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The Spanish government said Thursday it would begin the process to impose direct rule on Catalonia in an unprecedented move to crush the region's independence bid. In a statement from Madrid, the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said it would...

“The decision is made,” reads the text Ksenia Sobchak is due to deliver on Russian TV. “Enough silence, I’ve thought about it for months… I intend to be the candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.” The declaration of intent ends weeks of...

Donald Trump told the widow of a US soldier killed in Niger “he knew what he signed up for” before she wept over his coffin, according to a congresswoman.Lance Sergeant David Johnson was among four Green Berets killed when their patrol was ambushed by...

A firefight is underway after suicide bombers and gunmen launched an attack on a police training centre in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens of others. A reporter at the scene with the local TOLOnewsagency said heavy...

10 far-right militants, a court official said on Tuesday. The official declined to detail why the men were arrested, but TV station M6 said that the 10 were suspected of planning attacks on French politicians and on Muslim places of worship. It addded...

The Portuguese superstar who conspicuously loves champions league has won the competition four times - once with Manchester United and three times with Real Madrid - and finished as the tournament’s top scorer on six occasions. No player has scored more...

Britain is facing its most severe ever terrorist threat and fresh attacks in the country are inevitable, according to the head of Britain’s normally secretive domestic intelligence service in a rare public speech. Andrew Parker, the director general of...

The United States President, Donald Trump has dropped point in the forbes' rich people rankings. The president has reportedly lost $600million of net worth. He was ranked 156 in the world last year before he dropped to 248 on thej list. Forbes magazine...

Former American President, Barrack Obama has chosen a New York based portrait painter, Keihinde Willey for the presidential portrait painting. This painting is done for immediate past President of America together with his spouse, by the National portrait...

Trump is back in last place in approval ratings at this number of days after being sworn in of any President in the polling era. And his “net” approval (subtracting disapproval) has been the worst among those 13 presidents every day of his presidency,...

Former football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are headed for a run-off in Liberia's presidential election. Nearly all the results from Tuesday's poll have been counted, the election commission says Mr Weah, the first African to win...

The President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki on Monday, presided over a session at the ongoing 137th Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) in St. Petersburg, Russia The session chaired by Saraki was a debate which focused on ending the grave humanitarian...

The EU must recognise the forces that drove Brexit and reform accordingly, the billionaire frontrunner to become the next Czech prime minister says. Andrej Babiš, leader of the “anti-establishment” ANO party, told_ The Daily Telegraph_ that the EU is...

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont failed to clarify whether he had declared Catalonia's independence from Spain last week, paving the way for the central government to take control of the region and rule it directly. Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy...

According to WASHINGTON, D.C.- On behalf of Biafrans who covet justice—the dead, the living, and those yet to be born—the law firm of Fein & DelValle PLLC is drafting a criminal indictment against Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari and Chief of Army...

The president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has been quoted by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo,that, Nigerians shouldn't be killed by the South Africans. This was stated after receiving the Imo Merit Award and...

Iraq is faced with high tension as a result of Iraqi military and allied forces setting to battle with the autonomous territory of the kurds at Kirkuk. The tension stems from the reportedly 2am Sunday ultimatum given out by Baghdad to the Peshmerga fighters....

Catalonia's President Carles Puigdemont has less than 24 hours to announce whether or not he will declare independence following a secession referendum.If he says "yes", Spain's Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy may take the unprecedented step of removing the...

Voting is under way in Austria in a snap election tipped to see conservative Sebastian Kurz, 31, become the European Union’s youngest leader and form an alliance with the far right. A rightward shift in the wealthy EU member of 8.75 million people would...

George Weah of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) retained his lead as the second batch of provisional results of Tuesday’s presidential elections in Liberia were released on Friday. According to figures read out by Mr Jerome Korkoya, Chairman of...

Donald Trump has threatened to terminate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if Congress and US allies fail to amend the agreement in significant ways. In a vituperative speech on Friday that began by listing Iran’s alleged crimes over the decades, Trump announced...

Provisional results are trickling in from polling centres across Liberia following Tuesday’s peaceful general elections in the West African country, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Results are expected from 5,390 polling units in 2,080 centres...

Spain’s government prepared to hold crisis talks on Wednesday after Catalan leaders signed a suspended declaration of independence and called for negotiations with Madrid. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will chair an emergency cabinet meeting in response...

Ten people have died in northern California after what officials are describing as an “unprecedented” wild fire that has already destroyed 1,500 structures and devastated large swaths of wine country. Amy Head, the fire captain spokesperson for Cal Fire,...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the termination of death penalty Tuesday, insisting it has “no place in the 21st century.” He urged member states that still execute convicts to join the 170 countries that have halted or abolished the...