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Amgen Inc Receives a Buy from BMO Capital

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WHO Elects First African Director

David Nabarro is up against Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Sania Nishtar of Pakistan in the race to be named World Health Organization directo...

Ex-CIA chief says he warned Russians about election meddling

Trump and other administration officials have repeatedly twisted the words of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to support their content t...

At ICJ, Pak seeks early hearing in Jadhav case

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Evacuations ordered as fire burns in Chelan County, Wash

The cause of the fire was under investigation. Flaggers will be on Chumstick Highway in the area of the fire, so be prepared to stop. However, embers are flyi...

Theresa May refuses to admit u-turn on Tory social care plans

Mrs May warned that without taking action to reform the social care system it would "collapse". "What I've put forward is a social care policy which means tha...

Ethiopia's Tedros, Africa's candidate wins first round vote for World Health Organization top post

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Democrats criticize Trump budget plan

Funding for food stamps, now formally known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, would fall by 25 percent over several years. Speaker Ryan's (R-Wis.) f...

North Korea tests missile

US Democrats are warning Republican President Donald Trump not to launch an attack against North Korea . South Korea's military fired warning shots after i...

Ebola: WHO deploys investigation team to DRC

It said the health zone at Likati some 1,300 km from Kinshasa was very hard to access but stressed it was crucial to pinpoint who had had contact with those aff...

Boston Celtics stun Cleveland Cavaliers with last-second shot

In his final season in Miami, the Heat were looking to eliminate the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals in Game 5 when James, who had averaged 26.3 p...

OBM Director Mick Mulvaney Holds Briefing On Govt Budget Cuts

President Barack Obama made history by never reaching that type of growth. Trump's plan projects that the boost in economic growth it will engender will r...

At least 1 dead, 9 hospitalised after eating contaminated nacho cheese

Kelly fell sick after she purchased a bag of Doritos at the gas station, she then drizzles the nachos with nacho cheese sauce which was available at the station...

Manchester Arena Bomber Identified as 22-Year-Old Salman Abedi

Mr Richard Barrett, former director of Global Counter Terrorism Operations at MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence agency, said that the security and police forc...

Trump seeks to slash $3.6 trillion of spending in austere budget

Those cuts follow a partial plan from March that targeted domestic agency operations and foreign aid that were quickly dismissed by lawmakers. "It appears...

High School Teen Dies After Consuming Too Much Caffeine in 2 Hours

Sixteen-year-old David Allen Cripe collapsed at Spring Hill High School in SC on April 26, and later died in hospital. "Our goal here today is to let people k...

State highway damage from winter storms tops $1B

Crystal blue ocean waters below turned brown from millions of cubic yards of dirt and rocks. See below for an updated Highway 1 map that does not include the ...

Trump's budget director Mick Mulvaney holds briefing

The budget does, however, seek steep cuts to retirement benefits for federal workers as part of $63 billion in savings over 10 years for the Office of Personn...

Manchester Bombing: Ariana Grande Fans Share Poignant Tribute In Response To Attack

British counter-terrorism police have said they are making on average an arrest every day in connection with suspected terrorism. Twenty-two people were kill...

Manchester United Observe Silence For Attack Victims

Leaders across the world condemned Monday's attack and offered support to Britain. The victims, including some children, were killed when a suicide bomber ...

Trump looks to move quickly on appointing new Federal Bureau of Investigation chief

In addition, he publicly dismissed President Trump's allegation that President Obama personally ordered wire-tapping the Trump Tower, where Mr Trump often used ...

Pop stars pay tribute to Ariana Grande concert attack victims

Jen said: "Ambulances were coming past my house - dozens of them, one after another". Investigators are now looking at the incident as a terrorist act but hav...

Almost 20 dead in explosion at Ariana Grande concert

Another man told how he cradled a dying woman and saw a girl with her legs blown off. Greater Manchester Police said the incident was being treated as terro...

Man dies after being sickened in apparent botulism outbreak

The agency said last week the container and cheese dip were removed May 5, and that authorities believe the contamination posed no further risk to the public. H...

'Personally Committed' To Helping Israelis, Palestinians Achieve Peace Deal

He said his visit was aimed at reaffirming "the unshakeable bond between the United States and Israel " and to push forward his effort to revive the long-s...

South Korea fires warning shots at North Korea over 'unidentified flying object'

North Korea said on Monday it has successfully tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile to confirm the reliability of the late-stage guidance of the nu...

Apollo 11 relic owned by Illinois woman to be auctioned off

NASA's lunar objects generally are not allowed to be privately owned, so the curators at Sotheby's auction house have concluded that this bag is likely one...

China willing to mend relations with S. Korea

According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), culture content exports in two trade fairs in Fra...

A Determined Texas Legislature is Intent on Punishing Trans People

A Patrick-backed measure, which Straus torpedoed in the House, would have gone much farther - requiring transgender people to use the bathrooms that correspon...

Trump's Saudi Summit Was 'a Show Without Any Value' - Rouhani

He was less flattering in his assessment of the Trump administration so far. The president added that "the issue of terrorism can not be solved through giving...

McDonnell urges Labour supporters not to believe opinion polls

We are getting constant feedback from our members and there's been an incredible response, a very positive response. The party won 232 seats in the 2015 elect...

5-year-old helped save parents who were overdosing

Medics used Narcan to revive them both. "This 5-year-old child, a hero, saved three lives today", police wrote online. Officers say they took both children ...

Ebola: Symptoms dictated in over 29 patients in DR Congo

So far, three Ebola-related deaths and 29 suspected cases have been reported, according to the WHO . Spokesman from the World Health Organisation (WHO) said ...

Rain brings respite from hot spell in Delhi (Second Lead)

The MeT recorded 17.2 mm of rain. Ludhiana and Patiala recorded identical temperatures of 36.3 degrees Celsius, three notches below the normal and Ludhiana re...

$400 billion price tag for California single-payer bill

That's a massive sum in a state where the entire general fund budget is $125 billion. "Americans pay more than any industrialized nation for health care, near...