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President Donald Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement to address crime in U.S. cities, saying that Chicago, Illinois, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be added to the Justice Department program dubbed “Operation Legend.” “Today I’m announcing a surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent …

The majority of undecided voters asked who they would choose if they had to pick President Donald Trump or Joe Biden at the polls opted for the Democratic candidate, according to new polling. A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll gave Biden an 8-point lead over the president among registered voters asked, with …

A teenage girl has become a hero in Afghanistan for fighting off a Taliban attack, killing two militants with the AK-47 her father taught her to use before he was killed by the insurgent group. Now Qamar Gul, who is about 15, has been invited to the presidential palace and …

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have criticized Donald Trump’s leadership, in a teaser for a filmed discussion between the pair. The former president and vice president filmed a socially-distant conversation about challenges facing the US, in Obama’s office in Washington, DC earlier this month, that will be streamed on Biden’s …

The U.S. agreed to pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses of a vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, the government’s latest step to lock up supplies to fight the pandemic. The U.S. will pay the companies when it receives the doses, following regulatory authorization or approval, according …

Covid-19 is “the Trump virus,” says US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, asserting that President Donald Trump has “recognized the mistakes he has made.” Trump has himself come up with various names for the virus, mostly in an attempt to blame China for the onset of the pandemic, calling it “the …

Weighing just 9kg at ten years old, Hassan Merzam Muhammad is so emaciated by the severe malnourishment plaguing hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children like him that he can no longer walk. Fears of famine in Yemen are resurfacing, the United Nations says. A U.N. report Wednesday said Yemen was …

Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruler Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah will travel to the United States on Thursday for medical treatment after he underwent surgery this week, his office said. Sheikh Sabah, who has ruled Kuwait since 2006, underwent surgery on Sunday that his office described as successful, for an unspecified condition. …

China says the United States government has “abruptly” informed Beijing that it has to close its consulate in the Texan city of Houston, calling Washington’s decision “political provocation.” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday that the US government had informed Beijing of the abrupt decision on Tuesday. …

US President Donald Trump has urged Americans to wear masks, warning that the coronavirus pandemic in the United States may “get worse before it gets better.” In what seems to be a shift in rhetoric and tone, Trump encouraged Americans on Tuesday to use face coverings if they cannot maintain …

The executive director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergency Program, has warned that the African continent is faced with a steep acceleration of coronavirus cases. Dr. Michael Ryan made this grim prediction during his regular press briefing and said that the African continent has reported a low number …

Amnesty International has called on Malaysia to withdraw the caning sentences recently handed down to a group of persecuted Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, saying the “barbaric” practice “amounts to torture.” Last month, Malaysia’s local media said that a court on Langkawi Island had sentenced a group of Rohingya refugees to …

Libya’s UN-backed parliament in Tripoli has criticized Egypt’s move to send its soldiers to the country. “We completely reject the Egyptian Parliament’s decision based on an illegitimate invitation by those who claim to represent the Libyan tribes under the guise of ‘parliament’,” the parliament of the Government of National Accord …

The State Department has ordered the closure of China’s Houston consulate in a move that the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called an “outrageous and unjustified” provocation. The move was just the latest incident in a relationship between the two superpowers that has become increasingly strained. State Department spokesperson Morgan …

An Ethiopian Airlines 777F cargo plane has caught fire at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The fire appears to have erupted on the plane’s cargo deck before ripping through the upper decks. The blaze broke out Wednesday afternoon as airport fire crews rushed to the scene to stop the flames from …

Turkey on Wednesday rejected claims by Greece that its oil-and-gas research vessels were encroaching on Greek waters in the eastern Mediterranean and said it would continue to defend its legitimate rights and interests in the region. A Foreign Ministry statement, however, also renewed a call by Ankara for dialogue to …

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off the south-south eastern coast of the Alaskan peninsula on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The quake, with an epicenter at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), prompted the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami warning for …

China has evacuated thousands of residents after a landslide blocked a river and created a barrier lake that threatened to submerge neighbouring villages, as large parts of the country reeled under some of the heaviest rainfall in decades. The landslide occurred on Tuesday when 1.5 million cubic metres of earth …

There is no evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 Brexit referendum and Britain’s spies did not take their eyes off the ball on Russia, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday. “There needs to be some evidence that there’s an issue there – which there isn’t,” Shapps told Sky …

Fourteen people were injured, one person was being questioned and multiple suspects were being sought after gunfire erupted outside a funeral home on Chicago’s South Side where at least one squad car was present, police officials said Tuesday. First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter said mourners outside a funeral home in …