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Royal Family Attends Wreath Laying Ceremony For Remembrance Day

Other Remembrance Sunday ceremonies are taking place across the country and around the world, including in countries where the armed forces are now deployed, ...

Inmate claims he completed life sentence by dying

Schreiber, who was handed a whole life term without the possibility of parole after bludgeoning a man to death in the 1990s, became gravely ill in March 2015 wh...

Families hold first funerals for Mormon massacre victims

Having to move so suddenly feels like something he's seen in the movies, but he never thought would happen to his family, Langford said. Community members say...

Remembrance Day: where you can pay your respects in Rotherham tomorrow

A short service will take place at the war memorial on Monday at 10.45am. A Remembrance Day ceremony observing a two-minute silence will take place at the j...

Trump says White Dwelling will launch transcript of another call with Ukraine

The White House released the transcript of the July phone call in late September following allegation from an anonymous whistleblower who accused President T...

Camilla makes a remarkable recovery to attend Festival of Remembrance

The statement added: "Their Royal Highnesses, who past year attended their first Festival of Remembrance together, were honoured to once again pay tribute to al...

Bloomberg opens door to 2020 Democratic run for US president

The billionaire media mogul, who has not formally confirmed his candidacy, filed the documents Friday to meet the deadline for submitting Alabama applications...

Plane crashes in Texas in another gender-reveal gone wrong

The NTSB's report indicated that the September 7 crash occurred after the crop duster-style plane dumped 350 gallons of pink-dyed water as part of the fanfare. ...

Erdogan: Turkey captures slain IS leader al-Baghdadi's wife

He confirmed that Turkey had additionally captured Baghdadi's sister and brother-in-law. In a speech he delivered in Ankara on the 70th anniversary of t...

Landfall on Saturday: Cyclone kills two as Bangladesh, India evacuate two million

It said that storm surge of about 1 to 2 metres height above astronomical tide is very likely to inundate low lying areas of south and North 24 Parganas and 0.5...

Police in three Bolivian cities join opposition

Defense Minister Javier Zabaleta has downplayed the police protests, saying a "police mutiny occurred in a few regions". The dispute over the presidential el...

Heavy fighting between Syrian and Turkish troops

Turkey's objective is to create a "safe zone" in north-east Syria , 20 lac Syrian immigrants can settle here once this area is cleared from Kurdish YPG Milit...

Indian government threatens to cancel journalist Aatish Taseer’s overseas citizenship

Aatish, a United Kingdom national, is the son of assassinated Pakistan politician Salman Taseer and Indian journalist Tavleen Singh who has supported Modi on ...

Masked men shoot and kill 5 protesters in Iraqi city of Basra

In his Friday sermon, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said it is the responsibility of the security forces to ensure peaceful protests and avoid using excessive ...

23 killed in protests during past days in Iraq

In Basra, seven protesters were killed in confrontations on Thursday and early Friday, with security forces trying to reopen roads blocked by sit-ins, medical...

Iran defends decision to block United Nations inspector from nuclear site

Saudi Arabia has affirmed its support and appreciation for the efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and its inspectors' professionalism and...

Nine jailed in landmark US-China operation

The Xingtai Intermediate People's Court in Hebei province imposed the most severe penalties on three people accused of leading the ring. Of the nine peopl...

France to impose quotas in bid to address immigration concerns

Philippe said in a speech Wednesday that "it's about sovereignty". It is not clear so far whether these measures would be more attractive or repulsive to the...

Germany, allies mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

The protests and a stream of people fleeing East Germany piled pressure on the country's Communist government to open its borders to the West and ultimately end...

Trump insists impeachment inquiry hasn't hurt him

They are trying to determine whether Trump froze US$391 million (S$540 million) in United States security assistance for Ukraine to put pressure on Zelenskiy to...

South Korea Deports North Koreans, Says They Killed 16 Co-Workers

In response, Seoul took Tokyo off its whitelist of trusted export partners. Human rights experts and lawyers told RFA's Korean Service that deportation was no...

Syrian Democratic Forces Reap Benefit From Oil Money

USA troops tasked with protecting oil fields in northeastern Syria are helping ensure any profits flow to the mainly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces , a key...

Hundreds of thousands evacuate as cyclone Bulbul approaches Bangladesh

The Met department said sea conditions will be rough to very rough along and off Odisha and West Bengal coasts November 8 onwards and will become very high ...

Prime Minister Modi Thanks Pakistan's Imran Khan For 'Cooperation' on Sikh Corridor

The first batch comprising 500 pilgrims will include several dignitaries including former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , Amarinder Singh and former P...

Anti-Brexit alliance targets tenth of United Kingdom election seats

The "Remain" coalition was trialled in a Welsh by-election earlier this year, when the Greens and Plaid stood aside for the Lib Dems, who went on to take the se...

Police name the 39 victims found dead in Essex lorry

Before new details about the Essex lorry victims were revealed, the Church of the Holy Name and Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in east London held services to...

Congolese warlord gets longest-ever ICC sentence

Ntaganda is one of five Congolese warlords to have been brought before the ICC , which was set up in 2002 as an independent worldwide body to prosecute those a...

Australia in ‘Unchartered Territory’ Amid Bushfire Crisis

It's bad news all around for Australia and how climate change is impacting the country. As of Saturday night, there were nearly 80 fires burning across NSW ...

Woman dies in Derbyshire as floods sweep northern England

Later on Thursday, South Yorkshire Police declared there were "significant issues" in Doncaster, with Bentley, Toll Bar and Scawthorpe the worst affected areas....

Roger Stone lied because 'truth looked bad' for Trump, say prosecutors

Stone - a self-described "dirty trickster" and "agent provocateur" - has pleaded not guilty to charges of obstructing justice, witness tampering and lying to...

Morales angry at humiliating attack on Bolivian mayor

The government said on Friday that an audit of the contentious presidential election would likely be completed early next week, which could either back Morales'...

Pompeo Works To Shrug Off Impeachment Inquiry As Kansas Senate Decision Looms

Hale, who arrived Wednesday morning to testify behind closed doors, will also say that the State Department anxious about the reaction from President Donald ...

Rep. Jim Jordan Moved To House Intelligence Committee AKA ‘Impeachment Committee’

Ivanka Trump expressed some disagreement with her father on one aspect of the impeachment inquiry during an interview with the Associated Press published on ...

Iowa Appeals Court rules against life inmate who says he died already

Schreiber has since argued that he's served his life sentence as a result. Schreiber has been in prison since 1996. According to court records , he had dev...

Former Brazilian President Released From Prison

His release will likely reinvigorate an opposition weakened by corruption scandals, the impeachment of Da Silva's hand-picked successor, Da Silva's imprisonme...