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US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that US forces would pull out of Syria “very soon” and lamented what he said was Washington’s waste of $7 trillion in Middle East wars. In a populist address to industrial workers in Ohio,…

Illegal workers have invaded the farm of former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe to mine for gold. Reporters from the Zimbabwean newspaper Newsday found them uprooting lemon trees, digging shafts and loading gold ore into lorries.…

Russia has expelled 60 U.S. envoys and also ordered the closure of the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg, within 48 hours, the U.S. Department of State has announced. Russia’s…

The two Koreas on Thursday set a date for a rare inter-Korean summit, following a high-level meeting that was held days after the nuclear-armed North’s leader Kim Jong Un made his international debut with a surprise trip to China.…

An Indian billionaire who promised to help fund a rival to Facebook said Wednesday he had been “overwhelmed” with the response as the world grapples with concerns about data privacy. Anand Mahindra, whose Mahindra Group business…

Facebook said Wednesday it would overhaul its privacy settings tools to put users “more in control” of their information on the social media website. “We’ve heard loud and clear that privacy settings and other important tools are too…

US President Donald Trump decided Tuesday to end the protected status of thousands of Liberian migrants to the United States and gave them a year to leave the country. It’s the latest of similar moves, after more than 250,000…

Russians vented their anger at authorities on Tuesday over a huge mall fire that killed at least 64 people, including 41 children, many of whom were trapped in the inferno by locked doors.President Vladimir Putin flew to the scene in…

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook boss and founder, will not appear before British lawmakers to answer questions on how millions of users’ data got into the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, the company has said.Facebook on…

Veteran US Senator John McCain is to deliver a “no-holds-barred” verdict on his fellow Republican Donald Trump’s presidency in a new book of memoirs, his publishers announced Monday.Despite being in the same party as the president,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was undergoing tests in the Hadassah hospital of Jerusalem on Tuesday after being admitted with a case of “high fever”, his office said. The premier was also suffering from a “cough”, the…

New Zealand said Tuesday it would like to expel Russian spies in retaliation for allegedly poisoning an ex-agent in Britain — only it can’t find any Moscow operatives in the remote South Pacific nation. Scores of Russian diplomats…

There is widespread speculation that a senior North Korean official who made a surprise visit to Beijing was Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. Japanese media outlets first reported that a high-profile figure had arrived via a North Korean…

Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, over the weekend ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologising to users in reaction to widespread expression of distrust in the platform over privacy issues. Many…

South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma, is due to appear in court on April 6 to face charges of corruption in a years-old 2.5 billion dollars arms deal, his lawyer said on Monday. The National Prosecuting Authority earlier on…

Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, says she was threatened not to talk about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, US President. Daniels in January revealed that she was sexually involved with Trump and that she once had…

US President Donald Trump has authorized the expulsion of 60 alleged Russian spies from the United States in response to a nerve agent attack on an ex-spy in the English city of Salisbury. Senior administration officials said that 48…

The Malaysian government Monday proposed a law to combat “fake news” which could see offenders jailed for 10 years, sparking fears authorities aim to stifle criticism as elections loom. According to AFP, governments in several…

Sergey Mavrodi, the founder of MMM, a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time, is dead. According to a report by Moskovsky Komsomolets, the founder of the MMM series of financial pyramid…

The trending movie of the moment Black Panther has surpassed another record in the United States. After amassing a gross revenue of about $1.2 billion over the weekend, the movie is now  considered as the highest grossing superhero movie of…

The former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has been detained in Germany. The politician has been in self-imposed exile following the Catalan independence referendum last year. A Spanish supreme court judge announced on Friday…

A teenager’s driving exam came to a crashing halt on Thursday as she plowed into the testing office. The 17-year-old girl accidentally had the car in ‘drive’ instead of ‘reverse’ as she was trying to back out of a parking spot in…

A Sierra Leone court in Freetown has granted a request by a member of the ruling party for an injunction to delay the presidential election run-off scheduled for Tuesday. The party member, Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, filed for the…

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says South Africa should have sent troops instead of a team of negotiators to prevent his ouster by the military last year. Mugabe said his regional neighbours betrayed him “in a sense”, in an…