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Former South African president, Jacob Zuma, has appeared in court today to face corruption charges relating to a $2.5 billion arms deal. Wearing a dark suit, a smiling Mr Zuma waved to crowds of supporters and reporters as he mounted the…

US President Donald Trump broke a two-month silence Thursday about allegations he slept with a porn star, insisting that he did not pay her $130,000 hush money. Trump offered a flat “no” when asked if he knew about the payment that…

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday that the personal information of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. This number is up from a previous news…

China Wednesday announced plans to hit the United States with new tariffs of 25 percent on soybeans, aircraft, cars and other imports worth $50 billion, hours after Washington unveiled its own target list. China’s commerce ministry…

Gunshots erupted at YouTube’s offices in California Tuesday, sparking a panicked escape by employees and a massive police response. Some media reports said several people were injured. San Bruno police warned on Twitter to stay…

A Russian former general has warned the world is on the brink of ‘the last war in the history of mankind’ amid the diplomatic fallout over the poisoning of a UK spy. Evgeny Buzhinskiy, who served 41 years in the Russian military,…

President Cyril Ramaphosa says Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the hero of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa will be given a state funeral. Madikizela-Mandela, who died on Monday aged 81, was one of the few remaining…

After suffering a protracted illness, Winnie Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela, South African hero, died on Monday, at the age of 81. Just like her late husband – who died five years ago, she was a formidable force in the…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Sunday attended the first concert in Pyongyang for over a decade by South Korean entertainers, including a K-pop girlband, the latest gesture of reconciliation before a rare inter-Korean summit. The…

Bahrain on Sunday announced it has discovered the largest oil and gas field in the history of the small kingdom, which unlike its Gulf neighbours is not energy-rich. Authorities estimate the newfound reserves at “many times” the…

The Government of Turkey has completed all necessary arrangements designed to aid its decision in declaring adultery as a criminal offence in the country. This development was relayed by, Ibrahim Kalin, one of the presidential aides…

US President Donald Trump on Saturday resumed his attacks against online retailing giant Amazon and accused The Washington Post, owned by Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, of lobbying for the company. His latest comments, two days after a…

Malala Yousafzai, Nobel laureate and celebrated girls’ rights activist, on Saturday, visited her Swat Valley hometown in Pakistan, six years after she was shot by Talibans. Yousafzai, who arrived in a helicopter amid tight security,…

Micheal Brown stared at the acceptance letter in front of him: It said yes. So did the next one. And the one after that. The 17-year-old from Houston applied to 20 of the best universities in the US. He was admitted to every…

Yulia Skripal, the daughter of ex-spy Sergei Skripal, is improving rapidly and no longer in a critical condition, says the hospital treating her. She and her father were admitted nearly four weeks ago after being exposed to a nerve…

Twenty Kenyans were among more than 100 people who were deported from the US over immigration issues. The rest of the people are of Somali and Sudanese origin. Police and immigration officials said a private plane carrying the 114…

Russia expelled diplomats from 23 countries Friday in a wave of retaliatory measures against the West in a spy row, the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it…

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…