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Three people died on Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, officials said. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the deaths and ...

  Nigeria has dropped two places on the annual corruption perception index published by Transparency International. According to the recently released report on Thursday, Nigeria is now ranked 146 out of the 180 countries considered. Nigeria also scored 27 out ...

An Iranian politician has announced a $3million ‘cash prize’ for anyone who kills President Donald Trump. Ahmad Hamzeh, parliamentary speaker from central Kerman province, told lawmakers: ‘We will pay a three million dollar award in cash to whoever kills Trump.’ ...

Greece will elect its first woman president on January 22 after leading opposition parties on Thursday approved the government’s nomination of top judge Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou. Main opposition leftist leader Alexis Tsipras said Sakellaropoulou was an “exceptional judge” and a defender ...

A suspect armed with a rifle opened fire in a Russian courthouse killing one man and injuring a woman. The attack according to report occurred early morning on Thursday. A male court officer suffered a gunshot wound to his stomach ...

The entire Russian government is resigning, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced. This is coming after Vladimir Putin proposed sweeping reforms that could extend his decades-long grip on power beyond the end of his presidency. Putin thanked members of the ...

The US has reversed its decision to brand China a currency manipulator as the two countries prepare to wind down their trade war. The US said it made the change because China had agreed to refrain from devaluing its currency ...

  Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has expressed regret over his handling of the bushfire crisis ravaging the country. The PM has faced mounting criticism over his government’s response to the bushfires and its climate policy. Since September, bushfires have ...

Iranians have gathered in the streets of Tehran to demand the resignation of Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei after the regime admitted it had mistakenly shot down a civilian passenger plane. Angry crowds gathered on Saturday night in at least four ...

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has secured a second term after sweeping to victory in an election dominated by the island’s relationship with China. Ms Tsai secured just over 57% of the ballot – a record 8.2m votes – well ahead ...

  An American warship was “aggressively approached” by a Russian Navy ship in the North Arabian Sea, the US Navy said Friday. Navy Cmdr. Josh Frey, spokesman for US 5th Fleet, said that the USS Farragut was conducting routine operations ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States has increased sanctions on Iran after a missile strike this week on Iraqi bases housing American military personnel, but gave no other details. “It’s already been done. We’ve increased them. ...

Pope Francis on Thursday urged the U.S. and Iran to avoid escalation and pursue “dialogue and self-restraint” to avert a wider conflict in the Middle East. The Pope’s appeal was his first direct comment on the current crisis in a ...

Senior members of the Royal Family are said to be disappointed and hurt at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to step back from their current roles. Prince Harry and Meghan did not inform the Queen or any other ...

US President Donald Trump has said Iran “appears to be standing down” after it fired missiles at air bases housing US forces in Iraq. Mr Trump, in a televised address from the White House, said no US or Iraqi lives ...

President Donald Trump has been mocked on Twitter by an Iranian official in the wake of the missile attacks on US bases in Iraq. Iran has launched dozens of ballistic missiles at US targets throughout Iraq, including Erbil in northern ...

Two airbases housing US troops in Iraq have been hit by more than a dozen ballistic missiles, according to the US Department of Defence. Iranian state TV says the attack is a retaliation after the country’s top commander Qasem Soleimani ...

Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the United States had declined to issue him a visa to attend a UN Security Council meeting scheduled in New York later this week, as tensions escalate between the two countries after the ...

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has denied US troops are pulling out of Iraq, after a letter from a US general there suggested a withdrawal. The letter said the US would be “repositioning forces in the coming days and weeks” ...

A top general in Iran has said that killing President Donald Trump would not be enough retaliation for the death of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, suggesting that Iran’s response to the deadly US air strike would not stop with ...

These are the safest places to be if World War 3 breaks out and nuclear weapons start flying amid tensions between the US and Iran. Tensions are raging around the world with barbs being thrown by US President Donald Trump, ...

President Trump has threatened severe sanctions against Iraq after its parliament called on US troops to leave the country. “We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. We’re not leaving unless ...

Emmanuel Macron expressed France’s solidarity with its allies during a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday and said Iran must avoid “destabilizing” actions after a top Iranian military commander was killed in a U.S. air strike in ...

Iran has announced it’s fully withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal , just days after President Donald Trump ordered a strike that killed its top military leader, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iranian state TV said Iran will no longer comply ...

In a series of tweets Saturday, US President Donald Trump responded to Iranian threats of avenging Major General Qassem Soleimani’s assassination in a US airstrike, by warning that the US will hit 52 Iranian sites, dear to Iran. His tweets ...