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Northern B.C. deaths: 2 teens thought to be missing now suspects

Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, originally from Port Alberni, B.C., on Vancouver Island, are considered unsafe, Sgt. Janelle Shoihet told a news conf...

EU countries agree on new scheme to allocate migrants across bloc

The UN has repeatedly cautioned the country is not a safe place for migrants and refugees to be held and called for those in detention centres to be release...

Councilman Cabrera visits Puerto Rico, demands governor resign

Ricardo Rossello revealed Sunday he will not pursue re-election in 2020 and will abandon his post as leader of the New Progressive Party. The sometimes-viole...

UAE not leaving war-torn Yemen despite withdrawal, says minister

Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates , part of the Arab coalition fighting in support of the legitimate Yemeni government, is not leaving the war-torn country d...

Tropical Depression Three forms in the Bahamas

Time is an issue here, according to national storm experts. The depression now has maximum sustained winds are near 30 miles per hour with higher gusts. The a...

Singapore seizes record haul of elephant ivory

Officials said both the ivory and pangolin scales were in a container declared to be loaded with timber destined for Vietnam and passing through Singapore, a ma...

Defiant judge dragged from courtroom after hearing jail sentence

The drama began back in 2014 when juvenile judge Tracie Hunter , from OH in the U.S., was first convicted of "having an unlawful interest in a public contract"...

Boris Johnson named next Prime Minister of Britain

Boris Johnson will become prime minister on Wednesday after securing victory in the battle for the Conservative Party leadership. Theresa May, who will res...

Mystery deepens over murder of tourist couple in Canada

He said the boys found the Walmart gig, which was the their first job, to be disappointing, so they made a decision to head off on a trip in search of greener p...

RNLI Issue Warning Over 'Storm Loch Ness' Facebook Event

Almost 60,000 people have signalled their interest in "storming" Loch Ness to find the fabled monster, prompted a warning from the local lifeguard crew about ...

Venezuelan government blames 'electromagnetic attack' for nationwide blackout

Venezuela has suffered a nationwide power cut, including the capital, Caracas, which the country's Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said was caused by an "...

Researchers identify new species of pocket shark that glows in deep ocean

The five-and-a-half-inch shark has the ability to squirt glow in the dark fluid which would be great in an underwater rave. Since then, he has collaborated with...

Iranian Revolutionary Guard commandos storm British tanker

GREG MYRE, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. "Some while ago, we were only after deterrence but today other countries should develop deterrence against us", added General Noz...

United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano dies at 72

United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano has died, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, the day he had been expected to announce he...

Legendary Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau dies at 99

According to the producers of the Law & Order franchise, he was the prosecutor they used as the model for initial series DA Adam Schiff. Then-Manhattan Distri...

Kenya's Finance Minister Arrested For Corruption In Awarding Contract

Rotich, his principal secretary and the chief executive of Kenya's environmental authority handed themselves in to the police after the country's chief prosec...

UK Conservatives Pick New Prime Minister

The voting window slams shut at 5 p.m. (1600 GMT). BORIS JOHNSON'S former deputy tried to strangle his government at birth yesterday after condemning the T...

Scandals and storms have left Puerto Rico drowning in debt

And I'll tell you, we had tremendous successes. "There are still people without roofs and highways without lights". Puerto Rico defaulted on its monthly deb...

Dethroned MAGA Miss Michigan defends ‘offensive’ tweets

On Friday (July 19), Zhu tweeted a screenshot of an email she received from Miss World America that explained her title had been removed due to "offensive, in...

South Korean jets fire warning shots at Russian planes after airspace violation

South Korean fighter jets have fired warning shots at Russian military planes after they entered the country's airspace. The anonymous official said the So...

Australia drug runner crashes meth van into police vehicle

Out of every goddamn vehicle you could have hit, you hit a marked and parked cop auto. The 26-year-old man from, Berala, was facing three charges including dr...

Charlie Elphicke MP charged with three counts of sexual assault

The Crown Prosecution Service said it made a decision to charge the MP after it reviewed evidence from the Met Police. But he had the whip reinstated in Decem...

North Korea's Kim Jong-un inspects new submarine, points out weapons systems

Asked at the White House if a new round of talks had been scheduled with North Korea, Trump said: "No, we just have a very good relationship and probably they w...

South Korea fires warning shots at Russian military aircraft in its airspace

There were few immediate details, but Seoul's Defense Ministry said Chinese military planes also entered the country's aerial identification zone earlier. The...

Twitter suspends Iran media accounts

The Persian-language Twitter accounts of the official Islamic Republic News Agency ( IRNA ) and the semiofficial Mehr news agency were affected. Criticall...

India Successfully Launches its Ambitious Second Moon Mission, Chandrayaan2

Worldwide efforts to explore the moon - made by India, Israel and the USA - which is determined to send its astronauts back to the moon within five years, will ...

President Buhari In Emergency Meeting With Security Chiefs Over Shiites Protest

Channels television reporter was also shot during the protest. The IMN leader brought the application before the court seeking permission to travel to Medanta...

US has 'bigger problems' than plastic straws

The campaign to ban plastics, especially plastic straws and bags, gained momentum when videos of animals that had consumed or were trapped in plastic began go...

Trump administration to expand quick deportations anywhere in US

Any immigrant found anywhere in the United States would risk expedited removal if they "have not affirmatively shown, to the satisfaction of an immigration of...

Al Franken 'absolutely' regrets Senate resignation for sexual misconduct allegations

The article, Franken's first interview since leaving the Senate, calls into question some of the assertions against Franken and quotes several female former s...