The embattled speaker of Liberia’s House of Representatives has been questioned by the police after a huge fire at the West African nation’s legislature. Residents of the capital Monrovia woke up on Wednesday morning to see thick black smoke and flames rising from the Capitol building. The flames destroyed the entire joint chambers of the…
Prince Harry is expected to be absent Sandringham’s traditional Christmas gathering with the royal family as tensions within the royal family continue to deepen. This gathering would be attended by almost about 45 members of the larger royal family in Norfolk for the festivities.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will are however expected to spend…
Mexico’s government has asked the US to extradite a senior drug cartel figure suspected in the murder of well-known journalist Javier Valdez in 2017. Valdez, known for his award-winning coverage of the drug trade, was gunned down in the city of Culiacán in May 2017. Mexican authorities say the journalist’s assassination was ordered by Dámaso…
NEW DELHI: Nonimmigrant US visa applicants will from the New Year will be able to reschedule their interview appointment once without a fee. But those missing an appointment or rescheduling a second time will need to book a new appointment and repay the application fee, the US embassy said in a statement Wednesday. These changes…
London — A court in the United Kingdom ruled Wednesday that police could seize the equivalent of $3.3 million in frozen financial assets from misogynist social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan to cover years of unpaid taxes. The money has been held in seven bank accounts, frozen by British authorities, belonging to…
Bashar al-Assad was a monster, ruling with an iron fist and a twisted mind. So the reflex response is to cheer the anti-regime forces whose quicksilver uprising brought his hellish regime to an abrupt end. But it`s worth saying again — and on repeat — that bringing down Assad doesn’t confer boy scout status to…
A forensic expert, three police officers and a music impresario have been jailed for covering up the 2015 murder of Venezuelan rapper Canserbero. Canserbero, who had been named best Spanish-language rapper by Rolling Stone magazine, was drugged and stabbed to death by his manager, Natalia Améstica. Améstica and her brother then threw his body from…
A love triangle murder mystery has been solved by macabre Google Street View pictures allegedly showing a body bag being loaded into a car. The extraordinary image, which is still available on Google Maps, shows someone leaning over a white sack in the boot of a red Rover car in the village of Calle del…
PSNI Karen Cummings, 40, died at an address on Laurel Heights on Saturday Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of children’s nurse Karen Cummings. Glenn King, 32, of no fixed address in Lurgan and 42-year-old Kevin McGuigan Jnr of Annacloy Park in Hillsborough, appeared at Newry Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Ms…
A last-minute measure by the Biden administration to modernize the H-1B program comes in to effect on January 17, 2025 – just a few days before President Trump’s second inauguration. The final H-1B modernization rules, issued on Tuesday night, clarify certain norms – such as what constitutes specialty occupation, which is a mandatory eligibility criterion,…
