Browsing Category
World News
Biden Considers Health Emergency For Women Wanting Abortion
President Joe Biden said he is considering declaring a public health emergency to free up federal resources to promote abortion access even though the White House has said it doesn’t seem like “a great…
Sri Lanka’s president to resign after crowd broke into his residence
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said he will step down from office after thousands of protesters stormed his house in massive protest. Hundreds of thousands descended on the capital Colombo,…
BREAKING: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is dead after being shot at a campaign event
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died, NHK reported. He was 67.…
We have just got started – Putin issues hawkish note on Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield. In an ultra-hawkish speech to parliamentary leaders more than…
Japan’s ex-leader Shinzo Abe shot at rally, rushed to hospital
Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe was taken to hospital on Friday after being shot from behind by what appeared to be a man with a shotgun. He was delivering a speech in the western city of Nara,…
Biles, Rapinoe, 15 others receive Medal of Freedom
Gymnastics pioneer Simone Biles and twice World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe were among 17 honorees who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on Thursday from Joe Biden. The highest…
Six key events that led to Boris Johnson’s resignation
Boris Johnson’s resignation as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was sudden but not a surprise since many, including members of his party, the Conservative Party, have called for his resignation at…
UK Conservatives kick against ‘toxic’ Boris Johnson as caretaker PM
UK Conservatives have kicked against Boris Johnson remaining as caretaker prime minister after being forced to resign on Thursday amid a slew of scandals. Five Conservative member of parliament demanded he…
Sad giving up the best job in the world: Boris Johnson’s full speech
Boris Johnson said on Thursday that although he would resign as Britain’s prime minister, he would stay on as caretaker before a successor is chosen. Without addressing the reasons for his forced…
JUST IN: British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson resigns
Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, on Thursday officially resigned…
JUST IN: More ministers desert Boris Johnson
At least four more ministers deserted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday, saying he is no longer fit to be in charge after a series of scandals. Dozens in his Conservative Party are also in open…
July Fourth Parade shooter charged with 7 counts of murder
Robert E. Crimo III accused of opening fire with a powerful rifle from a rooftop onto a crowd of people watching a July Fourth parade near Chicago, was charged on Tuesday. He was slammed with seven…
UK health, finance ministers resign over ‘lack of confidence’ in Boris Johnson
Sajid Javid, UK secretary of state for health and social care, and Rishi Sunak, UK…
JUST IN: Saudi Arabia, UAE set aside $13bn to support poor citizens amid food price hike
Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) have set aside $13 billion to protect poor families from the ripple effects of food price hikes. The two biggest economies in the Gulf region will use the fund to…
One-year old falls from 7th floor, dies
A one-year old baby boy has died after falling from a window on the seventh floor of a tower block of flats in Leeds, United Kingdom. The boy was rushed to a hospital after emergency services were called at…
Police arrest US Independence Day parade suspected shooter
Police arrested a suspect Monday after a mass shooting left six dead at a US Independence Day parade in a wealthy Chicago suburb, casting a dark shadow over the country’s most patriotic holiday. Robert…
Copenhagen shooting suspect remanded in psychiatric ward
The chief suspect in a Copenhagen mall shooting was Monday remanded into a…
How Black man Jayland Walker was killed by Ohio police in hail of bullets
Video released on Sunday showed eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, were involved in a shooting that killed an unarmed Black man Jayland Walker. His body was found with some 60 gunshot wounds after he fled a…
British Army social media accounts hacked
The British Army regained control of its Twitter and YouTube accounts on Sunday after they were briefly hacked and used to post about cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens. “Apologies for the…
Copenhagen shooting: Many dead as Danish police nab 22-yr-old
Danish police have arrested a 22-year-old ethnic Dane in connection with a deadly shooting at a Copenhagen shopping mall. Police chief Soeren Thomassen said the motive was unclear, but that he could not rule…
Russia captures Lysychansk, Ukraine eastern city
Ukraine’s military has confirmed that the eastern city of Lysychansk has fallen to Russian forces. “After heavy fighting for Lysychansk, the defence forces of Ukraine were forced to withdraw from their…
Ukraine’s Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘terror’ as missiles rain down
Missiles rained down on Ukraine killing many civilians and wounding dozens in built up areas as the weekend began, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to accuse Russia of state “terror”. Strikes on a…
Biden vows to protect women travelling for abortion
US president Joe Biden has said that women travelling for abortions will be protected by the federal government. Millions of women in the US lost the constitutional right to abortion in June, after the…
Texas trucker ‘didn’t know air con had failed’
The suspected driver of a truck where 53 migrants died from heat in Texas did not know that the air conditioner had stopped working, an informant says. According to charging documents filed in federal court,…