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Roger Stone, US President Donald Trump’s longtime friend and political adviser, has called a Black radio host a racial slur while being on air. This happened on Saturday while the two were debating Stone’s federal conviction, which was commuted by Trump more than a week ago. Stone was sentenced to …

The US Navy has issued a “stop-work order” to a major shipyard in Norfolk following a blaze aboard an amphibious assault ship, the second fire to hit a warship in San Diego this week. The fire aboard USS Kearsarge, which was said to have been caused by a spark from …

TEHRAN:released the match schedule for the 2020 Olympic Games and Iran will begin the competition with a match against powerhouse Poland. The full match schedule for the men’s and women’s volleyball tournaments at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic date, now replanned for 2021, has been confirmed, ahead of the ultimate sporting …

Coronavirus infections are soaring at a North Texas federal prison where more than 1,000 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 and at least one inmate has died. Of the 1,798 inmates at the Federal Correctional Institute at Seagoville, at least 1,072 have contracted the virus. Ten staff members have also …

Former Donald Trump Administration Economist Todas Philipson said on Friday that his team alerted the White House about the dangers of a looming pandemic outbreak about three months before COVID-19 is believed to have made its way into the United States. Philipson served three years as acting chairman of the …

Former BBC presenter Benjamin David Thomas admitted committing 40 sex offences, a number of them against children, over 30 years. Thomas, who also worked as a preacher at the Criccieth Family Church in Gwynedd, North Wales, admitted ten counts of sexual activity with a child, eight sexual assaults, and four …

French authorities are opening an investigation into allegations that Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has been complicit in acts of torture in Yemen, where the UAE, along with Saudi Arabia and its allies, has been waging a years-long bloody war. Citing multiple sources with knowledge of …

China and Russia have joined Iran to express strong opposition to the “US unilateralism” in international affairs amid a widening rift between Washington and Beijing over a litany of political and economic issues. In a phone conversation on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov …

A leading American newspaper has highlighted the importance of a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement being negotiated between Iran and China, saying the deal amounts to a “massive failure” of US pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. US President Donald Trump’s administration pursued a policy of economic sanctions in an attempt …

Public health specialists have for months warned the U.S. government that shuffling detainees among immigration detention centers will expose people to COVID-19 and help spread the disease. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued the practice, saying it is taking all necessary precautions. It turns out the health specialists …