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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died aged 91. Mr Gorbachev, who took over in 1985, is best known for opening up the USSR and for his rapprochement with the West, but he was…

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More than 115,000 workers at Britain’s Royal Mail began the first of four days of strike action on Friday in a pay dispute which the postal group said was likely to cause significant disruption…

Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested for a joke she made on stage four months ago regarding Imam Hatip religious schools. She faces a charge of “inciting hatred.” “A joke I shared with my…

Amid high inflation rates in Canada, which peaked in June at a staggering 8.1 per cent, a new survey has found that many Canadians are now turning to debt to keep up with their…

The U.S. Justice Department has released a heavily redacted affidavit justifying the unprecedented FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this month. U.S. Magistrate Judge…

A U.S. judge has ruled that victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks not be allowed to seize billions of dollars of assets belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the world narrowly avoided a radiation disaster as electricity to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was cut for hours due to Russian shelling in the area. A failure at the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an expansion of the Russian army with the recruitment of over 100,000 soldiers. The move was an apparent effort to replenish troops that have suffered…

U.S. first lady Jill Biden has tested positive in a rebound case of COVID-19 but is not experiencing any symptoms. However, her husband, President Joe Biden continues to test negative for…

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced detailed plans to deliver on a campaign promise to provide $10,000 in student loan cancellation for millions of Americans. He also…

Bus drivers in London are set to strike over pay for two days this weekend, their union announced on Wednesday, as decades-high inflation prompts walkouts across Britain’s ailing economy. Around…

The husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to five days in jail and ordered to pay $6,800 in fines and restitution on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to causing injury by drunken…

President Joe Biden is set to announce on Wednesday his long-delayed move to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loans for many Americans and extend a pause on payments to January. Biden has…

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has warned of an increased possibility of Russian military strikes on Ukraine in the coming days around Ukrainian independence day. The embassy, again urged U.S. citizens to…

Russia fired rockets at towns to the west of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine early on Monday while the capital Kyiv banned rallies this week to commemorate…

Nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s invasion began, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said on Monday, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported. Valeriy Zaluzhny told a…

Singapore will decriminalise sex between men but has no plans to change the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. LGBTQ…

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Twenty-one-year-old Hanna Bennis has been charged to court for stabbing her mother, Aziza Bennis, 58, more than 30 times in their West London house on Monday. Hanna filmed a blood-stained knife and the ‘murder’ scene on her phone after…

A top executive at former US president Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes in a deal that could potentially make him a star witness against the company at a fall…

A U.S. judge on Thursday asked for the release of some of the evidence presented by the U.S. Justice Department to justify its search of Donald Trump’s Florida home last week. The case pits news…