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Cambodia's Ruling Party Just Held Senate Elections. It Won Every Seat

Cambodia said today it was saddened and shocked by a "disrespectful" USA decision to rein back aid programmes because of perceived democratic setbacks and defen...

Cloudy, chance of rain — TODAY'S FORECAST

Highs will only reach the lower 30s but winds will continue gusting between 30-40 miles per hour at times. Highs will fall into the low 50s for Saturday and...

Horrific Train Collision Leaves 10 Dead in Egypt

Egyptians have long complained that successive governments have failed to enforce basic safety measures for the railways. A string of crashes have further infla...

Tokyo 2020 unveil mascots for Olympics and Paralympics

The designer of the winning mascots is Ryo Taniguchi, who graduated as an art major from Cabrillo College in California, and is now active as a character design...

NZ universities recognised in 2018 QS world university rankings

This makes it one of just three universities to perform best in more than one subject, alongside Harvard University, which comes first in 14 subjects, and Massa...

High Court Says Immigrants Can Be Detained Indefinitely

In the case before the justices, Mexican Alejandro Rodriguez was detained for more than three years without a bond hearing. The California-based appeals cou...

Saudi Arabia reshuffles top military, deputy minister roles

Amnesty International UK's Director, Kate Allen, said: " Time and time again, UK ministers have turned a blind eye to Saudi Arabia's atrocious human rights rec...

Tamil Nadu: Thousands Pay Homage to Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati

In a condolence message, the PM said, "deeply anguished by the passing away of Acharya of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam Jagadguru Pujyashri Jayendra Saraswathi Sha...

People Encouraged To Report Rough Sleepers During Freezing Weather

A rough sleeper in London. "In 2017, alerts from the public enabled us to connect thousands of rough sleepers to accommodation and support services, and we ho...

Jared Kushner Just Lost His High-Level Security Clearance

In the ensuing weeks, reporters revealed that scores of White House officials were operating without permanent security clearances, with some using "interim" ...

Substance in envelope sickens 11 at Marine base in Virginia

A hazardous materials team was dispatched and the building evacuated. Eight others complained of symptoms like nasal irritation and itching, according to ABC...

Donald Trump dealt immigration blow by Dreamers ruling

The Justice Department's request to challenge the lower court ruling was rare in that it asked the Supreme Court to jump ahead of the 9th Circuit Court of Appea...

Pakistan's ruling party picks Nawaz Sharif's brother as president

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party also elected Nawaz as "leader for life", in what will be seen as a provocative move and could anger the judiciary...

Congress welcomes Manjhi`s decision to join grand alliance

However, with JD (U) and BJP joining hands once again, Manjhi found himself at the margins of the alliance. He, later on, joined the Janata dal and then the RJD...

Bush Pays Tribute To Billy Graham

Forest wrote a letter Tuesday to Stephen T. Ayers, the Architect of the U.S. Capitol, asking for a statue to be dedicated to Graham, whom he called one of No...

Terrorist Killed in Gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora

The militants opened fire on the security personnel, and a gunfight ensued, he added. "One terrorist of LET [Lashkar-e-Taiba] apparently FT [foreign terrorist...

ECP moved to denotify PML-N

The PML-N elected its new head days after the Supreme Court disqualified 68-year-old Nawaz as the chief of his party and struck down all decisions taken by him ...

Little girl should be a martyr, 'God willing,' Turkish president says

Erdogan met Algeria's Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia as officials of both sides signed several Memoranda of Understanding on co-operation on culture, security, tr...

Pakistan's ruling PML-N appoints Shahbaz Sharif as new chief

Shahbaz Sharif's selection as permanent president of the PML-N will be made during the General Council meeting on March 6. However, nomination of Shahbaz Shar...

CB Police investigating threat against LC High School

Thursday evening and created a widespread panic among Bellefontaine City Schools families. Here in metro Atlanta, local law enforcement have investigated at l...

Saudi Arabia allows women to join military, promotes female to high-level post

High-profile campaign groups plan to hold protests in London next week against a visit to Britain by the powerful Saudi crown prince to raise alarm over Riyadh...

Saudi envoy invites Lebanon's Hariri to kingdom: PM office

On Monday, Hariri's media office announced that the premier has accepted an invitation to Saudi Arabia , returning for the first time to the kingdom where he...

COLLUSION CHAOS: Robert Mueller DISMISSES CHARGES Against Former Trump Insider

Trump's circle is that Mr. Gates may not have any incriminating information about the president but could be a unsafe witness against Mr. Manafort, who in turn ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault Awaits Its Millionth Crop Deposit

The Doomsday Vault , as it's been dubbed, ten years ago, and it's there on Svalbard Island (halfway between the mainland of Norway and the North Pole) to prote...

Buffon back for Italy in friendlies (2)

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has revealed that he would come out of worldwide retirement to play for Italy again. Di Biagio, whose regular role i...

Immigrants can be detained indefinitely, rules United States top court

Roughly 450,000 immigrants were jailed in detention centers at some point during the previous year, and that number will increase astronomically after yesterday...

Bill Clinton pays his respects to Billy Graham

After spending roughly 45 minutes inside the Graham childhood home with the Rev. Franklin Graham and walking the grounds of the library, Clinton addressed t...

Comcast Tops Fox's Offer to Buy British Broadcaster Sky

The situation is further complicated by a $52 billion (37.26 billion pounds) deal agreed in December 2017 by Walt Disney Co to buy Fox assets, including its 3...

Prezzo is set to close up to 100 of its restaurants

Sky News reports that the 300-strong group, which owns the eponymous Italian chain and Mexican brand Chimichanga, could shut up to a third of its sites as part...

Starbucks trials 5p cup charge in bid to tackle plastic waste problem

He points out that the chain's reusable cup discount is only taken up by 1.8 per cent of it's customers - while the mandatory 5p charge would apply to every cus...