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JUBA (Reuters) – Prisoners at a detention centre in South Sudan’s capital Juba staged a riot early on Sunday, seizing weapons from a storeroom and triggering a stand off with …

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnians go to the polls on Sunday to decide if their country will pursue a path toward European Union membership and NATO integration or sink deeper into …

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he is “100 percent” certain that Christine Blasey Ford named the wrong person when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday applauded the Senate for approving his nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, to a life-time term on the Supreme Court, writing on Twitter. “I …

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Saturday that he is hopeful that there will be decisive progress in the next two weeks to conclude a Brexit …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s consul in Istanbul opened up his mission on Saturday in an effort to show that prominent Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, who vanished four days ago, …

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two Turkey-backed Syrian rebel officials told Reuters that rebel groups on Saturday began to withdraw heavy weaponry from a demilitarized zone agreed by Turkey and Russia in …

RIGA (Reuters) – Latvians headed to the polls on Saturday in a parliamentary election in which the rise of a populist party could reshape the political landscape and open the …

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi group arrested a number of people in Sanaa on Saturday, following demonstrations over economic hardship. Sanaa residents told Reuters dozens were arrested, including 16 …

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish prosecutors have begun investigating the disappearance of prominent Saudi commentator Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing for four days after entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, …

KIEL, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that the conservatives must end their in-fighting to reverse slides in the polls before two regional elections this month. …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Candidates began their last day of campaigning on Saturday for Brazil’s most polarised presidential race in decades that could elect a far-right former army captain who promises …

PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) – A team of French rescue experts began hunting through a huge expanse of debris on the outskirts of the Indonesian city of Palu on Saturday, looking …

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s defence minister said on Friday legalising opium for medicinal use could contain violence caused by drug gangs fighting over poppy fields and trafficking routes in …

TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Tokyo on Saturday for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other officials ahead of his fourth visit to …

CANBERRA (Bernama): Endangered ancient “dinosaur” fish are teeming in a river in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) and Australia’s top scientific body is keen to find out more. The Commonwealth Scientific …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Clarence Thomas took a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, he had only barely survived a series of bitter Senate hearings on allegations of …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – China will be part of the solution to the North Korean crisis, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, brushing aside the possibility that …