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June 26 is a public holiday - Interior Ministry

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New Cowboy Martin to miss Penrith NRL game

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London fire: 79 people feared dead, five victims have been identified

London police said Monday there are now 79 people presumed dead from last week's fire at a public housing building. The cause of Wednesday's blaze is sti...

Daesh-linked militants hole up in school in Philippines

The municipal and provincial police offices, corroborated by the office of Pigcawayan Mayor Eliseo Garcesa Jr., said no hostage-taking took place, even as the...

Russia investigation: Attorney General Rosenstein might recuse himself

In a message that journalists and political observers say looks like a shocking attack by a sitting president on his own Justice Department , President Donald...

Trump's new idea a 'solar wall' on Mexican border

The possibility of placing solar panels on the wall is already circulating in Washington , as President spoke about it during a private meeting with the group ...

Gunman who shot US Congressman had a hit list

He said the officers "might have put the guy down quicker if they had been able to use a long gun instead of just pistols". Vice President Mike Pence earlie...

Public funeral planned for US student freed from North Korea

In a news conference before Warmbier's death , they said they could not speculate on the cause of his condition. "We can not know for sure that North Korea k...

Police raid home of Brussels attack suspect

He said there were more explosives that the suspect carried into the station than the small detonation that alerted the patrolling military to the man before th...

North Korea releases detained U.S. student: How is he doing?

Otto Warmbier , 22, returned home to OH on Tuesday after being jailed in the communist state for more than 17 months following months of covert diplomacy led by...

Darjeeling Gorkha separatists clash with police

Kiran Tamang, an officer of the Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) was critically injured in the violence, while the GJM claimed four of its supporters were kil...

INEC notifies Melaye, begins verification

He said while it was normal for people to think that the governor had a hand in the recall brouhaha, in reality the governor was not involved because he is not ...

Ivanka Trump to talk workforce issues with lawmakers

Also attending were Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Sen. Lamar Smith of Texas and Trent Franks and David Schweikert of Arizona. Marco Rubio , R-Florida, left ...

International Yoga Day: Jawans perform yoga at Ladakh in -25°C weather

He said Yoga's popularity is high even outside India; and Yoga has connected the world with India. Twenty students from India's Morarji Desai Institute, who h...

Anger over Warmbier death grows amid calls for travel ban

Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner while visiting with a tour group and was convicted of subversion....

Protesters of Castile shooting largely cleared from freeway

It was the first time in the history of the state that a police officer was charged in a fatal shooting that happened on duty. The shooting gained particu...

Darjeeling shutdown continues, GJM holds protest rally

In another false alarm, this time raised by the CM no less; Banerjee claimed that protesters were threatening journalists to show certain clips and that some of...

Oil slump hits Asian stocks, eclipsing MSCI's A-share inclusion

Luxembourg will be a centre of reference for investors looking to gain access to China's equity markets after the MSCI made a decision to include China A-Sh...

Murder of teenage Muslim girl in U.S. sparks outrage

The man left the auto and assaulted the girl, they said. Hassanen's mother, Sawsan Gazzar, told the Washington Post that her daughter was hit with a metal b...

Cuban Ambassador to the US Criticizes President Trump's Policy Rollbacks

Cubans said they were crestfallen to be returning to an era of frostier relations with the US as the news spread that US President Donald Trump was set to rev...

Hezbollah sets up border posts under guise of NGO

One showed a pair of uniformed men climbing onto a watchtower. "Recent IDF intelligence has found Hezbollah operating out of outposts marked with the logo of ...

United States military confirms airstrikes killed 2 Afghan soldiers

The shooting took place in the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangahar province, where a security official said the gunman was killed by USA troops. Be...

North Korea Officials Say Otto Warmbier Was Released for Humanitarian Reasons

Otto Warmbier's parents , Fred and Cindy, are scheduled to speak to reporters at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) at their son's former high school in the Cincinnati s...

Public vigil for Nabra Hassanen Wednesday in Reston

Fairfax County officials say they do not believe the case will be treated as a federal hate crime, although they have not ruled out the possibility. "We are sti...

Turkish FM holds talks in Kuwait over Gulf crisis

The Pentagon indicated in its statement that the new weapons deal, which includes the sale of F-15 fighter jets, will increase security cooperation between th...

United Nations praises Ethiopia for its refugee handling

There are now 1.4 million South Sudanese refugees overseas, along with 1.9 million internally displaced people . "This equates to one person becoming disp...

US Sends Supersonic Bombers in Show of Force Against North Korea

A U.S. B-1B bomber, right, flew over Osan Air Base, in September 2016, with a US fighter jet in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. China is the North's only major trading...

Qatar, US sign $12B deal on purchase of F-15 jet fighters

A $ 12 billion deal to buy Boeing F-15 U.S. fighter jets shows Qatar has deep-rooted support from Washington, a Qatari official said on Thursday, adding ...

Chances Of Trump Meeting North Korea's Kim Narrowing - White House

The South Korean government will make every effort for the return of those held in North Korea, presidential spokesman Park Soo-hyun told a briefing. Moon was...

Man sets fire to memorial of slain Virginia teen Nabra Hassanen

An attendee leaves flowers for Nabra Hassanen , a teenage Muslim girl killed by a bat-wielding motorist near a Virginia mosque, during a vigil in New York Ci...