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A nephew of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who was at the centre of a sex tape scandal last year, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzlement.Baltasar Ebang Engonga, the former head of the National...

Tom Bateman and James FitzGeraldBBC News, Minneapolis and LondonWitnesses including Mr Garrity also described the horrifying spectacle of children emerging from the church covered in blood.Another neighbour, Patrick Scallen, told the BBC that he saw three children fleeing the...

Over the past decade retail investors have become a force to be reckoned with, proving they have the strength in numbers to outplay Wall Street professionals if the mood takes them.And between 2015 and 2025 a new demographic...

A tense debate in the Mexican Senate descended into a brawl between two of the chamber's most senior politicians on Wednesday. Senator Alejandro Moreno, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), grabbed the president of the Senate, Gerardo Fernández...

Getty ImagesEarlier on Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new Covid vaccines while limiting who could receive them.The vaccines will be available for all seniors, but younger adults and children without underlying health conditions will be excluded."The...

TOKYO -- TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top trade negotiator abruptly canceled a trip to Washington aimed at issuing a joint statement on a tariffs deal with the Trump administration, as a top government spokesman urged the U.S. side to...

A 10-year-old boy who survived the attack told CBS affiliate WCCO that his friend saved him from bullets by lying on top of him."I was like two seats away from the stained glass window," he said. "My friend, Victor,...

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The EU delegation in Kyiv was damaged on Thursday in the deadliest Russian drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian...

All 14 children injured in Wednesday's mass shooting in Minneapolis are expected to survive, the city's police chief said at a press conference late Wednesday, with some victims having already been released from hospital.An 8-year-old and 10-year-old sitting in...

Kyiv, Ukraine — A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital early Thursday, including a rare strike in the center of the city, killed at least ten people and wounded some 48, local...