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OR family surprised by two-faced kitten, names it Biscuits and Gravy

She picked up the last one and found herself looking at two tiny noses, four eyes tightly shut and two mewling mouths. The best one can do is to care for it the...

Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations kick off across country after prayers

With Ramadan coming to an end and Eid al-Fitr just around the corner, a local community activist is doing what he can to ensure the Muslim holiday celebrations ...

Hong Kong hit by fresh protest after China security proposal

The fear of the security force is well founded after the outrageous incident in 2015 in which special agents from China were accused of abducting several Hong ...

Image of the day: NYTimes front page coronavirus victim list

Fenwick, 87, New York City, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School", victims featured by the Times included. The Times tweeted an image of t...

Kim Jong Un continues to lie low amid coronavirus pandemic

The newspaper, the organ of the North's ruling party, said: "In realistic terms, a person can not suddenly disappear and reappear by folding space". North Ko...

Can Biden get away with 'you ain't black'?

Tim Scott chastised Biden's words as "the most arrogant, outrageous comment that I've heard in a very long time", but also said he was unsurprised, given Bide...

Taliban, Afghan president declare threeday Eid ceasefire from Sunday

Worshippers at the Great Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, during Ramadan, 19 May. The US-Taliban deal is also aimed at paving the way for the fighters to hold di...

Sens. 'Concerned' Surveillance Of Trump Preceded Crossfire Hurricane

The email notably reflects former President Barack Obama himself saying matters should be conducted " by the book ", which then-FBI Director James Comey aff...

Iranian fuel tankers approach Venezuelan waters despite US warning

He said that if the U.S. "does not like a country, this does not give it any grounds to prevent legal trade among countries, [take them under] sanctions, and ca...

Record Jump In Covid-19 Cases In India, 137 More Deaths

Coronavirus infected over 44,000 people in Maharashtra . Out of the total number of cases, 69,597 are active and 51,784 have been cured/discharged or have m...

FBI Director Orders Internal Review of Investigation Into Ex-Trump Adviser Flynn

Several prominent officials have since left the bureau, including former Director James B. Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and former agent Peter St...

Jeff Sessions snaps back after Trump tells Alabama not to trust him

The Trump reelection campaign also sent a letter to Sessions' campaign in March, insisting that the former longtime Alabama senator stop making connections ...

Leaving hand sanitizer in hot vehicles a fire risk

The association is discouraging people from purchasing large quantities of hand sanitizer during the pandemic. Dr. Mihaela C. Stefan of the University of Texa...

La Liga to resume league week of June 8

Teams have been in training for a couple weeks now, which gave an indication that competitive football would soon be on the horizon. The Spanish top flight ha...

United Kingdom plans to quarantine visitors to contain coronavirus

The quarantine measures will not apply to those arriving from the Irish Republic, and there are also exemptions for freight drivers, medical professionals and s...

WHO Assembly Heads of state adopt COVID-19 consensus

He stated that the world still had a long way to go in this pandemic as there were 106,000 cases reported to WHO in the last 24 hours, the most in a single da...

PM should have disclosed 'close association', but faces no police probe - IOPC

IOPC director general Michael Lockwood said: "We found no evidence to indicate that Mr Johnson influenced the payment of any sponsorship monies to Ms Arcur...

United Kingdom says PM's adviser Cummings did not break lockdown guidelines

Sir Ed Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, called for Mr Cummings to quit over the allegations, while a spokesman for Labour said: "The British peopl...

Venezuela's military to escort Iranian fuel tankers: defense minister

The tankers - Fortune, Forest, Petunia, Faxon and Clavel - are carrying around 1.5 million barrels of fuel, and passed the Suez Canal in the first two weeks of ...

Brazil climbs to world no.2 in COVID-19 cases

The World Health Organization declared Latin America "a new epicenter" of the coronavirus pandemic Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump demanded churches r...

HAPPY HOUR: 50 people allowed in NSW restaurants from June 1

Trying to envision a society where we're all seated at pubs as if knights at a round table is totally weird and alien but I kind of dig it. The four-square me...

Biden’s representative says leaked records of phone calls with Poroshenko heavily edited

The recordings played at the news conference Tuesday shed relatively little new light on Biden's actions in Ukraine , which were at the center of President Tr...

Libya's GNA says it is targeting Haftar's retreating forces

Turkey has warned that attacks on its interests in Libya by renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar's forces will have "grave consequences" after advances ...

Five Caribbean countries among 100 to get World Bank aid

The head of the World Bank cautioned on Tuesday that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to push up to 60 million people into extreme poverty (under 1.90 USA doll...

2 in coronavirus cases, behind the U.S.

Experts say that insufficient testing may mean that the actual cases in Brazil are 1.5 times higher. New infections in the previous 24 hours totaled 17,408, b...

New Coronavirus Cases See Biggest Increase In Single Day — WHO Director General

In reality, however, Brazil's recorded case numbers might be just the tip of the iceberg. The Ministry of Health of Brazil first reported 19,951 new cases, ...

Bank president, second survivor are pulled from wreckage of Pakistan plane crash

Zafar Masood, president of the Bank of Punjab, was removed from the smoldering remains of the Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 after it crashed nea...

Son 'kills father' during Zoom chat in NY state

He was held within an hour after chat guests had called the police. He said witnesses recounted watching Powers fall and hearing heavy breathing over the call. ...

Donald Trump orders governors to allow places of worship to reopen

He ordered governors to allow them to reopen immediately, and threatened to override them if they refuse. Only New York has more deaths and cases among American...

International Arrivals To Self-Isolate For 14 Days Or Risk £1,000 Fine

The British government has previously said the quarantine will start in early June and will apply to arrivals from everywhere except Ireland, which has a longst...

Coronavirus: Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov 'flown to Moscow hospital'

On Thursday, TASS quoted Akhmed Dudayev, head of Chechnya's ChTGRK state television channel, as saying Kadyrov was personally in charge of the region's effort...

Palestinian Authority Rejects Arab Aid That Landed in Israel

Intelligence cooperation with the CIA continued even after the Palestinians began boycotting US peace efforts led by President Donald Trump in 2017, with the si...

Khashoggi's sons forgive Saudi killers, sparing 5 execution

However, Salah Khashoggi said of the December verdict that "it has been fair to us and that justice has been achieved". The family of murdered Saudi journ...

Feds will fund COVID-19 testing, tracing and data-sharing, Trudeau promises

She said that wearing a mask forces people to breath in and out "humid, hot breath" that can trigger asthma attacks and difficulty breathing. She did not sugges...

Climate change turns parts of Antarctica green: ‘Beginning of a new ecosystem’

Because algal blooms act as a carbon sink , removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis, understanding its response to climate change is imp...