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SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, (THEWILL) - Voting began on Thursday in what could be the most important European Parliament elections in a generation. All 28 European Union nations are choosing who should sit in the 751 seats of the European...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, (THEWILL) - The African National Congress (ANC) has won the South African election, howbeit, with a reduced majority. Provisional results on Saturday showed the ruling party secured 57.51% of the votes in Wednesday’s general election. The main...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, (THEWILL) - Former U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, held his first event as a presidential candidate in Pittsburgh on Monday, speaking before union members whose endorsements may be key in the primary race. Biden, who joined...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, (THEWILL) - More than 50 people are feared to have been killed in Myanmar when jade miners and machinery were buried under a mound of tailings late on Monday. Three bodies had been pulled from the debris,...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, (THEWILL) - The government of Algeria has arrested the nation’s richest man, Issad Rebrab and four other billionaires with close ties to ousted president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, as part of an anti-graft investigation, state TV said...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 23, (THEWILL) - The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings which led to deaths of 310 persons in Sri Lanka. THEWILL recalls that suicide bombers struck in churches and hotels in the country on...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 22, (THEWILL) - Sri Lankan authorities have ordered a state of emergency to be introduced from midnight Monday following the deadly Easter attacks, the president’s office said. The special measures are being brought in “to allow the police...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, (THEWILL) - A comedian with no political experience won a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, drawing congratulations from global leaders while dealing a stunning rebuke to his country’s political establishment. Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 22, (THEWILL) - Myanmar’s Supreme Court will rule on Tuesday on an appeal by two Reuters journalists imprisoned for breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, in a case that has raised questions about the country’s transition...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, (THEWILL) - Ousted Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir has been transferred to a Khartoum prison following his toppling by the army last week, a source from his family told AFP on Wednesday. “Last night, Bashir was transferred...