Five persons, including three civilians were killed in a gun battle after Al-Shabaab militants opened fire on a checkpoint in Mogadishu, the country’s capital on Monday.
Officials said two gunmen of...
A United Nations report has said some 464,000 homicides were recorded around the world in 2017, far more than the number of people killed in armed conflicts and terrorist attacks.
The Global Study on Homicide...
Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras has conceded defeat in the country’s general election as conservative opposition leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis secured a comfortable parliamentary majority.
With...
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday convicted a former rebel leader, Bosco Ntaganda for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ntaganda, nicknamed...
The government of Iran has threatened to seize a British ship after her oil tanker was intercepted by Royal Marines off Gibraltar for trying to take oil to Syria in violation of European Union (EU) sanctions.
A...
United States prosecutors say they are seeking $12.7 billion from convicted Mexican drug kingpin, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman based on a conservative estimate of revenues from his cartel’s drug...
Sudan’s military leaders on Thursday reached an agreement with the opposition alliance to share power until elections can be held in the country.
Mediators say the two sides agreed to rotate control...
Netherlands’ most notorious gangster, Willem Holleeder popularly known as ‘The Nose’ has been jailed for life for ordering five murders.
The murder trial of the 61-year-old Holleeder over a...
Eighty-two people have been reported missing after a boat carrying 86 migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia in the Mediterranean Sea.
Four men were reportedly pulled out alive from the sinking boat, nine...
European Union leaders on Tuesday nominated German Defense Minister, Ursula von der Leyen to become the new president of the bloc’s powerful executive arm, the European Commission (EC).
Von der Leyen,...
The United Nations says an air strike which killed more than 44 migrants at a detention centre on the outskirts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli may amount to a war crime.
More than 130 people were injured...
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele says his country is to blame for the death of migrants making the dangerous journey to the United States in search of a better life.
In his first broadcast interview...
A stowaway has reportedly died after he fell from a Kenya Airways plane flying over London and dropped into a residential garden on Sunday.
According to reports, the body which has been traced to...
A fire aboard a Russian navy research submersible has killed 14 crew members.
The Russian Defence Ministry says the crew members were poisoned by fumes when the vessel caught fire while taking measurements...
Archie, the infant son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be christened Saturday, July 6.
According to a royal source who spoke to CNN on Sunday, the christening of Archie...
The Police in Hong Kong have clashed with protesters marking the anniversary of the country’s handover from the United Kingdom to Chinese rule.
In chaotic scenes on Monday, the Hong Kong Police used...
The United States President, Donald Trump made history on Saturday after he became the first serving American President to cross the border into North Korea.
Trump met with his North Korean counterpart,...
Two persons were on Thursday arrested in India’s Bihar State after a group of men shaved the heads of two women as a punishment for resisting rape.
According to the Indian Police, the group which...
Amid the rising heatwave in Europe which has already claimed several lives, France has hit its highest recorded temperature of 45.1C (113.2F).
The new record was measured in the southern town of Villevieille....
Britain has successfully completed the first operational mission of its most advanced fighter jet, the Lockheed Martin Lightning F-35B.
The jet, which is just over 15.5 meters long with a wingspan of...
