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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...

Russian lawmakers approved Thursday a bill that would expand government control over the internet and whose opponents fear heralds a new era of widespread censorship. The bill would install equipment to route Russian internet traffic through servers in the country....

In a major reversal, South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the easing of the country’s decades-old ban on most abortions, one of the strictest in the developed world. Abortions have been largely illegal in South Korea since 1953, though...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, (THEWILL) - Omar Al-Bashir, controversial leader of Sudan, has stepped down after 30 years in power. United Arab Emirates-based Al-Arabiya network reported that Al-Bashir resigned his position with immediate effect while Reuters also cited government sources as...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 03, (THEWILL) - Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday she would ask the EU to delay Brexit again to avoid Britain crashing out of the bloc next week, signalling she could accept a closer relationship with Europe...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 02, (THEWILL) - Algerian President Bouteflika has resigned bowing to mass protest, Algeria’s state news agency APS reported on Monday. He will give up his office before his designated end-of-term date on April 28. The decision came after...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 22, (THEWILL) - As Zimbabwe prepares for two days of mourning following the devastating Cyclone Idai, rescue workers said on Friday that they had recovered 145 bodies from a town in Zimbabwe. “The actual number of the death...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 21, (THEWILL) - U.S. President Donald Trump has declared that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will be eliminated from its last territory in Syria by Thursday. Trump, who spoke at the White House, announced that...