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Paris attack could benefit the far-right two days before French election

The attack comes three days ahead of the first round of the presidential election to choose two candidates for the run-off on May 7. "Another terrorist atta...

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The term "reckless" is one the North Koreans have used to describe ongoing large-scale US and South Korean military exercises, which the North calls a dress r...

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Nearly immediately BART sent out an alert advising passengers of the closure at Montgomery St. Station "due to a technical problem with PG&E". A power substat...

United States 'not looking for fight' with North Korea

US President Donald Trump has been pressing China to rein in North Korea, suggesting that doing so could ease US-China relations over trade and other issues. At...

Former Trump aide denies wrongdoing amid reports of Russian Federation probe

The FBI secured a court order in 2016 to secretly surveil the communications of Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, a...

Newly released Egyptian-American charity worker visits Trump

After three years in detention, the Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi was cleared of child abuse and human trafficking charges in Cairo on Sunday, abrup...

Back to the ballot box: United Kingdom lawmakers back June 8 election

Tellers approach the speaker to announce the result of a vote by MPs in the House of Commons, London , as they cleared the way for a general election on June 8...

EU Commission says Turkey must investigate referendum doubts

People walk in central Istanbul's Taksim Square, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Opposition parties filed formal requests asking the electoral board to void the re...

China Defends Trademark Grants For Ivanka Trump Products

Her Ivanka Trump Marks LLC applied for numerous new trademarks worldwide following Trump's win a year ago, including in China, the Philippines, Canada, Puerto...

Gorsuch, Supreme Court didn't ban teaching of Islam

Lee became the first person executed in Arkansas in almost 12 years and that state is planning to put another three men to death before its supply of the key ex...

Japan lawmakers' group visits Yasukuni shrine for war dead

Along with Abe's offering, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki and the speakers of both houses of the Diet also sent ritual offerings to the sh...

Some US companies that have left or scaled back in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP ) - The leader of Venezuela's rebellious congress has a message for the world's capitalists: Think twice before signing another check to ...

Hernandez family wants trauma researchers to examine brain

Hernandez and he was transported to UMASS Leominster where he was pronounced dead at 4:07 a.m.by a physician at the hospital. Aaron Hernandez sits in the cour...

Deutsche Bank: Your Guide To The French Elections

Earlier, the USA president tweeted that the attack, claimed by the Islamic State, "will have a big effect" on the vote . In the interview with AP, Trump ...

Chaffetz Says He May Not Finish Congressional Term - What's Going On?

Despite this, following Chaffetz's announcement, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Steve Stivers, released a statement saying h...

Israeli Politicians, Diplomats Send Condolences to Egypt After Coptic Church Bombings

Sisi announced the state of emergency nationwide for three months in a short televised address last night, following the blasts that targeted the minority Copti...

5 things to know about Ottawa's new cannabis legislation

They will also be permitted to grow up to four plants per residence and make cannabis-containing products at home for recreational use. While the capital wi...

Jailed Fatah leader moved to separate prison, into isolation amid hunger strike

Palestinians marked Monday as Prisoners' Day. "The unity of prisoners in occupation prisons will leave the Palestinian street unified behind them", said the ...

Trump appointee Gorsuch energetic in first U.S. high court arguments

Gorsuch's first case Monday is hardly a blockbuster, posing a procedural question about discrimination claims by federal employees. By many accounts, these ca...

South Korea on heightened alert as North readies for army celebration

A United States city is the epicenter of a nuclear bomb in a disturbing new propaganda video released by North Korea. The attempted launch occurred a day afte...

UK Election Debates Won't Feature The Prime Minister

MPs from across the political spectrum voted 522-13 for a return to the polls - well above the two-thirds majority required under British law. She said a gene...

Thousands of migrants rescued in 3 days in Mediterranean

In all 35 rescue operations were launched during the day on Saturday, with 15 of them still underway as night fell, the coastguard said . With 2,074 rescues ...

Note Praising Islamic State Found Near Body of Paris Gunman

Reports described the attacker as a 39-year-old Frenchman who lived in a Paris suburb and had been known to security services as an Islamist radical. On Thurs...

Pakistan, India should negotiate to resolve all disputes: Stephane Dujarric

Jadhav was arrested on March 3 past year during a counter-intelligence operation in the Mashkel area of Balochistan. She said if the decision of the Pakistani...

Erdogan slams criticism of Turkey referendum

Erdogan's supporters took to the streets to cheer, while opponents stayed indoors banging pots and pans in protest over the vote to bring the biggest overhaul i...

British Parliament backs PM's call for June general election over 'Brexit'

Fifteen police forces are now considering charges against more than 30 candidates for failing to properly declare how much they spent during the 2015 general ...

Trump signs law allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood

The Obama administration originated the rule to protect Planned Parenthood and similar clinics from Republican efforts to restrict access to abortion prov...

Survivalist who ambushed police seeks to avoid death penalty

Bryon Dickson and injuring Trooper Alex T. Douglass in the September 2014 ambush outside the state police barracks in Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania. He then led ...

United Kingdom finance minister Hammond says 2015 tax promises hamper government

The pledge was part of the Tories' manifesto in the run-up to the 2015 election, and a number of senior Conservatives claimed Labour would "clobber" working peo...

Civilians forced to eat cats in war-torn Mosul

Officers in Iraq's Federal Police told Reuters that Islamic State shelled government forces with chemical weapons agents in the Urouba and Bab Jadid distr...

On-Again, Off-Again Speech by Ann Coulter Is On Again

The conservative commentator initially agreed to speak at Berkeley on April 27 after college Republicans invited her, but the school canceled on Wednesday cit...

French frontrunner Macron calls on France to unite and reject "fear"

After Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Champs Elysée shooting, and identified the attacker as "Abu Yousif the Belgian", some media outlets reported ...

UK Labour leader comes out fighting ahead of election

The idea of a coalition government of centre left parties is distinct from the " progressive alliance ", being pushed by some figures in the SNP, which would se...

Labour General Election 2017 campaign: MP admits 'we're not trying to win'

Meanwhile, former cabinet minister Yvette Cooper is tipped as an early favourite to succeed Corbyn should Labour suffer defeat at the election. This election ...

UK lawmakers overwhelmingly back June election

Following the election decision, the parliament will be dissolved on May 2. Britain's parliament has endorsed May's call for a vote on June 8. The result ...