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A fake German heiress who swindled rich friends, hotels, banks, and a private jet operator has been jailed for between four and 12 years. Anna Sorokin, 28, had been found guilty of charges including grand larceny in New York last month. The glamorous grifter was born in Russia. the daughter of a truck driver, before…

European powers rejected Iran’s “ultimatum” on the nuclear deal yesterday, urging the regime to stick to the terms of the 2015 agreement despite America’s withdrawal.  The European Union along with Britain, France and Germany – all signatories to the deal – released a statement pushing back on Iran’s warning it could start enriching uranium again…

Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s reformist president, has consolidated his tenuous hold on power after his ruling African National Congress avoided electoral disaster on Thursday. Although the ANC was set to record its worst performance in a national election since the end of white rule in 1994, the decline was less steep than some had predicted, leaving Mr…

Click: A regional militia allied with Nigerian government forces released on Friday almost 900 children it had used in the war against Islamist Boko Haram insurgents, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. The move brought the total number of children released to more than 1,700, a UNICEF statement said. Non-state armed groups embroiled in the decade-long…

Taiwan has accused the World Health Organisation of risking a global health emergency by barring it from attending its global health summit in Geneva at the end of May at China’s behest.  This week the WHO, a United Nations agency, declined to invite Taiwan for the third consecutive year to an annual meeting of its decision-making…

Donald Trump Jr was subpoenaed on Wednesday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of its probe into Russian election meddling, US media reported. It was the first known legal summons issued by Congress to a member of the president’s family to force testimony in the ongoing investigation, and comes after special counsel…

President Emmanuel Macron of France is to place the environment at the heart of his European election manifesto as his party seeks to overtake the far-Right and drum up interest in a faltering campaign just three weeks before the crunch vote. The outspoken Europhile is banking on coming first in the May 26 election for…

Archeologists have chanced upon an underground chamber decorated with images of panthers, centaurs and a sphinx in the remains of a vast palace built by the Emperor Nero in Rome. The room, which was part of the huge Domus Aurea palace built by the emperor in the first century AD, had remained hidden for nearly…

The spiralling number of deaths from drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is set to cost the world economy nearly $20billion annually. A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit warned that despite the fact that DR-TB is a huge global health threat, the fight against the disease lags behind others in terms of both money and attention. In low and…

A rare Asiatic black bear has been spotted living in the mined border area between North and South Korea, Seoul’s environment ministry confirmed on Wednesday.  A picture of the endangered animal, also known as the moon bear, was recorded by cameras that have been hidden among the wild foliage of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) for…