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Prince Harry praises 'amazing wife' Meghan Markle on her birthday

What an inspiring modern role model you are. He is still yet to meet royal son-in-law Prince Harry . According to a source close to the Duchess, the new mo...

Power outage hits Jakarta and Indonesia's Java and Bali islands

In the wake of Sunday's power outage that affected areas home to more than 100 million people, Mr Joko, popularly known as Jokowi, asked why the power company P...

Magnitude 6.4 quake shakes Fukushima Prefecture, felt in Tokyo

The epicentre was off the north-eastern coast of Japan, about 50km below the seabed. In 2011, Fukushima was hit by a 9.0-magnitude natural disaster, which spa...

Sudanese activists, army finalize power-sharing deal

The announcement came after weeks of protracted negotiations and bouts of violence in the capital of Khartoum . The two sides had been divided over whether m...

Rihanna Slams Trump’s Response to Mass Shootings: "Donald, You Spelt ‘Terrorism’ Wrong"

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19 dead in explosion due to Cairo car crash

Initially, the ministry said 16 people had been killed and 21 others injured in the incident. The cause of the size of the explosion remains unclear. The Mini...

Heathrow Airport cancels 177 flights amid staff strike

A Heathrow spokeswoman said: "While the vast majority of flights will be unaffected, some airlines are making arrangements to operate flights from other United ...

Instagram And WhatsApp Will Add 'From Facebook' To Their Names

This would mean that Facebook would be taking control of private messaging through social media, more or less. Those acquisitions have recently been drawing...

Dayton Shooting Suspect Identified

Mayor Nan Whaley tweeted that she was "heartbroken" around 6 a.m. Sunday, around five hours after the active shooter situation began in Dayton's historic Or...

Police fire tear gas at protesters on Hong Kong island

Such sentiments have propelled the current mass demonstrations, which were triggered in early June by a proposed extradition law that would have allowed Hong K...

Seven dead, 8 missing as boats capsize in Philippines

The situation report also said retrieval operations continue for the remaining 12 passengers of the boats that sank amid inclement weather. The motorboats - C...

Teen Arrested After Boy, 6, Thrown From Tate Modern Viewing Platform

Visitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank. A 17-year-old teenager has since been arrested in connection with the inciden...

Flyboarding French Inventor Finally Crosses English Channel

He reached Britain just over 20 minutes later, waving to onlookers before landing safely in Saint Margaret's Bay, close to Dover on Britain's southern coast...

Ohio Police: 9 Dead, Dozens Hurt in Early Morning Shooting in Dayton

Police say the Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting in the case. He wrote: "There was just at terrorist attack out here in Dayton OH". Twenty-six othe...

Hong Kong protesters stream past designated endpoint

On Saturday, a protest march in the territory's northern area of Kowloon erupted in clashes with police after some marchers walked off the government-approved r...

Kashmir terror alert: Pakistan planning BAT operation in Valley, says Intel

Similarly, from Srinagar to Jammu, the current flight rates are around Rs 16,000. Reports quoted an official as having said that the situation in Jammu and...

Pak can show white flag, collect bodies: Indian Army

This comes after Indian Army on Friday alleged that Pakistani terrorists were plotting an attack on Amarnath Yatra . The measures have sparked fears in Ka...

Shocking moment Russian police officer brutally batters a protester with his baton

Sobol, who is on hunger strike, was detained in a taxi as she tried to make her way to the protest and driven off in a police van. An arrest monitoring grou...

20 dead in mass shooting at Walmart in Texas, suspect in custody

U.S. police say multiple people have been killed in an attack at a shopping complex in the Texas border city of El Paso . "This incident is very unfortunat...

Britain to spend an extra $2.6bln on no-deal Brexit planning

It comes as Chancellor Sajid Javid announced a funding increase of £1.1billion into the Government's no deal preparations. "With 92 days until the United King...

'Active shooter' incident being investigated in Dayton, police say

The Dayton Police Department said in a tweet just after 3 a.m. they were "actively investigating an active shooter incident in the #OregonDistrict ". "The FBI ...

Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter Santino William Legan killed himself: coroner

After the Gilroy Police Department took credit for downing the 19-year-old gunman in last Sunday's shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, the coroner has now...

Farage Predicts General Election, Urges Boris to Embrace Tory-Brexit Party Pact

I have things to think about over the summer, but it is not just me. "Boris Johnson's shrinking majority makes it clear that he has no mandate to crash us out...

Several People Injured in a Shooting at an El Paso Walmart

More than a dozen people are believed to have been shot near Walmart in El Paso, Texas , on Saturday morning, as police warned of reports of multiple "shooters...

Alberta hamlet evacuated due to possible chemical exposure after train derailment

Canadian Pacific Railway said the train derailed at about 3:20 p.m. and that teams were dispatched to the site. "However, access into the hamlet of Irvine is ...

$80 broken tail light traffic stop ends with Taser, woman kicking officer

She then drives away from the traffic stop but is apprehended following a pursuit and eventually hit with the stun gun. The interaction begins when Officer Ch...

USA to deploy new missiles in Asia 'sooner rather than later'

President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988. President Vladimir Putin said Russian Federation doesn't want an arms race and vowed ...

Cocaine worth €1bn seized in Germany's biggest haul

The customs office in Hamburg says that the drugs were seized two weeks ago when it checked the container that was en route from Montevideo to Antwerp, Belgium....

Maldives Ex-Vice President who attempted illegal entry into India deported

The leader was detained in Thoothukudi on Thursday by the Indian Coast Guard after they found him without valid documents in a tug boat that returned from the...

More than 1500 civilian casualties in Afghan war in July

The increase, which was attributed largely to a rise in attacks by the Taliban and other "anti-government" groups, came amid a US-led push for a peace deal th...

A vote on the International Monetary Fund job?

Dijsselbloem congratulated his rival on Twitter when it became clear she had won the ballot of Europe's 28 finance ministers, who voted by email. On Friday, E...

Rep. Ilhan Omar uses Africa visit to troll Trump on Twitter

Trump stood back and listened while supporters chanted " send her back " after he spoke about Omar. In a series of July tweets, Trump didn't name-drop anyon...

Gunman who shot three at United States festival killed himself

It's the latest twist in this sad story, and the latest parallel with the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee told reporters that the ...

Prominent Activist Jailed For Insulting President Now Convicted Of Cyber Harassment

The academic sat for her sentencing via a video link from a maximum security prison by the shores of Lake Victoria in Kampala. Nyanzi, 44, is an accomplished ...

Nigel Farage says Trump's 'Go Back' remarks were 'genius'

The president's remarks were in line with his recent denunciations of liberal enclaves as violent, dirty and outside the mainstream. Cynthia Wells, 63, a Cin...