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Dennis Rodman returns to North Korea for basketball diplomacy

Yun then met last week with the North Korean ambassador at the U.N.in NY. There are three other Americans now being held in North Korea. "At the direction...

Voters have 'golden opportunity' to end austerity, Nicola Sturgeon says

Less than three years on from the 2014 referendum, Mr Brown said it was important to send First Minister Nicola Sturgeon "a message that she should focus on t...

South Korea's Moon urges lawmakers to approve $10bn stimulus plan

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in suggested on Monday that countries in Northeast Asia could form a bloc - including isolated North Korea - to co-host the 20...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions heatedly denies improper Russia contacts

Even before Sessions testified, attention in Washington swivelled to whether Trump might seek to fire Robert Mueller , the former FBI director named last month...

4 countries list Qatar-linked terrorists, organisations

Qatar has long denied supporting or funding terror groups. "We have to stop the funding of terrorism", said Trump. "They have to end that funding". A diplomat...

Seoul says North Korean soldier defects across DMZ

South Korean President Moon Jae-In first proposed a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup with China, Japan and North Korea to Federation Internationale de Foo...

State Superintendent Responds to Governor's Vetoes

In the latest vetoes, McMaster chose to restore $16 million in funding for the state's Conservation Bank, which spends money to set aside land in SC as parts of...

Iran arrests 41 suspects over Tehran attacks - ministry

It described them as "long affiliated with the Wahhabi", an ultraconservative form of Sunni Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. The assaults have further fueled ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions to publicly answer questions on Russia probe

Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Lawmakers, including Al Franken of Minnesota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, have asked the FBI to investigate and to determine if Se...

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions to testify in public Tuesday amid Russian Federation probe

In addition to the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russia's role in USA politics, special counsel Robert Mueller is leading an independent in...

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines to join forces vs militants

The Philippine government learned days in advance of a plan by Muslim militants aligned with the Islamic State group to lay siege to a southern city, and stag...

2 officers killed, 2 inmates on run in Georgia

The inmates have been identified as 43-year-old Donnie Russell Rowe and 24-year-old Ricky Dubose. Early Tuesday afternoon they picked up the trail. It wasn't ...

'Bernie Would Have Won': Sanders Supporters See Hope In UK Election

Following a hung parliament in the snap election she called, Mrs May said she would form a minority government to deliver Brexit. The Conservatives secu...

North Korean nukes threaten global peace: Pentagon chief

The threats were made in the state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun , suggesting that although North Korea is more than 10,000 kilometers away from NY, "this is j...

Police investigating London Bridge attack arrest 19-year-old in Barking

It is hard to speculate what the motive was for wearing the belts." his statement read. On Saturday, Commander Dean Haydon of the Met's anti-terrorist comm...

Jeremy Corbyn predicts Scottish Labour comeback

THERESA MAY and Jeremy Corbyn have come face-to-face for the first time since the shock General Election result. "We increased the Labour vote by the large...

Comey testimony another step on the path to Trump's disgrace

Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee (SIC), on Thursday, June 8, where he slammed President Donald Trump and his administration for lying...

Mattis: North Korea 'most urgent' threat

Mattis did not say what those steps are. The White House is reportedly weighing a 3,000- to 5,000-troop surge into the country this year. The launches come le...

Sessions to face sharp questions on Trump, Russia, Comey

Sessions argued that in the context of the hearing, "my answer was a fair and correct response to the charge as I understood it". The former Republican U.S. "...

Otto Warmbier: North Korea 'releases jailed USA student'

Rodman has visited North Korea at least four times and is one of the few Americans to have met current North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. When asked i...

Bloomberg offers $15M to cover US Paris Accord costs

Calling the regulations "unattainable", Haley said former US President Barack Obama did not approach the US Senate to clear the climate deal, "because he coul...

Jeff Sessions denies collusion with Russian Federation during high-stakes US Senate hearing

He also criticized "false attacks" and "innuendo" that he implied were created to thwart the Trump administration's capacity to enact its agenda. Though the...

Who loves him more? Trump's cabinet members gush at meeting

The US President then asked the members to go around the table and introduce themselves before reporters were ushered out of the room. Donald Trump's disa...

Scott Disick Doesn't Have Any Father's Day Plans Yet

Kourtney and Scott may be over for good, but they still have three young children to co-parent. Kourtney Kardashian is said to be seriously anxious about ...

UK polls: Theresa May's two closest advisers quit after election debacle

We haven't won but Tories have been humiliatingly defeated. After inheriting a 17-seat overall majority in the House of Commons, May in April announced a ...

North Korea Warns ICBM Test 'Not Too Far Away' Now

People sit in front of a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile firing, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul , South Korea...

Woman Raped by Roman Polanski to Ask Court to End Case

Geimer asked Judge Scott Gordon to either dismiss the case or sentence the " Chinatown " director to the six weeks he served in prison before he fled the co...

Theresa May's stance might 'delay' EU-Brexit talks by a year

She also signalled she's willing to rethink her approach to Brexit . "The UK has had a reputation, earned over the generations, for stability and predictabil...

Qatar says backs Kuwait mediation efforts over rift with Arab states

Dujarric said the secretary-general was encouraging diplomacy "to address concerns and is ready to support such efforts, if desired by all parties". Erdogan v...

Puerto Rico votes for USA statehood in referendum

According to U.S. Representative Nydia Velázquez, because the turnout was so low, the results can not be trusted. Gov. Ricardo Rossello, who campaigned on ...

Uber CEO Kalanick likely to take leave, SVP Michael out

A representative for the board told the New York Times Sunday said the directors "unanimously voted" to adopt the recommendations, which will be represented t...

Trimming monument in Utah pleases Republicans, angers tribes

National monument designations add protections for lands revered for their natural beauty and historical significance with the goal of preserving them for futu...

American Otto Warmbier Has Been Released From A North Korean Prison

We get to see our son Otto tonight."Tillerson, at a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, declined to comment on Warmbier's condition". They also said they are grat...

Republicans lack public support for new health care scheme

But if you asked Sen. Our own senator, Cory Gardner, is helping to vote the new GOP health-care plan into law. Instead, McConnell put a plan in place to p...

Defiant Trump accuses Comey of being a liar

US President Donald Trump has claimed "total and complete vindication" in former FBI director James Comey's testimony , but his detractors insisted the d...