United States
22 Sep 2023
Angus Cloud, the 25-year-old co-star of hit HBO drama "Euphoria," died from an accidental drug overdose in July, a US coroner said Thursday.
22 Sep 2023
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday called on India to cooperate with its investigation into the murder of a Sikh separatist after earlier this week pointing to Indian agents as suspects.
22 Sep 2023
Working in industrial laundries at age 14, labouring up to 35 hours a week on top of school, some US states are relaxing the barriers to employing minors, despite rising cases of exploitation.
22 Sep 2023
A judge at the US military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay on Thursday ruled that a Yemeni detainee who was tortured by the CIA is unfit to stand trial in a death-penalty case, US media reported.
19 Sep 2023
ExxonMobil has pledged nearly 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) in new Nigerian production in the short term after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's success in wooing energy investors in the United States (US). Tinubu in a statement signed by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale played host to a delegation consisting of the global leadership of an Oil…
19 Sep 2023
Ukraine will "soon" receive M1 Abrams tanks from the United States as Kyiv's forces make "steady" progress in a counter-offensive against Moscow's troops, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday. Washington had promised the tanks to Kyiv at the beginning of the year, part of more than $43 billion in security assistance pledged by…
12 Sep 2023
Google begins a marathon battle in a federal court on Tuesday to fight accusations from the US government that it acted unlawfully to become the world's preeminent search engine. Over the course of 10 weeks of testimony involving more than 100 witnesses, Google will try to persuade Judge Amit P. Mehta that the landmark case…
6 Sep 2023
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys militia, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the stiffest sentence handed out so far.
6 Sep 2023
A US man who served seven and a half years in prison for a rape he did not commit has been cleared nearly five decades later thanks to new DNA evidence, authorities said Tuesday.
5 Sep 2023
A US federal court threw out Alabama's newly redrawn electoral map Tuesday, saying it continues to deny fair political representation to Black Americans in violation of a Supreme Court ruling.
25 Aug 2023
A senior US official headed Friday to West Africa in a new diplomatic bid to find a way to reverse a month-old military takeover in Niger.
25 Aug 2023
Former president Donald Trump posted his police mugshot on X, the former Twitter, on Thursday after his arrest in Georgia, his first post on the platform since January 2021.