Taliban fighters overran a northern Afghan army base, officials said Tuesday, killing at least 17 soldiers with dozens feared captured in a stinging blow to security forces already struggling to push insurgents from eastern Ghazni. The fall of the base in Ghormach district of volatile Faryab province came with security forces – who have struggled to…
Aretha Franklin, the multiple Grammy award-winning singer whose career spanned seven decades, has died aged 76. The Queen of Soul – best known for hits such as Respect, Think and I Say a Little Prayer – passed away in Detroit on Thursday after battling ill health for several years. The cause of her death was advanced pancreatic cancer, her publicist Gwendolyn Quinn…
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The head of China’s government-run Buddhist association quit his post on Wednesday amid an investigation into allegations that he coerced several nuns into having sex with him. Xuecheng, a Communist Party member and abbot of the Beijing Longquan Monastery, is one of the most prominent figures to face accusations in China’s growing #MeToo movement. In…
Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday after being hit with new charges linked to a multi-billion-dollar financial scandal that contributed to his shock election defeat in May Looking tired as he appeared in court, Mr Najib was charged with three counts of money-laundering over claims he pocketed 42 million ringgit (£8 million)….
A Russian woman worked as a spy inside the United States embassy in Moscow for over a decade before she was discovered, it has been reported. The woman, who had her security clearance revoked in the summer of 2017, had access to the secret service’s intranet and email systems, according to The Guardian. Those files…
Kenya’s wildlife minister is under pressure to resign following the death of ten rhinos last month in a calamitous relocation project, after it emerged that he had been warned of the dangers of the project on three separate occasions. Najib Balala, the Cabinet Secretary for Wildlife and Tourism, had sought to deflect blame for one…
If you plan on downloading games onto your fancy new Xbox One X, be ready for some truly gargantuan file sizes. I’ve been downloading games on our office Xbox One X for a couple of weeks now, and some of the sizes for games I’ve seen are truly eye-watering. Fuelled by 4K Xbox One X…
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort had 15 undisclosed foreign accounts and spent years hiding millions of dollars to evade tax, his former deputy has claimed. In a tense day in court, the campaign strategist’s longtime deputy, Rick Gates, told jurors how the pair were paid by Ukrainian oligarchs for their work as political…
A man with Down’s Syndrome has been shot dead by Swedish police after running away from home in the middle of the night carrying a toy gun. Eric Torell, 20, who was autistic and was described by his family as being severely disabled, was fatally shot by police who erroneously believed he was carrying a…