In a disappointing closing chapter to her 12 years as the first elected female president in Africa, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is being expelled from her Unity Party. Liberia’s Unity Party has expelled the outgoing president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – accusing her of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Vice President Joseph Boakai. The party says she and four others did […]

FILE – In this Tuesday Oct. 31, 2017 file picture, the Eiffel Tower, country flags and the Dome are seen from the garden of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters building during the 39th session of the General Conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. The United States and Israel have quit the U.N.’s educational, […]

Muslim leader lambastes ‘cowardly’ act by right-wing group, which left note warning against what it calls Islamisation. A decapitated doll was left at a mosque in Amsterdam, police said, in an Islamophobic act that has shocked the Muslim community in the Netherlands. The head was hung by a rope from a fence above the doll’s “bloodstained body”, pictures showed, and […]

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s government cut internet connections and SMS services across the country for a second straight day on Tuesday as the country nervously awaited results from the weekend’s chaotic presidential election. Both the opposition and ruling coalition said on Monday they were on track to win after a turbulent election day on Sunday in which […]

They face 14 years behind bars for illegally acquiring information to share with foreign media. The European Union is calling on Myanmar to release two Reuters journalists who had been covering the alleged military atrocities against the minority Rohingya community. Wa Lone and Chore Soy-Oo were arrested last month. They face 14 years behind bars for illegally acquiring information to […]

Police are searching for an inmate who went missing from the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, Sask. on New Year’s Eve. Staff at the prison discovered Steven Briggs, 24, was missing from the facility’s minimum-security unit at 10 p.m. on Monday. Prince Albert RCMP have issued a warrant for his arrest. Briggs is described as five feet nine inches tall […]

The shocking moment a woman punches an officer during a heated argument on New Year’s Eve – before being wrestled to the ground by police A reveller was thrown to the ground for appearing to punch a police horse  But the woman was aiming to punch a police officer, beneath the horse’s head The mounted police officer then grabbed and […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – A 50-year-old German man clearly intended to kill foreigners when he rammed his silver Mercedes into a crowd of people in the northwestern German town of Bottrop in the early hours of New Year’s Day, injuring four, a senior government official said. Police said the man, who was not named, made racist comments when he was stopped […]

In a series of posts published on Monday, Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald took to Twitter to share what he described as the “evidentiary link” between President Donald Trump, Wikileaks, and Russian officials accused of helping influence the results of the 2016 presidential election. As recalled by Eichenwald, he established this alleged link in 2016, when he received a phone […]

New ‘smart home’ devices are all the rage at CES 2018, but increased connectivity in devices means increased access points for hackers, and cybersecurity may not be a priority for manufacturers. In the electronic age we are in, there’s a lot of talk of hacking – whether it’s about phones, computers, or elections. So, what if your home could be […]