13+ hour, 43+ min ago   (397+ words) DAKAR, Senegal — The Olympic flame was welcomed by music and dancing in Senegal 's capital Saturday, as a march by 100 women marked the countdown to the first Olympic sporting event held in Africa — the Youth Olympic Games. More than a…...

6+ hour, 57+ min ago   (395+ words) Global insurance brokerage and risk management firm Willis Towers Watson has filed a lawsuit in Boston after 18 employees resigned within 44 minutes and moved to a rival brokerage down the street. As first reported by Insurance Journal, Willis Towers Watson Northeast…...

11+ hour, 57+ min ago   (225+ words) STOCKHOLM: Polling stations opened Sunday in Sweden in what is expected to be a close general election that will see either the far right enter government for the first time or the left-wing opposition reclaim power. Opinion polls have long…...

17+ hour, 25+ min ago   (643+ words) US President Donald Trump continues his visit to Ireland on Sunday after stirring up a diplomatic row hours into the trip by backing Irish unification. Mr Trump starts the day at his golf resort in the southwest of the country…...

15+ hour, 52+ min ago   (169+ words) Indonesian rescuers launched a search operation on Sunday after a passenger ship carrying 240 people lost contact while traveling from East Java to South Kalimantan on Borneo island, officials said. The Search and Rescue Office in Banjarmasin, the capital of South…...

1+ day, 10+ min ago   (600+ words) “Woman Unknown,” a drama about Denmark in the aftermath of the Nazi occupation directed by May el-Toukhy, won the prestigious Golden Lion at the 83rd Venice Film Festival on Saturday. El-Toukhy was the only woman to have solely directed a film…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (571+ words) A Hong Kong court is set to sentence Friday three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in a case that is widely seen as a barometer of the city's freedoms as Beijing clamps…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (136+ words) newswav.com Significant activity seen at Iran nuclear site after Trump threat The world’s most free-thinking newspaper - The UN nuclear watchdog has confirmed activity at Iran's Pickaxe Mountain site following satellite imagery showing significant construction and excavation. - Analysis by the…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (571+ words) During a long speech at a Republican convention in Dallas, Texas, Donald Trump sought to revitalise his conservative base, defending the unpopular war in Iran while trying to keep control of Congress in the November midterm elections by promising cash…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (814+ words) Tourists heading to new destinations once considered pickpockets their primary concern. However, travel scams have grown far more sophisticated, with fraudsters harnessing new artificial intelligence tools to build deceptive websites and exploit stolen data, according to Florent Silve, an executive…...