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Australia abolishes visa programme used largely by Indians

The prime minister said the changes would attract better-skilled workers and encourage the hiring of Australians instead of cheaper foreign labor. However, th...

Local demonstrators demand Trump release tax returns

Trump has refused to release his tax returns, breaking with decades of precedent by arguing he would not release them while those returns are under audit, thoug...

Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike leader sent to solitary

Palestinian prisoners have mounted repeated hunger strikes , but rarely on such a large scale. Since Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip 50 year...

Howard Stern calls Sean Spicer 'embarrassing' but 'entertaining as hell'

At town hall, GOP Rep. Coffman says Sean Spicer 'needs to go.' "I just don't think he's serving the president well". Spicer later apologized for his "inapprop...

Supreme Court denies Arkansas request to carry out execution

But even with the court-issued stays, the executions are still possible before the end of April if the cases are sent to the Supreme Court and it sides with the...

Top US diplomat Nikki Haley says no Syria peace with Assad

The heads of the general staffs of Iran and Russian Federation, a close ally of Assad, spoke by telephone on Saturday and condemned the U.S. strikes as "blatant...

Trump strategy on N. Korea: 'Maximum pressure and engagement'

China has been urged by Mr Trump and other senior USA officials to take a greater role in pressuring the North Korean regime to renounce provocative tests of ...

Australia tightens skilled job visa scheme for foreigners

Those on the two-year visa will not be eligible for permanent resident (PR) status but can apply for a four-year sponsored visa if they fulfil the English pro...

Hollande hails "outstanding arrest" of 2 terror suspects in Marseille

The arrests "took place as part of an investigation by the anti-terrorist section of Paris public prosecutor's office, Fekl said ". National security figures...

Tillerson to press Russia on Syrian chemical weapons

President Hassan Rouhani earlier criticised his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump for the missiles fired early on Friday in response to the suspected chemical attac...

India BJP leaders face conspiracy trial in 1992 mosque case

The top court however, noted that since Kalyan Singh enjoys Constitutional immunity being Rajasthan Governor , he can only be tried after he leaves the offic...

Ivanka's biz prospers as politics mixes with business

First Daughter Ivanka Trump's lifestyle business is booming thanks to a controversial plug from Counsel to the President Kellyanne Conway, new figures show. Eth...

Mexican Fugitive Governor Arrested - Second in Days

Former Mexican governor Javier Duarte arrested in Guatemala: After more than six months of eluding authorities, Ex-Governor of Veracuz, Mexico Javier Duarte was...

The Fate of the Furious Reviews - What Did You Think?!

He recollected: "I had been working with Paul Walker on another movie, Skulls , and I gave him the script [for The Fast and the Furious ]". "There wasn't ...

US envoy Nikki Haley says Syria regime change is 'inevitable'

Sir Michael said the attack had happened "on their watch" and that Vladimir Putin must now live up to previously made promises that Mr Assad's chemical weapons ...

Sean Spicer Apologizes After Comparing Syrian President to Adolf Hitler

The Huffington Post reported that Spicer apologized Tuesday for his remarks on the Holocaust , telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that his comments during a White H...

Pence: North Korea is 'getting the message'

Abandoning that policy, according to officials from President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama's administrations, risks sending a unsafe message to Uni...

Suspect in foiled French election attack also sought by Belgium

But we need you. "The fact that these two individuals were arrested in Marseille when Marine Le Pen is holding a rally there the next day is perhaps not a coi...

Could A Donald Trump Tweet Launch A Nuclear War?

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Saturday urged North Korea to abide by United Nations resolutions and stop its pursuit of nuclear weapons, as the r...

Korea Celebrated Its Founder By Showing Off A Bunch Of Missiles

China's Global Times newspaper, which is published by the People's Daily, the Communist Party's official paper, said North Korea must have felt the shockwave fr...

Mattis says N. Korea 'recklessly tried to provoke'

His language was stronger than in an initial written statement he issued shortly after the launch, in which he simply said he was aware of the failure. focus is...

New York Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam's Death Is 'Suspicious'

However, the New York Police Department is now investigating her death as "suspicious", the New York Postreports. There was no evidence of criminality, accordin...

Easter egg hunt at Emerald Cove Park

Two Easter egg hunts were held in Hoboken last Saturday for area tykes. Eggs of all colors were scattered in the grass - some gold and silver colored. "As the...

Mike Pence to seek market access, investment, in Japan talks

The president's warning comes as North Korea's deputy United Nations ambassador accused the USA of creating 'a unsafe situation in which a nuclear war may bre...

Crews search for hikers swept away in Grand Canyon creek

The McCallie School, an all-boys school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, said one of its students, eighth-grader Jackson Standefer, and his step-grandmother were swep...

California gunman kills 3 in Fresno

Three people were shot dead and a fourth injured in Fresno, California on Tuesday before a suspect was apprehended by authorities. "This is exclusively base...

Democrat fails to avoid run-off in Georgia election, Trump declares victory

The 30-year-old investigative filmmaker led the field of 18 candidates with 48.3 percent of the vote in Georgia's 6th District, held for decades by Republicans....

Timeline: Ivanka Trump goes to Washington, and sales surge

The president used his personal and White House Twitter accounts to lash out at Nordstrom, saying that the company had treated his daughter "so unfairly". Febru...

Demand to see Trump's tax returns will only grow

Republicans across the country have returned home this year to face town halls filled with Trump opponents eager to give members of Congress an earful. But the ...

Macron Clings to Lead in Tense French Election Race

The two men, identified only as Maehiedine M. and Clement B., are both well known to French authorities. Le Pen, who has been pressing home her core message o...

India French envoy Pascal Mazurier acquitted of raping daughter

A former French diplomat charged with raping his three-year-old daughter in India has been cleared of all charges. Mazurier, who was working in the French con...

UK prime minister defends decision to seek snap election

Warning that current Prime Minister Theresa May could be using the vote to attempt to win herself a "mandate for Brexit Means Brexit aka Brexit At Any Cost", he...

The Kansas special election was a test for party leadership. Everyone failed

The special election Tuesday between Democrat James Thompson and Estes to fill the seat vacated by CIA Director Mike Pompeo is being watched across the nation...

US VP Pence says to North Korea: 'The sword stands ready'

Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that it's time for North Korea to "get the message" on halting its nuclear and ballistic ambitions. Vice President ...

Labour MP calls snap general election a 'vanity project'

Mr Blenkinsop cited differences with the party leadership and said: "I will do all I can in my time remaining as an MP to champion my constituents and the are...