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Arkansas executions temporarily on hold

The Arkansas Supreme Court halted a double execution the state planned Monday night, and justices on Wednesday blocked the lethal injection of another inmate ...

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Incumbent Jakarta Gubernatorial candidate Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or Ahok congratulated rival candidate pair Anies Baswedan and Sandiaga Uno for winning the ...

Supreme Court blocks Arkansas executions

ET (midnight Central Time) when the execution warrant was to expire. Lawyers for Ward and Davis argued that delays in their executions were needed due to a se...

Trump calls for reform of H1-B visa programme used by Indians

Acting on his "Buy American, Hire American" pledge, Trump signed the order that calls for an overhaul of the programme at the Kenosha, Wisconsin, headquarters...

China says trademarks registered equally as Ivanka Trump gets more approved

Other than being the daughter of the president and the president's moral compass, which is also really weird, what the fuck is she doing in the White House?! "I...

Looters will have to return the loot, PM tweets over Mallya's arrest

UK's Metropolitian Police Service on Tuesday arrested Liquor baron Vijay Mallya based on the extradition request made by India. "The two Governments are in touc...

Japan lodges protest with N. Korea over ballistic missile launch

Pyongyang has said that their nuclear weapons development is created to counter USA policy that they believe is meant to invade the country and topple the gover...

ALERT: Australia scraps visa for skilled foreign workers

The Australian government today abolished a visa programme used by over 95,000 temporary foreign workers, a majority of them Indians, in an attempt to tackle...

European Union urges Turkey to probe referendum vote

The CHP, the largest opposition party in parliament, said on Wednesday it would never accept the legitimacy of the result of the referendum , raising the spect...

Runoff in Georgia House race could test Trump

Trump has been tweeting against Ossoff during the campaign. Handel told CNN's "New Day", that despite preventing a Ossoff from an out right when, the situatio...

Pence avoids direct answer on North Korea sabotage

The United States will not be negotiating directly with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un anytime soon, Vice President Mike Pence told CNN in an exclusive i...

Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News after sexual harassment claims

The agreements totaled about $13 million. Dozens of his show's advertisers fled within days, even though O'Reilly's viewership increased. Furthermore, women i...

Is BJP in charge of Tamil Nadu now? What the insiders think

The senior ministers and party leaders have confirmed that the Sasikala-Dinakaran group will not be allowed to interfere in the party affairs. Hours after Pan...

Tillerson Faults Iran Nuclear Accord as U.S. Plans New Review

He said the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers failed "to achieve the objective of a non-nuclear Iran and only delays their goal of becoming a ...

Mass protests take place across South Africa against President Jacob Zuma

Zuma fired Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan , who pushed for budget restraint and improved management at state companies, in a cabinet reshuffle on March 31, i...

Signature's annual Easter egg hunt returns

Word got out fast, and more people were intrigued by the idea as every day passed by. Meanwhile , on the "big kid" end of the mall, children ranging from 5 t...

Pence's new warning to North Korea: 'The sword stands ready'

The vice president is on a 10-day tour of Asia. Also Tuesday, it emerged that a USA strike group was not near the Korean Peninsula as had been previously th...

Why Australia's new visa policy will have minimal impact on Indians

One objective, said Trump aides, is to modify or replace the current lottery for H-1B visas with a merit-based system that would restrict the visas to highly sk...

Colombia landslide kills at least seven in Manizales

The landslides happened after the monthly average of rain fell in one night, the city's mayor said. Nine people are reported missing with almost two dozen injur...

Canada: Trump is wrong when he says dairy practices unfair

The Roskopfs and other Wisconsin dairy farmers have requested that another processor take their milk temporarily, until a political solution is reached. The NIS...

Trump Hails Xi Push on North Korea, Backs Off on Currency Gripe

Pyongyang has previously threatened to reduce the US "to ashes" if Washington conducts a preemptive strike, which seemed ever more possible as US President Dona...

France says it will provide proof the Syrian government used chemical weapons

Syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons arsenal to avert US strikes following a chemical weapons attack in opposition-held suburbs of Damascus in August 2...

Marlins lose combined no-hitter with one out in ninth inning

Athletics 4, Rangers 2: Andrew Triggs allowed three hits over six innings to outpitch Yu Darvish, and Oakland beat Texas. The double extended Haniger's hitting ...

Easter egg hunts galore this weekend

Rita said she hopes to make this an annual event. Children take off to grab their Easter eggs in the 17th Annual Easter Egg Hunt presented by RP Broadcasting ...

Bill O'Reilly Accuser Is Elated Over Fox News's Decision

Advertisers who had left O'Reilly had instead been shifted to other shows on the network, lessening the damage to the channel's revenue. But after more than...

New England Patriots Tom Brady Will Not Visit White House

Trump bragged about his close relationship with Patriots owner Bob Kraft and Coach Bill Belichick during the event, talking up how Belichick wrote him a letter...

As Trump warned North Korea, his 'armada' was headed toward Australia

The group consisted of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson , weighing 97,000 tons with 60 aircraft, as well as two guided-missile destroyers and a guided-missile ...

'Sword stands ready,' Pence warns North Korea

Pence said the Trump Administration wants to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons "through peaceful means", but he repeated the Administration's ...

Setback doesn't deter Arkansas plans for later executions

Last week, Wendell Griffen, a federal judge, blocked the state from using vecuronium bromide, a muscle relaxant that causes paralysis, after several pharmaceuti...

USA to Enhance Military Presence in Asia Pacific - Vice President Pence

He did not comment on what might have caused the missile to fail. "North Korea is the most unsafe and urgent threat to peace and security in the Asia-Pacific"...

Fresno Shooter Charged With Four Counts Of Murder

Muhammad was charged in 2005 with possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, court records show. The Gun Violence Archive website recorded 102 shooting incid...

MPs set to approve May's June 8 election plan

Corbyn told MPs the Tories had "broken promises" on the NHS and the deficit and "starved" schools of money while cutting tax for the rich. "Because when we win,...

When TTV Dinakaran stood all alone in court

With his erstwhile followers threatening to desert him, AIADMK Amma general secretary TTV Dinakaran on Wednesday chose to bow out and pave the way for the merge...

Georgia congressional race, litmus test for Trump, goes down to wire

Ossoff's opponent will be Karen Handel , who was Georgia's secretary of state from 2007 to 2010. Ossoff will face Karen Handel , the top Republican vote-get...

Iraqi Forces Gain Ground in Mosul Battle, Seven Months On

The extremists were driven out of the eastern half of Mosul , the country's second-largest city, in January. Earlier Thursday, army Lieutenant-General Abdul ...