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DONALD Trump filed a $1billion loss on his tax returns in 1995 – legally entitling him to not pay federal income tax for 18 years, a newspaper report has claimed.

Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died on Wednesday, his personal doctor told AFP, some two weeks after suffering a major stroke.

The board of the World Bank has unanimously agreed to name Jim Yong Kim to a second term as president, the global lender announced Tuesday.

Capture of 28-year-old Afghan-born US citizen comes after shootout with police A 28-year-old Afghan-born US citizen was taken into custody on Monday in connection with weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey that returned terrorism to the centre stage of the US election campaign.

Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, ordered gangland-style killings of more than 1,000 people before he was elected, his former hitman has claimed.

WASHINGTON — In his strongest denouncement of Donald J. Trump so far, President Obama on Tuesday said Mr. Trump was “unfit to serve as president” and urged the leaders of the Republican Party to withdraw their backing for his candidacy.

Indonesia has executed some of the 14 people on death row for drugs crimes, Indonesian media say.

A Nigerian businessman was beaten to death in Limpopo Province of South Africa, the Nigeria Union in the country confirmed on Wednesday.

TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Hillary Clinton named Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate Friday, adding a centrist former governor of a crucial battleground state to the Democratic ticket.

CLEVELAND, July 20 (Reuters) – A staff writer of the Trump Organization, the company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has claimed responsibility for inserting passages in a speech given at the Republican National Convention by Trump’s wife Melania that resembled parts of a 2008 speech by first lady Michelle Obama.