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49ers thought Bears were trading up for Solomon Thomas

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At a meeting of the UN Security Council US secretary of state Rex Tillerson warned North Korea must be denuclearised. Following the interview , White House P...

Le Pen wants negotiations to drop euro currency

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Central Intelligence Agency chief visits South Korea after latest missile test raises tension

Francis was asked as he traveled back to Rome from Egypt on Saturday about North Korean ballistic missile tests and USA warnings of "catastrophic" consequences ...

Far-right to rally in Berkeley after Coulter talk canceled

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Japan Releases "What To Do If North Korea Nukes You" Guide

That's not all. As Alex Ward wrote for Vox, South Korea's capital of Seoul is well within range of the thousands of conventional weapons in North Korea's en...

Prisoners suffer health deterioration as they enter 10th day of strike

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Arkansas inmate convulses during deadline-beating execution

Kissel of the Associated Press says Williams was, "coughing, convulsing, lurching, jerking" for more than 20 seconds with sound audible through glass, even wi...

China Launches First Domestically Constructed Aircraft Carrier

The launch was attended by the vice-president of China's central military commission, Fan Changlong. The massive new warship was then lowered into the water a...

Central Intelligence Agency chief in South Korea for 'internal visit'

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Thousands march in rival rallies days before France presidential election

The majority of respondents, or more precisely 61 percent of them, said that they had sympathy for right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen, while 8 percent of respon...

United Airlines and the passenger reach a settlement

The footage showed airport police officers pulling the 69-year-old father of five from his seat and dragging him down the aisle. "Thomas Demetrio, an attorney...

1 killed, 7 injured in San Diego shooting

It's not clear whether Selis knew any of the victims, police said. Police shot and killed a 49-year-old man suspected of shooting seven people Sunday at a bir...

Turkey demands US stop supporting Syrian Kurdish militants

U.S. armoured vehicles were deployed in areas in northern Syria along the tense border with Turkey, a few days after a Turkish airstrike that killed 20 US-backe...

Venezuela opposition vows fresh protests despite deaths

The president has said that beneath a peaceful façade, allegedly encouraged by the United States, the protests are nothing but opposition efforts to foment a co...

Valtteri Bottas credits home comforts to first GP victory in Russian GP

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CIA chief visits South Korea after latest missile test raises tension

One day earlier, when asked by CBS's John Dickerson if he'd consider a military response to another nuclear test, President Trump said, "I don't know, we'll see...

Tear gas in France as Le Pen, Macron hold May Day rallies

Under Marine Le Pen "we'd have the franc in the morning and then the euro in the afternoon", said Macron. "The euro is dead", she told Le Parisien this we...

Queen Elizabeth's birthday celebrated

Her birthday will be marked with a 41-gun salute in Hyde Park, a 21-gun salute at Windsor and a 62-gun salute at the Tower of London . There was also a 21-gu...

South Korea says THAAD can defend against attack

As the tensions continued, Donald Trump offered Kim an olive branch. A statement from the Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday that was circulated by North Ko...

Berkeley hails peaceful debate over Ann Coulter

The two sides were separated by a wall of riot police, while hundreds of other officers were deployed around the city and campus. "I think we're not doing eno...

Gorsuch Full of Questions in First US Supreme Court Argument

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Trump Admin Working With Allies To Pressure North Korea

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Iranian Defense Minister Believes Israel Should Be 'Completely Disarmed'

An unnamed regional intelligence source, quoted by Reuters , said the strike was carried out by Israel and targeted an Iran-supplied Hezbollah arms depot. Is...

Trump administration to roll back some school meal standards

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Trump slams sanctuary city ruling, says opponents are 'judge shopping!'

Unhappy with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit order against his policies on travel ban and sanctuary cities, President Donald Trump on Wednesday ...

NKorea says it will speed up nuke program in response to US

On Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the United Nations Security Council that Washington would not negotiate with North Korea. "Now that th...

'You have a true friend,' Trump tells NRA

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Hill settles on $1T spending bill, vote likely by Wednesday

Of the trillion dollars in the bill's discretionary spending, $598.5 billion is slated for defense - an increase of $25 billion, or 4.5 percent, above fiscal ye...

Palestinians say dozens wounded at protests for prisoners

But the group's decision to appoint Yehya al-Sinwar - a hardline founder of Hamas' military wing in the 1980s - as Hamas's Gaza leader is a sign that the group ...

Trump will sign executive order while visiting central Pa. factory

Trump tells the television network of congressional Republicans: "I like nearly all of them a lot" and "I think you're going to see the Republican party really ...

Marine Le Pen Lays Wreath At Holocaust Memorial

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Hamas loses out as Palestinian hunger strike benefits Fatah

Barghouti is now reported to be entering the second week of a hunger strike in protest against what he described as the "collective punishment against the P...

Chelsea keeps Tottenham 4 points behind in title pursuit

City relied on 20-year-old striker Gabriel Jesus to secure them a point in the final five minutes of their game against a Boro side scenting back-to-back wins i...