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Chinese authorities have dispatched a flock of 100,000 ducks to the country’s border with India and Pakistan ahead of the looming locust invasion. The ducks were deployed to the Xinjiang border where China meets Pakistan and India, according to media reports in China. Videos shared by the Chinese…

Pigeons with tiny Make American Great Again hats glued to their heads were released in downtown Las Vegas this week in what appears to be a sarcastic statement of loyalty to President Donald Trump and a mock protest of Nevada's coming Democratic presidential caucuses. A group calling itself P.U.T.I…

Lesotho First Lady Maesaiah Thabane is set to be arraigned in court to face charges of murdering her husband’s estranged wife. Maesaiah, who is the wife of the country’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, surrendered herself to police on Tuesday to be questioned over the killing of Thabane’s wife, BBC…

Britain’s Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, on Sunday broke his silence over his decision to leave royal life. Speaking for the first time since the Buckingham Palace announced he and his wife, Meghan, would give up their royal titles, Prince Harry expressed “great sadness,” adding that it took…

(ABC News) Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who sent the internet reeling with a massive money giveaway last year, is back at it again -- pledging to give more than $9 million to randomly-selected Twitter followers who retweet one of his posts. Maezawa is the head of an online Japanese fashion…

The government of Iran on Saturday said it unintentionally shot down the Ukrainian plane that crashed over the Iranian airspace on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board. The place a Boeing 737, being operated by Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran…

A Boeing 737 aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) on Wednesday crashed in Iran, killing all the 176 people on board. The plane went down and burst into flames shortly after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport due to technical problems, according to Iran’s state…

A male postgraduate student in the UK was on Monday found guilty of 48 counts of raping men, though the number of victims might be as high as 190. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described 36-year-old Reynhard Sinaga as “the most prolific rapist in British legal history,” according to BBC. He…

US Vice President Mike Pence has justified the killing of Iranian General, Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's elite Quds Force. Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike on Thursday, January 2nd in Baghdad, Iraq, was among those who financed terrorist attacks in Kenya and Turkey, according to…

Islamist militia group, Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the Saturday morning car bomb attack in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu that claimed the lives of more than 80 people. The explosives-laden vehicle was driven into the “Ex-control Afgoye” checkpoint, a busy junction that links the south…