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Namibian lawmakers debate Germany's $1.3B compensation offer for genocide

Namibian genocide: Anger over Germany’s $1.3B reparation offer

Germany had agreed to fund projects over 30 years to atone for killings and property seizures more than a century…

Breaking: Biden donates 500m more COVID-19 vaccine doses for poor countries

The fresh hefty covid-19 vaccine doses bring U.S. donations to the rest of the world up to more than 1.1…
Serhiy Shefir, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s principal aide.

President’s top aide escapes assassination as gunmen riddle car with bullets

A senior official said shots were fired at a car carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s principal aide on Wednesday, in…
Biden at UN General Assembly

Biden promises fight against climate change, military restraint

Biden did not utter the words "China" or "Beijing" but sprinkled implicit references to America's increasingly powerful authoritarian competitor
Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito

FBI says Gabby Petito murdered as fiance Laundrie sighted in Florida

Richard Stafford, family lawyer of the Petitos had earlier positively identified the body as Gabby's
American soldiers in Afghanistan before the August withdrawal

How America’s long Afghan war traumatised its soldiers

According to a Pew Research Center survey in late 2019, post-9/11 U.S. veterans were more likely than their predecessors to…
Buhari with Okonjo-Iweala in New York

Buhari, Okonjo-Iweala meet in New York (Photos)

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization in New York.

Biden set to deliver first UNGA speech as president

Tuesday’s session would also include speeches by leaders from Iran, Turkey, France and Switzerland, among others.
South African court resumes ex-leader, Zuma’s protracted arms deal trial

Just In: Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial resumes

A South African court on Tuesday resumed a trial that has dragged out for years over a $2 billion arms…
Afghanistan heroin seized in India

India seizes $2.72B heroin from Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the world's biggest illicit opiate supplier, but since taking power, the Taliban have said they plan to ban…
A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment. AFP Photo

Horrible to watch: U.S. Border patrol agents abuse Haitian migrants [Photos]

Pictures by AFP photographer Paul Ratje and video footage appeared to show riders swinging their long reins to threaten Haitian…
Trudeau wins third term but no majority

Canada update: Trudeau wins third term but no majority [Video]

Provisional results showed virtually no change from the 2019 election, delivering up another minority and begging the question of why…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Trudeau loses ground in early results

Liberal strategists now concede it will be hard for the party to win a majority of the House of Commons'…
U.S. demands release of 700 people unjustly detained in Cuba 

U.S. classifies Guatemala’s AG, 5 Salvadoran judges as corrupt officials

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the move on Twitter, saying a top aide of Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo…
U.S. President Joe Biden

Extreme weather costs America $99bn in damage 2020 – Biden

President Joe Biden says extreme weather condition costs United States of America $99 billion in damage in 2020.

Biden celebrates 10 years of repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

United States President, Joe Biden has celebrated 10 years of repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' which formally barred gay,…
Bill Gates' group raises $1bn for clean energy

Bill Gates’ group raises $1bn for clean energy

Breakthrough Energy, a non-profit group of Bill Gates has raised over $1 billion from seven major companies to fund clean…
Gabby and her boyfriend who has vanished

Gabby Petito’s autopsy tomorrow, FBI calls off search for fiance

Dr. Brent Blue, the Teton County, Wyoming coroner, said no positive identification or preliminary findings have yet been made on…
Passengers waiting for screening at JFK Airport on 24 March 2020

Biden loosens U.S. travel restrictions from Nov.

According to Zients, the Biden administration will require from November all foreign nationals flying into the country to be fully…
Trudeau

Canadians go to polls, Trudeau in tight race

The election will determine who forms the government to guide the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Battersea Power Station

London’s Northern Line opens 2 new stations

The first train on the new route departed from Battersea Power Station at 5.28 a.m.
Paul Rusesabagina

JUST IN: Hotel Rwanda hero Rusesabagina found guilty of terrorism

Rusesabagina became a global celebrity after the film, which depicted him risking his life to shelter hundreds as the boss…
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's Prime Minister

New Zealand relaxes COVID-19 restrictions in Auckland

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday that Auckland would see restrictions slightly eased from Wednesday.
Terrified students jump out of windows at Perm State University

Student gunman shoot eight dead in Russian university

Russia's Investigative Committee, the agency that handles probes into major crimes, said the gunman had been identified as a student…
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Putin’s party wins majority in Russian parliament

With 85% of ballots counted on Monday, the Central Election Commission said United Russia had won nearly 50% of the…
Australian PM Scott Morrison

Morrison departs for Quad meeting in U.S. amid submarine row

France has said the relationship with Australia and the United States is in "crisis" and has recalled its ambassadors from…
Manny Pacquiao

Boxer Pacquiao joins Philippine presidential race

Pacquiao's star power in a country famed for its celebrity-obsessed politics will put him in a strong position in the…
Florence Parly France's armed forces minister meets Nigerien President Bazoum

Russian mercenaries: France sends Florence Parly to pressure Mali

Parly would stress "the heavy consequences if this decision were to be taken by the Malian authorities."
Haitian migrant couple flown back home in Port Au Prince by the United States

Expelled Haitian migrant laments $15K wasted chasing elusive American dream

Returned migrant Mondesir Sirilien explained how he had spent about $15,000 to leave Haiti.
Gabby Petito: body found in Wyoming Forest

Updated: Body of missing U.S. hiker Gabby Petito found, fiance still at large

Ms. Petito was reported missing by her family last weekend, two weeks since they had last heard from her on…
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