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Two women pleaded not guilty Monday of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, at the start of their trial in Malaysia over the Cold War-style assassination that shocked the world. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who...

Karl Kreile and Bodo Mende, the first to take advantage of the country’s new law, walked down the aisle in Berlin. As they entered the golden room of Schöneberg town hall to the strains of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, Bodo Mende and Karl Kreile were only...

Soldiers in France have shot a man dead at Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles station in Marseille after two people died in a stabbing in what police sources called a "likely terrorist act". More victims are said to be seriously hurt after the rampaging...

Firefighters in Catalonia have turned out to support the independence referendum in the region by forming a human barrier between riot police and voters. People took to social media to praise the fire officers for stepping in to 'protect the public' from...

Thousands of people have protested in Dublin, calling for an end to Ireland’s strict abortion laws. Campaigners took part in the March for Choice in the capital’s city centre, chanting: “Hey, hey Leo, the eighth amendment has got to go” and carrying banners...

The Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Un, has again mocked the United States government moves to impose sanctions on him through UN and China. In a release on the Korean central news Agency website, the country vowed that she will...

Google must squash a mobile phone app that tells Catalan voters where they could vote for Sunday’s independence referendum, a judge has ordered. The decree was issued by Mercedes Armas of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, the magistrate who...

War with North Korea could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and is now ‘a real possibility’, according to the UK’s leading defence think tank. The latest report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says that the likelihood of war has...

Rodriguez-Miranda, a 19-year-old teenage girl, from Indiana, is wanted on an arrest warrant after allegedly trying to kill her 11-week-old niece by poisoning her bottled breast milk. Authorities began investigating the teenager after her mother came across...

There was pandemonium in Uganda Parliament for the second time after a minister and 25 members disagreed over the move to change the constitution to allow the president run for re-election. Lawmakers exchanged blows, kicks; and even threw chairs at one...

Brazilian President, Michel Temer, who is embroiled in a massive corruption scandal, has seen his popularity drop to an abysmal three percent, a poll showed Thursday. In July, five percent of people surveyed by the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion...

China on Thursday said North Korean firms or joint ventures in the country will be shut within the 120 days of the latest United Nations Security Council sanctions passed on September 12. In a statement, the commerce ministry said that Overseas Chinese...

Former first lady Michelle Obama told an audience in Boston this week that she believed women who chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election "voted against their own voice." "Quite frankly, we saw this in this election. As far...

The Interfax news agency cited an undisclosed source close to the Kremlin as saying that four governors resigned this week and eight more governors could follow. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, said regional leaderships were undergoing a “rotation,’’...

The Catalan regional government has accused the Spanish authorities of behaving like Turkey, China and North Korea by blocking websites designed to help people vote in Sunday’s independence referendum. The Spanish government insists the referendum is...

Following the lead of Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt and San Antonio Spurs Tim Duncan, whose charitable campaigns respectively raised millions for victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in Houston and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Oklahoma City Thunder...

US President Donald Trump expressing his displeasure at NFL players 'taking the knee' during the national anthem, tried to use Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt to buttress his point about patriotism but it backfired on him.Trump tweeted this five-year-old...

Thailand's Supreme Court has sentenced former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, to five years in prison on the charges of negligence over mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme. She was convicted of negligence in preventing corruption and irregularities...

Senate Republicans admitted defeat late Monday afternoon in their latest attempt to undo the Affordable Care Act, even as they aired the plan’s details at a raucous hearing before the Finance Committee. The panel’s chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) told...

America rapper, Shawn Carter popularly known as Jay-Z, has spoken the Donald Trump administration in an interview which he granted to BBC Radio 1. Jay-Z aired his political views on the current administration of President Trump, calling it a joke that...

Nigeria is among countries that will benefit from the United States’ $550 million humanitarian assistance to countries ravaged by food insecurity. This was disclosed in New York by the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development...

The regime leader's estranged half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, was allegedly murdered by two female assassins in Malaysia in February. The assassins were captured on CCTV smearing a toxic nerve agent on Kim's faceat Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The...

America's top general says China will probably be the 'greatest threat to our nation' by 2025 During an interview, Gen. Joseph Dunford in his current role as the top military advisor to the president, he addressed the rise of China, Russia's increasing...

The Government of Saudi Arabia will from next June allow women to drive. This was contained in a statement by the state media on Tuesday, making the country, the last country to allow women drive. This decision which effectively risks riling religious...

Ugandan legislators on Tuesday got into a major scuffle inside parliament, shortly before a controversial motion was introduced that could extend President Yoweri Museveni’s grip on power. Broadcaster NTV televised politicians throwing chairs and attacking...