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North Korea’s highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for subversion. Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial in North

Geneva (dpa) – Women and girls in South Sudan have been systematically raped, mainly by government soldiers and allied militias, the UN human rights office said Friday, warning that these massive violations have gone largely

Google’s computer program AlphaGo defeated its human opponent, South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol, on Wednesday in the first face-off of a historic five-game match. AlphaGo’s victory in the ancient Chinese board game is a breakthrough

Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey. Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central

The brutal killing of a little girl in Moscow was monstrous, inexplicable, Russian children’s rights commissioner Pavel Astakhov said Monday. Earlier on Monday, a decapitated body of a four year-old child was found by law enforcement

Zimbabwe will from March roll out an HIV self-testing pilot project to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of self-testing among the populace in a programme that will also be undertaken in Malawi, Zambia and later in South Africa. Speaking

South Africa’s Tokyo Sexwale withdrew from the race for FIFA presidency shortly before voting began, leaving four candidates, in Zurich, on Friday. Sexwale’s withrdrawal leaves Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese airliner returned to an airport shortly after takeoff because a rat was discovered in the cabin. The rodent was found shortly after the Loong Air flight from the eastern city of Hangzhou left early Friday for the

With the bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee taught the world a lesson on tolerance. But the book’s success was too much, and Lee withdrew from the public eye – until 2015 when a second book stirred controversy. Now she has