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A high-ranking army officer in North Korea was executed because he decided to give his troops extra rations of food and fuel. Lieutenant General Hyon Ju-song was shot at with 90 rounds of bullets by nine military death-row convicts who formed the firing...

Police in Mozambique revealed that 10 people were beheaded in an attack over the weekend in an area where previous Islamist attacks have been reported. Radio Mocambique narrated that, “unknown persons killed by decapitation at least 10 people in recent...

Singapore Airlines disclosed on Wednesday that it will unveil the world’s longest commercial flight in October, a journey of almost 19 hours from the city-state to New York, but it will not be available to economy travellers. The daily, non-stop journey...

According to data from the United Nations, 3.6 million Romanians currently live abroad, compared to about 20 million left in the country (among EU countries, its diaspora is fourth-largest, after the UK, Poland and Germany). Romania is expected to lose...

The White House has embarked on an aggressive new steps in an attempt to reduce a $337bn trade deficit with China, announcing that it will impose a 25% tariff on $50bn of Chinese goods containing “industrially significant technology”. “From now on, we...

Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club, has been facing difficulties obtaining a new UK visa. He will not be permitted to work in Britain if he travels on his new Israeli passport, Downing Street reported. Information unraveled on Monday...

Paraguay is set to have a woman president for the first time in its history, although temporarily, after outgoing leader Horacio Cartes stepped down Monday ahead of schedule. Vice President Alicia Pucheta, 68, will complete Cartes’s mandate after he resigned...

U.S. President Donald Trump stated that the much anticipated meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un could still go ahead on June 12. Speaking at White House, he said: “We’re going to see what happens. It could even be the 12th”, referring to the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday disclosed that he might return to power as prime minister — as he did in 2008 — after his time as president ends in 2024. “I have always abided strictly and will abide to Russia’s constitution. The constitution...

Russia is under pressure to accept responsibility for the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, which caused the deaths of all 298 people onboard. Australia and the Netherlands on Friday accused Moscow of complicity in the incident, while...

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg will apologize to the European Parliament on Tuesday, pledging that the social media giant has learned hard lessons from a massive breach of users’ personal data. Zuckerberg’s comments, released in advance of the hearing...

British households are more than £900 worse off after the vote to leave the EU, according to the governor of the Bank of England, in comments that risk a renewed confrontation with senior Brexit supporters in the government. “Real household incomes are...

The United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has threatened Iran with the “strongest sanctions in history” if it does not adhere to a list of a dozen US demands. In a speech that attempted to lay out the Trump administration’s strategy on Iran after...

The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was dazed with a torrent of international criticism – and the threat of fresh and potentially destabilising economic sanctions – as the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, warned that the international community...

Donald Trump disclosed on Sunday that he will ask the justice department to investigate into whether his 2016 presidential campaign was infiltrated or surveilled. Trump tweeted: “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department...

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro looked set to secure a second six-year term on Sunday despite leading his oil-rich nation into a shattering economic depression that has prompted one of the worst migration crises in recent Latin American history. South...

A major operation against jihadists in Egypt has killed 28 fighters in the Sinai Peninsula since it was launched by the military on Friday, the army said on Monday. Another 126 jihadists have been arrested since “Operation Sinai 2018” was launched in...

The Turkish Ministry of Interior on Monday disclosed that since the country launched its operation in Syria’s Afrin district, police have detained 666 people, over social media posts opposing the military campaign. “Since the start of Operation Olive...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has alleged that its members in Aba and Port Harcourt are being persecuted and arrested by security agencies since President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel . In a statement by IPOB ’ s Media...

The UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, will attend a Russian-sponsored peace conference boycotted by the official Syrian opposition at which over 1,000 delegates are expected to endorse a statement urging the west to lift sanctions and start...

The Syrian rebel commander stared at photographs of his fighters on the hilly frontline at the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, their pickup trucks stalled in the mud after a torrential downpour of rain. “It’s going to be a tough battle, maybe five or six months,”...

Members of the national coalition of American sex workers have drawn attention to their existence, warning the authorities that they deserve to be heard or recognised because they also cast votes during elections. Of the many impactful statements made...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vows to ‘thwart’ Kurdish opposition in move that may generate US reaction. Turkey has said it will extend its incursion in Syria to the town of Manbij, taking its forces to the edge of the US-backed Kurdish presence in the country’s...

Police say a Pakistani student shot and killed his school principal on Monday, in a dispute over the student skipping classes to attend rallies supporting the country’s strict blasphemy laws. Sareer Ahmed, principal of the private Islamia College in the...

Turkey has acknowledged its first combat death in a military offensive against the Kurdish-dominated enclave of Afrin in neighbouring Syria that was launched over the weekend. The military said in a statement the soldier had been killed in clashes with...