NY Metropolis DA Bragg downgrades 52% felonies to misdemeanors
New York City’s district attorney has downgraded 52% of all felony cases so far in 2022 to misdemeanors, compared to...
New York City’s district attorney has downgraded 52% of all felony cases so far in 2022 to misdemeanors, compared to...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country’s Ebola...
Suspected al-Shabab fighters have attacked a hotel used by government officials in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a police officer has...
A new law has being seriously considered by lawmakers in New York City could strip landlords of the ability to...
After Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United parted ways earlier this week, the superstar has been granted the offer of a...
Congo schedules presidential elections forThe Democratic Republic of the Congo has said it will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on...
Malawi has arrested its Vice President Saulos Chilima and charged him with graft over a bribery scandal involving a British-Malawian...
A good Samaritan has helped save a man from the subway tracks at 116th Street in Manhattan on Thanksgiving, the...
The U.S. has planned to ban the sale of communications equipment made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE and restricting...
Amazon workers and labor activists in roughly 30 countries, including the U.S., plan to walk off the job and stage...
Mayor Eric Adams has joined correction officers and detainees at the Rikers Island jail facility on Thanksgiving. “We have a...
Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of U.S.Ghana’s government has started working on a new policy to buy...
African leaders have declared a cessation of hostilities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo starting Friday, according to a...
The company tasked with locking down assets of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading said it has recovered $740 million...
Two California men have been arrested at a Hampton Inn at John F. Kennedy Airport Monday allegedly in possession of...
Germany has decided to withdraw its troops from the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali by May 2024, a government spokesman...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed into law a two-year moratorium on issuing or renewing air permits for one...
Mayor Eric Adams has intended to tighten the city’s budget again. A deficit of billions is expected for next year....
Uganda’s army have said on Monday that it will send 1,000 troops to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by...
The NYC Council has held a joint oversight hearing Monday on the Department of Education's handling of transportation. School is...
The New York City Department of Transportation has announced plans to expand bike lanes and public spaces in 2023. The...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said police will increase surveillance and protection for hate crimes targets following threats against...
New York state's Cannabis Control Board is expected to approve its first set of marijuana retail dispensary licenses at a...
The world’s longest-serving president has sought re-election to continue his 43-year rule in Equatorial Guinea. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo,...
Elon Musk has allowed former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter account to be restored after users on the social media...
Emmanuel Macron has accused Russia of feeding disinformation to further its “predatory project” in Africa, where France has had military...
United States President Joe Biden has celebrated his 80th birthday. The president who turned 80 Sunday has become the first...
First Deputy Mayor Lorraine Grillo has decided to leave Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, City Hall announced Friday — the third...
Mayor Eric Adams has signed legislation to address the city's growing rat problem. Friday's news conference had almost as many...
Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Friday has said he was “truly sorry” for the country’s economic hardships but defended...
Workers at over 100 unionized Starbucks stores around the US have walked off the job, coinciding with Starbucks’ Red Cup...
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP)has issued a report outlining its planned wage floors for...
South African civil servants have planned to march to the National Treasury in the administrative capital Pretoria and in the...
New York City officials have reached an agreement to build the city's first professional soccer stadium in Queens.The 25,000-seat stadium...
Former President Donald Trump has officially announced he is running for president in 2024, marking his third bid for the...
A woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle nearly half a million dollars’ worth of cocaine into the...
House Republicans have nominated Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the current minority leader, as their candidate for speaker of the House on...
New York City’s largest legal aid nonprofit has ramped up its efforts for a federal takeover of the Big Apple’s...
Facing both a housing crisis and a homeless crisis, Mayor Eric Adams has announced a series of reforms on Monday...
The United Kingdom unemployment rate has edged up to 3.6 per cent but remains close to the lowest level in...
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday has fired Charles Adu Boahen, minister of state for finance, after allegations of corruption...
The New York City Council has planned to hold a hearing on e-bikes and battery safety after recent fires, including...
Members of the New York State Democratic Committee have urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to drop Jay Jacobs as the state...
Ethiopia’s government and Tigrayan rebels have agreed to facilitate immediate humanitarian access to “all in need” in war-ravaged Tigray and...
The commissioner of Customs Border Protection has resigned Saturday after saying he had been pressured to step down by Homeland...
Mayor Eric Adams has announced the opening of a fourth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center that will accommodate male...
Dr. Robert M. Cao, 39, of Lafayette, Louisiana, and previously of Falls Church, Virginia, has pleaded guilty in the U.S....
Former President Donald Trump has sued the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in an...
A federal judge has temporarily blocked New York from issuing recreational marijuana dispensary licenses in Brooklyn and parts of upstate...
The city has decided to shut down a tent facility for migrants on Randalls Island, in yet another shift in...
Three Rikers Island correction officers has allegedly fraudulently took sick leave for months during a jail staffing crisis, prosecutors said...
Petraetra Diamonds has suspended operations at its Williamson mine in Tanzania for up to three months after a wall of...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed a package of seven bills designated to help struggling families, working parents,...
A Kenyan court has allowed a request by public prosecutors to withdraw a 7.4 billion shillings ($60m) corruption case against...
Ukraine has signed a peace treaty with nations in Southeast Asia, a largely symbolic act that comes as Kyiv seeks...
The United States Department of Justice has charged seven leaders of five Haitian gangs for the armed kidnapping of 16...
Voters has approved a $4.2 billion state environmental bond act to address climate change while New York City residents also...
In a historic victory during last night’s U.S. Elections, Assemblywoman Natalia Fernandez has been elected the next State Senator for...
Rep. Jamaal Bowman has declared victory over Republican challenger Dr. Miriam Levitt Flisser after building up an insurmountable lead with...
Nigerian President, Muhammad Buhari, has congratulated eight Nigerian-Americans on their victory in the U.S. midterm elections. This was contained in...