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Sweden truck attack: What we know

A truck ploughed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in wh...

Isis shoots down Iraq army helicopter over Mosul killing two pilots

Trump is finding ways to speed up the US-led coalition campaign that USA and Iraqi officials say, has been successful in evicting the Islamic State militant...

4 dead, 15 wounded in Stockholm truck attack

There was no immediate indication on whether the crash was intentional and possibly linked to terrorism. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven says one person ...

Iraq forces retake three more villages in western Mosul

ISIS militants executed 140 civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul , the Security Council of the Iraqi Kurdistan region posted on its Twitter page. Islamic Sta...

US, China leaders hail progress after first meeting

Mr Xi has plans to reciprocate the US' hospitality, according to Beijing's official news agency. As a candidate and president, Trump has taken an aggressive p...

Israeli Security Cabinet approves first new settlement in two decades

Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi condemned the new settlement approval and called for global intervention. The issue of Jewish settlements in the West...

Bannon threatened to quit if removed from National Security Council role

A senior White House official presented the move as a logical evolution, not a setback for Bannon. McMaster was named national security adviser in late Februa...

US trade deficit falls 9.6% in February

The deficit fell to $43.6 billion in February, 9.6 percent below January's deficit of $48.2 billion, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. Economists poll...

Sen. McCain calls Michael Flynn's request for immunity 'unusual'

Congress has the authority to grant someone immunity, but doing so could jeopardize the Justice Department's ability to use that testimony as the basis for any ...

No to chemical massacres but OK to conventional attacks?

A Syrian military spokesperson said on state TV that the U.S. missiles hit both runways and damaged numerous bunkers, including some decommissioned aircraft. ...

Trump Administration Backs Down From Order To Unmask 'Rogue' Twitter Critic

Most - if not all - of these accounts clearly aren't associated with actual federal employees, but that doesn't mean that the Trump administration can force Tw...

Quakes crack buildings, panic tourists in Philippine town

The USGS said the quakes were also felt in Calapan in Mindoro province, Batangas Province, and the capital of Manila . Malacanang urged the public to stay ca...

About 30000 protesters call on Jacob Zuma to quit

His removal of Gordhan unleashed a fresh bout of criticism, as many South Africans and worldwide investors saw the former minister as someone who fought corrupt...

Trump May Be Seeking New Chief of Staff

On Wednesday Trump cut Steve Bannon from the National Security Council. This will likely also come up when Kushner faces questions from the Senate Intelligenc...

Gibraltarians Snared in Brexit Spat Fear Spanish Influence

Picardo said the European Union should remove the reference to Gibraltar, which voted overwhelmingly to stay in the European Union , from the draft guidelin...

North Korean ballistic missile launch condemned by UN Security Council

On Thursday US President Trump admitted diplomacy has failed and war with the totalitarian state could be on the cards. President of the think tank, Ralph Cossa...

Arabella Trump serenades Xi Jinping with Mandarin song

As the two leaders wrapped up a Florida summit overshadowed by US missile strikes in Syria overnight, Xi joined Trump in stressing the positive mood of the meet...

Donald Trump: We are prepared to take action on North Korea

She also criticized Putin for Russia's meddling in last year's US presidential elections. Appearing on the show on Sunday, Haley said other nations are " ha...

White House talks progress on reviving long-shot health bill

Chris Collins, a moderate Trump ally from NY, said resignedly that the ball is in the court of the Freedom Caucus, a coalition of arch conservative legislators ...

Mass marches call for S.African president's resignation

Speaking to RNEWS, East London resident Nomonde Siswana, said that the call for president Zuma to step down is a good cause, and that if he continues being ...

United Kingdom parliament to review security, incident response after attack

A police officer stands next to muslim girls during a commemorative event to mark last week's attack outside Parliament that killed four people , on Westminste...

Lawmakers Vote to Add Addiction Treatment Beds

This differs from the original version of the bill and the medical marijuana programs in most other states. Under the bill, the state would allow 15 growers t...

Greek bailout talks make major breakthrough on reforms

After weeks of negotiations, Greece and its creditors reached an agreement April 7 on a series of reforms that Athens will have to implement to comply with its ...

Tillerson, McMaster, Blame Russia for US Attack on Syria

On the same day as the USA strike , the UN's top decision-making body failed to do anything about the suspected toxic gas attack. First direct USA action a...

Sacking of finance minister triggers civil war in S.Africa's ruling ANC

The timing of the reshuffle in the early hours of Friday, with 10 out of 35 ministers losing their jobs in all, was created to reduce the impact on financial ma...

Defense rests in Aaron Hernandez's double-murder trial

Hernandez is on tri. He also sought to discredit the testimony of prosecution witness Alexander Bradley , a former friend of Hernandez's who said Hernandez...

Senate speeds up Gorsuch confirmation vote

Democrats could have forced Senate Republicans to stay in Washington until 6:50 p.m. on Friday if they wanted to use the upper chamber's rulebook to drag out de...

Hundreds expected to comment on Baltimore police reforms

District Court Judge James K. Bredar that Sessions was concerned about a recent spike in crime and how proposed reforms could affect crime rates. He says those ...

3 killed by truck driven into crowd in Swedish capital

Thick smoke was rising from the scene, but police have yet to confirm the information. A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "Our thoughts go ...

Vettel sets track record, tops Hamilton in last practice

Could the 2017 Australian Grand Prix be the changing of the guard in F1? "It's a great relief for everyone". The last months have been really intense, it's be...

USA strikes on Syria came close to clash with Russia - Medvedev

The Syrian army says the USA attack on Shayrat airfield killed six people, and called it "blatant aggression" that made the United States a partner of "terroris...

Baltimore Among Top Cities For Dog Attacks On Postal Workers

Las Vegas tied at No. 28 with Akron, Ohio, in the Postal Service's annual ranking of the top 30 cities for dog attacks on mail carriers. "Regardless if it's a...

IL members of Congress show rare bipartisan accord over Syrian missile strike

Before the strikes, Russia's deputy United Nations envoy, Vladimir Safronkov, warned of "negative consequences" if the U.S. carried out military strikes on Syr...

Authorities: 4 inmates found dead at a South Carolina prison

Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said he's investigating how they died, but said their deaths do not appear to be natural. The facility receives, assesses and...

Dalai Lama says it's for people to decide fate of his office

Buddhist monks at the monastery, the biggest in India and second only to the world's largest - the Potala Palace in Tibet, and scores of devotees received him w...