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Chad’s President Idriss Deby has reportedly died of injuries suffered on front line, an army spokesman said on Tuesday. His death came shortly after provisional election results which projected he would win a sixth term in office, with 80% of the vote. The government and parliament have been dissolved, while …

Ahead of Prince Philip’s burial, which holds today, Buckingham Palace shared a touching unseen picture of the Queen with her husband, who died peacefully at the castle on Friday, April 9, at 99. The Queen will say a private farewell to Prince Philip before his coffin leaves Windsor Castle for today’s funeral. The monarch, 94, will take a …

Queen Elizabeth II has ordered that no royal should wear military uniform for the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral. Prince Harry had faced the humiliating prospect of being the only senior male in the royal family who won’t wear the military uniform after losing his honorary ranks. Harry, 36, was stripped …

A group of progressive Democrats in the US Congress are targeting former President Donald Trump’s legacy of appointing three conservative justices to the US Supreme Court by proposing to expand the high court from nine to 13 justices. The legislative proposal, announced on Thursday, would allow new President Joe Biden …

Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright, made her first appearance at a Hennepin County court on Thursday. Wearing a plaid shirt, Potter confirmed her presence during a brief online hearing and waved to the judge from a table in her lawyer’s office. …

Top intelligence officers from India and Pakistan held secret talks in Dubai in January in a new effort to calm military tension over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, people with close knowledge of the matter have told the Reuters news agency in New Delhi. Ties between the nuclear-armed rivals …

The high performance of African students in the United States seems to trigger a curiosity to probe into its underlying reasons. Some admirers have come up with the explanation that the cultural differences and attitudes towards learning in addition to great level of efforts coupled with unreserved devotion to academics …

Yemen’s Houthi rebels battling Saudi-led military coalition claim responsibility for drone attack on airport in southern Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s Houthi movement has in the past launched drones at Abha International Airport located in southern Saudi Arabia [File: Amr Nabil/AP Photo] A Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthi rebels has said the …

US secretary of state confirmed US willingness to return to nuclear deal but rejected Iranian pressure for Washington to act first. The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr [File/Majid Asgaripour/Mehr News Agency, AP] 28 Jan 2021 The United States will only …

Rescuers in east China on Sunday pulled 11 miners from hundreds of metres underground where they had been trapped for two weeks, state media reported, as the race to locate the remaining 10 intensified. The miners were brought to the surface starting from around 11 am Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV …