made his second prison break in just over five years at…

Left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is heading for a clear victory in Mexico's presidential election. Electoral officials said a quick count after Sunday's poll indicated the former mayor of Mexico City had won with about 53%…

Joseph “Joe” Jackson, who died Wednesday, June 27, 2018, at 89, leaves a complicated legacy that is nearly impossible for anyone — least of all his own family — to neatly reconcile. On one hand, his reputation looms large as one of…

President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has fired the head of the country’s Electoral Commission for “misbehaviour and incompetence”, Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid said. The…

A gunman has opened fire at a local newspaper office in Maryland, killing five people and injuring others in what police said was a "targeted attack". Staff at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis said the attacker, armed with a shotgun and…

A long-awaited summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will take place in Helsinki on July 16, the Kremlin and the White House said in simultaneous statements Thursday. "An agreement has…

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, 92, is feeling unwell and will not attend a special service on Thursday at St Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace said. “The queen is feeling under the weather today and has decided not to attend this…

Britain’s population has officially passed the 66 million mark, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday. In the year ending June, 2017, an extra 392,000 people were added to the total population of England, Scotland,…

Some set of drug dealers have been sentenced to death in China and their execution took place almost immediately after the sentencing with school children made to watch to serve as a deterrent to them. The criminals were sentenced to…