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French President Macron considers banning protests on Champs Elysees

Nationwide, protesters were estimated at 32,300, compared with 28,600 last week. Mr Macron, 41, waited throughout a day dominated by rioting before deciding.....

Trump Renews Attacks on the Late McCain for Leaking Fake Dossier

Trump denies this. Some of the allegations were contained in a dossier that was extremely salacious and never verified publicly. Trump mocked McCain for being...

Christchurch shooting: NSW Counter-terrorism police raid raid

The proposed changes will be announced before the cabinet meets again next week. The teen faces two charges: one of sharing the live-stream and a second for...

Canadian Businessman Pleads Not Guilty in Admissions Scam

David Sidoo entered the plea in a Boston courthouse on Friday. In statements this week, Sidoo's legal team has maintained their client - a recognized phila...

Hold the cake! Fans honour Ginsburg's birthday with exercise

On Friday evening, fans filled the sidewalk in front of the court and sang "Happy Birthday" while holding the plank. Ginsburg's trainer, Bryant Johnson, led the...

Ocasio-Cortez does push-ups to pass time during 'boring' hearing recess

Ocasio-Cortez and several of her allies were accused this week by a conservative group of improperly masking political spending during the 2018 campaign. The pu...

Dead Philippines whale had 40kg of plastic in stomach

Blatchley said the whale died because of dehydration and starvation due to plastic ingestion. The problem also plagues the archipelago's neighbours, with a sp...

Appeal for help finding missing woman last seen in Carlingford

A search and rescue operation by the Irish Coastguard, Rescue 116 helicopter and Kilkeel lifeboat was launched around the southern end of Carlinford Lough on Su...

US denies report it is leaving up to 1000 troops in Syria

The Trump administration's talks with Turkey, European allies and US-backed Kurdish fighters haven't resulted in an agreement to create a safe zone in the count...

Trump supports public release of the Mueller reprort

The president also suggested the vote makes all Republicans look good, and it essentially doesn't matter. Since the measure is nonbinding, Mueller , Barr and...

Philippines leaves International Criminal Court as it probes Duterte's drugs crackdown

That is why worldwide human rights group Amnesty global is calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to launch a probe into the spate of killings lin...

New Zealand's Black Power perform emotional haka in tribute

Sunday's vigil was one of several events that attracted thousands across the country. Surrounded by dozens of other mourners and facing the many flowers left ...

Utrecht: Several hurt as man opens fire in tram

Several injured people reported. Assistance started", the Utrecht police Twitter account said. "It is a shooting incident in a tram". Three helicopters were d...

Three teenagers dead after crush at Greenvale Hotel St Patrick's Day disco

Local lawmaker Patsy McGlone told CNN teenagers had been holding a St. Patrick's Day party at the hotel. A huge police presence as well as five ambulances wer...

Republicans link Beto O'Rourke's Irishness to his drunk driving arrest

The Republican National Committee's official Twitter account posted presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's DUI mugshot from his 1999 arrest, captioned it with "...

Hong Kong faces commuter chaos after rare train collision

Photos released by the MTR show the front of one of the trains titled to one side and the interiors of the trains badly mangled. Shattered glass was strewn acro...

'Suspicious package' shutters New Zealand's Dunedin airport say police

The airport in Dunedin, New Zealand has been closed following a report of a suspicious package on the airfield, law enforcement officials said. "Inquiries...

Israeli Murdered, Two Critically Injured in West Bank Terror Shooting

Another soldier was severely wounded from gunfire, the army said. An Israeli civilian, 47 year-old Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger from the settlement of Eli was critica...

Australian senator punches 17-year-old after being egged

Below are links to ways you can show support for the Australian Muslim community, the city of Christchurch and victims of the attacks. Despite the motion,...

Indian-origin people missing after New Zealand shootings that killed 49

As the New York Times reports , police have taken three men and one woman into custody in relation to the attack; one of the men has already been charged with m...

Christchurch mosque shootings: New Zealand mourns

Nayab Khan, 22, cries at a vigil to mourn for the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks in New Zealand, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia...

Mosque massacre gunman's family: 'We're all gobsmacked'

Tarrant is expected to appear in court again on April 5. But he returned home a year ago for the birthday of his sister, and Fitzgerald said there were no sig...

McCain associate was key contact with reporters on Steele dossier

David Kramer , a former State Department official, said in a deposition on December 13, 2017 that he provided a copy of Christopher Steele's dossier to reporter...

Quake kills 2 on Indonesia's Lombok Island

At least two people have been killed in Indonesia after a 5.5 magnitude natural disaster triggered a landslide from the second highest volcano in the country. T...

Former VP Joe Biden slips, calls himself presidential candidate

He then promptly corrected himself, adding, "Anybody who would run". During the rest of his speech, he sounded very much like a candidate-in-waiting. "I'm tol...

Anti-graft campaigner Caputova leads Slovak presidential election first round

Polls show the ruling Smer party-backed candidate, European Union commissioner Maros Sefcovic, is trailing far behind Caputova. The 45-year-old environmental an...

Kirsten Gillibrand in 2020 race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Gillibrand, 52, has not seen great improvement in her polling numbers increase since her initial announcement, a benefit some oppone...

North Carolina man wanted for wife’s murder caught in Arizona

Almost a week after 38-year-old emergency room nurse Diana Alejandra Keel was reported missing , authorities said they have found her body and her husband is w...

Serbian protesters storm offices of public broadcaster in Belgrade

Skirmishes with riot police were reported, including officers firing teargas against the protesters who sought to form a human chain around the presidency to pr...

Thousands expected to attend annual St. Patrick’s Day parade

More than 470 landmarks in 56 countries, ranging from museums and towers to statues and stadiums, are being illuminated in green to coincide with the Irish nati...