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Steve Bannon 'will not testify' over Russian Federation collusion

His previous visit to the committee lasted more than 10 hours, and senior lawmakers in both parties said afterward that Bannon, the former executive chairma...

Philippines' Duterte bans foreign research ships

Philippine security officials raised concerns about intrusions when a Chinese ship was monitored crisscrossing the waters early past year, drawing public attent...

North Korea: US Considers Limited Pre-Emptive Strike

The United States said on Tuesday that North Korea may be only months away from being able to strike the US mainland with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile, ...

Sole Surviving Suspect Of Paris Attacks Makes Uncooperative Court Appearance

However, as the trial began on Monday, Abdeslam told the Brussels court that he would refuse to answer questions. Escorted by two giant Belgian policemen in...

Eagles players plan on skipping White House visit

While appearing on CNN's "New Day" Jenkins said, "Nah, I personally do not anticipate attending", with regard to a potential White House visit. In September...

Conor McGregor Doesn't Back Down, Strikes Back At Floyd Mayweather Trolling: "Boo"

McGregor suffered a tenth round stoppage loss when he challenged Mayweather to a boxing fight a year ago. McGregor has not fought inside the Octagon since he ...

Winter Olympics 2018: 110,00 condoms supplied for Pyeongchang games

Another unnamed source told Axios North Korea "wants to make this about cute photo ops". The two Koreas have also agreed to march under a unified flag d...

China to Ban Dual-Use Goods Exports to North Korea

In January, the Trump administration announced a new round of sanctions targeting North Korea's oil industry and shipping companies, as well as individuals or...

Homeland Security's anti-terror Super Bowl plans left on plane

The reports also came with instructions to keep the documents locked or to shred them when done, the network said. The officials were also unclear on who they c...

Winter Olympics Hit By Suspected Norovirus Outbreak Days Before the Games Begin

North Korea is sending its nominal head of state, Kim Jong Nam - the highest-level visitor to the South from the North in recent memory. Commenting on the po...

Olympics: Medvedev slams 'unfair and unlawful' International Olympic Committee verdict

Commenting after the meeting, Bartekova said: "It has always been my dream to represent athletes". It later invited 169 Russian athletes who met that criteria...

Paul Ryan's PAC Gives Big Money to GOP House Campaigns for 2018

That being said, she was still "pleasantly surprised" to see it go up by $1.50 instead of down. She said she would use the additional weekly earnings to cover...

Hong Kong's top court strikes down Wong's sentence

Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow won their case in Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal after being handed jail sentences of six to eight months each by three...

Dow Jones suffers largest single-day point drop in its history

All other regional markets were lower. That's the industrial average's biggest point drop of all time, and the worst percentage decline since 2011. It ended...

Dow Jones down: White House distances Donald Trump from markets crash

Six days later, Fox News interrupted a live broadcast of a speech Trump delivered in OH on Monday to tout the tax cut bill to instead cover a historic drop i...

House committee votes to release Democrats' Russia memo

After the House committee's Monday evening vote, which was unanimous, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the panel's top Democrat, said he believed the Democratic ...

Hrithik Roshan's look in Anand Kumar biopic Super 30 unveiled - See pic

Hrithik Roshan kicked off the shoot of his much talked about film Super 30 last month on the auspicious occasion of Saraswati Puja. Donning a tanned look, H...

Turkish soldier killed and five wounded in rocket and mortar attack

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the observation post being established by Turkey was near the village of al-Eis, which would place...

February is a good time to learn more about heart health

The prospect of heart disease is frightening, but there are steps you can take to keep your heart in ideal shape. And being thankful is also great for your he...

Government Halts Seven-Day Shutdown of Major Kenyan TV Stations

Daily Nation news paper reports that earlier, police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital, Nairobi, demanding that the government obey a court...

Metuh brought to court on stretcher

The prosecution who had closed its case over a year ago believed that Metuh's continued absence in court was ploy to delay trial and frustrate the cause of just...

Philippines feel helpless as China completes South China Sea development

However, the report makes clear that many in the Philippines are unhappy with the manner in which the Duterte Administration is treating with China. "It distu...

Samsung VC Jay Y Lee Released from Prison Following the Bribery Scandal

He was immediately freed from a almost yearlong incarceration. The increased investment since Lee Jay-hyun rejoined management likely boosted employment at ...

Dancing With the Stars Tour Bus Involved in Fatal Multiple-Vehicle Accident

Members of the " Dancing with the Stars " tour are on the mend after they were caught up in a massive pileup on I-35 in Ames, Iowa , on Monday. Information r...

Lithuania: Russians putting more missiles in Kaliningrad

From Kaliningrad, which is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, Iskander missiles can reach targets in both countries as well as Baltic neighbors Latvia and...

Ryan murder: Accused googled how to remove bloodstains, says CBI chargesheet

In its chargesheet, the CBI has said that the fingerprints at the scene of the crime matched with the juvenile, the main accused in the case. The Gurgaon Poli...

Acclaimed Malayalam poet attacked, abused by right wing activists

Residents said the RSS workers stopped Sreekumar's vehicle by blocking the road, and went on to verbally abuse him. Cases have been registered against 15 peop...

Former Google, Facebook Execs Rebel Against Companies They Helped To Create

The race to catch the attention of people and keep them tuned in online seven days a week to makes it more hard to disconnect causes stress, according to a grou...

US Reportedly Starts Withdrawing Troops From Iraq After ISIS Defeat

The US will withdraw troops from Iraq following a deal between the US-led coalition and the Iraqi government, according to an Associated Press report . One sen...

Marijuana legalization: BC opts for private and public standalone stores

Recreational cannabis will be sold in standalone retail stores, some privately owned, others run by the government. The provincial government said it may cons...