A court in Taiwan on Tuesday sentenced former president Ma Ying-jeou to four months jail over a leak of information related to national security, legal documents showed, but he vowed to appeal and could avoid jail altogether by paying a fine. In the first conviction in a series of lawsuits
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American First Lady, Melania Trump, underwent a procedure to treat a benign kidney condition Monday morning. Quoting the White House, many American news outlets reported that the procedure, which took place at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, “was successful and there were no complications.” “The First Lady had a procedure called embolization done at […]
Two Nigerian students — Ilonze Elvis and Daniel Oluyemi — who battered a fellow student, Prince Nnaji, with a shisha pipe in an argument over who had the richest father, have been spared jail in the UK. Ilonze, 20, attacked Nnaji, who is said to be his childhood friend, in the flat they shared in […]
Libya will return to Egypt on Monday, the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians killed in 2015 by Islamic State in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, a Libyan security official said. The bodies were recovered in October after the area where they were buried was recaptured from the jihadist group. The Coptic Christians were beheaded […]
The United States officially opened its deeply controversial Jerusalem embassy on Monday in a ceremony that included a video address by President Donald Trump. Trump told the ceremony that the United States remained committed to reaching a lasting Middle East peace though the move of its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has […]
Israeli fire killed at least 37 Palestinians during mass protests along the Gaza border on Monday, in a violent burst of bloodshed that cast a cloud over Israel’s festive inauguration of the new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. It was the deadliest single day of protests since the Palestinians began staging weekly border demonstrations on […]
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