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President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that Russia is no longer targeting the United States, contradicting his top intelligence official who said the opposite earlier this week. The statement came amid continued furor over…

US President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that his meeting with Vladimir Putin could prove successful, as he tries to quell fury in Washington after appearing to defer to the Russian leader over US intelligence chiefs. The…

The neighbours of a Zimbabwean man, Godfrey Makeche Ncube of Chinotimba suburb teamed up in mob justice style to trap Tafireyi Zimba who had been cheating with his wife, Cynthia Ngwenya. Neighbours who included Ncube’s brothers…

18 men have been arrested for raping an 11-year-old school girl for several months in an apartment complex in the eastern Indian city of Chennai. The hearing-impaired girl was allegedly sedated and given spiked soft drinks by the…

Egypt’s parliament passed a law giving the government sweeping powers to regulate traditional and social media, a move critics say will boost the Sisi regime’s ability to crack down on free speech and dissent. The measure allows…

Donald Trump is facing a storm of criticism in America for his performance in Helsinki. His Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is faring rather better. Back home in Russia, political figures have been lining up to praise the results of…

Warren Buffett has donated roughly 3.4 billion dollars of Berkshire Hathaway Inc stock to five charities, the billionaire’s largest contribution in his longstanding plan to give away his fortune. Buffett’s 13th annual donation…

Israel has blocked fuel and gas transfers to the Gaza Strip until Sunday in retaliation for “continued terrorist attempts by the Hamas terrorist group,” Israel’s Defence Ministry confirmed Tuesday. The ministry said the Kerem Shalom…

Americans and in general most of the world was left stunned after Donald Trump apparently sided with Vladmir Putin over his own intelligence agencies over the issue of Russian collusion in American elections. The two rival nations have…

Former US President Barack Obama has arrived in Kenya, the country of his father’s birth, for a private visit, his first to this country since leaving office. Obama is in Kenya to help launch his half-sister’s, Auma Obama, sports,…

Hours before he was due to sit down for his first ever summit with Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump has derided his nation, blaming what he called “U.S. foolishness” for bad relations between Washington and Moscow, while the…

Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs have slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, according to an official. Photographs released by Antara news…

The much-anticipated summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday comes after years of mutual compliments and backslapping, despite growing strains in US-Russian relations. Ahead of the Helsinki meeting, here is a…

A Saudi Arabia girl has been arrested for hugging a singer at a concert in the Saudi city of Ta’if, police said on Saturday. The audience at the concert of Saudi-Iraqi singer Majid Al Mohandes was astonished on Friday night when the…

A federal grand jury on Friday charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016, in the most detailed U.S. accusation yet that Moscow meddled in the presidential election to help Republican…

British counter-terrorism police said on Friday they believed they had found the source of the Novichok nerve agent that killed a woman in southwest England and left her partner critically ill in hospital. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died…

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, has written a note to U.S. President Donald Trump, describing the American leader as “energetic and extraordinary”. Mr Trump, in a tweet acknowledging the letter, described it as “a very nice note”…

The rescue of the 12-member Wild Boars youth soccer team along with their 25-year-old coach will be adapted into a film. After being trapped for nearly two weeks in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave due to heavy rains, the boys and their…

A child has been caught trying to smuggle dozens of iPhone Xs with a total worth of at least £43,000 from Macau into mainland China. The nine-year-old Hong Kong boy had 14 Apple smartphones wrapped around his torso and another 26 hidden…

Germany is “totally controlled by Russia” due to its NorthStream gas pipeline deal with Moscow, U.S. president, Donald Trump, said on Wednesday. He said this ahead of a NATO summit in Brussels, calling the deal “inappropriate.”…

United States President, Donald Trump, has nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a bruising confirmation battle. In a primetime announcement at the White House, Mr. Trump praised his pick as a…

The last remaining member of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach have been pulled out of a flooded cave in Thailand, bringing an end to a near three-week ordeal that prompted a huge international rescue effort. The twelfth boy…

Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan ushered in the new, executive presidential system he had long campaigned for by putting his son-in-law in charge of the economy and promising greater overhaul of a country he has dominated for 15 years. Hours…

Over the past few weeks, more than three people have been killed in the District over rumour shared on various Whatsapp groups. India's Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district has ordered all Whatsapp administrators in the district to…