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Olympic debut for North Korea athletes
The only athletes to qualify for the the 2018 winter Olympics on merit from North Korea have made their debut at the winter Olympics and qualified for the next round. Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik …
UEFA Champions League Round of 16
The UEFA champions league is back. And midweek nights are going to be fun once again for football fanatics worldwide. The most prestigious stage for European club football kicks off from the round of…
Over 22,000 Congolese flee to Uganda over renewed violence
Renewed ethnic violence in the northeast of Congo last week, has led to over 22,000 people fleeing to neighbouring Uganda, raising the number of arrivals since of the start of the year to 34,000 acco…
Kenya's Attorney General Githu Muigai Resigns
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that the country's Attorney General Githu Muigai has resigned from his post, without any explanation, adding that a replacement had already been nominat…
South Africa: ANC officially demands Zuma's resignation
South Africa's ruling party, African National Congress (ANC) has officially as embattled president Jacob Zuma to resign from office. The ANC's secretary general, Ace Magashule, told reporters th…
Palestinian viral video teen's trial begins
A Palestinian teenage girl, Ahed Tamimi, seen as a symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation, has gone on trial in an Israeli military court for slapping an Israeli soldier. The 17 year old, c…
London City Airport Reopens
A day after a world war II ordnance was found in the River Thames and removed safely, the near by airport which had been closed due to the discovery had reopened and was operating as usual acco…
Zuma's Exit: ANC wants the South African president gone
President Jacob Zuma expected exit (called "Zexit" in South African Media) draws even closer as the National Executives of the African National Congress (ANC), Zuma's party decided to remove Zuma fro…
Russia Plane Crash: Emergency workers and Investigators search crash site
Russian Emergency workers and investigators are searching snow-covered fields outside Moscow looking for body fragments and clues,with the latter trying to understand what happened when a passenger p…
Harvey Weinstein & Weinstein Co. sued by New York State.
The Attorney General for the state of New York, Eric Schneiderman, has filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company and the film producer, Harvey Weinstein. The lawsuit alleges Mr Weinstein abused a…
Government Shutdown: House of Representatives approves bill.
The overnight effort by lawmakers to avert the second government of the year is proving fruitful as the U.S. House of Representatives overcame its political divide to approve the stopgap funding and …
Ugandan government officials suspended over inflated refugee fugures
The Ugandan government is being dogged by allegations that they had exaggerated the exact figures of refugees, that has resulted in the suspension of four government officials. Ugandan's commiss…
Taiwan Earthquake: Rescue effort focused on missing seven
Rescue operations in Taiwan's tourist city of Hualien, which was hit by a 6.4 magnitude earth earlier in the week, is slowing down with the death toll at 10 and seven people still missing. Those inju…
Woman killed by train while taking selfie in Bangkok
Yet another person has been killed by train while trying to take a selfie. An estimated 94 persons sustained injuries or died trying to take a selfie or picture 2017 alone and statistics reveal…
CAS upholds 47 Russian's exclusion from the winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang
47 Russian athletes and coaches banned by International Olympic Committee from participating the winter Olympics games have seen their appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sports dismissed. …
Senate vote to pass bill, shutdown deadline not met
A second shutdown of the year for the United States of America could not be stopped on time as a bi-partisan budget bill encountered last minute objection when Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (Republican)…
Congressional vote against net neutrality repeal supported by internet firms
The net neutrality repeal by the Trump administrationis facing a congressional reversal despite it is yet to take effect. The Federal Communications Commission's had voted that the net neutrality rul…
Google fined by India's regulatory commission
Search engine giant, Google, are being fined $21.17 million (1.36 billion rupee) by India's antitrust watchdog, Competition Commission of India (CCI) for what it termed "search bias". This is the lat…
Samsung chairman named as suspect in tax evasion case, office raided by police.
The scandal which has followed the Samsung family seems far from over as the South Korean police an Thursday named its chairman, Lee Kun-hee as a suspect in a $7.5 million (8.2 billion won) tax evasi…
Fashion giant H&M criticized for using song without approval
Less than a month after fashion giants H&M received backlash and accused of racism over the use of a black child to model a hoodie with the inscription "coolest monkey in the jungle," the brand i…