Japan's governing party has elected Yoshihide Suga as its new leader to succeed Shinzo Abe, paving the way for him to become the country's next prime minister.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) confirmed on Monday, September 14, that Suga easily won the internal vote to become the successor to Prime Minister Shinzo...
US leader, Donald Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize, for a historic deal between Serbia and Kosovo.
Trump was first nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday September 9, for achieving a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Swedish Parliament member Magnus Jacobsson...
UK prime minister, Boris Johnson will place a ban on groups of more than six people gathering in homes, parks, pubs, and restaurants in England in a bid to stop COVID-19 spike.
The 'rule of six' is a dramatic reduction on the limit of 30 which was first put in...
A massive fire has broken out at Beirut port just one month after a huge explosion rocked Lebanon.
There are no reports about what caused the fire yet, but the blaze erupted at a warehouse, which contained oil and tyres on Thursday afternoon, September 10. It is close to the epicentre...
A prominent religious leader in Ukraine who blamed the Coronavirus pandemic on same-sex marriage has tested positive for the virus, his church announced.
Patriarch Filaret, 91, the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate, contracted COVID-19 and was subsequently hospitalized, the church confirmed a statement shared on its...
A Paris court on Monday sat through a viewing of graphic images of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo newsroom attack scene, prompting horrified members of the audience to leave the room in tears.
More than five years after the massacre at the satirical paper, the CCTV images and police pictures taken...
Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day pupils were due to return to classes, in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19.
The new measures, which include restrictions on movement and a night-time curfew, would be in place for two weeks in the...
French authorities have placed seven more departments covering major cities such as Lille, Strasbourg and Dijon on high alert as increases in Covid-19 infections accelerate, the government said Sunday.
Of France's 101 mainland and overseas departments, 28 are now considered "red zones" where authorities will be able to impose exceptional...
The United States has imposed sanctions on 24 Chinese companies for helping the Chinese government build structures in the South China Sea, an action that will surely increase tension between the US and China, who already have a damaged relationship.
The sanction, is the first action of its kind by...
Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, 65, has announced his resignation after his eight-year stint in power due to ill health amid reports he had been vomiting blood.
Abe, 65, who made the announcement on Friday August 28, said he had suffered a relapse of a chronic bowel condition -saying he had...
The unarmed black father who was shot multiple times by a white police officer in front of his children in Wisconsin, has been left paralyzed from the waist down after the shooting.
The shooting occurred at around 5pm on Sunday, August 23 in the city of Kenosha after Wisconsin cops...
Former Congolese president, Pascal Lissouba, is dead.
Lissouba died in Perpignan, France today Monday. August 24.
A statement from his Pan-African Union for Social Democracy (UADS) party said he died after a brief illness.
“President Lissouba passed away after an illness,” the party's spokesman and MP Honore Sayi said
Late Lissouba was president of...
TikTok has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government challenging the Trump administration’s plan to ban the company’s American operations.
The suit, which was filed in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California on Monday, August 24, alleges that Trump’s order violates due process protections and offers no evidence to...
A British DJ has been flogged naked in Singapore for drugs offences despite calls for leniency from Home Secretary Priti Patel and ex-foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Yuen Ye Ming, a London-born, Singapore-based drum and bass DJ was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane on two sets...
A pregnant 10-year-old girl had to be protected by military police when angry religious protesters tried to block her from having an abortion at a hospital in Brazil.
The child, from Sao Mateus, was allegedly raped by her uncle.
She told medics her uncle had been raping her since the age...
Robert S. Trump, the younger brother of US President Donald Trump, died on Saturday night, August 15, in Manhattan.
He died at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in Lennox Hill. He was 71.
His death was announced by The White House but they did not give a cause.
Reacting to Robert's...
US President, Donald Trump's brother, Robert Trump is in a New York hospital with an undisclosed illness, the White House announced on Friday, August 14.
According to the White House, Donald and his younger brother Robert are very close and the president is expected to visit his brother Friday in...
At least 13 people are understood to be injured after a massive explosion erupted from a gas station in Russia
The blast happened in Volgograd city in Russia. According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, a propane tank caught fire at a gas station in Volgograd’s Traktorozavodsky district.
Firefighters reached the site at 11.30am local...
Bambridge Accountants reports that 5,816 people gave up US citizenship in the first half of 2020 — a 1,210 per cent increase on the previous six months in which only 444 cases were recorded.
The first two quarters of 2020 also rank as having the first and second highest numbers...
Lebanon's Prime Minister, Hassan Diab and his entire government have stepped down, in the wake of last week's Tuesday August 4 blast which decimated a large portion of the capital Beirut killing more than 160 people.
Lebanon was already suffering through a bad economic crisis, coupled with rising Coronavirus rates. The...
A major gas explosion has left one dead with several people injured in Baltimore, Maryland.
According to the Baltimore Firefighters Union IAFF Local 734, three-row houses in northwest Baltimore were completely destroyed and several people were injured on Monday morning, August 10. Multiple people, including children, had been trapped and rescued from...
A Saudi man is reportedly set to take legal action against his wife for stealthily accessing his WhatsApp messages and monitoring them for nine months.
According to Okaz/Saudi Gazette, the man discovered that his wife, a school teacher, had managed to access his WhatsApp account and retrieved all the data...
Indian authorities had practised for years for a jet overshooting the "table-top" runway at Kozhikode airport, but local resident Fazal Puthiyakath was not prepared for the "blood and death" of the real thing.
The 32-year-old businessman and his neighbours were first on the scene after an Air India Express...
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Lebanese rescue workers are continuing their search for survivors in the aftermath of a powerful explosion in Beirut on Wednesday which has left at least 135 people dead.
The Lebanese prime minister on Tuesday night had blamed the explosion on 2,750-tonne store of ammonium...
At least 50 people have been killed and over 2,500 injured after a massive explosion erupted in the Beirut port area, damaging buildings and vehicles in Lebanon.
Lebanon's health minister, Hamad Hassan said that the figures were "preliminary estimates," while adding that the blasts had caused a 'very high number...
An Egyptian court has sentenced five young women to two years in prison for posting "indecent" dance videos on TikTok.
The prosecution statement named two of the defendants 20-year-old student Haneen Hossam and 22-year-old Mawada Eladhm and said the other three helped run their social media accounts.
The women were also fined...
A viral video purportedly shows a part of the Trump's "indestructible" border wall collapsing under strong winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Hanna.
The video posted to Twitter by journalist Yadith Valdez on Sunday, July 26, shows construction workers standing by and watching helplessly as fierce gusts knock down the steel structure...
The Satanic Temple wants to help high school graduates pursue higher education with its "Devil's Advocate Scholarship."
The organization, which fights for a separation between religion and pubic affairs, will sift through submissions from 2020 graduates and award two winners $500 in scholarship money. Interested applicants are asked to submit...
Austria has issued its first intersex birth certificate after a four-year battle.
The European country issued its first intersex birth certificate on Thursday, July 16, as a growing number of countries offer identity documents with options other than male and female.
Intersex people were previously referred to as hermaphrodites but this term is no longer used for...
A British tourist has plunged to his death, killing a local man on the ground after falling from the seventh floor of a Marbella hotel in Spain.
The double tragedy occurred at 1.45am this morning July 11th at the five-star Melia Don Pepe Hotel in Marbella.
The tourist said to be...
London-born twins who have never left the UK are facing deportation to different countries in the Caribbean after their jail terms for grievous bodily harm.
24-year-old Darrell Roberts has been issued with a deportation notice informing him that the Home Office plans to send him to the Dominican Republic following...
The world's first self-proclaimed gold-plated hotel is now open for business in Vietnam.
The hotel which has 24-carat plating across lobbies, an infinity pool and rooms with even cutlery, cups, shower heads and toilet seats receiving the golden treatment, took about $200m and 11 years to build. Coffee is served in a...
