Congo's electoral commission announced opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi as the winner of a tense presidential election early on Thursday morning, marking an important step in the African country's first democratic transfer of power, according to The Washington Post... He will now replace the longtime leader Joseph Kabila ... 30 vote....
A new super-Earth has been discovered in the habitable zone of a binary system thanks to the effort of citizen scientists looking through the data of the Kepler telescope, IFLScience reports.The exoplanet is known as K2-288b and is located 226 light-years away ...The new planet orbits the smaller one, which is classified as a cool M star....
Manila. The MakatiRegionalTrialCourt has sentenced a bank manager implicated in one of the biggest bank robberies in history, the $81 million (Dh300 million) BangladeshCentral Bank cyber heist of 2016 ... Each count, amounts to minimum four years to a maximum seven years in prison ... ....
The House of Representatives passed a financial services spending bill on Wednesday as an attempt to reopen portions of the shuttered federal government as the standoff between PresidentDonald Trump and Congressional Democrats continued over funding his border wall construction, according to CNN... ... Rep ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
Turkey is threatening another operation in Syria targeting the US-backed Kurdish militia known as the YPG. Turkey will launch an offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces if the United States delays the withdrawal of its troops from the war-torn country, the foreign minister said Thursday ... Cavusoglu said Turkey would go ahead with its incursion plan ... ....
A Republican senator has said US government workers are being “held hostage to a political dispute,” in the most outspoken criticism yet from within Donald Trump’s party of the federal shutdown ...JoinIndependentMinds ... Get the best of The Independent ... Get the best of The Independent ... The Alaska senator said ... ....
Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed conservative news site The Daily Caller for publishing "a fake nude photo of me" under a misleading headline. The photo went viral earlier this week after people circulated the photo on Reddit, claiming that it was of Ocasio-Cortez ... The Daily Caller on Monday reported Motherboard's story under the headline ... ....
World News. Thu, 10 Jan 2019. AFP. Berlin. Four Berlin men go on trial Thursday charged over the spectacular museum theft of a giant commemorative gold coin called the "BigMaple Leaf" and valued at 3.75 million euros ($4.3 million) ... If found guilty of theft, they would face jail terms of up to 10 years ... Berlin's B.Z ... ....
China's commerce ministry said the trade talks held this week with the United States were "extensive, deep and thorough" on Wednesday, and provided a "foundation for the resolution of each others' concerns," according to Reuters ...The U.S ...The Trump administration also threatened to tax all imports from China if Beijing did not meet their demands ... ....
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Iran confirmed on Wednesday it had arrested an American, confirming U.S. media reports about a case that risks further worsening relations with Washington... ....
Nasa working on fix after space telescope’s wide-field camera broke down The Hubble space telescope is operating without its best camera after a hardware problem forced it to shut down. Nasa said the camera stopped working on Tuesday but three other science instruments were still operating and able to continue celestial observations .......
ADEN, Yemen, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The High-ranking military commanders of Yemen's internationally-backed government, including the army's chief of staff, were injured on Thursday in a deadly drone attack launched by the Houthi group in southern province of Lahj, a security official told Xinhua ... ....
By Sethuraman N R. BENGALURU (Reuters) - Gold prices rose on Thursday as growing expectations that the U.S.Federal Reserve will pause its rate tightening cycle this year and an impasse between U.S. PresidentDonald Trump and Democrats on funding for a border wall weighed on the dollar ... U.S. gold futures gained 0.4 percent to $1,297.2 per ounce ... ....
SEOUL - China has played a positive role in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and improving inter-Korean relations, the Republic of Korea's PresidentMoon Jae-in said in his New Year press conference on Thursday ... Kim and Trump held the first-ever DPRK-US summit in Singapore in June, 2018 ... ....