REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG A prominent campaigner for Donald Trump is facing court action over his role in a fundraising scandal exposed by the Telegraph. US prosecutors reported Jesse Benton for breaching the terms of his probation for a recent conviction when he met reporters to allegedly​ seek an illicit donation from a foreign backer. The Department of Justice warned that ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG Italian and German anti-terrorist police met in Milan on Saturday to determine how Berlin terror suspect Anis Amri travelled 1000 miles and crossed the borders of at least three countries before he was shot dead, amid fears of revenge attacks from Islamist sympathisers in Italy. The high-level meeting took place as Tunisia arrested Amri’s nephew and ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG The Nigerian army has defeated Boko Haram in the Sambisa forest, one of the jihadists’ last remaining strongholds, President Muhammadu Buhari said Saturday. A campaign lasting for months in the 1,300 square-kilometre forest in northeastern Borno state led to the “final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in their last enclave in Sambisa Forest” on Friday, Buhari ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG ARussian military plane crashed on Sunday in the Black Sea as it made its way to Syria with 91 people onboard, including musicians heading to celebrate the New Year with troops. The Russian defence ministry said there had been no survivors after the Tu-154 plane crashed shortly after taking off from the southern city of Adler, south of ...

REPORTED BY KALAHAN DENG This the pattern of the American Justice System towards black people in general.Texas woman called police (911) for help ended up being arrested with her daughter and the white man not questioned by the police officer.Well,a society cannot be  healthy unless it somehow pays respect or equal treatment to people who look differently (out-side their comfort ...

Australia’s federal court has fined Valve AUD$3 million (USD$2.2 million) after ruling that the company breached consumer law when it didn’t offer refunds between 2011 and 2014. This is the maximum fine requested by Australia’s competition regulator and it’s 12 times more than Valve itself suggested it should pay, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Justice James Edelman said he ...

The town lies 65 kilometres south of the city where an Iraqi-led operation to root out the Islamic State has now, as of late December, entered its tenth week. An Iraqi commander instructs the convoy to hurry as it snakes its way through narrow streets, and, pointing toward buildings a few kilometres away, warns that snipers might still be lying ...

CAIRO — The Dec. 11 bombing of a church in the Cairo cathedral complex — the seat of the Coptic pope — has been claimed by the Islamic State, although the Egyptian government has blamed the Muslim Brotherhood. Whoever planted the bomb that killed 27 people, including a 10-year-old girl, when it ripped through a church full of Sunday worshipers ...

LONDON—European plane maker Airbus Group SE followed Boeing Co. in completing a multibillion-dollar plane deal with Iran’s state air carrier, creating another big test case for how the incoming Trump administration responds to the West’s accelerating economic opening with the Islamic Republic. Airbus, the world’s No. 2 plane maker after Boeing, said Thursday it had completed an agreement—first announced in ...

Pakistan smelled some Australian panic in Brisbane and are a transformed cricket side after their first Test near-miss. Opener Sami Aslam said they were brimming with confidence heading into the Boxing Day Test. After collapsing for 142 in the first innings at the Gabba, the tourists were outstanding after being set 490 for an unlikely win. They only fell 39 ...