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Zimbabwe on Friday faced a “total internet shutdown,” a media group said, after a days-long violent crackdown on people protesting a dramatic fuel price increase. Badly injured people streamed into a hospital in the capital after alleged assaults by security forces.

A gang of scammers in Istanbul have tricked up to 1,000 people by selling them fake Montenegro passports, each of which they charged over 7,000 euros in an elaborate scheme involving a fake consulate building, reports said Friday. Akkan Suver, who

U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting Friday with North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol to discuss negotiations on the country’s pledge to denuclearize, the White House said. The meeting in the Oval Office at the White House was due at 12:15

Nigeria’s February 16 presidential elections will have a total of 72 candidates participating, the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, said on Thursday. INEC released a list that had the name of all aspirants and their vice-presidential candidates. The list also included aspirants

US. President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to boost America’s missile defense systems, including by investing in technology to protect against the threat of sophisticated “hypersonic” weapons. Speaking at the Pentagon, Trump unveiled the Missile Defense Review, a long-awaited analysis of the

Heavy rain, snow and wind pummeled much of California Thursday, causing at least five deaths, leaving thousands without power and forcing wildfire victims threatened by floods to flee their homes. Southern California authorities concerned with rising streams and excessive runoff ordered

At least eight people were killed as a car bomb exploded at a police academy in Bogota, the Colombian Defense Ministry said Thursday. The explosion targeted the General Santander police academy in the south of the capital, Bogota. The car forced

Authorities have conducted raids in several parts of Germany on suspected members of a far-right group calling itself the National Socialist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Deutschland. Prosecutors and regional police in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said more than