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PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) according to a statement by the presidential Elysee Palace on Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron contracts coronavirus. The 42-year-old will be self-isolating for seven days but "will continue to work and take care of his activities at a distance,"...

A man dubbed as the "Twitter killer" in Japan has been sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering nine in 2017 he contacted through the social media platform. Takahiro Shiraishi, a Japanese 'Twitter killer' sentenced to death. The 30-year-old, Takahiro Shiraishi, was convicted in 2017 for killing and dismembering and...

Authorities in France have shut down the only Muslim school in Paris as part of their crackdown on the community after the recent terror attacks according to a recent report by TRT World. France shuts down the only Muslim school in Paris. MHS College and High School is a private...

COVENTRY: Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week becomes the first person in the world to be given Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as part of the country mass vaccination programme. Margaret Keenan, 90, becomes the first person in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was...

The Trump administration is adding four more companies to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, including China's largest chipmaker SMIC or Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, before President-elect Joe Biden takes office in late January. Trump adding Chinese chipmaker SMIC to blacklist. According to the Department of Defense (DOD), these...

OREGON: Nineteen year old black teenager Aidan Ellison lost his life at the Stratford Inn in Ashland, Oregon for playing loud music on Thanksgiving week. The Oregon police have identified the man as forty-seven-year-old Robert Paul Keegan. He shot Aidan Ellison in the parking lot after getting upset as the...

JAKARTA: A volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, sending a column of ash as high as 4,000 meters (13,120 feet) into the sky and prompting the timely evacuation of thousands of people in the area. There were no deaths or injuries reported from the incident. Mount Ili Lewotolok volcano...

NIGERIA: As many as 43 rice farmers lost their lives in brutal killing, the country's President has described it as an insane Nigeria attack. The attackers reportedly slit the throats of innocent farms. At least 43 farm workers were killed and six wounded working in rice fields in northeastern Nigeria,...

The British actor David Prowse, known for his iconic role as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 85 according to his agent Thomas Bowington. Star Wars actor David Prowse dies aged 85. "It's with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans...

An woman in Singapore, who was pregnant when she was infected with the coronavirus has given birth to a baby with(COVID-19 antibodies, offering new clue as to whether the deadly infection can be transmitted from mother to child. Singaporean woman gives birth to child with COVID-19 antibodies. Mrs Celine Ng-Chan,...

WASHINGTON: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has drafted new regulations potentially allowing for use of more methods for US executions, including firing squads, inhalation of poison gas and electrocution. US executions to use firing squad, poison gas. The amended rule which was published on Friday, allows the US government to...

A police constable (PC) is facing a prison sentence after having sex with a crime victim inside a disabled persons' toilet at his police station in Launceston in Cornwall, England. Cornwall police car. According to the details, the 43-year-old PC Christopher Wilson sent the woman texts suggesting that sex inside...