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Turkey says soldier killed by sniper shot fired from Syria

Turkey has been pressing the United States to drop its military alliance with the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which it considers part of the Kurdistan Workers'...

Air strike on mosque near Aleppo kills 42

In a Friday morning tweet, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights labeled the attack a " massacre ", and said that the number of casualties had risen to 46. ...

EU sets Brexit talk conditions, priority for people, money, borders

If both sides agree, the negotiating deadline can be extended. At the same time, said Pieter Omtzigt, one of the rapporteurs, a top priority should be protect...

Merkel challenger seeks to move past deflating state vote

If Germans could directly vote for the chancellor, 45 percent would chose Schulz while just 36 percent would pick Merkel, an Infratest Dimap poll showed last ...

Singapore teen blogger who criticised government wins asylum in US

Cole also noted that individuals who had made disparaging comments about religions but did not criticize the Singapore government had not been prosecuted. In ...

Suspect in four-year-old girl's hit-and-run death 'fled UK hours later'

She said in a Facebook post "My lovely baby girl passed away in my arms on 25/03/2017 at 23:38". Ms French, 55, remains in hospital, where she is in a serious...

France's Hollande Says Fillon Lacks 'Dignity' after Smear Charge

Presidential candidate Francois Fillon faced angry protestors during an election rally in southwest France. When asked if he meant politicians were behind t...

Japan holds first missile evacuation drill

More than 100 residents and schoolchildren of the coastal city of Oga in northern Japan participated in the drill. "The missile is seen to have landed within ...

United States in sad shape on world happiness scale

The 2016 report had ranked Pakistan at 92, with a score of 5.132. The report is a measure of happiness published by the United Nations Sustainable Develo...

Oklahoma company recalls 466 tons of breaded chicken product

The United States Department of Agriculture and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) started an investigation after OK Foods received five complaints...

Two Russian spies indicted over massive Yahoo hack

Rather than handing Belan over to the US, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) enlisted the man to help the agency hack into American Internet companies, i...

Malaysia says Kim Jong Nam's body has been embalmed

Human Rights Council, where experts warned that the country's increasing isolation could worsen its already disastrous rights situation. On February 13, Jong-...

Everett woman accused of jumping White House fence tries again, at Treasury

She was charged with unlawful entry, ordered to stay away from the area and released. An alarm was activated and Secret Service Uniformed division officers "i...

Egypt's Mubarak free to go home for 1st time since 2011

A top appeals court earlier this month acquitted the former president in case of protesters' killing in the 2011 uprising. Mr Mubarak's release marks a new ...

Paul Manafort volunteers to appear before committee investigating Russian election hacking

During Friday's press conference, Nunes also said that he did not expect to receive information from the NSA before next week, regarding his recent claim th...

Trump to ask Merkel for advice on handling Putin

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not address past areas of friction on Friday, telling reporters there was "a lot of excitement on both sides of the ...

Former Russian lawmaker gunned down on sidewalk

Yanukovych was ousted in early 2014 amid violent protests and fled to Russian Federation, where he is now living under the protection of the Kremlin . A former...

Spokesman confirms China suspended imports of Brazil beef

Twenty-one meat processing plants were being investigated, and 30 officials had been suspended, the Brazilian government said. Maggi warned that Brazil's chan...

Trump Jr called a 'disgrace' for criticising London mayor

Several Londoners are angry with President Donald Trump Jr's recent criticism of their mayor following an attack on pedestrians and a police officer that transp...

Utah getting toughest drunken driving limit in the US

The proposal would lower the predominantly Mormon state's blood-alcohol limit from 0.08, now the standard across all USA states, to 0.05 as of December 30, 2018...

Trump meets Irish PM at White House ahead of St. Patrick's Day

President Donald Trump, left, and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, right, hold up a bowl of Irish shamrocks during a St. Patrick's Day reception in the East Roo...

Irish prime minister calls Trump out in St. Patrick's Day speech

Yeats for Children was given to Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron. Trump owns a golf course in western Ireland and has said that he intends to visit the c...

Dempsey hat trick lifts US over Honduras 6-0 to rebound

Clint Dempsey returned for Seattle's opener on March 4, keyed Friday night's 6-0 rout of Honduras. The lineup will be some slight variant of a 4-4-2, with T...

Man Accused Of Murder Came To NYC To Target Blacks

In the interview, Jackson said in retrospect, he would rather have killed "a young thug" or "a successful older black man with blondes. people you see in Midtow...

James Corden delivers the Trump musical you didn't know you wanted

Corden drew loud applause singing as chief White House strategist Steve Bannon and Spencer, donning a long blonde wig, as presidential counselor Kellyanne Conwa...

British PM Theresa May to press for stronger union on Scotland visit

Mrs May flexed her reserved-power muscles by announcing that she would block any move by Ms Sturgeon to have the powers to hold a new vote on separation before ...

Ukraine: Russian agent killed Kremlin critic Voronenkov

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said the killing "clearly shows the handwriting of Russian special services shown repeatedly in various European capital...

Le Pen's Bold Move: She'll Resign If Her Euro Referendum Fails

Le Pen calls the single European currency a "a knife that you stick in a country's ribs to force it to do what its people don't want to do". "A new world has...

Putin meets Le Pen

Putin ", according to The New York Times . "I do not think this (financing by Russia ) is possible", Peskov told reporters. For months, the conventional wis...

London attack: 2 more arrests; details of Khalid Masood's life

Eleven people have been arrested as part of the inquiry but Scotland Yard said only four remain in custody - two men aged 27 and 58 who were arrested in Birming...

German Foreign Minister says Turkey further away from EU membership than ever

Swiss government statistics show around 68,000 Turkish citizens live in Switzerland, a nation of 8.3 million whose population is a quarter foreign. The commen...

4 people found dead in home near Ashcroft, BC

Toxicology tests were underway and the coroners service says it expects the results later this week. The Canadian Safety Council says on its website that carb...

Chicago teen apparently raped on Facebook Live relocated

The mother told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her daughter was scared to return home and that the family has been harassed by neighborhood kids. No a...

Trump 'seriously considering' moving Israel embassy: Pence

Haley spoke out against the Obama administration's decision to allow a resolution critical of Israel's settlement policy to pass in the Security Council last De...

Senate Democratic leader urges removal of House intel panel chair

Nunes told CNN he visited a secure facility on White House property at the time to look at the sensitive information, and he added that he did not go to the W...