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BRONX, NYC - A 29-year-old man has been arrested Sunday and charged with murder in the caught-on-camera machete attack that killed a 15-year-old boy outside a bodega in the Bronx, police said.   Ronald Urena, of the Bronx, was charged with…

NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA - Nigeria’s central bank on Wednesday announced that it had slapped a fine of 5.8 billion naira on four banks for their roles in MTN illegal fund repatriation.  The banks involved are Standard Chartered Bank, Stanbic …

SWITZERLAND - We've all wondered how much our bosses or coworkers make. Now, in Switzerland, there may be a way to find out.  Swiss trade union Unia has spearheaded the creation of a new website where anyone in the country can post their…

GENOA, ITALY - The 80-year-old Piano, who shot to fame with the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in the 1970s and decades later designed The Shard in London, lives in France but still keeps an office near Genoa.  The project was…

BERLIN/LONDON - The European Union is prepared to offer Britain an unprecedentedly close relationship after it quits the bloc but would not allow anything that weakened the body’s single market, chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said…

WASHINGTON - White House counsel Don McGahn, whose time serving President Donald Trump has been marked by tension related to the investigation of Russian election interference, is set to leave the job in the coming weeks.  Trump made the…

PHOENIX — The late Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy, walked up to the flag-draped casket holding her husband's body Wednesday at the Arizona Capitol and patted it, then leaned over and kissed it.  Uniformed National Guard members carried the…

COMOROS - Comoros President Azali Assoumani has appointed a new government, a month after a referendum win which will allow him to extend his reign as leader of the archipelago.  The new team has twelve ministers and three secretaries of…

CENTRAL AMERICA – Devastating drought triggered the collapse of the ancient Maya civilisation in Central America, new research has found.  Analysis of the Mexico climate hundreds of years ago revealed that rainfall plummeted by 70 percent…

35-year old Palestinian, Muath Abou Zeid made a fishing boat from hundreds of plastic bottles and it was abandoned on the coast of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.  But for the past two weeks, the father of four, has been out at sea for about eight…

Mozambique - Mozambique has implemented new rates for the registration and accreditation of local and foreign journalists in the country, immediately denounced as exorbitant by the defenders of freedom of the press.  Quietly adopted in…

UGANDA - Charges against Ugandan musician turn lawmaker have been dropped by the military court sitting in the town of Gulu.  MP Robert Kyagulanyi popularly referred to as Bobi Wine was arraigned before the court last week over charges of…

PHNOM PENH/NEW DELHI - Rohingya refugee children who lack proper education in camps in Bangladesh could become a “lost generation”, the United Nations said on Thursday, a year after Myanmar’s army began a crackdown that has forced more than…

International rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) have called on the Ethiopian government to arrest a rising spate of insecurity in the country.  Maria Burnett, HRW’s director for East Africa and the Horn, said ethnically and…

Auigust 16, 2018 -- BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Refugee and migrant children fleeing Central America to escape gang violence and poverty are at risk from human traffickers during their journey to the United States, the United…

WASHINGTON - Democrats in the U.S. Senate said on Thursday they were prepared to sue the National Archives if it does not honor their request for information on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  The threat ratcheted up the Democrats’…

WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued an order on Thursday seeking to speed up the handling of deportation cases, telling immigration judges they should only issue continuances in immigrant removal proceedings for “good…

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shares in China’s Tencent Holdings lost more ground on Thursday after it logged its first quarterly profit decline in nearly 13 years and said it did not know when it would get Chinese approval to make money off its…

TOKYO - Japan must act urgently to protect tens of thousands of workers laboring to clean up the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station from reported exploitation and exposure to radiation, U.N. human rights experts said on…

Two women who say they were tricked into killing the half-brother of North Korea's Kim Jong-un will go on trial, after a judge said evidence suggested they knew what they were doing.  Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Thuong are accused of smearing…

Reporting By Tiemoko DialloBAMAKO - Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won re-election with 67 percent of the vote in a run-off against opposition rival Soumaila Cisse, the Ministry of Territorial Administration said on Thursday.…

by Ilaria PolleschiGENOA, Italy (Reuters) - Italy’s biggest toll-road operator came under heavy stock-market attack on Thursday after Rome criticized it for a deadly bridge collapse this week, moving to revoke its concession and…

by Abdur Rahman Alfa ShabanNigeria- officially has 91 registered political parties the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) disclosed on Tuesday, August 14, 2018.  At the last count in January 2018, there were 68…

Clinical malaria cases in Burkina Faso drop by 12% after trial of nets treated with new chemical combination. A bed net designed to kill insecticide-resistant mosquitoes could prevent millions of cases of malaria across sub-Saharan Africa,…

by Amina Ismail and Ali AbdelatyCAIRO - Egypt’s president said on Monday Cairo was deeply concerned about security in the Red Sea following an attack by Yemen’s Houthis on two oil tankers that forced Saudi Arabia to suspend crude…

by Gavin Du Venage Serious questions about its reliability as an investment destination are surfacing following a court ruling that its seizure of a DP World port is illegal. It has been a trying few weeks for Ismaïl Omar Guelleh,…

by Daniel MumbereUganda’s vocal legislator, Robert Kyagulanyi, who is popularly known as Bobi Wine has been charged with treason, in the aftermath of the deadly clashes that rocked the West Nile town of Arua on the last day of campaigns…

by Daren Butler, Behiye Selin Taner Additional reporting by Ece Toksabay, Ezgi Erkoyun and Steve Holland in Washington Writing by Humeyra Pamuk and Dominic Evans, Editing by William Maclean and Gareth Jones August 14, 2018…

August 14, 2018African football legend and ex-Cameroon captain Samuel Eto’o has joined the 13th club of his long career when he signed for Qatar Sports Club on a free transfer, days after leaving Turkish club Konyaspor by mutual…

by Nina Chestney Editing by Catherine Evans August 6, 2018LONDON (Reuters) - The world is at risk of entering “hothouse” conditions where global average temperatures will be 4-5 degrees Celsius higher even if emissions reduction…