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Australian swimmer sent home from World Champs after failed drug test

The first positive test related to the Gwangju world championships is embarrassing for Australian swimming after Olympic champion Mack Horton's protest agains...

Romania police chief sacked after girl's murder

Relatives of Alexandra alleged the police failed to take the alert seriously and finally reacted too late. Sign-up now and enjoy one (1) week free access! The...

Trump wants WTO to strip China of its 'developing nation' status

The salvo fell the week before top USA trade officials are due to return to China to rekindle trade talks that acrimoniously collapsed in May. If the Trump ad...

Trump, in phone call, congratulates Johnson on becoming PM

Johnson has already spoken to five national leaders around the world, including US President Donald Trump, who was always going to be a priority given the two ...

Moscow police detain hundreds over election protests

Police officers detain an opposition politician Lyubov Sobol in Moscow on Saturday. OVD-Info, an organization that monitors political arrests, said about 50 peo...

8 dead, 60 injured in series of strong quakes in Philippines

The Philippine seismology agency said the quakes were magnitude-5.4 and 5.9 respectively. "The wounded are still being brought in", Itbayat Mayor Raul de Sago...

Slain NBA player's ex-wife pleads guilty

Sherra Wright originally pleaded not guilty but appeared in court on Thursday to change her plea. Prosecutor Paul Hagerman said Sherra's involvement in the c...

Slain Russian gay-rights activist had received threats: campaigner

She had multiple stab wounds and signs of strangulation, the BBC reports. Yelena Grigoryeva, 41, who was stabbed to death by the 40-year-old suspect in St. ...

American teens jailed in Italian cop killing

The man agreed. However, instead of going to meet the men himself, he called police who sent two plain clothes officers to quiz the men. Carabinieri paramil...

Trump vetoes measures blocking arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE

Weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies are a sensitive topic in the USA after Saudi operatives brutally murdered Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi...

Twin babies found dead in auto after father 'forgot about them'

A source tells News 12 the father is a social worker at the VA nearby. Neighbors told News 12 they don't believe the babies were left in the auto on objec...

Oman's top diplomat in Iran for talks amid mounting Gulf tensions

Trump insists that Iran must agree to limits on its ballistic missile program, but Iran thus far has refused. The missile flies at a speed of Mach 7 and is capa...

'Degenerate': Staff member posts savage resignation tweet using MP's account

The rogue agent felt the need to comment that O'Mara is motivated by nothing other than money. "You have wasted opportunities which people dare not even dream o...

Tunisia president hospitalized after health scare

He co-brokered a historic power-sharing deal between his Nidaa Tounes movement and Ennahda party that helped to steady the country, but the tie-up later fraye...

All passengers of stranded Mahalaxmi Express rescued; Amit Shah praises rescue teams

The downpour led to traffic snarls and cancellation of several flights. Thirteen trains were diverted, six short trains were terminated and two others have be...

China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites

In a first for China, a rocket designed and built by private rocket firm ispace has placed satellites in orbit with a successful launch from a launchpad in ...

Camp Pendleton-based Marines arrested following human smuggling investigation

The Marine Corps said in a news release that information gained after two Marines were arrested on human smuggling charges earlier this summer led to the a...

Tinder to alert LGBTQ users when they are in 'hostile' area

Tinder has announced that it will send users alerts to warn them when they are in countries with laws that criminalise LGBT+ people. The point of these feat...

Boris Johnson's new-look cabinet meet for first time

Sajid Javid , the home secretary who also ran against Mr Johnson, was given the key post of Chancellor, meaning the holders of the three great offices of stat...

Group asks Canada to stop Hawaii telescope money

Johnson is of Samoan descent and spent part of his childhood in Hawaii's capital Honolulu. Activists welcomed Ige with a nose-to-nose greeting called honi a...

Turkey's first S-400 shipment complete, second planned for Ankara

Turkey began taking delivery of the advanced Russian air defence system earlier this month, prompting the United States to remove North Atlantic Treaty Organ...

Australians celebrating as two killed during South Korean club balcony collapse

Ramsay said all USA water polo athletes were safe and accounted for. Mr Small said none of his team were injured but all of them were "shaken up" after witnes...

Supremes let Trump build wall with military funds

The justices, by a vote of 5 to 4, lifted orders by a federal judge in Oakland and the USA 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that had barred the adm...

Woman shoots 2 Israeli men to death at Mexico shopping mall

Israeli police reportedly suspect an Israeli criminal organization was behind the hit, according to the paper. The pair were eating in a cafe at the luxurio...

Gravitas: 3 Indians in Boris Johnson's Cabinet

The Times has reported that Patel is being tipped as home secretary. Patel has supported Johnson's bid for an early Brexit . She addressed her final Prim...

Slain Ole Miss student was shot to death after leaving bar

Brandon Theesfeld , who attended college with Kostial, was arrested on suspicion of murder Monday. Theesfeld was arrested Monday afternoon and booked into...

High court allows use of Pentagon funds for border wall

The Supreme Court's action means the Trump administration can tap the funds and begin work on four contracts it has awarded. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote an opi...

Syria frees American 'travelling to every country'

The release was first announced by the officials without naming the American citizen. They thanked a Lebanese overall for helping. "Sam is healthy and with hi...

Paris registers all-time hottest day amid Europe’s heatwave

Since most houses and cafes in France do not have air conditioning, the most accessible places for air conditioning are stores, museums, movie theatres and so...

Trump announces ‘landmark agreement’ with Guatemala to restrict asylum claims

The U.S. also has a safe third country agreement with Canada that took effect in 2004. There is some question as to whether Guatemala can put the agreement in...

U.S. brings back death penalty, schedules 5 executions

Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Acting on President Donald Trump's call for tougher penalties on violent crimes, Barr directed the Federal Bureau of P...

Police seek suspects in BC homicides

You could pick a direction and walk in and hope to bump into something, ' Gillam Deputy Mayor John MacDonald said, adding: 'It can get pretty trying to survive ...

Korea, Russia Differ Over Warning Shots Fired at Aircraft

South Korea's ministry of defence acknowledged it scrambled fighter jets in response and fired 360 machine-gun rounds. Earlier Wednesday, Russia's acting...

HK protesters take fight to airport, travellers warned

Some 45 people were wounded. The Yuen Long attack came on the back of seven consecutive weekends of protests in Hong Kong against a contentious extradition...

Syrian girls captured in viral photo fight for survival

Cutts said: "We have seen one of the most deadly attacks on civilian areas since the outbreak of clashes about three months ago". Humanitarian aid supplied by r...