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The US government has warned of dire consequences if African countries going to the polls do not work towards clamping down on electoral violence. Key amongst the sanctions the US has threatened ahead of the upcoming elections is the imposition of travel restrictions. A statement on the US official website …

Donald Trump has been sentenced to death for alleged war crimes by a court in Yemen. The US President was sentenced with nine other defendants including a Saudi King and Prince. The case against the defendants went ahead in their absence today at Houthi-run Specialised Criminal Court in the Yemeni …

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, is a free man for now. He just got released from behind bars as he awaits trial. Mr. Chauvin was cut loose Wednesday from the Oak Park Heights prison in Minnesota after court records show he posted a non-cash $1 …

US President Donald Trump has claimed that contracting Covid-19 was a “blessing from God” and vowed to make the experimental antibody drug Regeneron free for all Covid patients.   The US leader was hospitalized on Friday October 2, after testing positive for the virus. He took an experimental drug Regeneron …

A six-year-old rape victim has died in hospital ten days after being attacked, sparking furious protests in India which saw her family lay the girl’s body in the street. The girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her cousin while she was at home in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state. She …

 0-4President Trump reportedly has COVID-19, and while some are wishing for his speedy recovery, others have publicly tweeted a hope that he’ll die of the disease. As you might imagine, that’s expressly against Twitter’s rules — and the company tells Motherboard that it will enforce them. In other words: You …

Two women were arrested on Monday, October 5, or allegedly smothering their two-year-old nephew over “jealousy” with his mother in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida, India.   The child was killed on September 29 by her two aunts, who had then covered his body in a blanket and hid it in …

Medical experts are questioning Donald Trump’s decision to greet supporters in a drive-past outside the hospital where he is being treated for Covid-19. There are concerns the US president, who wore a mask, may have endangered Secret Service staff inside the car. White House spokesperson Judd Deere said the trip …

A Black man named Jonathan Price was shot and killed by a Wolfe City police officer and this comes only months after he condemned Black Lives Matter protesters and said White police officers have never harassed him.   The family of Jonathan Price says he was fatally shot during an officer-involved shooting in Wolfe City on Saturday, …

One of the White House aides who works closest to President Donald Trump has tested positive for coronavirus, two White House officials confirmed to CNN. Nicholas Luna, an assistant to the President, acts as one of his “body men,” whose job is to accompany the President throughout the day and …