Newly-released surveillance video shows the moment a baggage handler at Seattle Airport stole an Alaska Airlines plane before deliberately crashing it on a remote island, killing himself.
Authorities at the Port of Seattle have released airport CCTV footage from cameras both inside the terminal and out on the tarmac that document...
Ukraine says it plans to raise a "million-strong army" equipped with Nato weapons to retake the south of the country from occupying Russians.
Russia's war against Ukraine is entering it's 5th month and Russia has taken territories in the South and Eastern part of Ukraine.
Retaking the areas around the Black...
A major outage in mobile and Internet networks has disrupted activities of banking, calling, cashless payments and policing in Canada.
The outage disturbed some of the North American country’s top activities which was said to be improving late Friday.
Telecoms firm Rogers reported progress late in the day, stating that “wireless...
Former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe has died, according to Japan's national broadcaster.
Abe, 67, who remains Japan's longest serving prime minister, was shot while giving a campaign speech on Friday, July 8 .
The suspected attacker reported to be a man in his 40s was tackled at the scene by...
The Russian parliament speaker has threatened to take back Alaska from the US if seized Russian assets are used to rebuild Ukraine after the war.
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the state legislature known as Duma and Russia's most-senior politician, made the suggestion during a session of parliament on Wednesday, July...
Japan’s former prime minister, Shinzo Abe has been shot at a campaign event and is reportedly fighting for his life, the Japanese government has revealed.
According to chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Abe, known as Japan's best known politician was shot at a campaign event on Friday, July 8.
“Former prime...
Ukraine says it is investigating more than 21,000 war crimes and crimes of aggression allegedly committed by Russia since the start of its invasion.
Ukraine's Prosecutor, General Iryna Venediktova said she was receiving reports of between 200 to 300 war crimes a day.
She admitted that many trials would be held...
F-35 stealth fighter jets from the United States and South Korea are teaming up for the first time in a 10-day exercise in order to send a message to North Korea.
Six US Air Force F-35As from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, July...
The Russian authorities are recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine with the promise of almost £3,000 and their sentences being annulled if they come back alive after six months, new report claims.
Inmates are being actively recruited in St Petersburg jails, according to independent media outlet IStories.
The report said the convicts...
Five people were killed and 16 others wounded when a gunman opened fire at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb today, July 4.
Today is Independence Day in the United States of America and parades are taking place across the country.
Ten minutes after the Highland Park...
Moscow has accused the Western nations of preventing peace negotiations with Ukraine and thus dragging out the war.
The comments from the Russian federation comes after the Ukranian military announced on Sunday it had retreated from the key city of Lysychansk city in the Luhansk region to save it's soldiers...
Julian Assange has filed an appeal against his extradition to the US from the UK over his espionage charges.
The appeal comes as the WikiLeaks founder currently awaits extradition while imprisoned in max-security Belmarsh Prison.
A British court ruled in April that Assange could be sent to face trial in the...
Ukrainian intelligence directorate has published a text of a phone conversation between a Russian soldier and his wife saying that the Russian soldiers captured own commander to prevent him from escaping combat zone.
The publication also revealed the heavy losses experienced by the Russian army in Ukraine, according to Yahoo reports.
“The fourth battalion...
Russian citizens will from Friday, July 1, require a visa to enter Ukraine, as Kyiv scrapped a decade-long visa-free regime that facilitated travel across borders for citizens of both countries.
The decision to end the visa-free regime was announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, following a petition from a Ukrainian...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, is still interested in capturing most of Ukraine, the US has said.
In March, after a month of fighting, Russia refocused its efforts on seizing Ukraine's Donbas area after failing to take the capital Kyiv and other cities.
Putin still has the same goals as the ones he...
Disgraced R&B star, R Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison months after he was convicted on all nine counts against him in a high-profile sex trafficking case.
Kelly, 55, was convicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges last September following a six-week trial.
Judge Ann M. Donnelly on Wednesday, June...
A former Nazi concentration camp has been given a five-year jail term for assisting in the murder of thousands of prisoners at Sachsenhausen near Berlin during the Hitler led Nazi regime.
The guard identified as Josef S, due to Germany's privacy laws, is the oldest Nazi criminal ever to stand...
At least 46 people were found dead inside of a semi-truck in San Antonio, Texas, Monday evening, June 27.
City councilwoman Adriana Rocha Garcia referred to the victims as migrants, after she was briefed on the situation by the San Antonio police chief.
The trailer was discovered on a road in the...
The Vatican has praised the U.S. Supreme Court for standing for 'life' and reversing the country’s nearly 50-year stance which legalized abortion.
On Friday June 24, the US Supreme court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which before now made abortion legal in the United States, drawing widespread condemnation among...
North Korea has accused the United States of setting up a military alliance like NATO in Asia..
According to North Korea's government, it has been forced to develop stronger defences because of the U.S' aim to oust Kim Jong Un from power.
The North Korean criticism comes amid concern it could...
Dozens of Russian missiles have struck targets across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv which has not suffered missile attacks in two months since Russia shifted its military offensive towards the Donbas region of Ukraine.
The attacks on Sunday, June 26 destroyed a 9 storey Kyiv apartment block , killing at...
Popular video streaming platform, Netflix has once again shown the exit door to an additional 300 employees in the second round of layoffs
According to Variety, the cuts are across multiple business functions in the company, with the bulk of the jobs lost in the US.
The cuts amounted to about...
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, may be jailed for life if found guilty in United Kingdom.
Ekweremadu and his Wife were arrested and charged for bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting.
Findings by our correspondent revealed Ekweremadu and his wife are being charged...
A newly appointed female minister in French President Emmanuel Macron's new government is under investigation for rape.
Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for Development, is the subject of two complaints from a woman who cannot be named for legal reasons.
A source at the Paris public prosecutor's office on...
Vladimir Putin has threatened to deploy Russia's new Satan II nuclear missile, which can reach the UK in just three minutes, by the end of 2022.
The Russian president was speaking at an event with military academy graduates at the Kremlin on Tuesday, June 21, when he made the threat, The Telegraph...
The United States has said it stands firmly behind Lithuania with its NATO commitments to defend it after Russia threatened Lithuania on Tuesday, June 21.
Lithuania, a former Soviet republic both in NATO and the European Union, has been among the most outspoken nations opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
On Tuesday...
North Korean state media has released never before seen photos of Dictator Kim Jong Un as a young boy growing up.
The photos of the baby-faced youngster offer a rare glimpse into his adolescent years before he became a despot.
It comes after North Korea released a documentary on the life...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned sanctions imposed on the west towards his country since the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, drawing a tough response from the West.
The west has placed sanctions on Russia's currency, the Rouble, limited or totally cut off Russian exports, banned travel...
North Korea said Friday that hundreds of families had fallen ill with an unidentified intestinal disease, heaping pressure on a crumbling healthcare system already strained by COVID-19.
Pyongyang announced its first coronavirus cases last month and activated a “maximum emergency epidemic prevention system”, with leader Kim Jong Un putting himself...
The European Commission has backed Ukraine and Moldova to become candidates for EU membership.
According to European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, the case of Ukraine is that "we all know that Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective, we want them to live with us, the...
Ukranian President, Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, June 16 welcomed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis to Kyiv as the EU leaders show solidarity towards the besieged nation.
Scholz, Macron and Mario Draghi arrived in Kyiv on Thursday morning...
A couple who allegedly made a vulnerable Nigerian woman 'perform forced labour' in their home in east Belfast, United Kingdom, will be sentenced for the slavery offence on June 27, 2022, a court has heard.
The Nigerian couple, Osarobo 'John' Izekor,36, and his 29-year-old wife, Precious Izekor, will also have...
The United Nations has announced that at least 382 children have been killed or maimed by armed groups since the coup started last year.
Tom Andrews, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, disclosed this in a new report as he called for the protection of children from violent...
Jailed Vladimir Putin's critic, Alexei Navalny has reportedly gone missing from a prison in Russia.
The high-profile Russian opposition leader did not show up for a meeting with his lawyers today at the Pokrov penal colony and his whereabouts is now unknown.
"Where Alexei is now, and which colony he is being taken to, we don't...
The Russian government has threatened to make Europe ‘disappear’ if Western leaders supply nuclear weapons to Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s top political ally Viacheslav Volodin, who is also head of the State Duma, warned such a move would provoke a ‘nuclear conflict’ on the continent.
The threat comes after Poland’s ex-foreign minister...
Microsoft has announced the retirement of its oldest browser, Internet Explorer after 27 years of service.
First released in 1995 as an add-on package for Windows 95, the browser was provided for free as part of the package by Microsoft. As per the company notification, Microsoft will officially withdraw its...
Pope Francis has suggested Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine was 'provoked' in a transcript of a conversation he had last month.
The leader of the Catholic Church denied being 'pro-Putin,' saying Russian troops were brutal, cruel, and ferocious while praising the bravery of Ukrainian troops who have been fighting for their country's...
Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand mosque in the holy Saudi city of Mecca, on July 17, 2021 during the annual hajj pilgrimage. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP)
Saudi Arabia has required would-be hajj pilgrims from many Western countries to apply for visas...
Russia earned $97bn from oil and gas exports during the first 100 days of the war in Ukraine, according to a new report.
According to the independent Centre For Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), oil revenues have been falling since March, after many countries shunned Russian energy supplies,...
The Premier League has suspended its six-year deal with Russian broadcaster, Match TV, in response to President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
On Thursday, June 9, all 20 clubs met at the league's annual general meeting and were informed the deal has been shelved due to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Match...
Thousands of Donald Trump's supporters, fueled by his claims of voter fraud, flooded the nation's capital to protest the expected certification of Joe Biden's White House victory by the US Congress, and the former president was behind it, an inquiry by Capitol Hill lawmakers has found.
A congressional inquiry on...
A teenage boy who used his drone to help Ukraine's armed forces locate and destroy a huge Russian convoy bearing down on Kyiv in the early days of the war has been hailed as a 'real hero of Ukraine'.
Ukraine's territorial defence unit contacted young drone pilot Andrii Pokrasa early...
Russia has lost its 50th colonel of the war in Ukraine days after two Russian generals were killed in one day.
Artillery commander Lt Col Vladimir Nigmatullin, a 46-year-old father-of-three from Yekaterinburg, was killed on May 31, Daily Mail reports.
His death has been confirmed by his family, adding to the huge growing...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike 'new targets' if the US supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine, according to Russian state media.
According to Putin, delivering new arms to Kyiv only aims to “drag out the armed conflict for as long as possible,” Putin said in an interview...
The United Nations has changed the Republic of Turkey’s country name at the organization from “Turkey” to “Türkiye”, following a request from Ankara for the change.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that a letter had been received on Wednesday, June 1, from the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu addressed to...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia now controls 20% of his country.
According to the leader, Russia controls Ukranian territory ‘much greater’ than the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg combined.
His comments come as Russia's war on Ukraine enters its 100th day on Friday, June 3
Vladimir Putin's troops have set their sights...
Following a pair of heinous tragedies, in Buffalo of New York state and most recently Uvalde in Texas, New York governor, Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers announced a deal Tuesday May 31, on a package of bills that will raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic rifle to 21...
Denmark's largest energy company has announced that Russia cut off its gas supply on Wednesday, June 1, because it refused to pay in rubles, the latest escalation over European energy amid the war in Ukraine.
This comes after Russia halted natural gas supplies to Finland, Poland, and Bulgaria for refusing a demand to...
The US will only get directly involved in the war against Russia and Putin's government if he attacks NATO, US president, Joe Biden has stated.
According to Biden on Wednesday, June 1, the U.S. will not push for the removal of Russian President Vladimir Putin from power, despite saying in...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that his government will introduce new legislation to implement a 'national freeze' on handgun ownership and prevent people from buying and selling handguns anywhere in the country.
'The day this legislation goes into effect it will no longer be possible to buy, sell,...
All 22 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara.
The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane went missing on Sunday morning, May 29, in the mountainous region of Nepal.
The Canadian-built plane,...
A French journalist has been killed after an armored evacuation vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by shrapnel from a Russian shell in the city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine.
BFMTV journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, died on Monday, May 30, when shell shrapnel struck the humanitarian aid bus he...
Russia will not use tactical nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine, Russia's ambassador to Britain has said
Russian president, Vladimir Putin put his nuclear forces on high alert in late February, soon after the invasion of Ukraine, an act which many military analysts saw as a warning of what...
Russian president, Vladimir Putin has lost two more colonels including the country’s 'best paratroop commander' after they were killed in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Lieutenant colonel Alexander Dosyagayev, 34, was a commander of an airborne assault battalion of the 104th paratrooper regiment.
Troops from his 104th air assault regiment were reportedly in Bucha, the scene of alleged...
Russian politicians are now demanding an 'immediate withdrawal' from Ukraine as 1115 soldiers are fired for refusing to take part in the invasion
Communist deputy Leonid Vasyukevich, 69, a veteran Russian legislator recently issued an appeal to Vladimir Putin to stop military action, bring his troops home, and end the...
A court in the United States has ruled that the $3million mansion in Maryland, near Washington DC, said to belong to former Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, should be seized from a trust set up by him.
Funds raised by the sale of the house should benefit those who were harmed...
