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At least 24 people, including seven children, have been killed by landslides triggered by unusually heavy rains in northwestern Kenya, a local governor said on Saturday. The downpour began on Friday in West Pokot County, which borders Uganda, and worsened overnight, causing flooding and mudslides that swept away four bridges …

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence landed in Iraq on Saturday to visit U.S. troops and was set to meet Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, a source in the premier’s office said. Pence visited Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq where U.S. troops are stationed. The Iraqi government source gave …

Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari says the United States has been occupying the country’s oil fields and looting its resources as the UN remains silent on Washington’s act of theft. “The US occupies Syrian oil wells and plunders the Syrians’ revenues in the shadow of the UN Security Council’s silence,” …

Senior officials from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party have reportedly been working behind the scenes to bring him down following his indictment on corruption charges. After three years of investigations, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and bribery in three different scandals …

Iranian Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri on Saturday warned regional countries of unspecified dire consequences if it is proven that they meddled to stoke unrest in Iran, the semi-official news agency Fars reported. “Some countries in the region should know that they will be not have an easy life in the region …

At least 10 people were killed and 25 wounded when a car bomb exploded on Saturday in a Syrian border town seized by Turkish-backed forces last month, witnesses and a rescuer said. Tel Abyad was one of two border towns that saw some of the heaviest fighting when Ankara launched …

Greece said on Friday it was deploying more border guards to “shut the door” to migrants not entitled to stay, the latest sign of a hardening stance against asylum seekers since a new surge in the number of arrivals. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament he had approved the hiring …

Democrats in the US House of Representatives say they are actively preparing for the next step in their eight-week-old impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, saying they are undeterred by the White House preventing first-hand witnesses from testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. Democratic Party lawmakers in the lower chamber …

Argentinian legend Diego Maradona has announced that he is resuming control of Primera Division side Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata just two days after his shock exit from the club. Earlier this week, club president Gabriel Pellegrino revealed that Maradona had departed the team in a move thought to be …

Clashes erupted between Colombian police and protesters, who took to the streets of the capital, Bogota, against the US-backed government of President Ivan Duque, in what became one of the biggest rallies in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in the streets of Bogota on Thursday to protest …

WhatsApp is a “Trojan horse” exploited to snoop on millions of users naive enough to believe that the Facebook-owned messenger differs from its parent company, long beset by privacy scandals, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said. In a lengthy post on his Telegram channel on Wednesday, Durov took aim at one …

US President Donald Trump wants an impeachment trial to go forward in the U.S. Senate because he would receive due process there and he expects Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden would be among the witnesses, a White House spokesman said on Thursday. “President Trump wants to have a trial in …

China won’t have to sacrifice economic growth or prosperity to go carbon neutral in the next few decades, according to a new report. The country could triple its economic output per person by 2050 while still reducing its carbon footprint, the Energy Transitions Commission said in the report, published on …

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shiite religious authority in Iraq, on Friday called on politicians to hurry up in reforming electoral laws and said the changes would be the only way to resolve weeks of deadly unrest. “We affirm the importance of speeding up the passing of the electoral …

Iraqi officials say three protesters have been killed and 25 wounded amid ongoing clashes with security forces near a strategic bridge in Baghdad. Security and hospital sources said three people were killed Friday on Baghdad’s Rasheed Street in clashes with security forces. Two protesters died because of tear gas, and …

In almost any other year it would be hailed as a public health victory: The smoking rate among U.S. high schoolers took its biggest hit ever this year, federal figures show, falling to a new low. Instead, the milestone was relegated to a lone figure at the bottom of a …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday there was clear evidence that Donald Trump used his office for his own personal gain and undermined national security as lawmakers continue to investigate the Republican president. Speaking at a regular weekly news conference, Pelosi said it was up to the House …

Saud Abdul Ghani, a professor of engineering at Qatar University, has revealed how the stadium cooling system will work in the stadium in southern Qatar in preparation for hosting the 2022 World Cup. “You can see the size of this huge stadium,” Abdel Ghani said in an interview with CNN. …

Labour has launched its general election manifesto, promising to “transform” the UK and to renationalise rail, mail, water and energy. Leader Jeremy Corbyn also vowed, “a green transformation” of the economy, aiming to get the UK “on track” for a net-zero carbon system by the 2030s. The manifesto sets out …

Israel’s Attorney General has indicted PM Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges after months of uncertainty over whether Netanyahu would be able to retain his leadership of the country. He is charged with bribery and fraud. Netanyahu faces charges of breach of trust and fraud stemming from three cases in which …