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Saudi Arabia ends major anti-corruption campaign

The crackdown on graft launched in 2017 saw hundreds of elite princes, ministers and businessmen held at the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Saudi capital R...

Sen. Rand Paul awarded $580,000 as result of attack by neighbor

According to testimony from Boucher's lawyer during the trial, Boucher raked a pile of leaves along the dividing line between he and his neighbor's lawn the da...

Sen. Graham Demands Answers From FBI on Roger Stone Raid

Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., in questioning the amount of force used in arresting the 66-year-old Stone at his home , given that he was not deemed a flight risk an...

Russian Lawmaker Arrested During Parliament Session In Murder Probe

It started as a normal morning in the upper house of Russia's parliament, as a rubber stamp body for the Kremlin packed with wealthy members. Other Upper Ho...

As many as 130 migrants feared drowned in shipwrecks off Djibouti

Local police had found five bodies and search efforts were underway, the United Nations statement said. IOM staff identified an 18-year-old male survivor beli...

Hodeidah truce, prisoner swap timelines pushed back

Clashes have erupted since last week between the Houthi rebels, who control the city, and pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition, threatening to ...

Mueller evidence used in disinformation campaign

In Wednesday's filings, Mueller called out Prigozhin in the most explicit terms yet for trying to have his cake and eat it too by hiring lawyers to defend his c...

Anastasia Vashukevich: Belarusian model told to stay quiet about billionaire affair

The model, Anastasia Vashukevich , was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport last Thursday on prostitution allegations after being deported from Thailan...

No Proof Writer's Detention In China Due To Canadian Arrests: Australia

While Australian warships and aircraft have travelled through the area and conducted joint exercises, the government has not sent a ship within 12 nautical mile...

Roger Stone's Instagram account posts weird meme hours after indictment

At one time, he was in business with another important Trump world figure, onetime 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort , who has since become a cooperating ...

Wife of jailed Bahraini footballer begs Thai PM for his release

And the campaign to get the refugee footballer released continues. In a letter to his Thai counterpart Prayuth Chan-ocha, Mr Morrison is believed to have poin...

Russia Warns: Foreign Interference in Venezuela 'Direct Path to Bloodshed'

In addition, Trump has not ruled out the military option. Despite of Maduro's strong response, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said late Wednesday that ...

McConnell pushes back against Syria, Afghanistan troop withdrawl

Trump also has ordered the military to develop plans to remove up to half of the 14,000 US forces in Afghanistan. McConnell said he would introduce the amendm...

Hundreds of schools to shut as toxic smog cloaks Bangkok

The measures so far have drawn derision from many Bangkok residents, while stocks of pollution masks have run out in many shops. "We made a decision to elim...

Taoiseach to speak to British PM following Commons vote

The Commons library note states that "if the UK's domestic legislation contained provisions for a time-limited backstop , but the European Union ratified an un...

Weekend winter storm to sweep across Midwest into Northeast

Lake effect snow will help enhance the amounts that Milwaukee and Chicago could see through the weekend. Ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch are al...

Top Vatican official resigns, denies allegations of advances

An Austrian priest and theologian has resigned from his position at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), amid charges that he made sexual advan...

Weather warning for snow issued for Warwickshire

It added: 'A chance of injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces. Benton, in Oxfordshire, and Santon Downham, Suffolk, are among parts of England which co...

Philippine church bombing kills at least 19

We, Catholic Bishops gathered in our Plenary Assembly in Manila , received today the sad news from Fr. Romeo S. Saniel, OMI, Apostolic Administrator of Jolo, o...

30000 flee Nigeria as troops abandon them to Boko Haram

Many civilians were feared killed and dozens missing after Boko Haram insurgents attacked Ran of Kala-Balge Local Government Area of Borno State yesterday. Im...

Trump lifts Rusal sanctions as Putin ally Oleg Deripaska cuts stake

This move "ensures that the majority of directors on the En+ and Rusal boards will be independent directors - including US and European persons - who have no bu...

Washington baker says "Build that Wall" cookie was a joke

Ken Bellingham, the owner of Edmonds Bakery, says he works hard every year to make sure his cookies are memorable. The wall refers to President Donald Trump's s...

Dixon Public Schools close from Tuesday to Thursday due to weather

Bitterly cold temperatures were set to move in after the storm. In more rural areas, school districts have to consider where students live and the types of cond...

FBI doesn't find motive for Vegas mass shooting

The FBI findings made public Tuesday come more than a year after the October 1, 2017, massacre at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Paddock, wh...

United Nations rights envoy at Saudi consulate in Istanbul for Khashoggi

Callamard , a French academic who is director of the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Department at Columbia University in NY, reports to the U.N. Riyadh, ...

Trump longtime ally Stone arrested in US Special Counsel probe

For his part, Stone, viewing Trump as a larger-than-life figure "who's got it all" - charisma, wealth, standing - pressed Trump to run for president. Stone wa...

Lyft rider stabbed pregnant driver, stole her vehicle, drove nearly 150 miles

Durazo is reportedly a former student at Arizona State University. The suspect, identified on Monday as 20-year-old Fabian Durazo , was taken into custo...

Schumer: Stacey Abrams To Deliver Dems' State Of The Union Response

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters on Tuesday that he had asked Abrams to deliver the rebuttal three weeks ago. 'I was delighted when she agr...

Ocasio-Cortez Slams Tech Giants Over Climate Denial at Conference

One of the other notable backers was CO2 Coalition , a conservative think tank founded in 2015 that was handing out brochures at the event to "explain how our...

Facebook tightens paid ads rules ahead of EU elections

The pledges came amid increased pressure on the social network from regulators and the public after it emerged past year that British consultancy Cambridge Anal...