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BEVERLY HILLS, October 28, (THEWILL) - Morocco has decided to scrap winter time and will instead keep its clocks at summer time, GMT+1, all year around. The announcement comes less than two days before the clocks would have gone back by...

Eleven people have been killed, officials say, in a gun attack on a synagogue in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The gunman, who opened fire as the Tree of Life synagogue held a service, was later taken into custody. President Donald...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 26, (THEWILL) - Gabonese President Ali Bongo has been hospitalised in Riyadh, Saudi state media said, without giving more details. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Bongo in Riyadh’s King Faisal hospital and “inquired after the health...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 26, (THEWILL) - Duduzane Zuma, the son of South Africa’s graft-tainted former President, Jacob Zuma, will stand trial for culpable homicide in March over a fatal late-night car crash in 2014, a magistrate said on Friday. Duduzane, 34,...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 25, (THEWILL) - Ethiopia on Thursday appointed a woman to the largely ceremonial position of president for the first time. In a unanimous vote, Ethiopian lawmakers picked career diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde to replace Mulatu Teshome who resigned. Sahle-Work, who...

Bombs and other suspicious packages targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama and CNN were intercepted Wednesday in a rash of attacks aimed at prominent Democrats and a cable news network often criticized by political conservatives. A similar device was...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 24, (THEWILL) - A Taliban bomb maker, his wife and two children were killed as his device exploded prematurely in his home in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province on Monday, Provincial Police spokesman, Abdul-Karim Yurash said on Wednesday. “A...

A $20-billion bridge connecting Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai is set to finally open this week, marking the completion of the longest sea-crossing bridge ever built, nine years after construction began. Chinese President Xi...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 12, (THEWILL) - No fewer than one million people remained in darkness Friday morning after Hurricane Michael left a trail of destruction that claimed at least six lives, flattened entire towns and “shattered” electrical grids. The scenes...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 11, (THEWILL) - The US embassy in Liberia says it has asked forensic investigators to carry out a preliminary probe into the disappearance of $100 million in newly printed notes in the country. The currency scandal has...