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The President Unites states of America, Donald Trump, is expected to sign a bill that will enable U.S to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Isreal. This is bill when it is signed, will allow U.S to move her embassy in Isreal from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem....

Gorka, the outspoken and combative defender of President Donald Trump’s national security agenda, has been allegedly said to have quit his position. As reported by CNN, the news was expected in the West Wing, which has now seen high-profile departures...

U.S. President Donald Trump has castigated Snoop Dogg on Wednesday for a music video showing the rapper shooting a gun at a clown that resembles the president. The tweet reads, “Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and...

The White House is charting plans to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA chief Mike Pompeo, US media say. Mr Tillerson has been at odds with Mr Trump over foreign policy recently. The secretary of state was even reported to have privately...

Britain could extend financial support to Zimbabwe to help stabilize its economy and clear its debts with international lenders but such support will be linked to ‘democratic progress, foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said. Zimbabweowes the World Bank...

The 28 years old German born man, Bahtiyar Duysak, who brought the American President, Donald Trump's official twitter handle @realDonaldTrump, offline for 11 minutes, has confessed that what he did wasn't intentional. The incident which occurred some...

A Bosnian Croat war criminal has died in hospital after drinking poison during an appeal hearing in The Hague. Slobodan Praljak, 72, died in hospital, with the United Nations court announcing that the courtroom was now “a crime scene.” On hearing that...

Bolivia's Constitutional Court has allowed President Evo Morales to run for a fourth consecutive term in 2019. The court has annulled the result of a referendum held last year, in which a majority of Bolivians rejected his proposal to change the constitution....

Donald Trump has retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First who has been convicted of religiously aggravated harassment. Trump, who evidently has 43.5 million followers on the network,...

The North Korea under the leadership of Kim jong un, has tested yet another ICBM Hwasong-15, which landed in the sea near Japan. Kim jong un, claimed that the recently tested ICBM named after planet Mars, covers and can attack the whole of U.S mainla...

Democratic congressional leaders have cancelled a meeting with President Donald Trump after he attacked them on Twitter. The Republican president said he did not think he could reach a deal with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer on funding the government....

South Korean news agency Yonhap has reported that North Korea launched a new ballistic missile. The missile reportedly flew eastward from Pyongsong, South Pyongan province. The North has carried out a series of missile tests in recent months, raising...

Sixteen men arrested last month during a crackdown on homosexuality by the authorities in Egypt have been sentenced to three years in prison. A court in Cairo found 14 of them guilty of "inciting debauchery" and "abnormal sexual relations" on Sunday....

The Irish Prime Minister has written to the leader of the country's biggest opposition party confirming that the Irish deputy prime minister Frances Fitzgerald has decided to resign. Leo Varadkar said he had accepted it. It comes ahead of a Fianna Fáil...

Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president's birthday a public holiday, the Herald newspaper reports. New President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to form a cabinet...

Robert Mugabe will continue to have a role to play in Zimbabwean politics, the Jesuit priest who helped negotiate his resignation has told the BBC. Father Fidelis Mukonori said he would provide "advice" as an elder statesman, including to the new president....

A factory explosion in a port city south of Shanghai on Sunday killed at least two people and injured at least 30 others as it knocked down buildings and left streets littered with damaged cars and debris, news reports said. The explosion struck a factory...

Pakistan's government has called for troops to be deployed in the capital, Islamabad, after violence broke out during protests by Islamists. The protesters have been blocking the highway for several weeks, demanding the sacking of Law Minister Zahid Hamid...

Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) Board of Commissioners has upheld Tuesday’s ruling of NEC Dispute Hearing Officer which dismissed complaints of fraud against the Oct. 10 presidential elections. The hearing officer, Mr Muana Ville, had trashed...

At least 235 people have been killed and scores more injured in a bomb and gun assault on a mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai, in the deadliest attack in the country in recent memory. A bomb ripped through the mosque as Friday prayers were finishing, before...

Saudi Arabia's crown prince has called Iran's supreme leader "the new Hitler of the Middle East", in light of heightened tensions between the two countries. Alluding to Iran's growing regional power, Mohammed bin Salman said it was important to avoid...

Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to hold “democratic” elections next year as scheduled while being sworn in as Zimbabwe’s second president since independence in 1980. Mnangagwa took his oath of office in front of tens of thousands of jubilant Zimbabweans...

Donald Trump has tweeted he will speak to Turkey's President about “bringing peace” to the Middle East, before heading for a round of golf. “Will be speaking to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey this morning about bringing peace to the mess that...

A new president has been anointed in Zimbabwe , marking the final landmark break with the reign of Robert Mugabe , one of the most high-profile and controversial figures in international politics and, until his demise, Africa’s longest serving leader....

During his inaugural speech today, Zimbabwe's new president Emmerson Mnangagwa, nicknamed "the crocodile", gave a special tribute to his predecessor,Robert Gabriel Mugabe. According to him, 'I feel deeply humbled again by the decision of my party Zanu-PF...