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Trump responds to leak of off-the-record comments in Bloomberg News interview

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China's President Xi pledges another $60 billion for Africa

Dr Moyo said this meant relations between the two had reached a level of corporate and financial trust that made Harare and Beijing close partners in developm...

Mysterious 'ghost ship' reappears after 9yrs lost at sea

Off the southern coast of Myanmar ran aground in the Andaman sea, a cargo ship without crew, went missing in 2009. The fishermen boarded and inspected the shi...

Philippine leader Duterte eyes arms trade on visit to Israel

Duterte's visit has generated much attention, powered both by his penchant for foul-mouthed statements - including likening himself to Hitler - and his internat...

Ugandan opposition lawmaker arrives in the US for medical treatment

On demands by the police to have Bobi Wine and Zaake subjected to medical tests in a government facility, Ms Kyagulanyi vehemently downplayed it arguing that th...

Hot and humid Labor Day Weekend

High temperatures will reach into the low to mid 80s inland, upper 70s along the immediate coastline due to a seabreeze developing by the afternoon. There is ...

Meghan McCain Takes Aim At Trump In Eulogy For John McCain

McCain's presidential send-off was a multi-day, cross-country affair, beginning with a procession in his home state, moving to Washington , D.C., and then ta...

Amber Alert issued for boys, father after Phoenix killings

Police said the person of interest is the boys' biological father, Dimas Coronado, 47. The mother and a man were both killed according to police who identifie...

Father of slain Iowa student decries using her as ‘pawn’

Since authorities announced on August 22 that Cristhian Bahena Rivera , a farm worker from Mexico, was charged with first-degree murder in her death, politic...

John McCain: Remembering a political friend, foe, and father

So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse, can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult, in phony controversies and...

Father, 3 Children Die After Kayak Capsizes; Mother Rescued

The deceased children were ages 3, 6 and 9 years old. The mother was rescued. The shortest distance between the islands is 3 miles. When the kayak had capsize...

Trump warns Congress not to 'interfere' with NAFTA negotiations

On Friday, Trump informed Congress of his intention to sign a bilateral trade deal with Mexico, but it could be hard to win approval from Congress unless Canada...

Two Reuters reporters convicted in landmark secrets case

Press freedom advocates, the United Nations, the European Union and countries including the United States, Canada and Australia had called for the Reuters journ...

President Trump responds to Meghan McCain's funeral speech dig

People also noted that the senator's daughter Meghan McCain took a strong jab at the president while his daughter was in attendance. "We gather to mourn t...

Activists raise thousands for anti-Ted Cruz billboard featuring Trump tweets

Though Cruz and Trump have had a tense relationship, the president has endorsed the senator and vowed to campaign for him. Hogg also tweeted the numerous anti...

Brazil court bars ex-prez Lula from running for another term

The court held the hearing through the night. In a session that stretched into the early hours of Saturday, the justices voted 6-1 against the once hugely pop...

John McCain buried at Naval Academy next to lifelong friend

McCain, who died August 25 aged 81 after a year-long struggle against brain cancer, was interred in a private ceremony in the academy's grassy cemetery overl...

Shooting breaks out at California's Del Mar race track

Video posted to Twitter appears to show a man surrounded by two deputies and holding a handgun in the air. The San Diego County Sheriff's Department said a ma...

John McCain was 'a friend to Canada' says Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan

John McCain on Saturday the camera caught former President George W. Bush passing what has been reported as a candy to former First Lady Michelle Obama. Othe...

Brett Kavanaugh has Democrats in 'nuclear option' regret

Democrats have tried - unsuccessfully - to delay the Kavanaugh hearings , citing everything from Michael Cohen accusing Trump of criminal wrongdoing in court t...

Giant flames tear through National Museum in Rio de Janeiro

More than 20 million items are stored within the museum's collection, including the fossilized remains of "Luzia", the oldest human fossil found in Brazil . '2...

Libya declares state of emergency in Tripoli

Tripoli has been at the center of Libya's seven-year conflict, which began with an uprising that overthrew and killed longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi. The Unit...

Nicaragua orders expulsion of UN human rights delegation

The letter was released by the UNHCHR and posted on the regional U.Sl website. Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks to supporters in Managua, Nicaragua...

Hitler-saluting skinheads stage another protest in Germany

Police said they were investigating if the perpetrators counted among the demonstrators. Clashes were averted September 1, as police kept the rival protests f...

Theresa May says there will be no second vote on Brexit

With under two months before Britain and the EU want to agree to a deal to end over 40 years of union, May is struggling to sell what she calls her business-fri...

Trump says 'no political necessity' to keep Canada in NAFTA

Congress as well", he wrote in an email. American and Canadian negotiators will return to negotiations on Wednesday. President Trump on Saturday tweeted t...

Sleeping 11-year-old raped in Brooklyn

No charges have been filed. Then he raped the girl in her own bed. They pulled out the scrawny, hunched man, who was seen handcuffed and dressed in filthy b...

Trump to headline ‘major rally’ for one-time rival Ted Cruz

The Hill reports that USA Lantinx put up a GoFundMe page to raise the money for the billboard . Cruz had said he wouldn't be surprised if Trump campaigned...

United States military confirms $300m cut in aid to Pakistan

But US officials accuse Pakistani officials of ignoring or even collaborating with groups that launch operations into Afghanistan from safe havens along the cou...

Trump Foundation lawyer asks judge to dismiss lawsuit

In Thursday night court filings, a lawyer for Trump said Attorney General Barbara Underwood's lawsuit was part of her office's mission to "lead the resistance...