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Malawi’s vice-president Saulos Chilima, has set up his own political party on Saturday to run against the government in elections next year, persisting in his public attack on President Peter Mutharika’s cabinet. Chilima, 45, was handpicked Mutharika to run alongside him in 2014 on the...

The Editor, In November 2010, a senior official of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Zimbabwe was quoted as saying, “We’ve done a lousy job in government. While Zanu-PF have used the last 21 months to refocus and reinvent themselves, we’ve lost our identity. … Read more via...

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the plane veered off the edge of the runway and caught fire, but all passengers were able to escape the aircraft. Read more via USA Today – https://ift.tt/2mzgYqR Get more World News

Washington – Donald Trump on Saturday said his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen may have acted illegally after it emerged he had secretly taped a discussion about payments to a former Playboy model who claims she had an affair with the US president. In his first direction … Read more via IOL section...

For her national political debut, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez traded the concrete jungle of New York for the endless wheatfields of Kansas. The next Ocasio-Cortez: will these candidates pull Democrats to the left? The bright new face of the left joined Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, a leader of...

Okonjo-Iweala Becomes First Nigerian To Be Appointed By Twitter Social networking company, Twitter, has announced the appointment of a former Nigerian Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as one of its boards of directors. This is just as Marjorie Scardino, the first female board member who joined...

An aspiring prophet has been arrested in Ethiopia after he failed to bring a dead man back to life. Getayawkal Ayele had tried to revive the corpse of Belay … Read more via BBC – https://ift.tt/2uSkPTv Get more World News

Police in Pakistan say an independent candidate for parliament has shot himself to death after his sons disagreed with his politics. Officer Ishfaq Khan said Saturday that Mohammad Ahmed Mughal was running for office in both the national and provincial assemblies from the central city of...

The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency deepened on Saturday, with his interior minister due to face a grilling in parliament over his response to a top security aide of Macron caught on video beating up a young man at a Paris protest in May. … Read more via PressTV Media...