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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…

Last night a very intimate and provocative conversation around Artificial Intelligence took place in Paris, France at the American Library in the distinguished seventh arrondisement. The timing was quite fitting given a glowing, low,…

A United States District Court judge has ruled that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally. He also ruled that those families that had been split…

Authorities said eight people have been arrested for their alleged roles in an Africa-based cyber conspiracy that US law enforcement officials say defrauded companies and citizens of millions of dollars. Five of the defendants – a…

Sudan court Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a teenager for killing her husband who she said had raped her, instead imposing a five-year jail term, her lawyer said. A lower court had sentenced Noura Hussein to death for the…

Pradnya Survase, an Indian lady accused of of killing five party guests at a housewarming party by poisoning them because they kept ridiculing her cooking, now faces a death penalty after following the incident which occurred in Mahad, in…

A former high school physical education teacher in Ohio has been sentenced to jail for having sex with three students. The Canton Repository reports 36-year-old Tiffany Eichler apologized to the students, the Canton school district and her…

THE entire police force for a Mexican town has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a mayoral candidate. Twenty-eight officers in Ocampo, Michoacan, in western Mexico have been taken in for questioning by the…

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has said undocumented people entering the United States should be immediately deported without any judicial process, drawing sharp criticism from rights groups who say such a move would be illegal and violate the…

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said she was told to leave a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump. Sanders wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the owner of Red Hen restaurant in Lexington,…

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte courted controversy after he called God “stupid” for the concept of “original sin” in the Bible’s creation story, news portal Rappler reports. Addressing a summit in Davao City on Friday,…

A 20-year-old man, Juan Penayo, surprised his grieving family when he walked into the funeral they were holding for him. The incident took place in Paraguay, in the village of Santa Teresa in the eastern department of Amambay,…

A total of 418 migrants were rescued in three operations off the coast of Spain on Saturday, the national rescue service said. In the largest of these, 262 people on 15 vessels were rescued in the Strait of Gibraltar, Salvamento…

One of France’s richest men Francois Pinault faced a backlash on Saturday for accusing President Emmanuel Macron of “not understanding little people.” “I am afraid that he is leading France toward a system that forgets the most…

Saudi women are officially allowed to get behind the wheel, after a decades-old driving ban was lifted. The change was announced last September and Saudi Arabia issued the first licences to women earlier this month. It was the…

The Pentagon will prepare to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on military bases, a US military spokesman said Thursday. The decision follows a request from the US Department of Health and Human Services “to determine…

Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language and showed the world what great apes can do, has died. She died Tuesday in her sleep at age 46, The Gorilla Foundation said in a statement. "Koko touched the lives of millions as an…