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Catalan President Carles Puigdemont started his address in the parliament today after an hour's delay, by talking about the referendum on October 1. "We are living an exceptional moment, a historic moment," Puigdemont said. "The consequences and effects...

Theresa May has suggested she is prepared to demote Boris Johnson in a signal of strength after Downing Street successfully deflected an attempted coup by a former Conservative chair. The prime minster said she would not “hide from the challenge” when...

The Vice president of United States of America , Mike Pence, has consoled the victims of Las Vegas shooting at the prayer walk in Las Vegas. Pence who said he was asked to visit the city by President Donald Trump, commended a woman who shield her children...

Donald Trump on Saturday said “only one thing will work” in dealing with North Korea, after previous administrations had talked to Pyongyang without results. “Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements...

More than 260 people have been detained across Russia as jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s supporters staged protest rallies on Vladimir Putin’s 65th birthday. Dozens were arrested in Putin’s hometown of St Petersburg, Russia’s second biggest...

Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe has warned of a possible coup plot amid growing tensions in the fight to succeed her husband. She says allies of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa are threatening the lives of those who don't support him to replace President...

The United States will lift a myriad of economic sanctions against Sudan next Thursday, marking a significant warming of relations with a country whose leader has been charged with genocide by the International Criminal Court. Some of the sanctions in...

Saudi Arabia has arrested 22 people, including a Qatari national, for "inciting against public order" on social media, authorities said, following a crackdown on dissent. Those detained had posted video clips online, the official Saudi Press Agency reported...

Abu Awad, a stalwart fighter for Islamic State, was unsettled. His battered men, sheltering in the rubble of bombed-out buildings, were running low on supplies and they were losing patience – and discipline. “Abu Osama,” he said on a radio frequency that...

Investigators probing the deadly shooting rampage that unfolded on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday night say that a piece of paper found in gunman Stephen Paddock's hotel suite was not a suicide note. Still, there has been much speculation about what may...

The National Rifle Association has broken its silence four days after the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history to call for “additional regulations” on bump-fire stocks, which the Las Vegas shooter used to turn his semi-automatic rifles into rapid-fire...

A Turkish court has jailed 40 people for life for plotting to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a luxury hotel during last year's failed coup. President Erdogan was staying in the holiday resort of Marmaris with his family on July 15, 2016,...

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novelist was praised by the Swedish Academy as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the...

Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay formally launched South America’s three-nation bid to host the 2030 World Cup on Wednesday and said Argentina would likely host the majority of the tournament’s stadiums. The presidents of the three nations, who announced...

The country's traffic nightmares were aptly illustrated when President Joko Widodo had to walk more than 2km to attend a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the Indonesian military's founding. He and senior government officials were held up by gridlock...

Little Shanice was found brutally raped and murdered hours after she went missing on Wednesday afternoon, September 28.The tragic death had family members and mourners filled with tears and sorrow."God picked a beautiful rose from His garden, but she...

Russia’s military says its airstrikes in eastern Syria this week killed more than 300 Islamic State (ISIS) militants. Russia has been a major backer of Syria’s President Bashar Assad whose government troops have been advancing in the eastern province...

The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has denied he has considered resignation and pledged loyalty to Donald Trump in the wake of a report that he had called the president a “moron”. “There has never been a consideration in my mind to leave. I serve...

Egyptian authorities have arrested at least 22 people in the past four days as part of a campaign against LGBT people. Amnesty International says that thirty-two men and one woman have now been detained since rainbow flags, the auspice of agitation, were...

ISIS claimed responsibility for the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, and said the shooter converted to Islam several months ago, according to a group that monitors online terrorist networks. SITE Intel Group said the terror organization...

Heavy-gambler gunman who killed 59 people and hurt 527 in Vegas took TWENTY-THREE guns in TEN bags into his Mandalay Bay sniper’s nest – where he set up assault rifles legally converted to fully automatic on tripods. *Stephen Paddock killed at least 59...

Shouting "occupation forces out" and "the streets will always be ours," tens of thousands took to the streets of Barcelona Tuesday to protest police violence during a banned weekend independence referendum in Catalonia. Columns of people converged onto...

The president of United States, Donald Trump, has led a minute silence in America for Las Vegas victims. The incident which Trump called "an act of pure evil" occurred at a Las Vegas Strip, where a Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old from Mesquite opened fire...

The morning after a shooter opened fire at a concert in Las Vegas, killing at least 50 and wounding hundreds more, President Donald Trump began to read from a teleprompter. The president praised law enforcement, saying that "in moments of tragedy and...

Egyptian delegates arrived in Gaza Sunday on the eve of a fresh attempt at reconciliation between the strip’s Hamas rulers and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement, an official said. West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah...