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Nigerian Police Seen Shooting Protestor In Back

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres has called for an end to police brutality in Nigeria, while United Nations high commissioner for human right...

Teenage suspect allegedly plotted to kill Joe Biden: Federal prosecutors

Police say they towed and searched the van, finding more than $500,000 in cash, drawings of swastikas and planes crashing into buildings, books on survival and ...

Two parallel governments controlling Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif

In the presser on Wednesday, Abbasi said he expressed solidarity with the Sindh government and also extended his support to Sindh Police for taking a "princip...

Tory MPs defend opposition to Rashford's free school meals campaign

After Conservative Party lawmakers voted down a scheme to provide free meals for hungry school children over Christmas, England global footballer Marcus Rash...

Air pollution killed 500k newborns in 2019: global study

The report also states that outdoor and household particulate matter (PM) pollution contributed to the deaths of more than 116,000 Indian infants in their first...

Lebanon's Hariri on course to be named PM By

In a speech Thursday after his appointment as prime minister-designate, Hariri said he would move quickly to form a new government "because the time is running ...

Beheaded teacher Paty will get France's highest honour: minister

France's interior minister revealed on Monday that police operations were launched against dozens of individuals and groups who were said to have spoken out in...

Police patrol Nigeria's Lagos after president warns protesters

But on Tuesday night security forces fired without warning into crowds of thousands of protesters singing Nigeria's national anthem, killing 12, Amnesty said....

Russian Federation grants permanent residency to USA whistleblower - NationNews Barbados

When asked whether Snowden planned to apply for Russian citizenship, Kucherena said: "He will make the decision himself". As soon as the lockdown ended, Snowd...

Hariri to return to head Lebanon's Cabinet with slim support

In his acceptance speech on Thursday, Hariri said he would move as quickly as possible to put the new government together, "because time is running out and this...

Mexican broadcaster: Pope Francis' civil-union remark edited out of 2019 telecast

Yet, church leaders have been working on the problem of reconciling the church with the modern world, and Pope Francis is not stepping in places where other Cat...

Trump's tax records show three bank accounts overseas

Part of the President's business empire involves the operation of upscale hotels, called Trump International Hotels Management. He said the company had op...

China 'firmly opposes' U.S. arms sales to Taiwan

The move has angered China, which regards Taiwan as its own wayward province. Taiwan's Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa welcomed the latest United State...

Barrett on Track for Supreme Court

The empty seats for the Democratic committee members had posters placed upon them bearing photographs of people who they argue would be hurt if the Affordable C...

Two Muslim women stabbed under Eiffel Tower in Paris

However, the lawyer for the two victims, Ari Alimi, demanded that harsher charges be brought against the attackers, accusing them of attempted murder based on t...

Lekki shooting: There were a number of casualties, Gbajabiamila contradicts Sanwo-Olu

This was disclosed by the president in his national broadcast on Thursday, October 22, 2020, on the current widespread violence which has engulfed the country f...

At Least 11 Afghan Women Killed In Stampede Near Pakistan Consulate

Ten other people including eight women were injured in the stampede. Provincial officials said that the incident occurred as more than 3,000 people queued up ...

Woman Found Alive at Funeral Home Dies at Detroit Hospital VIDEO

Two months after a horrifying incident in which she was incorrectly pronounced dead, the family of a Detroit area woman have confirmed that she has officially d...

Ghislaine Maxwell denied arranging girls for Prince Andrew in newly released deposition

GHISLAINE MAXWELL REPEATEDLY denied that she recruited underage girls for her former partner, the disgraced United States financier Jeffrey Epstein , in a dep...

Canada avoids snap election after Parliament vote

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government survived a confidence vote Wednesday afternoon on an opposition Conservative Party motion to creat...

Republicans Poised to Move Barrett Onto Supreme Court in Days

The Democrat said he is "not a fan" of court-packing but it "depends on how this turns out - not how he wins, but how it's handled". Eventually, someone n...

George Floyd: Murder charge dropped against former officer Derek Chauvin

Defense attorneys said Floyd's drug use was a factor in his death, with Chauvin's attorney, Eric Nelson, saying Floyd most likely died of "fentanyl or a com...

Hunter Biden’s Alleged Laptop Reportedly Linked to 2019 FBI Money Laundering Investigation

The FBI interviewed the owner of the fix shop who reported the content. Photos of the obtained documents, published in Fox News's article, included an F...

President Trump Leaks 60 Minutes Interview Footage After Walking Out

He then refused to record a "walk-and-talk" segment with Stahl, the person said. He also accuses 60 Minutes of giving Biden, his opponent, "softball questions...

Prince Andrew's name is missing from redacted Ghislaine Maxwell sex files

U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered the documents released back in July. Epstein died a year ago in a NY detention center after being charged with sex ...

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteer dies in Brazil

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca formally announced on Wednesday that its Phase III trial in the United Kingdom testing out a vaccine for the coronavirus ...

Purdue Pharma to plead guilty in $8bn opioid settlement

The Justice Department's settlement does not preclude the possibility of future criminal charges against Purdue executives or members of the Sackler family; whe...

China plans to invade Taiwan, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu tells WION

When a Taiwanese diplomat tried to stop them, the confrontation turned violent and he ended up in hospital with a head injury. Recently Taiwan has also celebrat...

Trump ends interview with '60 minutes' abruptly, reports say

The president also tweeted out a photograph of Ms. Stahl without a mask in the White House after her interview with him. This is the third time Stahl will...

Pope Francis indicates support for same-sex civil unions

Cruz, who is gay , said that during his first meetings with the pope in May 2018 after they patched things up, Francis assured him that God made Cruz gay . Ad...

AOC Takes Over Twitch Streaming, Goes Viral on TikTok

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted yesterday that she was looking for people to play the popular game with in an effort to get out the vote , noting that she's never played...

Year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

The cat geoglyph, believed to be older than the ones previously found at Nazca, was discovered by archaeologists carrying out maintenance in the area during th...

Singh: NDP won’t give Trudeau ‘the election he is looking for’

Trudeau's second-in-command, Deputy Premier Chrystia Freeland said her government isn't necessarily interested in a election either, but the concept of the spec...

Supreme Court to hear cases on Trump’s immigration policies

In the case on asylum-seekers, an appeals court in February blocked the program, known as Remain in Mexico, saying it was at odds with both federal law and worl...

Israel, U.A.E. to Allow Citizens Visa-Free Travel

The agreement was one of four signed between the two countries as a senior delegation of Emirati officials visited Israel for their first official state visit...