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Doubt remains over Assange future at Ecuador embassy amid election dispute

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German foreign minister calls for immediate probe into Syria gas attack

Warplanes struck a northern Syrian town Saturday where a chemical attack killed scores of people earlier this week, killing one person and wounding another as T...

San Bernardino school shooter threatened his wife

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Tillerson, top diplomats hold urgent meeting on Syria crisis

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Explosions in front of Borussia Dortmund team bus leave one injured

Other players are thought to have been unhurt. The wheels of the bus were damaged and some windows shattered in the blasts, which happened about 7 p.m. The City...

Will the US Go to War with Russian Federation?

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Head of US intelligence inquiry refuses to step aside

Yates, an Obama administration appointee who previously served as deputy AG, was sacked by President Trump in January after she refused to defend the president'...

Was Trump's Syria Strike Illegal? Explaining Presidential War Powers

Tillerson conceded the two world powers had "sharp differences" that have obstructed cooperation but voiced optimism that their talks could narrow those differe...

Post-mortems show sarin gas used against Syrian town, Turkey says

The allegation of Russian foreknowledge is grave, even by the standards of the now dismal U.S. The story goes back at least to Cold War times, when the Soviet...

Netflix leads the pack in streaming, but other services are catching up

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Kulbhushan Jadhav, Victim Of Pakistan's Attempts To Divert International Attention: Sushma Swaraj

Jadhav, who was arrested in March a year ago by Pakistan and accused by the country of spying, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court yesterday tr...

Alabama Gov. Bentley resigns after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations

Formerly the state's top cop, Collier said he was terminated for disobeying Bentley's order that he not cooperate with the attorney general's investigation of...

Britain urges Putin to end support for 'toxic' Assad

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French presidency frontrunner Macron tells rival Le Pen nationalism means war

Melenchon has now eclipsed the beleaguered Socialist party candidate Benoit Hamon, with an average of polls showing him winning around 15 percent, higher than...

Factory output sinks 1.2% in February

January's output numbers were also cut to 0.3 percent month-on-month from an initially reported 0.9 percent and to 0.2 percent year-on-year from the 0.6 percent...

UK: Hundreds protest Assad regime for chemical attack

The United States on Thursday fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles from warships in the Mediterranean at the Shayrat airfield near Homs in central Syria. If Mr T...

Police observe two-minute silence for PC Keith Palmer

Thousands of police officers from all over the country, as well as members of the public, lined the route to pay tribute to their "fallen brother". Pc Palmer,...

London killer carried out dry run before Parliament attack

In a statement to the Associated Press, Hydara poured scorn on her husband's act of terror and requested privacy for her family, especially the children, at thi...

GOP Holds Kansas House Seat As Democrat's Surprise Upset Bid Falls Short

The race was rated Likely Republican on the PPD Election Projection Model, though Estes was a particularly weak candidate. The Cook Political Report still has...

North Korea decries US carrier dispatch as parliament meets

Xi's comments came after Trump tweeted that China should do more on an issue that Washington sees as an increasingly urgent threat, or else the USA would go it ...

Boy killed at San Bernardino school lived with Williams Syndrome

Smith's mother, Irma Sykes , said her daughter had been friends with Anderson for about four years before they got married. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong). A 9-yea...

Government must immediately roll back fee hike of Panjab university- AAP

Police misinterpreted and slapped sedition charges on them. Meanwhile, the Students for Society (SFS) and other protesting student organisations from the ca...

Positives for Trump, Xi Jinping After US-China Meeting

Earlier this year, China called on both North Korea and the United States to tone down tension on the Korean peninsula - North Korea by suspending its nuc...

Zuma pulling the race card demonstrates his desperation - Save SA

The Presidency wishes President Jacob Zuma a very happy and fulfilling birthday as he turns 75 years old today. EFF leader Julius Malema, on Monday, warned pr...

North Korea vows response to 'reckless' US Navy move

Pictures out of North Korea also indicate that they may be rapidly approaching the development of a truly Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - one that may even...

Security reviewed at all Champions Leagues games

According to police, three explosive devices were detonated near the team bus while it was en route. The team identified the player injured in the explosion a...

San Bernardino school shooting: Student killed had survived heart surgery

This undated photo released by the San Bernardino Police Department shows Cedric Anderson , 53. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong). An elderly woman hands flowers to a...

South African opposition marks Zuma's birthday with protest

A multi-party demonstration will march to the Union Buildings at noon on Wednesday. "We will not tolerate any misbehaviour and want maximum discipline". Nomura ...

Federation Internationale de Football Association and UEFA condemn alleged attack on Borussia Dortmund team bus

Manchester United attacker Mkhitaryan, who made 140 appearances for the German club over three seasons, also took to social media to share his support to Bartra...

They don't want to defend - Ferdinand slams Barcelona players' attitude

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Teens Break In To Canada's Wonderland

The York Regional Police helicopter arrived a short time later and with the use of a thermal camera officers were able to track down the suspects, who were sitt...

Trump administration to lift federal hiring freeze

Jason Miller writes OMB Director Mick Mulvaney released the 14-page guidance to agency executives in compliance with an executive order on government reorganiz...

Every Europa League game a 'final' for Man United: Luke Shaw

Since the appointment of Jose Mourinho as the manager of Manchester United, some players not bought by him including Memphis Depay, Morgan Schneiderlin and Bast...

Putin says expects 'fake' gas attacks to discredit Syria's Assad

When combined with Russian hackers trying to hurt Hillary Clinton by illegally obtaining emails from her campaign and the DNC, some Trump skeptics assumed eithe...

Passenger dragged off plane: United Airlines finally apologises as image takes beating

A video released on social media showed that a bloodied passenger was dragged off a United Express flight by the aviation security officers , after he refuse...