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Syria to dominate talks of Russian, US top diplomats in Washington

If President Donald Trump had been hoping to erase any implications that his abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey was tied to the agency's investigation in...

Mormon church is pulling 185000 teens from Boy Scouts

The church said it will stop participating in that program but will continue to enroll 8- to 13-year-old boys in the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. Kirk estimated...

Comey had 'broad support' in Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting chief says

It hasn't recovered from that". Democrats are anxious Comey's firing could jeopardise the ongoing FBI probe and have renewed calls for an independent investig...

United Kingdom election: Sturgeon plays down Tory threat in Scotland

ICM's research director, Martin Boon, said there was now a risk that the latest poll was over-stating support for Conservatives and under-representing the Liber...

Saudi Mercenaries Killed in Yemeni Forces' Attacks

Higher global oil prices helped Saudi Arabia shrink its budget deficit by 71 percent from the first quarter of 2016 to US$6.9 billion ( 26 billion riyals ) as o...

Cheika's Wallabies will take nothing for granted in Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was among the dignitaries to take part in the draw at the historic Kyoto Guest House. Considered New Zealand's greatest t...

McConnell defends all-male health overhaul group

With GOP senators starting work on their version, Democrats wrote that the House bill "has an uncertain path to the president's desk". "Everybody ought to be ...

Watch Stephen Colbert respond to Donald Trump insults

Trump had grown angry with the Russian Federation investigation - particularly Comey admitting in front of the Senate that the FBI was investigating his campaig...

Israel Makes Impressive Security Preparations for Trump Visit

Now, given Trump's call to move the USA embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Congress believes the president may nix the policy and comply with the 200...

Kellyanne Conway Is Back, and My Heart Is Full

Cooper then couldn't help himself: "That makes no sense", he said . Meanwhile, she said she was happy to come out and give Trump's point of view over Comey's...

Pak violates ceasefire, woman killed along LoC

The BSF from time to time undertakes anti-tunnelling and cleaning drives on the worldwide border to find trans-border tunnels dug by Pakistani forces using whic...

Pakistani police: 15 killed in bombing that wounded lawmaker

The spokesman, Anwarul Haq Kakar, says the attack on Abdul Ghafoor Haideri's vehicle and entourage took place in the town of Mastung in Baluchistan province on ...

Justice Dept. Will Not Charge Police Officers in Alton Sterling's Death

Footage that's now been seen countless times shows the struggle between 37-year-old Sterling and the two officers last summer that led to him being fatally shot...

China's pressure on NKorea doesn't seem to be happening

It was Pyongyang's 50th known launch of a ballistic projectile since leader Kim Jong-un took power at the end of 2011, despite the North being barred from suc...

Trump and Putin to meet in July, Russian state media says

It was during a post-election meeting between Kislyak and Michael Flynn, who would become Trump's national security adviser , that the two discussed possible l...

Russian government releases photos of Oval Office meeting

Russia's Foreign Ministry tweeted a photo of Mr Trump shaking hands with Mr Lavrov and the Russian Embassy posted another of the president greeting another pa...

I wanted to fire 'showboat' James Comey anyway

Rod Rosenstein, a man more used to beavering away in obscurity over case law, has been thrust into the middle of one of the biggest U.S. political upheavals i...

Philippines' Duterte says chat with Xi was at Trump's request

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., asked Trump to rescind a White House invitation, saying Duterte's human rights records should disqualify him, according to The Wash...

UP DGP visits Saharanpur after clash, says no one fled from village

Apart from the two incidents, the teams will also review law and order situation in Saharanpur range which includes Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts. Uttar Pr...

83 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria have been released

Earlier reports said up to 50 girls had been freed. A military and a civilian militia source in Banki, near the border with Cameroon, said "at least 80" girls...

Scott McLaughlin claims lights-to-flag victory at Barbagallo

But on the day the Red Bull Holden Racing Team driver had no answer to the pace of the DJR Team Penske Falcons. DJR Team Penske's refreshed Falcons have out-p...

Defense Secretary James Mattis in Israel: Iran Deal 'Still Stands'

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Frday characterized North Korea's recent threats of war as provocative but said they have proven to be empty in the past and...

Afghan forces fire on census workers, killing 9

QUETTA , Pakistan (AP) - At least five Afghan checkpoints near the border with Pakistan were destroyed and 50 security forces killed in fighting in recent days,...

Trump confused why American Civil War was fought

Trump for an article that was published on Sunday in The Washington Examiner . "He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil...

Trump to NRA crowd: 'Assault' on 2nd Amendment is over

But now that there is a "true friend" of the NRA in the Oval Office, gun sales (based on Federal Bureau of Investigation background checks) appear to be slumpi...

Le Pen claims 'massive' gains but says party needs major change

Addressing supporters at a small venue on the eastern edge of Paris , she said she had called Mr Macron to congratulate him, adding, pointedly, that the French...

Israeli ministers move to demote Arabic language

Israeli news media outlet Haaretz asserted, however, that the bill would not result in democracy becoming an ancillary to the Jewish nature of Israel's cultur...

Israel lashes out over "systematic harassment" at UN

In December 2016, the UN Security Council adopted a historic resolution that condemns Israeli settlement activities as a "flagrant violation of global law". T...

Euro, shares rally on relief as Macron wins French presidency

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a decisive victory in a vote in Germany's northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, boosting her prospects ...

Woman allegedly harasses Muslim shopper at Trader Joe's

However, in video footage taken at a Trader Joe's supermarket in Reston, in the USA state of Virginia, after cutting ahead the woman tells the unidentified vict...