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ANDREW CUOMO is facing impeachment and potential criminal charges after a damning report into sexual misconduct by the New York Governor. Who is Andrew Cuomo?... Read more »

BORIS JOHNSON has sent in special forces in reaction to a tanker being seized by the Iranian military off the UAE coast.... Read more »

Two passenger trains collided in the southwest of the Czech Republic on Wednesday, injuring dozens of passengers.... Read more »

China recorded 71 new infections on Wednesday - the highest daily figure since January - and with local transmission and 500 new cases since July, its zero-Covid strategy is on the brink.... Read more »

Banks, businesses and government offices shut in Lebanon today during what is officially a day of mourning on the one-year anniversary of the Beirut port blast, but protests are also planned amid anger.... Read more »

AN INDIAN journalist in his 60s was left stunned after Tokyo Olympic officials told him to remove his flag and stop shouting.... Read more »

A suspected hijacking on board a tanker believed to be the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess off the coast of UAE is now over and boarders have left the vessel, the UK's maritime safety agency has said.... Read more »

The 84-year-old, named only as Klaus-Dieter F. due to local privacy laws, kept the Panzer and the 88mm flak gun in a bunker under his home in Heikendorf, close to the northern city of Kiel.... Read more »

Portugal had initially refused to recognise the Indian dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine but overnight it emerged the government had changed its mind and would recognise the jab.... Read more »

IRELAND's banking supremo has warned Brussels its economic model "doesn't work in a vacuum" as he voiced serious misgivings about the EU's pledge to achieve carbon neutrality.... Read more »

Kadir Sahiner was filming the picturesque mountain scenery in Turkey when he inadvertently captured the horrifying moment his mother-in-law Pumpul Karademir lost her balance and fell off a cliff edge.... Read more »

Adrian Underwood, a Fijian-born British army veteran and father, has been identified as the security officer killed in an Iranian drone strike on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman last week.... Read more »

Several people have been injured in a Swedish shooting in broad daylight. A 'large police operation' is underway on Kristianstad after multiple gunshots were heard at 3.40pm.... Read more »

A CREEPY spy was caught red-handed as he listened in on a BBC interview with the father of an anti-government activist.... Read more »

TWO people have died and several other injured following a horrific head-on collision between two trains near Pilsen in the Czech Republic.... Read more »

VLADIMIR PUTIN has issued a new article highlighting his stance toward Ukraine's sovereignty.... Read more »

A TAIWANESE Olympic gold medalist made a controversial comment about the fact that Taiwan competes under the name Chinese Taipei in the Olympic games.... Read more »

A COLD War between the West and China would make it impossible to fight other "critical challenges" humanity faces, a former World Bank boss has warned.... Read more »

A US ship has been "hijacked" off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.... Read more »

The Taliban is close to seizing control of the first provincial capital as it expands its presence in the wake of the U.S. and NATO withdrawal. World leaders have urged the Taliban against a military takeover... Read more »

Pope Francis on Wednesday resumed his normal schedule of holding weekly audiences at the Vatican for the first time since he underwent intestinal surgery in Rome a month ago.... Read more »

​​Saudi Arabia set its Arab Light OSP to northwest Europe at a discount of $1.70 a barrel against ICE Brent for September and its OSP to the United States was at a premium of $1.35 a... Read more »

Google urges users to get the COVID-19 vaccine in a new Doodle.... Read more »

Into a void of ignorance about the country, liberals and conservatives project frightening or hopeful things.... Read more »

The JCPOA has been on life support since Biden came into office. The president should explain what he plans to do when it is finally declared dead.... Read more »

Now, the country is on high alert as a cluster of cases connected to the international airport in the eastern city of Nanjing touched at least 17 provinces. China reported 71 new cases of COVID-19 from... Read more »

Iran moved last week toward further government restrictions on Instagram and other apps, as hard-line lawmakers agreed to discuss a bill that many fear will undermine communication, wipe out livelihoods and open the door to the... Read more »

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President Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats called on the party's one-time star to resign. The investigation marked a swift fall for a governor who became a popular national figure in the early days of the... Read more »

A car bomb attack and gun fight targeted the Kabul residence of Afghanistan's acting defense minister on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry announced.... Read more »

After insisting all is well for a year, China’s government admits the Delta variant is in its cities.... Read more »

If Iran has attempted to close the Strait of Hormuz and strangle petroleum flow to global markets, it would constitute a dramatic offensive escalation.... Read more »

Election officials in Brazil announced on Tuesday that they're investigating President Jair Bolsonaro for sowing doubt about the country's electoral process, which critics say is threatening to Brazilian democracy.... Read more »

Japanese activists held a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to protest the upcoming U.S.-South Korea joint exercises.... Read more »

Brazil has been hit with an unusually harsh winter this year with temperatures dropping to freezing levels for several days, hurting crops from corn to coffee and sugar cane. The frost follows one of the country's... Read more »

Banks, businesses and government offices were shuttered Wednesday as Lebanon marks one year since the horrific explosion at the port of Beirut.... Read more »

The Chinese government released a statement Tuesday slamming comments by U.S. congressmen that there is a preponderance of evidence showing the coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab.... Read more »

As Turkish fire crews pressed ahead Tuesday with their weeklong battle against blazes tearing through forests and villages on the country's southern coast, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government faced increased criticism over its apparent poor response... Read more »

Two ships off the coast of the United Arab Emirates broadcast warnings Tuesday that they had lost control of their steering under unclear circumstances as authorities reported "an incident" was underway in the area.... Read more »

Kim Jong Un has appeared in public with a dark spot, at times covered by a small bandage, on the back of his head – stoking more speculation about the slimmed-down North Korean despot’s health.... Read more »

Chinese authorities announced Tuesday mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.... Read more »

A Belarusian activist who ran a group in Ukraine helping Belarusians fleeing persecution was found dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, local police said Tuesday.... Read more »

China has placed millions under lockdown as the nation faces the biggest outbreak of the coronavirus in months due to the more transmissible delta variant. ... Read more »

Salimullah, a Rohingya refugee, has been living in the Indian capital of New Delhi since 2013 when he fled violence in Myanmar. Stateless, and now homeless after a fire razed his camp, the 35-year-old lives in... Read more »

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday blamed the United States’ "sudden" decision to withdraw its troops for the rapid collapse of security in the country as Taliban forces close in on three major cities. ... Read more »

A German court has set a trial date for a 100-year-old man who is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on... Read more »

The Biden administration on Monday expanded its efforts to evacuate at-risk Afghan citizens from Afghanistan as Taliban violence increases ahead there of the U.S. military pullout at the end of the month.... Read more »

Chinese authorities have announced a large jump in the death toll from recent floods.... Read more »

Thousands turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures despite a ban on the gatherings, leading to clashes with police and the detention of some 600 protesters.... Read more »

As calls to investigate the COVID lab-leak theory gained traction, Chinese government propaganda has become much more aggressive to dispel it.... Read more »

The United States has joined the United Kingdom and Israel in accusing Iran of carrying out a deadly drone strike that killed two aboard a tanker off Oman.... Read more »

Carrie Johnson, the wife of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced she is pregnant with the couple’s second child just months after she suffered a miscarriage, according to reports.... Read more »

Thousands of people protested France's special virus pass with marches through Paris and other French cities on Saturday. Most demonstrations were peaceful, but sporadic clashes with riot police marked protests in the French capital.... Read more »

The U.S. Marine Security Augmentation Unit has deployed twice in the past 30 days to support and protect embassies in Africa and the Caribbean. ... Read more »

One of 54 children, Osama was born in 1957 to 15-year-old Allia Ghanem, one of at least 20 women whom Mohammed, nearly 40 years her senior, had married and divorced during his lifetime.... Read more »