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Narendra Modi's party wins landslide election victory in India's largest state

The BJP also made big gains in the northeastern state of Manipur, which shares a border with Myanmar and has always been plagued by separatist unrest. Fisheries...

The Weeknd Shares "I Feel It Coming" Video With Daft Punk

The Warren Fu-directed visual was teased by the singer on Thursday when he tweeted out a poster for the video . Disaster strikes towards the end of the vide...

Ruling party bags landslide victory in key Indian state

Polling trends on the Election Commission of India website showed the BJP storming ahead in 221 seats out of the 272 constituencies in the state where counting ...

Dirt-Bike Gang Attacks Driver in Middle of Highway

Investigators are reviewing video footage of the incident and attempting to identify the 10 to 15 suspects involved, Williams said. "They're biking up and dow...

Goa Exit poll 2017: BJP may retain power

Uttah Pradesh , where the Hindu holy city of Varanasi is located, accounts for about 15% of India's voters and seats in the Parliament. If you want to track...

Sessions asks 46 U.S. attorneys to resign; Bharara's future unclear

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday asked Indian-American federal prosecutor Preet Bharara to quit. Isgur Flores added that the Justice...

33 people killed in Damascus twin blasts

The Iraqi foreign ministry said around 40 of its nationals were among the dead and 120 among the wounded. The Sayeda Zeinab mausoleum to the south of the capi...

TSA says ID of Ali's son confirmed at airport

Officials quizzed Muhammad Ali Jr., for about 20 minutes, lawyer Chris Mancini told the New York Daily News . She says he also was patted down because his jewe...

United Airlines doubles its route count from San Jose

Flights from Boise will depart at 1 p.m. with a 5:30 p.m. arrival in Chicago. In a separate letter, American's Chicago vice president, Franco Tedeschi, said t...

House committee passes bill that could allow employers to require genetic testing

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) now bans companies from having access to their employees' genetic information, but House Republican...

British citizens barred from White House tours

US President Donald Trump will on Friday speak by telephone with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, the White House said. The invitation came during the firs...

With UP win, Modi consolidates grip over a new BJP

He added that the BJP would form the government in four states, barring Punjab. BJP sources said the top leadership was confident of forming the government in...

Turkish artillery targets US-backed forces in Syria

The Turkish military said on Friday 71 Kurdish militants from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the allied Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had been killed in ope...

Washington state renews its legal challenge to Trump's travel ban

An unnamed Department of Homeland Security official told The Washington Post Iraq was "treated differently" in the new order in part because it agreed to "t...

Dutch government cancels landing permission for Turkish foreign minister

Cavusoglu's statement came after Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders on Thursday said his country would "in no way" facilitate the planned visit. In Austria,...

New Jersey connection serves Notre Dame well vs

The Irish began the game attacking the Seminole defense from distance, as Notre Dame's first 15 points came from three-point range. The Tigers, who took a 1-0 l...

State US attorney among those told to submit resignation letter

And in an email, Sarah Isgur Flores, a Justice Department spokeswoman, told the 46 remaining Obama administration U.S. Attorneys to resign and their work taken ...

Donald Tusk reelected as president of the European Council

And so, at least at the European Council , support for European federalism and liberalism won the day. Bearing flowers, the PiS leader met Mrs Szydlo's plane...

Spring Forward Sunday With Daylight Saving Time, Consider Changing Smoke, CO Detectors

The instances of heart attacks dropped to a more typical rate on Tuesday, once people returned to their routines. "Because children's internal clocks are ...

Islamic State leader hiding in the desert, U.S. says

Armored vehicles drove past destruction left by fighting in the former provincial government hub: a collapsed police headquarters dynamited by militants as they...

Remaining 46 US attorneys hired by Obama asked to resign - Justice Department

Attorney Mike Ormsby of the Eastern District of Washington . Such turnover is typical at the start of a new presidential administration. Many are already b...

Poles apart - European Union set for summit job spat

A histrionic anti-Tusk video published by PiS this week blames Mr Tusk for destroying the Polish shipbuilding industry and shows him cosying up to Brussels powe...

Kosovo President Says Will Resign If Lawmakers Don't Create Army

Constitutional amendments needed for the KSF's transformation into a regular army require a "double majority" in parliament. Thaci said he did not "want to le...

Why I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Diane Max, a big donor to Planned Parenthood, told The Times that the reported offer is an "absurd play". "I've used Planned Parenthood since I was 18, ...

Police release picture of abducted baby

The little girl was taken in an apparent hijacking near a shopping centre in Greyville at about noon on Friday. Siwaphiwe was in her mother's vehicle when it ...

Poland threatens to derail European Union summit over Tusk

Kaczynski also accused Tusk, whom he sees as his arch-rival in Polish politics, of violating rules on neutrality for European Union presidents by allegedly "ope...

Goa elections: Political rookies turn giant killers

Early trends in Goa suggested Parsekar's loss could be part of an upset for the Bharatiya Janata Party which according to the latest trends is leading only in...

Turkish President Erdogan To Meet With Putin In Moscow

A third round is set for next week. The Raqqa campaign has received a boost in recent days with the deployment of a US Marines artillery unit, adding to the s...

Eleven CRPF personnel killed in Naxal attack in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh

The injured jawans are being airlifted to nearby hospitals for treatment. An emergency meeting of top police officials has been called in Raipur to assess the s...

W'Bank to Raise $1.6bn to Fight Hunger in Nigeria, Others

United Nations and food organisations define starvation as when more than 30 percent of children under age 5 suffer from acute malnutrition and mortality rates ...

Uttarakhand Polls 2017: Know all about key candidates

While the Congress is heading back to power in Punjab, the Congress and BJP are engaged in a dog fight for Goa and Manipur. The ruling Congress was leading in...

USA trying to stop clashes between Turks and Kurds in Syria

Kurdish forces, also known as the YPG, are viewed with no distinction from the PKK by the Turkish government and Turkey has labeled the PKK as a terrorist gro...

Aegean cancels Athens-Berlin routes on Friday due to Tegel Airport strike

Verdi is pushing for an hourly pay increase and better working hours for its members, arguing that their workload is increasing. EasyJet said late on Thursday...

Theresa May absent as European Union leaders discuss bloc's post-Brexit future

The European Union (EU) will take only 48 hours in issuing its first plan for the negotiations for Brexit after the United Kingdom formally starts its exit, Eur...

ECB says no longer sees deflation risk in euro zone

He spoke in response to a question from Bloomberg's Alessandro Speciale at an European Central Bank press conference. At the end of the day, the European Centr...