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Government introduces bill to improve road safety in Lok Sabha

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Assam terror attack shocks nation, top leaders condemn act

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Israel charges UN employee in Gaza Strip for assisting Hamas

The Shin Bet said in a statement that during interrogations over the past six weeks Halabi admitted to being a Hamas activist and using his position "to div...

Man charged with fatal shooting after 'hoodlum' complaint

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Ride on which boy died closed for rest of season

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Church to drop Bibles over ISIS-controlled areas

Christian Åkerhielm, the church's mission director, told SVT: "The Bibles are the size of pill boxes and have a display". The church said another organisati...

Trump endorses Ryan, senators in effort to right campaign ship

Trump tried to heal party divisions Friday by endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan and two other key senate Republicans, after refusing to announce his support ...

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NSFW Trailer For Bad Santa 2 Rings In The Festive Season Early

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Japan's Emperor Akihito Hints At Abdicating in Rare TV Address

As expected, Akihito avoided explicit mention of abdication, which could have violated those restrictions. Japan's Emperor Akihito took to the airwaves Mo...

Trump suggests gun rights supporters could stop Clinton

Maybe the third option here is that Trump was just making a joke, saying something he didn't intend to be taken seriously much less parsed for implications. Cli...

Turkey's Erdogan arrives in Russia for talks with Putin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to restore ties, which were severely damaged after Turkey downed a Russian...

Paul Ryan hopes to avert primary surprise after Trump tweak

Ryan's race was the unexpected focus just a week after GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump threw a burst of publicity toward Ryan's little-known and inexp...

Bisexuality slurs get celeb turfed off UK Big Brother

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ANC suffers biggest elections blow in history

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Judge denies Blagojevich's bid to lighten 14-year sentence

A resentencing hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Chicago federal court. Blagojevich, 59, who was convicted in 2011 of charges including attempting to sell the S...

Delta Airlines delays spill into second day after computer outage

The airline expects to cancel another 250 flights on Tuesday and approximately 200 more will be delayed. Ticket lines were still moving at a decent pace. Flie...

Arizona, New Mexico may see Tropical Storm Javier storms

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Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos talks China ties

The photographs indicating further militarisation of the already tense region emerged less than a month after an global tribunal ruled that China doesn't have h...

Pilot Fire in Southern California triggers evacuations

Hundreds of firefighters, aided by 16 aircraft, battled flames that spread across almost 10 square miles on the northern side of the rugged mountain range east ...

British Special Forces operating in Syria pictured for first time

The images seem to show British forces securing the perimeter of the rebel base following an attack by Isis, according to the BBC . In this case it is Britis...

New group of Republicans supporting Clinton

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Washington DC Transit Police Officer Charged With Helping Islamic State

That same year, Young was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In this photo taken November 16, 2015, passengers ride a Washington Metro subway...

Molina's RBI caps rally as Cardinals stun Reds 5-4

The Cardinals stayed a shutout in the ninth with their comeback win with a very unusual turn of events. It was, needless to say, stunning. One out away fr...

Police say intruder tried to climb Buckingham Palace fence

He did not gain access to the palace. Police said the suspect had been drinking when he chose to scale the fence. The incident follows a security breach at ...

Service, silence to mark anniversary of Michael Brown death

Michael Brown, Sr., center, watches as white doves fly away after 4.5 minutes of silence during a memorial ceremony for Brown's son Michael Brown on Canfield Dr...

Iran executes nuclear scientist accused of spying for US

A nuclear scientist tried and convicted of being a spy for the United States, allegedly assisting in the attempted thwart of Iran's nuclear program, has bee...

Nations mourns over Quetta blast

Sixty of those slain were lawyers who gathered to mourn the assassination of the Baluchistan Bar Association's president, Bilal Anwar Kasi, according to medical...