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North Korea, sea feud under Asean spotlight

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The deployment has drawn protests from China, which says the powerful radar - which can penetrate its territory - will undermine regional security, and from loc...

Police shooting leaves 15-year-old dead

He was shot Saturday night and died at a hospital. "They were simply leaving a party where they believed danger was and so I can't wrap my mind around why a...

Access to Wikipedia blocked in Turkey

Ankara warned it to remove the offending content but the nonprofit encyclopedia refused, it added. The ban would be lifted if Wikipedia met the government'...

Trump tightens skilled-worker visa rules to encourage hiring Americans

Voicing immediate reservations about the decree, the US Chamber of Commerce, however, warned the Trump administration not to do away with the whole H-1B scheme,...

North Korea's Kim is 'a pretty smart cookie'

The Rodong Sinmun newspaper also said the North revealed two types of new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in a military parade on April 15 hon...

Acosta Confirmed As Labor Secretary, First Latino Member Of Trump Cabinet

Consider this: In February, the president ordered the Department of Labor - previously run by Tom Perez, who is now the chairman of the Democratic National Comm...

United States troops deploy along Syria-Turkish border

Ankara said Washington and Moscow had been properly informed in advance. "We have forces in the entirety of northern Syria, the border is among the area where...

How Clinton and Obama Laid Groundwork for Trump's Immigration Policies

The number of migrants, legal and illegal, crossing into the United States has dropped markedly since Trump took office, while recent declines in the number of ...

North Korea carries out ballistic missile test but fails

North Korea " will hardly give up nuclear weapons as long as it feels direct threat to its security ", Gatilov said . "This is precisely how North Koreans qual...

North Korea's Youth Grow Increasingly Critical of Socialist System

Pope Francis this weekend called for negotiations to resolve tensions over North Korea. The Trump administration has been calling for China and other worldwid...

Lawmakers settle on $1T plan to avoid US gov't shutdown

Bipartisan congressional negotiators reached a critical agreement late Sunday on a massive spending bill that if approved by the House and Senate would fund the...

UK: Police arrest woman who was shot during police raid

During the raid a 21-year-old woman was shot by police , and following hospital treatment, Scotland Yard said she has now been taken in for questioning. The ra...

Syrian Christian militia condemns Turkish airstrikes targeting U.S.-backed Kurds

Erdogan's comments come in advance of a meeting with US President Donald Trump on May 16 - their first face-to-face summit since the real estate mogul and reali...

USA sets up missile defense in S. Korea as North shows power

Pacific Command Adm. Harry Harris during a House hearing of the Committee on Armed Services in Washington. It may be that President Trump has decided that the...

The truth about corporate tax cuts

It's a sensitive subject for a White House that is telling Americans its proposed cuts to individual and corporate tax rates would aid the middle class and fu...

US Service Members Killed in Afghanistan

Unofficial sources say the toll was higher. The spring offensive usually marks the start of the " fighting season ", although the Taliban continued to battle ...

Robert Reich: 5 reasons why Trump's corporate tax cut is appallingly dumb

The plan proposed a one-time repatriation tax that would allow companies to bring back money from overseas to the US with a slightly lower, one-time tax. Ryan e...

India's Modi discusses trade, ties with Turkey's Erdogan

The trade volume between India and Turkey appears to around 6 billion dollars. This figure is below one percent of India's total trade volume, which is nearly $...

Tornadoes And Severe Floods Hit South And Midwest

Desirae Rasmussen of Canton survived the tornado, but her home was seriously damaged. "We have three major transmission stations that are damaged". Schools wi...

Marine Le Pen: Ban kosher and halal slaughter

Marine Le Pen, National Front political party candidate for French 2017 presidential election, poses for a selfie with employees as she visits the Rungis worldw...

Unions, immigrant groups to march in California cities

It will mark the first time in more than 10 years that all marches on May Day in the city have announced unity among the groups. But non-criminal arrests were d...

PM Modi wishes nation on May Day

When that day arrived, between 300,000 and a half-million American workers went on strike in cities and towns across the country, according to various histori...

Trump's gyrations on NAFTA cause a flurry of head-scratching

NAFTA is an agreement signed by Canada , Mexico and the U.S. to create a trilateral trade bloc in North America. "I had so many things going on ..." To commu...

Paris shooting: Marine Le Pen launches tirade against Islam after terror attack

The attack, which was claimed by Islamic State, overshadowed Friday's last day of campaigning for Sunday's presidential election first round. The gunman w...

Trump's First GDP Report Highlights Lackluster Growth

The GDP report released Friday was the first of three estimates the government will make of first-quarter growth. It may be of some solace that the last few...

Gilead, NetApp, First Solar Could Profit Most on Trump's Tax Plan

First, the Trump administration should look to Kansas as an example of what not to do on tax reform. Kauffman said the proposal moves the United States to a...

Pot Smokers Are Worried About Trump's Marijuana Policy

Three in four adults between 18 and 34 support legal marijuana use , as do six in 10 Americans between 35 and 64. If we extend that number to the total populat...

Afghanistan reacts at Taliban's announcement of spring offensive

John W. Nicholson, Commander, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan. A third service member was wounded in the same operation, the US military command in Afghanistan said i...

Swimmer injured in shark attack at Southern California beach

The woman was carried from the water by two surfers and first attended to by a group on the beach, including Thomas Williams, a 29-year-old San Clemente man who...

Meerut: Arms smuggling, animal skin trade racket busted at Retd. Colonel's house

In coordinated raids carried out by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Wild Life Department and local police, a big organised racket of poaching, illega...

Marine Le Pen Aligns Herself With Mainstream Onetime Rival

Who will win the 2017 French presidential elections if France were to follow the USA electoral college system? The FN shake-up comes in the midst of a bruisin...

Israel strikes arms depot near Syrian capital's airport

The Trump administration ordered the cruise missile attack on the air base and issued sanctions on 271 people linked to the Syrian agency said to be responsib...

McMaster says USA will pay for THAAD after all

They said the USA ship is expected to refuel other American warships, including the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group. "Military pressure against North K...

US Says Turkish Airstrikes In Syria, Iraq Kill Partner Counter-ISIS Fighters

Both groups have been close partners to US and coalition efforts to fight the Islamic State. State Department spokesman Mark Toner says US officials are "deep...