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May 19, 2022 1 India’s top court has granted the release of a man convicted of killing former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 31 years after his imprisonment. Perarivalan was arrested a few weeks after Gandhi was assassinated in a ...

The UK Defence Ministry, on Thursday, revealed that Russia has suspended Lieutenant-General Serhiy Kisel for his failure to capture Kharkiv amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. It revealed this in a series of tweets via its Twitter handle ...

Russia may sever ties with prominent global bodies as Vladimir Putin continues to isolate his nation from the West following the invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s Foreign Ministry yesterday sent a list of international organisations to parliament, with orders to review ...

Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, Putin’s own troops have said. A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured. It comes as investigations ...

After more than three decades in Russia, McDonald’s has put its Russia business up for sale as it works to leave the country completely. The move is a significant departure for a brand whose growth across the world became the ...

The United States has eclipsed one million COVID-19 deaths, the White House announced Thursday, the first nation to reach the grim total during the pandemic that has dominated life for the past two years. President Joe Biden paid his respects ...

  Vladimir Putin is “very ill with blood cancer” an oligarch with close ties to the Russian leader has reportedly been recorded as saying. The oligarch is believed to have spoken about Putin’s grave health during a conversation with a ...

Spain is planning to introduce medical leave for women who suffer from severe period pain, media reports suggest. A draft bill says women could have three days of leave a month – extended to five in some circumstances. But politicians ...

North Korea has confirmed its first death from Covid-19, with state media adding that tens of thousands more are experiencing fever symptoms. Six people died after suffering a fever with one testing positive for Omicron, state media reported on Friday. ...

The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is dead. He died today, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced. The ministry also confirmed there would be 40 days of official mourning with flags across ...

The US has passed more than one million Covid-related deaths, says the White House. President Joe Biden said the country was marking “a tragic milestone” and each death was “an irreplaceable loss”. It’s the highest official total in the world ...

North Korea on Thursday confirmed its first-ever case of Covid-19, with state media calling it a ‘severe national emergency incident’ after more than two years of keeping the pandemic at bay. State-run KCNA news agency said samples taken from patients ...

    Vladimir Putin has reportedly been ‘stunned’ to learn the woman widely believed to be his ‘secret lover’ is pregnant again. The Russian president, 69, is already alleged to have at least two sons with former Olympic rhythmic gymnast ...

The Gulf Clan drug cartel has shut down dozens of towns in northern Colombia for four days in reaction to its leader being extradited to the U.S. for trial. It warned that anyone who disobeyed the stay-at-home order risked being ...

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has condemned the trend where Nigerian politicians display posters of their candidates for the forthcoming presidential election in the grand mosque in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Waring against such practice. The Commission, in a ...

The European Union has declared its plans to ban trading with Russian oil by the end of the year. This is part of its sixth package of sanctions rolled out against Moscow for its three month military assault in Ukraine. ...

  A woman pronounced dead after a car crash shocked mourners at her funeral by banging on the coffin and showing signs of life. Rosa Isabel Cespedes Callaca interrupted her own funeral with stunned family members hearing a noise from ...

Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but had not received a reply. The pope also told ...

Drawn by rumours on social media, Ethiopian young men and old, many with their military records in hand, are queuing up at the Russian embassy with hopes of fighting for Russia in Ukraine. The queues formed early each morning outside ...

A top Ukrainian negotiator offered on Wednesday to negotiate with Russia “without any conditions” to allow for the evacuation of troops and civilians in besieged Mariupol. “Without any conditions. We’re ready to hold a ‘special round of negotiations’ right in ...

    A new portrait of The Queen with two of her beloved fell ponied has been released to mark her 96th birthday, as she quietly celebrates the landmark occasion in Sandringham. Taken in the grounds of Windsor Castle last ...

    The Maharashtra forest department is investigating a case in which unnatural sexual acts were performed on a monitor lizard in Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (STR) in Western Ghats, India recently. The incident came to light after the officials had ...

Russia has slammed a ban on the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and other senior ministers over the war in Ukraine. The country, which banned US President Joe Biden in March, accused Britain of hostility following its invasion of ...

Japan’s former Princess Mako is now reportedly an unpaid volunteer at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art after giving up her titles – and a $1.3 million payout – to marry her ‘commoner’ college sweetheart. Mako Komuro, 30, is working ...

Ukraine’s economy will shrink by 45 percent this year, the World Bank has said. No thanks to Russia’s invasion. The global bank, in a statement issued in Washington on Sunday, said the war against Ukraine and sanctions on Russia are ...