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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed seven death row inmates who had been convicted of murder and drug trafficking. The ultra-conservative kingdom has one of the world’s highest rates of execution, with suspects convicted of terrorism, homicide, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking facing the...

U.K. stocks swung higher on Thursday and the pound tumbled after disappointing British retail sales stoked speculation the Bank of England may refrain from hiking interest rates in August....... Read more via MarketWatch.com – Top Stories – https://ift.tt/2Ntegyq Get more World News

It was meant to be a fun excursion after football practice, but it turned into a life-threatening, two-week ordeal for a group of youngsters trapped in a cave with rising waters and no apparent escape route. When coach Ekkapol Chantawong led twelve members of his “Wild Boar” youth … Read...

The “fasten seatbelt” sign had barely pinged off when passengers on a historic flight between Ethiopia and Eritrea began singing and dancing in the aisle. Beaming and overwhelmed, flight attendants struggled to contain the joy of passengers on one of … Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

A British Man was found guilty on Wednesday of a plot to kill Prime Minister Theresa May. He was caught by first detonating an explosive device to get into her Downing Street Office and then using a knife or a gun to attack her. Naa’imur Rahman, 20, of … Read more via Leadership Newspaper –...

More than two dozen Senegalese migrants have gone missing in neighbouring Mauritania after their boat ran aground while en route to Spain’s Canary islands, Mauritanian authorities said. Regional police chief Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Taleb said 26 or 27 migrants are thought to be “on … Read...

Donald Trump reckons that Montenegro is a "tiny country with very strong people". And he will soon discover that they have forceful opinions as well. "He's the strangest president in the history of the United States..... Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2Nr7jhv Get more World News

An alleged Kremlin agent offered sex for a job with an American special interest organisation she targeted, say US officials. Maria Butina’s ties with Russian intelligence make her a flight risk, a federal judge ruled, and she will be held until her trial. … Read more via BBC News –...