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Angola’s Ruling MPLA Wins Parliamentary Election, Commission Says

Angola's ruling MPLA party has won the country's parliamentary election, provisional results suggest. The party received 61% of votes cast during Wednesday's ballot, the Angolan electoral commission said on Friday. The opposition Unita party, which received 27%, disputes the commission's count. João...

Tension Heightened As North Korea Fires 3 New Missiles 

BEVERLY HILLS, August 25, (THEWILL) - The crisis in the Korean Peninsula is far from being resolved as North Korea on Friday fired “several projectiles” into sea off its eastern coast. According to the South Korean military, the missiles were launched from a...

Samsung Chief Gets Five-Year Jail Term For £30m Bribery Scandal

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BEVERLY HILLS, August 25, (THEWILL) - A South Korean court has found Lee Jae-yong, the de facto Chief of the Samsung business empire, guilty of bribery and other corruption charges. Lee, the billionaire son of Samsung’s ailing Chairman, was...

Britain Erroneously Sends Deportation Letters To EU Citizens

BEVERLY HILLS, August 23, (THEWILL) - Britain as revealed that it had sent dozens of letters telling European Union (EU) nationals to leave the country in error. Britain’s interior ministry said it was an embarrassing mistake as the issue of the...

India’s Top Court Rules Controversial Muslim Divorce Law ‘Unconstitutional’

India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled a controversial Muslim quick divorce law "unconstitutional", a landmark victory for Muslim women who had long argued that it violated their right to equality. The law allows Muslim men to divorce their wives simply...

Reversing Course, Trump Commits To Open-Ended Afghan War

Reversing course from his campaign pledges, President Donald Trump on Monday night committed the United States to an open-ended conflict in Afghanistan, signaling he would dispatch more troops to America's longest war and vowing "a fight to win." In a...

Record $417M Award In Lawsuit Linking Baby Powder To Cancer

A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied...

Barcelona Terror Van Driver Killed

SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, (THEWILL) - Spanish authorities have revealed that said Younes Abouyaaqoub, the suspected driver of the vehicle that killed 13 people in Barcelona, has been shot and killed. The police said he was wearing what looked like...

Total Solar Eclipse Seen In U.S

SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, (THEWILL) - The moon has completely blocked out the sun’s rays in a rare total solar eclipse over North America. The total eclipse, centred in a 100-kilometer-wide band stretching across 14 states, was first visible in...

Kenya Elections: Raila Odinga Heads To Supreme Court

SAN FRANCISCO, August 16, (THEWILL) - Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has finally made his decision on his country’s disputed polls saying he would challenge the result in the country’s Supreme court. THEWILL recalls that the Kenyan election board had...