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The United States Government has designated Salman Salman, a key leader of the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, as a “special global terrorist’’. In a statement on Friday, the Department of State also announced seven million reward…

London Mayor, Sadiq Khan on Friday called for a fundamental overhaul of private rental market to bring rent control to protect the 2.4 million private renters in the UK capital. Khan published a report on Friday to set out plans for…

Zambian President, Edgar Lungu, on Friday fired his sports minister barely a few days after he fired Minister of Finance. In a cabinet reshuffle announced by his office, the Zambian leader fired Moses Mawere, who was Minister of Youth,…

Kunming customs in southwest China’s Yunnan Province had detected the province’s first case of imported Zika virus in a traveller returning from abroad, local health authorities said Friday. After treatment and quarantine, the patient…

Swedish prosecutors on Friday asked to keep U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky in custody for six more days while they investigate him for aggravated assault over a street fight in Stockholm. “We … now need until Thursday next week to be able to…

France will coordinate European talks on the choice of the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund with the aim to find a candidate by the end of the month, official said. French Finance Minister, Bruno Le-Maire made…

For the second time in seven years, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, has moved a spot lower on the Bloomberg Billionaires’ Index. Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH (Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton), now occupies the second position after…

Italian Matteo Bruni was named on Thursday as the new head of the Vatican’s press office, effectively making him Pope Francis’ spokesman. Bruni, who is due to take up his position on Monday, has been a press officer at the Vatican for…

Temperatures in Israel soared to their highest-ever level on Wednesday, the Israel Meteorological Service confirmed on Thursday. The temperature in Sodom, in the Dead Sea area, reached almost 50 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, according to…

Two Thai Buddhist monks have been arrested and charged with murder and arson for burning another monk to death, police on Thursday said. The murder of monks by fellow clergymen is rare in Thailand, where Buddhism is practised by 95 per…