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Nancy Pelosi Launches Impeachment On Donald Trump

Trump fired back quickly on Twitter , calling the inquiry "Witch Hunt garbage". He has acknowledged he discussed Biden in the call, but denied he withheld a...

Trump urges Modi to improve ties with Pakistan amid Kashmir dispute

He said Kashmiri youth have been picked up by police and hospitals are not functioning to provide healthcare. He said there are eleven Security Council resolu...

Pakistan's Khan Asks Trump To Restart Talks With Afghan Taliban

Describing the decision of joining the USA -led anti-terror alliance post September 11, 2001 attacks as the biggest blunder, he said that his country has lost 7...

Fox apologizes for 'disgraceful' comment about Thunberg

Political commentator Michael Knowles , appearing on Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum , said that Thunberg was "a mentally ill Swedish child who is...

House Speaker Announces Impeachment Inquiry Against Trump

Veasey, who had been reluctant to call on leaders to move forward with the inquiry, changed his mind Tuesday. The announcement from the speaker, made at a p...

Thomas Cook repatriation ramps up as dispute erupts over pay

The British government said the return of the firm's 150,000 British customers now overseas would be its largest repatriation in peacetime history. On Tuesd...

Google wins landmark 'right to be forgotten' case against France

The suit was brought against Google by France's privacy regulator CNIL , which alleged that Google was not abiding by right-to-be-forgotten laws after it onl...

Democrats 'to launch Trump impeachment inquiry'

That's something they should be looking at'. In his letters, Menendez asked for information about who chose to withhold the funds, whether Trump directed th...

US President Donald Trump learns about Don Bradman from Australian billionaire

The prime minister is just the second foreign leader to receive the high diplomatic honor of a USA state visit during Trump's administration. Musical groups fro...

Oceans, climate report approved after all-night standoff: delegates

Deadly heatwaves, bearing the hallmark of climate change and causing record high temperatures, devastating hurricanes and cyclones and severe wildfires which re...

Swedish owner of oil tanker held by Iran: ship has not moved

The Stena Impero has been kept in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas since July 19. Asked about accusations that Iran had taken the British tanker hostage, Rast...

Dutch tax deal with Starbucks is legal — European Union court

But on Tuesday the General Court, Europe's second highest court of law, declared that ruling invalid. An EU court on Tuesday annulled an order by Brussels tha...

Boeing to pay 737 MAX crash victims' families $144500 each

The money will be half of a $100 million financial assistance fund announced by Boeing in July " to address family and community needs of those affected by the ...

United Nations envoy for Syria says progress made on forming Syrian constitutional committee

The body will convene within weeks for the first time, Guterres told reporters on the sidelines of a United Nations climate summit in NY. The constitutional c...

Tech giants beef up body to fight extremist content

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube in 2017 formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, an informal alliance to deal with the most risky materi...

Killed, 13 Injured In Attack By Afghan Forces

Col. Josh Jacques, a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, said via email. He added that Helmand's provincial governor has been instructed to send an investi...

Putin to meet with Venezuelan president on September 25

Venezuela's opposition needs more support from Europe to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro , an opposition envoy said on Tuesday, accusing the governmen...

Police investigating after doctor performs abortion on wrong woman

The Vietnamese patient was 6 weeks pregnant on August 7 when she visited a Gagseo medical center for nutritional shots, according to the South Korean news agen...

President Trump issues "global call to protect religious freedom" at United Nations

Trump reimposed US sanctions past year. "Unfortunately, we regret to see the USA using religious freedom as a cover to wantonly criticize other sovereign co...

Spanish court rules in favor of moving Franco's remains

In a unanimous ruling, the court decided "to completely reject the appeal lodged by the family in relation to Francisco Franco's exhumation", the judges wrote. ...

Russian Federation takes action on United States visa denial to UNGA delegation

The chairman of the Russian Federation Council's global affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachyov, has described the US' refusal to issue entry visas to a number ...

China rejects U.S. secretary of state's criticism on Xinjiang

The spokesperson said the United Nations is a solemn platform for the global community to uphold fairness and justice. The U.S. event at the United Nations ...

Today is International Day of Sign Languages

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes and promotes the use of sign languages, spelling out that sign languages are equal in sta...

Eating meat could be banned 'to help protect planet from eco-cide'

Last year, scientists suggested imposing a meat tax in an effort to save lives . "There are plenty of things that were once commonplace that are now illegal,...

Labour would slash working week to 32 hours, pledges John McDonnell

Because of these different ways of gathering the statistics, the Eurostat data is a good source for comparing one country's working hours over time, but not so ...

Tremors across North India as quake rocks Indo-Pak border

So far, there have been no reports of any loss to life or property due to the natural disaster. The deputy commissioner AJK said that emergency has been impos...

0 quake shakes Puerto Rico; no damage immediately reported

Albert Bryan, Jr. said Monday. It is about 90 miles southwest of St. Croix and about 110 miles south of San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to the hurricane ce...

Google wins 'right-to-be-forgotten' fight with France

The ruling centres on Google's dispute with France's privacy watchdog, CNIL, which in 2015 told Google to delist information from internet search results glob...

Dutch tax deal with Starbucks is not state aid — European Union court

The judges said the Commission "was unable to demonstrate the existence of an advantage in favor of Starbucks". The Luxembourg-based General Court ruled Tuesd...

Eight babies killed in Algeria hospital fire: emergency services

Three infants died as a result of burns and the other five by asphyxiation, state news agency APS said. Dozens of fire engines were deployed to contain the fi...