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The moment North Carolina police shot a black man was captured on video by his wife, who can be heard pleading with officers: "Don't shoot him!" In the footage, Rakeyia Scott tells husband Keith Scott to get out of his...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 23, (THEWILL) - President Ian Khama of Botswana has called on Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean president, to step aside and allow a new leadership in the country. Speaking in Gaborone, capital of Botswana, Khama said the call had...

The U.S. Senate cleared the way for a $1.15 billion sale of tanks and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, defending a frequent partner in the Middle East recently subject to harsh criticism in Congress. The Senate voted...

A well-known Vietnamese political blogger and his assistant lost their appeal on Thursday when a higher court upheld their jail terms and reaffirmed they had abused their freedom and hurt the state's interests. The five-year term for blogger Nguyen Huu...

One of Vladimir Putin's closest friends said on Thursday he believed Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States and that Western leaders were no match for the Russian president. Sergei Roldugin, a childhood friend of Putin's...

Brazilian police arrested former Finance Minister Guido Mantega on Thursday as a sweeping corruption investigation closed in on the inner circle of the leftist Workers Party leaders who ran the country for 13 years. Federal police said in a statement...

Syrian rebels and pro-government forces battled each other on major frontlines near Aleppo and Hama, and air strikes reportedly killed a dozen people including four medical workers, as a ceasefire appeared to have completely unraveled. The renewed battles demonstrated the...

Taiwan's defense ministry said on Wednesday it is asking Google to blur satellite images showing what experts say appear to be new military installations on Itu Aba, Taipei's sole holding in the disputed South China Sea. The revelation of new...

Two U.S. supersonic bombers flew over South Korea on Wednesday, with one of them landing at an air base 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, the second such flight since North Korea's Sept. 9 nuclear test. U.S. Forces...

At least three South African universities suspended classes on Wednesday because of student protests over tuition fees after the government recommended above-inflation increases for 2017. Students demanding free tertiary education marched near Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, known as "Wits",...