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Philippines' Duterte says chat with Xi was at Trump's request

Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., asked Trump to rescind a White House invitation, saying Duterte's human rights records should disqualify him, according to The Wash...

UP DGP visits Saharanpur after clash, says no one fled from village

Apart from the two incidents, the teams will also review law and order situation in Saharanpur range which includes Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts. Uttar Pr...

83 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria have been released

Earlier reports said up to 50 girls had been freed. A military and a civilian militia source in Banki, near the border with Cameroon, said "at least 80" girls...

Scott McLaughlin claims lights-to-flag victory at Barbagallo

But on the day the Red Bull Holden Racing Team driver had no answer to the pace of the DJR Team Penske Falcons. DJR Team Penske's refreshed Falcons have out-p...

Defense Secretary James Mattis in Israel: Iran Deal 'Still Stands'

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Frday characterized North Korea's recent threats of war as provocative but said they have proven to be empty in the past and...

Afghan forces fire on census workers, killing 9

QUETTA , Pakistan (AP) - At least five Afghan checkpoints near the border with Pakistan were destroyed and 50 security forces killed in fighting in recent days,...

Trump confused why American Civil War was fought

Trump for an article that was published on Sunday in The Washington Examiner . "He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil...

Trump to NRA crowd: 'Assault' on 2nd Amendment is over

But now that there is a "true friend" of the NRA in the Oval Office, gun sales (based on Federal Bureau of Investigation background checks) appear to be slumpi...

Le Pen claims 'massive' gains but says party needs major change

Addressing supporters at a small venue on the eastern edge of Paris , she said she had called Mr Macron to congratulate him, adding, pointedly, that the French...

Israeli ministers move to demote Arabic language

Israeli news media outlet Haaretz asserted, however, that the bill would not result in democracy becoming an ancillary to the Jewish nature of Israel's cultur...

Israel lashes out over "systematic harassment" at UN

In December 2016, the UN Security Council adopted a historic resolution that condemns Israeli settlement activities as a "flagrant violation of global law". T...

Euro, shares rally on relief as Macron wins French presidency

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives won a decisive victory in a vote in Germany's northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, boosting her prospects ...

Woman allegedly harasses Muslim shopper at Trader Joe's

However, in video footage taken at a Trader Joe's supermarket in Reston, in the USA state of Virginia, after cutting ahead the woman tells the unidentified vict...

'Very good' chance for Israel-Palestine peace

Those parameters will likely not sit well with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who visited the White House back in February. "Over my lifetime, I've...

Senator Franken Demands Answers on Russian Federation from FBI Director Comey

Weiner was being investigated separately for possible inappropriate communications with a minor. "Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to October 28...

North Korea threatens to sink United States aircraft carrier with single strike

Last year, US Marines lost five of the aircraft to crashes that killed three pilots. The aircraft carrier had canceled a scheduled visit to Australia to diver...

Sacked AAP minister Kapil Mishra seeks lie-detector test

Not even his worst enemies can believe that". He also alleged that Jain has settled land deals worth Rs. 50 crore for "Arvind Kejriwal's relatives". Mishra al...

10 people shot during memorial for earlier Chicago death

Police said most of the violence, which has disproportionately impacted black and Latino neighborhoods on the city's South and West sides, is gang-related, USA...

Kapil Mishra seeks 'lie detector test' for himself, Kejriwal and Jain

Mishra demanded a lie-detector test for Kejriwal, state Health minister Satyendra Jain and himself. "I want to ask him if Kejriwal had called him up before acce...

Buhari flies to London for medical treatment

This is the largest negotiated release following the abduction of almost 300 girls in 2014. He commended the security agencies, the Red Cross, local authori...

Pakistani, Afghan Troops Exchange Fire on Border, Several Killed

Pakistani government and military officials said the artillery rounds that hit in the border town of Chaman in southwestern Baluchistan province were unprovoked...

Chibok schoolgirls were swapped for 5 Boko Haram commanders

The release of the 21 girls in October previous year followed talks between Boko Haram and the Nigerian authorities brokered by the ICRC and the Swiss governmen...

USA troops killed during fight with ISIS in Afghanistan

Beginning in 2016, Afghan security forces backed by USA military advisers have launched a major offensive against ISIS, with Nicholson saying that the terror gr...

Brexit minister Davis says European Union trying to bully Britain

May's remarks, made after the formal dissolution of the British parliament in preparation for the polls, were mostly aimed at drumming up support for her Conser...

France's Le Pen pledges to overhaul party after presidential election defeat

He saysGermany had in the past "too often behaved like the teacher toward France" and suggested relaxing European Union rules on state spending to allow Franc...

Asian shares show relief over French moderate Macron's win

Western leaders largely hailed the result after the shock of Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump in the US. The prospe...

Meghalaya MBOSE HSSLC 12th Results to be Declared Today at 10AM @ mbose

The results will be declared today at 10 AM on the official websites of Meghalaya Board of School Education such as mbose.in, result.mbose.in and megresults ...

Emmanuel Macron wins presidency as France rejects far-right

The MENA region has a vested interest in the political happenings in France because of its many investments in the country. But analysts and economists said the...

Death toll from U.S. storms grows to 16 people

Louis suburb of Valley Park, residents living below a levee on the rising Meramec River were ordered to evacuate Monday. Three tornadoes were confirmed by t...

Thai police get arrest warrant for Red Bull heir

Vorayuth was accused of hitting and killing 47-year-old police patrolman Wichean with his Ferrari early one morning in September 2012 and dragging the body for ...