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France, EU to take on United States over tariff threat on Champagne, Cheese

According to the notice , USTR determined that "France's Digital Services Tax [DST] is unreasonable or discriminatory and burdens or restricts US commerce". ...

Speaker Pelosi announces US House to draft articles of impeachment against Trump

Democrats are now keen to hold a vote by Christmas. With sombre tones, drawing on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, Ms Pelosi stood at the speaker's ...

KL ranked second best city in the world for expats

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Howard Stern Questions Hillary Clinton Over Rumored Lesbian Affair

Queer media journalist Trish Bendix told NBC she was "disappointed" by Clinton's answer to the lesbian rumors, which have been floating around for years. Stern ...

North Korea threatens to resume calling Trump ‘dotard’

The development comes as prospects dim for a resumption of nuclear diplomacy between the two countries. Trump mentioned on Tuesday he nonetheless had confiden...

U.S. President Trump says UK PM Boris Johnson "very capable"

In his letter, timed to coincide with Trump's arrival in Britain for a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit, Corbyn said revising USA negotiating objective...

United States warship in Arabian Sea seizes missile parts of suspected Iran origin

The official said this was different, citing the advanced nature of the parts. USA officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the guided missile ...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg lands in Lisbon ahead of COP25 climate summit

They chanted: "What Do We Want?" The 16-year-old has become the face of young peoples' demands for climate action and made a point of making the journey back ...

Justice Dept. charges Russian hacker behind the Dridex malware

According to the indictment unsealed Thursday, the malware deployed by Yakubets and Turashev infected tens of thousands of computers across North America and Eu...

German spy prosecutors to take over Russian killer probe

According to Bellingcat, the real identity of the man in custody is Vadim Krasikov, born in August 1965 in Soviet Kazakhstan, and not in 1970. Russian Federat...

Go-between: Only 1 Mastermind in Maltese Reporter's Murder

Muscat has said he will stand down next month after his party elects a new leader. "When Muscat is still in office, this confidence is not there", she said. He ...

Strikes set to paralyze France as protesters take to streets

As tourists cancelled travel plans, police said they would deploy thousands of extra officers across Paris to help the city cope with what is expected to be a...

Brexit Party Defectors Urge Public to Vote Tory

John Longworth, a fourth MEP, lost the whip for criticising the party's election strategy earlier this week. The four, who are among 29 Brexit Party members e...

ISRO chief claims, "Had found its orbiter before NASA..."

The images were uploaded on September 26 and Subramanian was the first person to achieve a positive identification of the Chandrayaan-2 lander. All you ...

India rape survivor set ablaze on way to court

They took her to a secluded spot, doused her with kerosene and set her ablaze. The accused men had fled by then. "Around 4:40am, we received information about...

South African Airways placed into bankruptcy protection

According to Gordhan, the move will reduce reliance on government finances and reduce the disruption of SAA services, customers and staff. SAA, which has not ...

Trump lashes out at 'fake news' after Trudeau seen mocking him

But if leaders feel they "can't talk casually among themselves without being recorded", she warned "it will make such summits even more stilted in future". In...

USA envoy on Afghanistan peace talks makes surprise stop in Kabul

In a nod to concerns raised by Ghani, the State Department voiced support for a ceasefire - which the Taliban have long rejected and did not figure in a draft a...

New Zealand to ban big foreign political donations

Speaking on the move, Justice Minister Andrew Little said that it was aimed at protecting New Zealand's democracy from a growing worldwide threat. "New Zealand ...

Desmond Tutu: A life in pictures

The Nobel laureate had largely withdrawn from the public eye, until recently when he met with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and their newborn Archie during the ...

Extinction Rebellion Protesters Glue Themselves to Lib Dem Electric Election Bus

The Lib Dem leader added: "Some cuts were necessary but the shape of those cuts and certainly the balance between cuts and tax rises I don't think was the right...

Plane Crash in South Dakota - 9 People Were Killed

The survivors of Saturday's crash in a cornfield near Chamberlain are being treated at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls. Family representative Jeff...

Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha: I dont eat a lot of onion

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is facing social media roasting after she made seemingly freakish comments inside the parliament to justify the price ris...

NASA satellite finds Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander, Chennai techie credited for find

Earlier this morning, a tweet by Chennai-based engineer Shanmuga Subramanian went viral. He warned NASA and photographed the area in detail, proving tha...

This decade set to be hottest in history, United Nations says

As you know, the climate conference in Madrid, it is planned to discuss the implementation of the terms of the Paris agreement on climate protection, signed i...

Toronto's medical officer of health wants to change rules on vaping

The report also recommends the federal government should ban the sale of flavoured vaping products in retail outlets accessible to minors and set a limit on nic...

Police searching Outback for missing woman find body

Phu Tran was missing in the NT outback for 14 days. Ms Hockridge was travelling with South Australian man Phu Tran and another woman by the name of Tamra Mc...

France readies for massive transport strike on Thursday

The strike will disrupt train, bus and airline services. In Paris, where labor unions plan a march on Thursday, police warned Wednesday of possible violence a...

HRW: Bangladesh denying education to Rohingya refugee children

Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission Chief Mahbub Alam Talukder said it was untrue that children in the camps were not being educated and th...

TikTok admits early anti-bullying efforts were ‘blunt’ and ‘wrong’

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . TikTok has admitted that in its early days it censored posts by users it deemed "vulnerable" in a misgu...