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Labour EU election candidates call for Brexit poll pledge

Nigel Farage's newly formed party took 28 per cent of the vote in a YouGov poll of 5,420 people, more than double the support for the Tories, who are on 13 per ...

Mozambique: Rains prompt flooding fears after Cyclone Kenneth

One woman stood, seemingly stunned, as the rain pounded down. Tropical Cyclone Kenneth tore through the Comoro Islands and Mozambique last week, damaging ...

Gardaí investigating alleged attack on taxi driver

Footage of the incident first surfaced on Twitter over the weekend. "I don't understand what you mean by my favourite position", the driver responds. A video ...

Brigham Young University Valedictorian Matt Easton Comes Out During Speech

I am not broken. "If someone's afraid or anxious about their sexuality, it's a question that they should seriously consider before attending BYU". I don't thi...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hands in his resignation

US Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein has submitted his resignation to the White House, effective from May 11, in the latest in a series of administration...

Video shows crane collapse that killed 4 in Seattle

An observation station on nearby Lake Union showed winds kicked up with gusts of up to 23 miles per hour at 3:28 p.m., just about the time the crane fell. Wit...

Mozambique gets US$13 million for Cyclone Kenneth damage from UN

Heavy rain battered northern Mozambique on Monday as residents and relief workers confronted the widespread devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth, the stronges...

Deputy US Attorney-General to quit

Interested in Trump Administration? According to the letter he will leave his post on May 11. Rosenstein meant to leave around mid-March but stayed on fo...

Ex-Army soldier arrested in terror plot targeting multiple Southern California sites

Mark Steven Domingo , 26, was arrested Friday night after he received what he believed was a live pressure cooker bomb as part of an Federal Bureau of Investiga...

New York Times blames ‘single editor’ for anti-Semitic cartoon

Israeli cartoonist Shay Charka also took aim at the global controversy, publishing a counter-illustration depicting the newspaper as a blind person being led by...

Fire that released sulfuric acid at zinc plant is contained

A mandatory evacuation zone has been established within a half mile (0.8 km) of the fire due to the poisoned air. The burning plant, formerly known as the Hor...

Scottish oil worker kidnapped from Nigerian rig

Abubakar said: "At about 8 a.m. on April 27, some gunmen visited the rig belonging to NDPR and carried out the attack and they kidnapped two expatriates". The N...

Indonesia approves plan to move capital out of Jakarta

The world's fourth most populous country Indonesia looks set to move its capital city away from flood-prone, sinking and overcrowded Jakarta to elsewhere on t...

Trump mocks 'Sleepy Joe' ahead of Biden's Pennsylvania rally

People in western Pennsylvania "really have believed over the decline of the steel industry here in this great city that they have been forgotten by their polit...

Faltering Brexit talks limp on amid U.K. political impasse

Jo Swinson claims voting for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour is a vote for Brexit. That said, don't hold your breath hoping for a compromise to come along. Conservati...

Big Ben runner has bad time at end of London Marathon

The 30-year-old's costume, which stretched close to five feet tall, got caught on the overhead scoreboard he was trying to run under. But Lukas came unstuck e...

United States is already sending migrants to sanctuary cities

In a rally in Green Bay, Wis., Saturday night, Trump admitted he came up with the idea to exact revenge on political enemies. "Now, we're sending many of them t...

IS chief Baghdadi appears on video for first time in five years

Eisenhower (CVN 69)", Lt. Chloe Morgan, US Naval Forces Central Command spokesperson, told AFP in an email. The timing of the video, which was released Monday...

Taiwan reports voyage of 2 USA warships through Taiwan Strait

The ships sailed from the south to the north through the waterway that divides Taiwan from mainland China, the ministry said. Taiwan's Defense Ministry said t...

Scotland pushes for independence amid Brexit uncertainty

Freeman laid out her vision for an independent Scotland with dignity and compassion at its heart, and announced targeting £70m of additional investment in impro...

'A vote for Labour is a vote for Brexit,' claim Liberal Democrats

That said , don't hold your breath hoping for a compromise to come along. However Labour's election coordinator Andrew Gwynne said on the same programme th...

Irish Accent Named The Third Sexiest In The World

The poll was conducted by the "Big Seven Travel" website ranking the top 50 accents worldwide. The "Newzild" dialect is outrageously charming. The Malaysian a...

Boy Who Escaped Stolen Car With Sister Hailed As A Hero

Local police will recognise eight-year-old Chance for his bravery and quick-thinking rescuing his sister from a stolen auto. "This little guy is a hero". Now,...

Ocasio-Cortez says fellow Democrat is creepy

Ocasio-Cortez hopped on Twitter to condemn the tweet from the Kentucky GOP, but not because of the content. "What was the point of you bringing this up on na...

Bernie Sanders campaign hosting 5,000 house parties for supporters

Sanders lead Democrats in social media interactions but trailed far behind President Donald Trump. Melissa Morales, a Sanders' supporter, though said she be...

More than 270 election staff died from fatigue

More than 270 election workers in Indonesia have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions of ballot papers by ...

Afghan Peace to Boost China-Funded Regional Connectivity Effort

President Ashraf Ghani is hosting a grand council of some 2,500 prominent figures on Monday, to agree on a shared approach to peace talks with the Taliban. "Pak...

WestJet suspends some routes due to Boeing 737 Max grounding

In a statement Sunday, Southwest said that the safety feature was "depicted to us by Boeing as operable on all Max aircraft". Southwest Airlines says the B...

Israel to Free 2 Prisoners After Getting Soldier's Remains From Syria

An Israeli official, speaking to the AFP news agency on condition of anonymity, said Israel agreed to release the prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" after the re...

Former Sen. Richard Lugar dies at age 87

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