People

British, Australian national die while clearing WWII bomb in the Solomon Islands

MORE NEWS THIS CATEGORIES

Russia: Sergey Kislyak, diplomat at center of scandal, just doing his job

Mr Session's denial of wrongdoing hinges on whether his contacts were part of his routine activities as a senator or his role as senior adviser to Mr Trump's ca...

Tax chairmen: Demanding Trump returns an abuse of authority

Senate Finance Committee Democrats said they would ask their chairman, Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, to request Trump's returns under the same 1924 law that Ne...

Donald Trump attacks 'sick' Obama in shock 'wire tapping' allegations

In an interview Friday night, Fox News' Brett Baier asked House Speaker Paul Ryan if he was concerned that the Obama administration "may have been surveilling ...

DHS considering separating families illegally crossing border

The new policy would allow the U.S.to keep parents in custody while they contest deportation or wait for asylum, while the children would be put into protective...

DUP edges out Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland post-Brexit vote

The last results are not expected until later on Saturday. Sinn Fein was seeking to overtake the Protestants of the Democratic Unionists and become the No. In...

Trump Tweets Old Photo Of Schumer And Putin, Calls For Probe

In a series of tweets this afternoon, President Donald Trump repeatedly misspelled the word hereby while alleging that the U.S. House minority leader has "clo...

Jeff Sessions: US Attorney-General denies meeting with Russians during presidential campaign

Senior Democrats have called for his resignation. Many Democrats said Mr. Sessions should resign after he said during his confirmation hearing that he did ...

Trump administration explores possible military force to combat North Korea threat

This year's drills began on Wednesday. A senior administration official told the media on Tuesday that North Korea and its nuclear program were the "greatest ...

Uttar Pradesh elections 2017: Varanasi gears up for heavyweights

Modi reportedly also spoke about the "success" of demonetisation at the rally. The politically-crucial constituency, Varanasi , goes to polls on March 8. The r...

Trump's office on immigrant crime is a dramatic overhaul

After urging Americans to support the men and women of law enforcement, Trump said that victims of crime must also be supported-including those who suffered a...

Northern Ireland election puts power-sharing in the balance

Sinn Féin and the DUP have three weeks to establish a government. Pensioner Tom Smyth, a DUP supporter, said Foster had to stand up to Sinn Fein but in doing ...

Far-Right Presidential Candidate Le Pen Loses EU Parliament Immunity

Le Pen took down the tweet showing the killing of Foley after his family protested, but she left up another image of violence by Islamic State extremists. Marin...

Sinn Féin erode DUP lead - no party has over 30 seats

However, due to widespread frustration with the impasse between the two biggest parties, they will both be prepared for losing votes to their more moderate coun...

Modi appeals to vote in Manipur, UP polls

The number of new voters is 45,642. Earlier in the day, polling began amid tight security, with around 280 companies of central paramilitary forces, armed pol...

Trump calls for investigation of Sen. Chuck Schumer's ties with Russian Federation

He wrote, "I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russian Federation, and lying about it". Schumer, in his own...

Jordan executes 15 people, ten of them for terror offences

Among the terrorism offences were a 2006 attack on tourists at Amman's Roman amphitheater which killed a Briton and a June 2016 attack on an intelligence servic...

Trump claims Obama wiretapped him in Trump Tower prior to election

This is McCarthyism!" he tweeted. He expressed disappointment in Obama for tapping his phones "during the very sacred election process". Turned down by court ea...

US Attorney General Sessions Should Resign - Senate Minority Leader

And they fed mounting calls for Sessions to recuse himself from oversight of Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation probes into the alleged Russ...

Iran tests new Russian-made S-300 missile system

During the test, conducted in the presence of several Iranian military and government officials, the missile system successfully detected, tracked, and intercep...

United Nations sees Chinese strategy on cyberspace cooperation "important report"

Beijing, which currently operates one of the most sophisticated global online censorship program called the "Great Firewall", has indicated that it now seeks to...

BJP won't contest Mumbai mayoral and dy mayoral polls, Sena announces nominees

The NCP in Maharashtra said that it will maintain a distance from the Shiv Sena and BJP who are locked in a power struggle to install their Mayor in India's ric...

Fatal Yemen Raid Yielded Intel On 'Hundreds' Of Al-Qaida Operatives

One media official in Bayda said a total of 23 airstrikes were carried out by USA jets. The raid has become a hot-button political issue after Navy SEAL Chi...

Schumer Trolls Trump, Wins the Internet

Trump said before his election that he might lift the US penalties imposed over Russia's annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine....

Trump slams Pelosi, Schumer as Russian Federation meeting pics emerge

Schumer quickly responded by saying that he would be happy to talk about his meeting with Putin, and threw the question back at Trump. The photograph was take...

Advocating for quality health care

Still, there would be new options for middle-class people who buy their own policies but don't now qualify for help under the ACA. "Those go away with most of t...

Lancaster store owner found shot to death, police say

There is no proof found to confirm if this is the same hate crime but with all the series of happenings, it gives an impression that this could be one of them. ...

Schumer Says GOP Division Gives Democrats A Chance To Save Obamacare

Senior Republicans are saying that conservatives who vote against the plan will have to face their constituents, who have called for the repeal for years, sour...

Tight security as court charges women with Kim Jong-nam murder

Two women - one Indonesian, one Vietnamese - have been charged with murder after police said they smeared Kim's face with VX, a banned nerve agent considered a ...

Sen. Rand Paul is Hunting for the GOP Health Care Bill

Paul suspects that once Republicans leadership is ready to vote on the bill, the process will move too quickly, without the necessary time for public scrutiny. ...

Malaysia rejects 'insinuation' it violated United Nations sanctions on North Korea

A newspaper report on the indictment of a female suspect in the killing of Kim Jong-nam, wedged into the main gate at the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, ...

Sinn Fein cuts DUP advantage to a single seat in Stormont elections

The elections - triggered by the collapse of devolved government in Northern Ireland six weeks ago following controversy over a botched green energy scheme - ...

Erdogan says Germany 'aids and harbours terror'

The cancellations were met with anger in Ankara, where Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Berlin of seeking "to get in the way of a strong Turkey". Ank...

China continues trend of sinking defense budget growth

The defense budget figure for a year ago, 954.35 billion yuan ($138.4 billion), likely understates its investment, according to diplomats, though the number is ...

Foreign Secretary Jaishankar meets US Secretary of State Tillerson

Jaishankar to scope out the new Washington power structure and to present India's perspectives. The Trump administration looks at the world differently. With Ti...

Malaysia: Poisoning of Kim caused paralysis, quick death

But the second secretary of the North's embassy in Kuala Lumpur, who is suspected of transporting the VX nerve agent used to kill Kim, is still believed to be...