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South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol pardoned Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee on Friday, with South Korea’s Justice Ministry saying the business leader was needed to help overcome a “national…

Amid a deepening swirl of federal and state investigations, former…

Authorities in Hawaii have arrested a 75 year-old suspect for the murder of a teenage girl in California, 40 years ago. The clincher was DNA — which has helped solved dozens of knotty cases in…

Former US President, Donald Trump says he refused to  to answer questions from New York (NY) prosecutors about his resort and real estate businesses because he did no wrong. The NY prosecutors is being…

The New England Journal of Medicine says in China, 35 people in two provinces have fallen ill with a newly detected virus that is transmitted from animals to humans. A team of scientists from…

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to release to a House committee, the tax returns of former President Donald Trump. The court ruled 3-0 on the committee request.…

President Joe Biden formally welcomed Finland and Sweden joining the NATO alliance Tuesday as he signed the instruments of ratification that delivered the U.S.’s formal backing of the…

Russia’s current-account surplus more than tripled from last year after notching record levels since the invasion of Ukraine, as declines in imports combined with booming revenues from energy and…

A Minnesota board of county commissioners on Tuesday approved a nearly $1.5 million settlement for black correctional officers who were told they were not to have contact with former Minneapolis Police…

Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump said that the FBI raid on Monday of his father’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was conducted over documents sought by the National Archives. Eric Trump revealed…

FBI agents executing a warrant have searched former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach Florida. The raid was confirmed by Trump in a statement. “My beautiful home Mar A Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently under…

China’s military announced fresh military drills on Monday in the seas and airspace around Taiwan – a day after the scheduled end of its largest ever exercises to protest against last week’s visit to…

Hong Kong will shorten the COVID-19 hotel quarantine period for all arrivals to three days from seven, taking another step to gradually unwind stringent pandemic rules that have isolated the Asian…

U.S. President Joe Biden tested negative for COVID-19 for a second consecutive day on Sunday and ended his isolation at the White House with a trip to his vacation home in Delaware and a…

The United States has accused Beijing of “provocative” and “irresponsible” actions after Taiwan said China rehearsed an attack on the island. Taiwan said it responded to the Chinese drills, now in their…

A Texas jury ordered US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Friday to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting was a “hoax.” The…

A man wanted by Haiti over his alleged involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise has been freed from a Turkish repatriation centre and returned to the United States, one of his…

Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among…

The U.S. economy added 528,000 new jobs in July, far more than the 250,000 expected, data released Friday by the Labour Department showed. The data also showed unemployment rate falling to 3.5…

China has halted cooperation with the United States in a number of areas, including dialogue between senior-level military commanders and climate talks, in retaliation for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.…

Two people were killed and two more were in critical condition on Friday after a lightning strike near the White House the night before, police in the US capital said. The lightning hit Lafayette…

Three more ships loaded with grain sailed from Ukraine on Friday under a UN-backed deal lifting Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea, Turkey’s defence ministry said. The Panama-flagged Navistar left Odessa for…

Popular American musician, John Legend, has opened up about the strains in his relationship with Rapper Kanye West and why it ended. In an interview with CNN’s David Axelrod on ‘The Axe Files’ podcast,…

Malaysia’s Court of Appeal on Friday overturned a landmark ruling that had enabled mothers with foreign spouses to automatically pass on their nationality to children born overseas. A Malaysian woman…