Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Thursday with President Donald Trump and a number of members of Congress, as Facebook has taken the path of resolving its regulatory and legal issues centering around competition, censorship, reported bias, etc. While the president reviewed the get-together as “a nice meeting” without giving any further details, Republican Senator […]

Algeria’s powerful army chief has ordered buses and cars bringing protesters into the capital to be stopped and seized, the latest in a series of measures aimed at quelling weekly demonstrations demanding a purge of the old ruling elite. “We have instructed the gendarmerie to … stop buses and cars that are used to this […]

The United States forces in Afghanistan have admitted that a drone attack that killed at least 30 pine nut farmers in Nangarhar province on Thursday was conducted by them. Recall Vanguard previously reported that United States drone strike kills 30 farm workers in Afghanistan. At least 40 others were injured in the attack in Wazir […]

…Found guilty of offering $10,000 bribe Elias Antonio Saca, the former president of El Salvador serving a 10-year prison term for corruption, has been sentenced to another two years for bribery. Saca was found guilty of having offered $10,000 to a court employee to obtain information about a case against him, the attorney general’s office […]

The United States has issued visas allowing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to travel to New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations next week, Iran’s UN mission said on Thursday. Iran’s foreign minister spokesman said in a tweet that Zarif was set to leave […]

United States officials were unwilling to predict what kind of response Trump will choose. In June, after Iran shot down an American surveillance drone, Trump initially endorsed a retaliatory military strike then abruptly called it off because he said it would have killed dozens of Iranians. The decision underscores the president’s long-held reluctance to embroil […]

United States Police say they found a 3-year-old girl wandering in a parking lot while her mother worked inside a South Florida strip club. Lauderhill police Lt. Michael Santiago says in a news release that someone called 911 early Tuesday after seeing a child roaming around. Santiago says the child-led officers to a vehicle that […]

Liberia’s President George Weah has declared Thursday a national day of mourning following a deadly fire at a boarding school in the country. Recall Vanguard reported Wednesday that a school fire believed to have broken out in the early hours of the morning when school students were sleeping in a building attached to a mosque […]

A US drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labour in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night also injured 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and labourers who had just finished collecting pine nuts at mountainous […]

Model Winnie Harlow has sparked outrage on social media by moaning about having to fly economy after her flight to Milan was cancelled at short notice. The former America’s Next Top Model star, 25, took to Instagram last night to tell her followers about her ordeal, revealing she was forced to give up her business […]