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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord found guilty of running a murderous criminal enterprise that smuggled tons of drugs into the United States, was sentenced by a U.S. judge on Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison.

A man has been arrested after climbing over Buckingham Palace’s front gates in the middle of the night, police have said.

Ugandan feminist and lecturer Stella Nyanzi, has been jailed over a poem about ‘Vagina’ she wrote and shared on Facebook in September.

Muhammad Ajmal, a Pakistani husband shot dead his wife, two children, six of her family members and burned their bodies in a twisted act of revenge, police said.

A baby girl found inside a plastic bag in the US has families across the world “waiting in line” to adopt the “miracle” child, an official says.   The baby, nicknamed India, was found on the 6th of June in Georgia after residents heard her crying and called the police.   Police shared heart-rending bodycam footage of an officer tearing open …

Frontrunner Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump of putting the United States in a “horrible situation” by overseeing a sharp rise in income inequality during his first presidential primary debate. “Donald Trump has put us in a horrible situation,” Biden said in the televised debate together with nine other Democrats seeking the party’s nomination for the 2020 presidential election. “Donald …

A pregnant woman should not initiate a fight, if she does, she will be endangering the life of the unborn child. That was the verdict of an Alabama grand jury. A mother has been charged over the death of her unborn baby after a fight broke out with another woman.

The chief of staff of the army in Ethiopia, Gen Seare Mekonnen, has been shot dead by his own bodyguard in the capital, Addis Ababa.

Despite claim by the Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai that Boko Haram has been defeated, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) of the United Kingdom has stated that the security environment in the north east has deteriorated since 2018 and there is a heightened risk of kidnap.

A leading human right group is urging Egypt to investigate the death of former President Mohammed Morsi.