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State Department orders evacuation of non-emergency USA government employees from Iraq

Apparently eager to squash the general's remarks, the U.S. Central Command issued astatementjust hours later disputing Ghika's comments and repeatingnational se...

Philippines recalls ambassador, consuls in Canada over garbage shipments

Locsin said the order to diminish the country's diplomatic presence in Canada was prompted by the failure of Canadian representatives to show up at a meeting wi...

American justice system ‘largely evil’, says Conrad Black after Trump’s pardon

He called it a long ordeal that was "never anything but a confluence of unlucky events, the belligerence of several corporate governance charlatans, and grandst...

Skills Over Family Ties: Trump Reportedly Plans to Unveil New Immigration Plan

Several Republican senators are expected to attend, officials said. Republicans and Democrats have fought for years about how to overhaul outdated immigrat...

Two strikes would win war with Iran: US Senator Tom Cotton

Comments by Cotton, an arch critic of the Iranian regime and the nuclear deal from which the Trump administration withdrew past year , coincide with the increa...

China's Xi Jinping urges openness amid United States trade war

Xi's speech at the regional gathering Wednesday was closely watched since it was his first address since the USA proposed billions of dollars of fresh tariffs o...

Trump grants full pardon to former newspaper publisher Conrad Black

The former media mogul, a Canadian-born British citizen, was convicted in 2007 of fraud and obstruction of justice and spent 3-1/2 years in prison. Conrad Bl...

White House Counsel: Congress Has No Right to Russia Probe 'Do-Over'

Interested in Donald Trump? "I ask that you reconsider that approach", White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter to Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N...

Trump to propose overhaul of US immigration system

A White House spokesman did not respond to requests for comment on the speech. While details of the plan have not yet been revealed, it broadly focuses on t...

Sudan military rulers, protesters agree on 3-year transition period

A witness told AFP that gunshots had been fired near the protest camp outside the army headquarters in central Khartoum. Talks between the two sides resumed...

Australian dies in Alaskan plane crash

The bodies of the missing individuals were located Tuesday night, raising the death toll to six, the Coast Guard said. The US the National Transportation Sa...

Putin says Trump phone call signals intent to rebuild relations

Lavrov however repeated Moscow's denials of interference and said it was "absolute fiction" that Russian Federation had colluded with the Trump campaign. "We'll...

North Korea Suffering Historic Drought Amid 'Severe' Food Shortage

A number of worldwide organisations, including the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), have said minor disasters, including drought, can significantly wo...

Trump to propose plan to make U.S. immigration more merit-based

President Trump on Thursday will announce his plan to revamp the legal immigration system, cutting the number of green cards doled out based on family ties and ...

PG&E lines blamed for deadliest wildfire in California history

The suit also alleges that PG&E had planned to de-energize power lines as a precaution against starting a fire but canceled those plans despite windy conditions...

16-year-old student charged as an adult in deadly school shooting

Neither Erickson nor McKinney spoke beyond quietly answering the judge with yes or no. On Thursday, a mother of a STEM student sobbed on the shoulder of an of...

Duterte allies dominate Senate midterm election in Philippines, first results show

The electoral commission said no official results can be expected before it convenes on Tuesday afternoon and final returns in all races could take days. Poll...

Donald Trump on Trade 'Squabble' with China: 'We Always Win'

As Kudlow conceded in a Fox News interview on Sunday, that is not how tariffs work. However, the Trade Representative's Office listed a further $300 billi...

Michael Wolff releasing sequel to Fire and Fury

Like the million-selling " Fire and Fury ", which came out a year ago, " Siege " promises a juicy, behind-the-scenes look at the current White House and a presi...

I would rather die than insult PM Narendra Modi`s parents: Rahul Gandhi

The Congress president while addressing the rally in Neemuch forming part of Mandsaur constituency, also took a dig at PM Modi recent suggestions in an intervie...

Citing insecurity, Washington bars all air travel between U.S. and Venezuela

Many worldwide airlines had stopped flying to Venezuela anyway because of security concerns and disputes over money they say the government owes them. The US ...

Helicopter goes down in Hudson River; pilot OK

The chopper then crashed into the water just next to the pier and the pilot climbed onto the emergency flotation pontoons, which has deployed, police said. And ...

It Would Take Two Strikes to Win War Against Iran - US Senator

Margaret Hoover , the host of PBS' Firing Line , asked Cotton during a recent interview. Relations between the two countries have been in a downward spiral. ...

Mnuchin says courts need to settle fight over Trump's taxes

Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, for Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to respond to a subpoena for six ye...

Coca-Cola Heir Arrested After $1.3M in Weed Discovered on Private Jet

David is an heir of the Leventis-David Group which holds the majority share in Coca-Cola Helenic, Europe's largest bottling company. " Jonathan Rhys Meyers...

Eddie Irvine Ferrari stolen during test drive, say German police

Officers in Dusseldorf said the vehicle was taken during a test drive on Monday. A rare Ferrari painted in bright Rossa Corsa attracts a lot of attention, and t...

Pilots confronted Boeing about 737 Max before second crash

The FAA has called a 23 May meeting of worldwide civil air regulators to Texas to discuss the FAA's process for clearing the 737 MAX to resume service. Former D...

Nebraska farmer saws off own leg with pocket knife, crawls for help

Get push notifications with news, features and more. You got to think of that'. "Then I felt it jerk me again and I thought I it was going to grab me again an...

PM: Facebook livestream crackdown 'good first step'

Facebook already restricts people from posting on the platform if they break its rules , with bans that range from a few days for people who repeatedly post sp...

Rescue underway after two trapped on lift in Oklahoma City

The lift hit part of the building and broke glass. Two men stood upright, holding on to the sides of the lift as it moved back and forth. A caller reported th...