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Law enables Hawai'i to join climate change accord

A US energy policy that does not reduce carbon emissions will ultimately harm people in our country and around the world, hurt the national economy, and dimin...

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The matter of linking Aadhaar cards with PAN cards was proposed to prevent people from using multiple PAN cards and to bring unification in the income-tax pro...

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The Senate intelligence committee chairman, Richard Burr of North Carolina, asked Comey the key question about that encounter: "Do you sense that the presid...

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After Comey's testimony, Trump's lawyer Marc Kasowitz said Comey "admitted that he unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorized disclosures to the press o...

Woman distracted by phone falls over basement access doors

The woman runs into one of the doors and flips head first into the basement about six feet below. WABC-TV reports the 67-year-old woman seemed to be texting w...

UK Election Ends In Hung Parliament, Conservatives Lose Majority

The Conservatives, however, emerged as the single largest party in the election for Britain's 650-seat parliament. Instead, now she's being forced to consider t...

Nicola Sturgeon stands by Kezia Dugdale independence referendum claims

The Tories returned 13 MPs in their best result in Scotland since 1983. Mr Robertson, who had been the SNP's leader at Westminster, had been defending a m...

May's UK election gamble backfires as Tories lose majority

John Curtice, who oversees the exit poll for a consortium of broadcasters, said Friday that the Conservatives' final tally might be a bit higher than 314, but i...

Top Senate intelligence Democrat: 'more investigating to do'

Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], June 8: USA intelligence chiefs have refused to comment on whether President Donald Trump asked them to curb an FBI-led investiga...

Third London attacker was known to United Kingdom security services

Previously unreleased CCTV footage has made its way to social media, showing the moment armed police officers killed three terrorists who launched a vicious a...

Qatar Vows No Surrender In Gulf Crisis, Plans To Ride It Out

Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper reported that the initial deployment would be a military assessment team arriving in the coming days to consider reinforcing a 90-st...

Family of London attacker Khuram Butt 'appalled' at terror acts

Counter-terror agencies were already under intense scrutiny after it was revealed Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane , 30, were also known to securi...

Eiffel Tower lights out for Iran attacks

The statement indicated that only five people carried out Wednesday's twin attacks, rather than six originally reported . "The terrorists had intruded the ...

Calls for Theresa May to quit as snap election delivers hung parliament

While Arlene Foster' Democratic Unionist Party secured a total of 10 seats. As per the forecast by University of East Anglia's Chris Hanretty showed a huge ...

Qatar FM speeks with US Secretary of State

We are a platform for peace, not terrorism. Qatar is the world's largest exporter of natural liquefied gas. But a Qatari official said on Thursday the emir ...

Tehran attackers were Iranians, fought for IS in Syria, Iraq

Iranian authorities have arrested two suspects linked to attacks in Tehran this week that killed 17 people, Iranian media reported on Friday. They were the fi...

Election drive in United Kingdom back on in terror's shadow

The Metropolitan Police said seven women and five men between the ages of 19 and 60 were arrested in Barking on Sunday. Butt and Redouane were from the mu...

Macron calls handshake with Trump 'moment of truth'

French President Emmanuel Macron was warned about Trump's go-to move before they met at the G7 summit, though, and he admits that he purposely made a decisio...

No Pakistani university among top 400 universities

No Pakistani university has made it to the top 400 universities of the world. Anna University trails it by falling in the 651-700 range in the world rankings....

Sessions recused from Russian Federation probe only over campaign role:DOJ

Former Director of Federal Bureau of Investigations James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington D.C.,...

Netanyahu: Israel will not relinquish security control over Judea and Samaria

While the document mentioned Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, a core Israeli demand, it also clarified that the states will have "full equal rig...

Scottish leader Sturgeon says election 'disastrous' for PM May

John Swinney , Scotland's education secretary and a former leader of the SNP, said that the Scottish parliament had already backed a second referendum and that ...

Colbert, Meyers, Fallon mock Trump 'lies' after Comey testimony

And he said he concluded that he was sacked because of the FBI's investigation of possible ties between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign. I hear "I...

Trump offers to host summit on Qatar crisis

As for Bahraini nationals, 830 work in Qatar; 280 in the government sector and 550 in the private sector. In a preliminary report, the investigators did not s...

Lorde announces "Melodrama" world tour dates

Like previous singles " Green Light " and " Perfect Places ", this track furthers Lorde's coming of age themes, tracing a weekend of partying and the romances...

Iran investigating Saudi role in attacks

Iran denounced Donald Trump's reaction to the attacks as " repugnant " after the United States president said the nation was reaping what it sowed. The six...

Kezia: Every Scottish seat now in Labour's sights

She also said she will aim to be part of "a progressive alliance" if the opportunity presents itself. Mr Salmond, who joined the SNP in 1973 while still a stu...

Scottish independence dealt a blow after nationalists suffer losses

The Conservative Party gained Ochil and South Perthshire while Labour took Rutherglen and Hamilton West and Midlothian in early results that showed votes going ...

United Kingdom general election ends in a hung parliament

The Conservatives, under the leadership of David Cameron , formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2010 as Cameron's party were around 20 seats shor...

Arizona State's Ewen sets new college record in the hammer

After all, the Arizona State junior had been within 10 feet of the coveted mark five times this spring. South Dakota's Chris Nilsen finished off quite a fresh...

'Manspreading' is now a no-no on Madrid's public buses

The council also pointed out that other antisocial behaviour was being targeted in the new notices, including putting feet on seats and listening to loud music ...

Terrorism, Brexit Dominate British Election Campaign

In a statement to The Associated Press, the legislature's Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt quipped: "I thought surrealism was a Belgian invention". May was...

Nick Clegg: Clearly a boomerang election for the Tories

Theresa May has visited a greater range of seats than any other party leader by travelling to 68 different constituencies during the seven-week election campaig...

Pressure grows on British PM May to resign as election gamble backfires

The campaign began as an attempt by Ms May to increase her party's majority in Parliament ahead of Brexit negotiations, but was upended by terror attacks during...

Trump's tweets are 'official statements': Spicer

Morning Consult polled 1,999 registered voters and ran from June 1 through June 2. The biggest group of people to believe Trump is tweeting too much is the De...