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Manafort pushes back on report he worked to help Putin's government

Manafort, who ran Trump's campaign from March into August, has said this year he still speaks with Trump on the phone. He resigned from his role as campaign...

Former Russian lawmaker and Kremlin critic shot dead in streets of Kiev

A bodyguard managed to wound the attacker, who later died. Both were hospitalized but Ukrainian media cited hospital doctors later in the day as saying the gu...

Senator Asks Governor Bentley to Resign

In February, Bentley appointed Alabama's Attorney General Luther Strange , who had been working on an inquiry into allegations against the governor, to the Sen...

EU Expands Sanctions Against North Korea as Trump Meets Xi

Both as a candidate and president, Mr Trump has taken an aggressive posture toward China, labeling Beijing a "tremendous problem" and arguing that lopsided trad...

Iran 'strongly condemns' United States strike in Syria

SAUDI ARABIA: A foreign ministry official hailed US President Donald Trump as "courageous" for taking action when "the global community has failed to put a halt...

ANC Parly caucus stands by corruption, Zuma's poor leadership

In a statement the party's chief whip, John Steenhuisen, said the decision by the governing party's caucus to vote against the motion clearly demonstrated tha...

Judge denies request to delay hearing on Baltimore police

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered all consent decrees nationwide to be reviewed. Prior, the DOJ spokesman, declined to comment on whether Sessions ...

Klopp wants Liverpool to close out matches like Chelsea

Liverpool remained in third place, and is now two points ahead of fourth-place Manchester City, but it has played more games than all of its rivals in the to...

Shotgun downplays Tarun Vijay's remark, says there is nothing 'black and white'

BJP leader Tarun Vijay on Friday stirred a massive controversy with his racist remarks against South Indians. "I can die but how can I ridicule my own culture...

United Airlines branded 'sexist' for barring girls in leggings

The young girl was eventually allowed to board the plane but only after changing into a dress. "I have five kids: four of them are women", Watts said in an em...

United States launches missile strikes on Syria

U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017 . The U.S. fired a barrag...

Russia Detains 6 Terror Suspects in St. Petersburg After Bombing

He is believed to have links to radical Islamist groups, says Interfax, although a spokesman for Russian president Vladimir Putin would not comment, saying it w...

EU Expands North Korea Sanctions After Missile Tests

The European Union on Thursday expanded sanctions against North Korea over the country's nuclear tests and launches of ballistic missiles. Unlike a liquid-fue...

Ethics panel steps into spotlight with Nunes inquiry

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes stepped aside from leading the House investigation into Russia's meddling in the United States election Thursday, cappin...

Ratings boost: NCAA title game viewership up 30 per cent

The lead changed hands seven more times, but the excitement was blunted by the game's 44 fouls and 52 free throws. UNC scored less than one point per possessi...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in USA for first meeting with Trump

The base is believed by U.S. officials to have been used by Syrian jets in the chemical weapons attack on Tuesday. A deadly chemical attack was launched this we...

No. 1-ranked Dustin Johnson out of Masters with back injury

As a Masters victor Spieth gets to play every year "until they ask me to stop". To have a freak accident happen yesterday afternoon, it sucks. The Masters has...

US military strikes will hurt US-Russia relations, says Putin

Israel's Channel 2 TV said Israel along with other allies was notified about the USA strike. Trump's attack against the Assad regime came 77 days into his pre...

Arabs to back Mideast talks if Palestine state guaranteed

The representatives of 18 Arab countries did not publicly refer to Trump or his ambiguous statements but they underlined that they would support the two-state s...

USA attack killed nine civilians

US officials said the military fired dozens of cruise missiles against the base in response to the suspected gas attack in a rebel-held area this week, which Wa...

Plan to overhaul Baltimore's police goes before the public

Freddie Gray, 25, died in April 2015 after suffering spinal cord injuries while in police custody. . "He's talking about the federal government turning its ba...

New bill aims to block ICE from identifying as police officers

In a nationwide study of more than 200 ICE detention facilities, the Butler County jail was one of three they believed used solitary confinement for punishment....

Shot 9 Times, CRPF Commandant Chetan Cheetah Cheats Death

On February 14, Chetan Cheetah lead his team to an encounter in Parray Mohalla encounter of Hajin area in Bandipora region. CRPF Commanding Officer Chetan Kum...

Oil prices jump after US launches missile strike in Syria

Among the options would be using cruise missiles to attack Syrian targets and "grounding" Syrian aircraft, an unnamed United States official told Reuters on Thu...

Moreno claims win in Ecuadorian vote; rival vows challenge

Voting is mandatory in Ecuador and the victor will take office on 24 May. Ecuador's leftist ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno celebrated a narrow victory Mo...

Hoekstra: Susan Rice Likely Off the Hook in Trump Surveillance Case

Trump offered no evidence to back his allegations or any names of other Obama administration officials he said were also involved. A Republican member of ...

Bannon calls reports of threat to quit 'absurd,' as insiders say otherwise

Bannon had received for setting the agenda - and Mr. Trump was not pleased by the "President Bannon" puppet-master theme promoted by magazines, late-night talk ...

Effort needed to lower tensions after tough talk over Gibraltar

United Kingdom officials hope that in that time they can work out terms and agree on a new relationship between Britain and the 27-nation bloc. May insisted thi...

Turkey Says Autopsies Show Chemical Weapons Use in Syria Strike

The US Navy's attack was aimed at weapons bunkers and aircraft inside the Syrian military base and was the first direct US attack on Bashar Assad's Syrian gover...

Indonesia Condemns Chemical Weapon Attack in Syria

The US military, on Thursday (6 April), had fired around 59 Tomahawk missiles at the Shayrat airbase in western Syria. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Fre...

US Senate Republicans 'go nuclear,' clearing way for Donald Trump court nominee

We've heard glowing on a near daily basis from colleagues, students, and judges, newspaper editorials, from Democrats and from Republicans . Democrats then e...

South Africans hold nationwide protests against President Jacob Zuma

Zuma's decision to fire Pravin Gordhan as finance minister and make 19 other changes to his administration in a reshuffle announced after midnight on March 31 c...

China's President Xi Jinping, Trump arrive in Florida for first face-to-face meeting

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He is also expected to seek assurances that Mr Trump will not interfere in the territorial dispute over the South China S...

LI delegation members support Syria missile strike

The document accuses the Russian government of reneging on the 2013 bargain it struck with the Obama administration following the chemical weapons attacks of ...

Insult comic Don Rickles passes away at age 90

Rickles appeared everywhere from strip joints to the 1985 inaugural gala for President Ronald Reagan and remained a popular act well after his ethnic and raci...