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In Bogota a bomb exploded in a shopping center

The blast hit the Centro Andino Mall in the Zona Rosa neighbourhood of the Colombian capital on Saturday afternoon local time. Three people including a young ...

Britain, EU to begin Brexit negotiations Monday

And just over a month ago, Mr Davis said dealing with the issue of how the talks would unfold would be the "row of the summer ". Officials have made clear th...

Canada to Increase Military Spending 70 Percent in 10 Years

Much of what Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan outlined on Wednesday is welcome news, both for the military and for anyone who believes Canada should have the ...

Sheriff Clarke Won't Take DHS Post

It is not clear how Clarke will continue to serve Trump now, but the pair met June 13 to discuss other roles, the Washington Post reports . In May 2017 Clarke ...

Fabulous Faedo: Florida's ace stymies TCU in 3-0 CWS victory

Faedo went 7-2 with a 2.55 ERA and led the SEC with 135 strikeouts in 109 1/3 innings. The question is whether everything will come together to help the program...

Brexit Talks Begin With Tight Schedule Set and Divorce-Bill Disagreement

After the Conservatives lost their majority in the House of Commons in the 8 June general election , prompting calls for May to soften her line on Brexit ...

Saudi Arabia says it disrupts attack on offshore oil field

Qatar denies any such support for extremists. Last week, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called for a permanent mechanism in the Gulf to resolv...

Supreme Court rules sex offenders can use social media

The trademark case , Matal v. Tam (No. 15-1293), stemmed from an Asian-American dance-rock band's efforts to trademark its name-The Slants-which the band int...

Iran Says It Fired Missiles at Terror Bases in Eastern Syria

The Revolutionary Guards vowed last week that "the spilling of any innocent blood" will not go unanswered as it blamed Saudi Arabia for the twin attacks. ...

Commander Says Iran One of World's Major Missile Powers

Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad , called on the USA military to provide a full accounting as to why it made a decision to shoot down the Sy...

After being accused for Gulf crisis, Trump now offers to resolve it

On Monday, Saudi Arabia , Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and embargoed all sea, air and land traffic to the country. Qatar Ai...

BJP names Ram Nath Kovind presidential candidate

The Left parties said the Opposition will field a candidate after a meeting on Thursday. Shah also said that Congress President Sonia Gandhi had told him ...

Trump blames North Korea's 'brutal regime' for student's death

Scans showed extensive loss in all regions of Warmbier's brain, doctors said. Warmbier had not spoken or moved in any purposeful way since his return, a c...

London Mayor Calls On Gov't To Cancel Trump's State Visit

They're not even sparing him at a fragile time of a terror attack, when the last thing Londoners want is to doubt their own mayor. White House spokeswoman Sar...

German minister sees hope of 'soft' Brexit

The UK General Election will have left Theresa May and Brexit negotiators floundering in the run up to today's initial meetings and how Britain will be ...

Finsbury Park Mosque attack suspect held on terrorism offences

Several people were injured in north London early on Monday after a van rammed into worshippers leaving a mosque, witnesses said , in what British police d...

Imam praised for saving life of suspect in London mosque attack

Scotland Yard said searches were also being carried out at a property in Cardiff. Police say one person died when a van hit crowd of worshippers in north...

Grenfell Tower: 79 presumed dead in London fire

Britain's police commander says the search may take months and hopes death toll not in "triple figures". Eleanor Kelly, chief executive of Southwark Council, ...

Pakistan pays India back in same coin in Champions trophy final

Pakistan piled up an impressive 338 for four after being put in to bat and India's much-vaunted top order of Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Kohli were blow...

Technology CEOs urged to join Trump initiative

President Donald Trump's newly-formed American Technology Council will meet Monday for the first time . Kushner praised Department of Veterans Affairs ...

Champions Trophy: Sarfraz Ahmed wants cricket to return to Pakistan

In Kashmir - a disputed region over which India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars since independence - the sporting celebrations swiftly sparke...

Opposition's views taken into account in picking Kovind: Naidu

Modi said:"I am sure Shri Ram Nath Kovind will make an exceptional President & continue to be a strong voice for the poor, downtrodden & marginalised". "Just ...

Several Casualties Reported as Vehicle Strikes Pedestrians in North London

The London police are also investigating whether the person who died was actually killed in the attack . Police are carrying out searches at an address in ...

London mosque attack leaves one dead and several injured

One neighbour, who did not give her name, said she knew Osborne's mother but "did not know Darren at all". Police in the United Kingdom are investigating po...

Finsbury Park Terror Suspect Held In Headlock By Potential Victims

London police chief Cressida Dick said the incident was "quite clearly an attack on Muslims " and promised a stepped-up police presence near mosques as th...

BC legislature returns June 22, confidence vote on Clark's Liberals expected

The B.C. Liberals won 43 seats in the May 9 election, with the B.C. NDP winning 421 and B.C. Greens three. "So here we are today, 2017, with a couple of years b...

Ram Nath Kovind, a lawyer who cracked civils but lost 2 elections

The house of the Dalit leader is being looked after by a caretaker as his family is in Raj Bhavan, Patna . BJP chief Shah said the party's parliamentary boar...

Tensions Rise in Syria as Russia, Iran Send US Warnings

Frants Klintsevich, deputy head of the defense committee in Russia's upper house of parliament, said the defense ministry statement does not mean there will b...

At least 18 killed in Mogadishu restaurant attack

A suicide auto bombing and assault by al-Shabaab militants on two neighbouring restaurants in Somalia's capital Mogadishu ended Thursday morning with 18 dead,...

Troop plan for Afghanistan seeks to regain battlefield edge

It follows Trump's move to give Mattis the authority to set troop levels and seeks to address assertions by the top USA commander in Afghanistan that he d...