Al Qaeda`s North Africa branch (AQIM) has appointed a new leader and confirmed the death of its former leader Abdelmalek Droukdel who was killed by the French army in June, SITE Intelligence Group said on Saturday.

Al Qaeda in North Africa names new leader to succeed Droukdel

A citizen of the United States was killed by Burkina Faso security forces outside a military base in the capital Ouagadougou on Saturday. The shooting comes with the West African country on edge as it prepares for a general election Sunday in the shadow of a growing jihadist insurgency.

US citizen killed by Burkina Faso security forces

The United States recorded its 12th million COVID-19 case on Saturday, even as millions of Americans were expected to travel for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, ignoring warnings from health officials about furthering the spread of the infectious disease.

US hits 12 million COVID-19 cases as many Americans defy Thanksgiving travel guidance

The United States has issued an emergency approval for a synthetic antibody therapy against Covid-19 that was notably used to treat President Donald Trump. The authorisation was given on Saturday to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc's COVID-19 antibody therapy that Trump said helped cure him of the disease.

US grants emergency use authorisation to Regeneron Covid-19 antibodies

The head of the Tibetan government in exile visited the US White House for the first time in six decades. It is being anticipated that this move could further infuriate China, which has time and again accused the United States of trying to destabilise the region.

Top Tibetan leader visits White House for the first time in six decades

US President Donald Trump suffered another major setback on Saturday in his desperate crusade to overturn the recently conducted presidential election and win it -- as a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by his campaign that sought to throw out millions of mail-in votes in Pennsylvania.

US judge dismisses Trump election lawsuit in Pennsylvania

Authorities in The Netherlands have culled some 190,000 chickens after a highly-contagious strain of bird flu broke out at at least two poultry farms. Health workers slaughtered around 100,000 hens at a poultry farm at Hekendorp outside Gouda while 90,000 chicks were culled at Witmarsum, in northern Friesland.

Dutch cull almost 200,000 chickens after bird flu outbreak

Thousands of people thronged Taipei`s streets on Sunday for the annual "Autumn Struggle" protest march organised by labour groups, with much of the anger focused on the government`s decision to ease restrictions on imports of U.

Thousands join annual Taiwan protest, anger focussed on US pork

In August 1968, Lynn Conway, a promising computer engineer at IBM in Sunnyvale, California, was called into the office of Gene Myron Amdahl, then the company’s director of advanced computing systems.

52 years later, IBM apologizes for firing transgender woman

WASHINGTON — I’ve been riveted all week by the spectacle of the most famous blond phenom on the planet, a child isolated and miserable living inside a national landmark, lashing out and spiraling into self-destructive acts.

The lady and the Trump

A man has died after being bitten by a shark at a beach popular with tourists on Australia's northwest coast. The man's death marks the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian waters this year.

Man dies in shark attack off Australia's west coast

Hundreds of Guatemalans partly burned the Congress building Saturday in a protest demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Giammattei, following the passage of a budget that has sparked outrage in the impoverished Central American nation.

Protesters burn Guatemalan Congress to demand president resign

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