Doug Deason, a Texas-based donor who served on the outgoing US President, Donald Trump campaign’s finance committee, said this week’s events have done nothing to shake his confidence in the Republican president. “He has been the best President in my lifetime, including Reagan,” Deason told AP. Pro-Trump supporters had earlier in the week stormed the […]

Law enforcement officers in The Gambia discovered nearly three tonnes of cocaine in a salt shipment from Ecuador, its drugs agency said Friday, in the tiny West African country’s largest-ever seizure. Officers searching a container in the port of the capital Banjul on Thursday found 118 bags of the illegal white powder, which were labelled […]

Twenty-two men convicted over the 2001 assassination of Democratic Republic of Congo president Laurent-Desire Kabila were released from prison Friday after being pardoned by current leader Felix Tshisekedi. The men were met outside Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa by family and friends, some in tears. Among those released was the slain president’s former aide […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called the United States (U.S) the “biggest enemy” of his country, threatening to continue advancing its nuclear capabilities, state media said Saturday.

Thousands of devotees thronged a church in the Philippine capital Saturday for a glimpse of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ believed to have miraculous healing powers, after an annual Catholic parade was cancelled due to Covid-19. Ignoring official pleas to stay home because of the virus threat, Catholics wearing masks and face shields gathered […]