The country’s Supreme Court has approved the election commission’s request to delay Tuesday’s runoff presidential election until the weekend. Sierra Leone’s hotly contested presidential runoff has been postponed until Saturday. The election had been scheduled for Tuesday, but was delayed by allegations of fraud in the first round. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Source: Read Full […]

The man who flirted with Cheri Marchionda at the hotel bar somehow learned her room number and jarred her by calling her after she’d gone to bed. Still, behind the double-lock on her door at an Embassy Suites in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, Marchionda, a business executive traveling alone, felt safe. But hours later, while Marchionda was sleeping, hotel staff helped […]

South Korean President Moon says summit with North Korea, South Korea and US should focus on nuclear disarmament. President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in has discussed the potential of a three-way summit between North Korea, South Korea and the United States. Speaking about a potential meeting, Moon said, “though it is an unexplored path we have never walked, we have […]

HANOI/SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean state media on Friday brushed over the lack of a summit deal for leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, focusing on constructive talks and signaling Pyongyang was not about to walk away from negotiations. The fiery rhetoric that has followed previous failed talks over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and sanctions was […]

PICTURED: Murderer’s son screams ‘you killed my dad’ as he is arrested for pounding on the glass and lashing out during his father’s execution by lethal injection Gordon Wayne Coble, 45, was led out in handcuffs from the prison in Huntsville during his father’s execution Billie Wayne Coble, 70, was put to death at 6.24pm in state’s death chamber in Huntsville  […]

The month we just shivered through was the coldest February on record in Vancouver. Global News meteorologist Yvonne Schalle says it clearly was a record setter. “The mean temperature was only 0.4 C, the average for February is 4.9 C. We surpassed the old record of 0.8 C that was set back in 1989, Schalle said. “Also to note for […]

President Sisi receives spirited Bashir, announces restoration of ties and enhanced cooperation. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir met Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Monday as part of a one-day trip aimed at mending ties between the two countries. The two leaders discussed Addis Ababa’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam currently under construction which – upon completion – could threaten Egypt’s […]

The Chinese government is encouraging the poor to move from rural regions into urban environments. The Chinese government aims to lift 10 million people in the rural areas out of poverty this year. Most of the country’s poor live in rural regions. Now they are being encouraged to move to the big cities, any city, except Beijing. Al Jazeera’s Adrian […]

The United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union (EU) in four weeks’ time, and yet, on the surface, it seems like little progress has been made. Behind the scenes, party defections and political infighting have opened up the possibility that the scheduled departure could be delayed or, even more astonishingly, completely reversed. Brexit remains an incredibly divisive issue […]