President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a body he has repeatedly criticised over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the White House hours after his inauguration, Trump said the United States was paying far more to the UN body compared […]
US President Donald Trump has granted pardons to more than 1,500 of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump, just hours after taking office, also ordered that all pending criminal cases against Capitol riot defendants be dropped. Among those receiving […]
Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, POTUS, making a rare comeback four years after he lost to Joe Biden.
A Russian strike has killed four people in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, city officials said on Saturday, in what the country’s foreign minister called a “heinous” attack with ballistic missiles.
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offences in what the White House called the largest single-day act of clemency in US history.
A Pakistani court has convicted former Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi in a landmark graft case, sentencing Khan to 14 years in prison.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards earlier today hailed a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas militant group as a victory for Palestinians and a defeat for Israel.
Efforts to rescue illegal miners trapped in a disused gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, continued for a second day, with six more bodies recovered, bringing the total death toll to 15.
Mozambique is set to swear in its new parliament after months of deadly protests over the October election that the opposition said was rigged.