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Russian and Turkish presidents meet to discuss restoring relations

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An Emirates airlines plane from India to Dubai after being gutted by fire due to a mechanical failure at Dubai global airport. Although all passengers w...

Favre gets emotional at Hall of Fame enshrinement

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Washington has approved the sale of 133 tanks and 20 recovery vehicles to Saudi Arabia, citing the kingdom's role as a "leading contributor of political stabil...

WikiLeaks offers reward in murder of DNC staffer

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Sheriff alters procedure for Trump rally after past violence

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Drug Convicts: Indonesia Executes Three Nigerians

The government had said earlier in the week that 14 people on death row, mostly foreigners, would be executed on the Nusa Kambangan prison island. Earlier thi...

Young man shot to death at San Francisco tourist attraction

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Duterte a 'cheerleader' for killing drug suspects-int'l rights group

The content of the speech remains a secret but it is expected to focus largely on the law and order drive Duterte promised during a bellicose election campaign ...

UK's Labour Party to appeal voting rights ruling

Labour's national executive committee ruled last month that members who had joined the party since January 12 would not be eligible to vote, a decision which ...

Donald Trump to outline economic plan as he seeks to reverse slide

Trump said "a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for TPP". Trump's effort to shift focus came after what was widely seen as the worst week of his campaign, in...

After Modi, now RSS speaks against cow vigilantism

Every Hindu is a gau rakshak and, therefore, he has called the entire Hindu population in the country anti-social elements. "RSS requests the citizens of the ...

NAACP leaders stage sit-in of GOP office over voting rights

This followed a similar decision by the notoriously conservative fifth circuit court of appeals that found Texas's stringent voter identification law had a disc...

Rigell leaves Virginia Beach GOP over Trump

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Firestorm as Trump Says Gun-Rights Backers Can Stop Clinton

The National Rifle Association backed Mr Trump and warned Mrs Clinton would pick judges that would not uphold the Second Amendment. He called on Michigan Repu...

Clinton responds to Trump's Wilmington comments on the 2nd amendment

He then added, without smiling or laughing: "Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know". This was supposed to be a very different wee...

Gabby Douglas won't get a chance to defend all-around title

Led by veteran Olympian Aly Raisman, this US squad is arguably the best in history, with world champion Simone Biles, Olympic medalist Gabby Douglas , Madison...

USA's Simone Biles to do all-around in gymnastics Olympics team final

Team USA finished in first, a whopping 10 points ahead of fellow favorite China, and even further ahead of the remainder of the pack. And just like that, the ...

Israel accuses United Nations staffer of assisting Hamas

The UNDP is tasked with projects to help the Strip's inhabitants, including projects to rehabilitate homes damaged in warfare. Also in 2015, he acted to persu...

South Sudan requests $1.9 billion in aid from China

Oil-producing South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 but in December 2013 slid into a two-year civil war after a dispute between President Salva Kiir...

Sheriff: 7-year-old girl died of malnutrition

Though the death occurred in McDowell County, West said because of the nature of the death it is assumed that the malnutrition began in Davidson County, so any ...

Tim Kaine says Hillary Clinton has learned from email 'mistake'

The Pulitzer Prize-winning website justified its rating by positing that "Clinton repeatedly said she did not have any classified information whatsoever in ...

Texas Confirms First Zika-Associated Death

The only other confirmed Zika-related death in the USA was that of an elderly Utah man who died in June. The mother and baby are classified as travel-related ca...

Evacuees return, but Sand Fire rages

The so-called Soberanes Fire , burning in the Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County, threatened 1,650 structures by Monday afternoon and was only 5 per...

Sun Yang takes Olympic gold in 200m freestyle

The world bronze medallist was referring to herself, after a first personal best in the event in two years, since she won Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow. "T...

Rio Olympics 2016: Sun Yang 'pisses purple,' angry French swimmer says

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Clinton officially accepts Democratic presidential nomination

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Republicans launch scathing attack on 'reckless' Donald Trump

A source with knowledge of the campaign's plans says aides at Clinton's NY headquarters spoke Monday with Democratic Party officials in Georgia and Arizona to d...

Judge condemns Asad Shah's 'barbaric killing'

Judge Rae asserted that the murder was "in effect an execution" and told Ahmed that "your determination to kill Mr Shah was obvious". Tanveer Ahmed said he ha...

Saudi-Led Coalition Hits Food Factory, Killing 14 Civilians

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Three TN girls hurt in fall from Ferris wheel

Two girls were flown to the Johnson City, Tenn., Medical Center, while the third was taken there by ambulance, Davis said. All three victims were children, the ...

Clinton challenges Trump by saying she'll attend all three debates

Collins, who represents the state of ME in the US Senate, was no less scathing about Trump in her opinion piece - particularly with regard to his bullying of th...

Tim Canova Files Federal Election Commission Complaint Against Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Although Canova began as "a major underdog", the Vermont senator contended, recent polls give Wasserman Schultz only a 46 to 38 percent advantage with just week...

Man beaten with crowbar for wearing Trump shirt

Authorities are investigating the incident, Bloomfield police stated. After separating the men, she said the man who was verbally attacked waited in the parking...