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Only 54 members of the 240-seat National Assembly have been said to have supported  the first no-confidence motion against Bulgaria’s coalition government, led by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, which failed on Thursday, while 150 voted against it. The government has been

Democratic-backed Dane County Judge Susan Crawford will win the hot-button Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, The Associated Press projected Tuesday. The race was seen as a barometer on how Americans are feeling at this point in President Donald Trump’s second term While the

President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.” Agence France-Presse reported that Putin on Friday called for

The death toll from a catastrophic 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit Southeast Asia on Friday drastically climbed on Saturday with reports of 1,600 dead in Myanmar and predictive modeling showing the true toll could reach 10,000. The quake struck around lunchtime on Friday, destroying buildings

It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity. We’re all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and his team don’t actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already. What’s much

Justice Deinde Dipeolu of a Federal High Court, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced a South Africa returnee, Okorie Sunday to six months imprisonment, for laundering the sum of $299, 000 USD, into the country. The judge also ordered the convict to

UN calls South Sudan leaders to avoid civil war, seek dialogue for end to hostilities in their  country The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Wednesday – yesterday, March 26 – called for an immediate end to hostilities and urgent

The UN on Wednesday – yesterday, March 26 – marked the 50th anniversary of the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) – the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban an entire category of weapons of mass destruction The

Suspected Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram fighters launched coordinated attacks on an army base and a military outpost in Borno State, North-East Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, security sources told Reuters in a report on Wednesday, March

The UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has described last year as the deadliest on record for migrants in Asia. It said 2,514 lives were lost on the region’s perilous migration routes. This represents a staggering 59 per cent increase from the