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Iran's first VP drops out of presidential race to back President Rouhani

Iran's president broadly manages domestic affairs while the actual head of state is the Supreme Leader, now Ayatollah Khomeini, who has constitutional authority...

Israeli minister reportedly says it is time to assassinate Syria's Assad

The U.S. State Department revealed photos of a crematorium built near a prison outside Demascus. Syria's government says it "categorically" denies the accus...

Trump Says He's Victim of Witch Hunt, Denies Pressuring FBI Chief

No. Next question ", Trump replied during a press conference with the Colombian president when asked about the New York Times report that Comey had written...

Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, 52, killed himself by hanging

Cornell was known for a almost four-octave vocal range. Telling the audience that he could never sing like Chris, he encouraged the crowd to join in and sing ...

Megadeth Perform 'Outshined' as Tribute to Chris Cornell

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Unnamed White House Official Says Trump Is 'Completely F-ed'

But she said "it's very hard to characterize this one encounter as obstruction of justice". The Comey memo was part of a paper trail Comey created documenting...

Trump Sibling-in-Law Plays Princeling in China

The EB-5 programme was created in 1990 to help stimulate the United States economy through job creation and capital investment from foreign nationals, but detra...

As "Laptop Ban" Talks Continue, Airline Groups Speak Out

The talks come in light of United States intelligence indicating terrorist plots to use laptops to disguise explosives on commercial aircraft. The latest atta...

Trump to Order Commission on Fraudulent Voting in Elections

He reiterated the claim . "Well, you would have to then assume that the vast majority of them voted for Clinton, not Trump". "And I believe that he bases his i...

Latest Trump revelations reinforce the need for an independent investigation

Comey told Trump he should not contact him directly about FBI investigations but follow procedure and have the White House counsel ask the Justice Department,...

Trump finds Russian Federation probe out of his control

At a press conference later on Thursday, Trump said , "I respect the move but the entire thing is a witch hunt". It immediately escalated the legal stakes - an...

Aisha Buhari visits released Chibok girls

District Head of Chibok Alhaji Zanna Modu thanked the Federal and the Borno State governments and all other persons and organisations that helped to secure the ...

Could the Comey memo bring down the presidency?

The Trump White House is on the defense again following the latest disclosure about alleged conversations between the president and since-fired FBI Director Ji...

Trump threatens 'showboat' Comey with 'tapes', warns he may cancel press briefings

Trump , in an apparent warning to his fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director, said Friday, May 12, 2017 , that. "There's nothing further to add on that...

Senate chairman: Flynn has not responded to subpoena

Burr told reporters earlier on Thursday that Flynn's lawyers had said he would not honour the subpoena issued in connection with the committee's investigation i...

SKorea: Trump Willing to Try Engagement With NKorea, on Conditions

Speaking to reporters ahead of a closed-door UN Security Council meeting, USA ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley also made clear that Washington would talk to ...

UK Election 2017: Labour to Raise Income Tax to 67.5%

Another, called Jim, suggested that she might face more of a challenge than expected in the June 8 general election after the launch of Labour's manifesto. Th...

Liberal losses in BC cast doubt on energy projects

Mr. Weaver said he will not telegraph what his party will try to negotiate with either the Liberals or the NDP, but he did say his party is not interested in pu...

France's Macron holds 1st Cabinet meeting; half are women

The Kremlin said the French and Russian leaders have discussed possible co-operation on global issues, including the fight against terrorism. Collomb has spea...

Does US believe Western Wall is in Israel?

But he made no mention of Trump divulging intelligence to Russian Federation that a U.S. administration official said had originally come from Israel . That po...

Turkey demands U.S. replace envoy in spat over Syrian Kurds

But underneath the talk of "a new era", a deep fissure remains over the Trump administration's decision to directly arm a Kurdish rebel group in Syria that Tur...

White House Defends Trump's Conversation With Russian Officials

Since coming to office in January, Trump has lurched from crisis to crisis, lampooning the intelligence services, law enforcement and the media along the way. H...

China building biggest infrastructure project in history

The Belt and Road initiative is seen as part of China's answer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, a regional trade pact involving Pacific Rim countrie...

Proposed Laptop Travel Ban Would Wreak Havoc on Business Travelers

This week's meeting took place following news that the U.S. would extend its ban on in-flight laptops and other large electronics on flights coming from Europe....

US Air Strike Targets Pro-Syrian Militia

Syrian regime forces occupying five vehicles were targeted by United States airstrikes after breaching a "de-confliction zone", a USA official told CNN Thursd...

Gen. Michael Hayden: Trump White House Unable to Admit Basic Facts

Michael Flynn's conduct and the Trump administration's handling of the allegations about him. Yates is expected to provide details about the warnings she gave...

Who was in Trump's meeting with the Russians?

Sergey Kislyak. Trump has come under fire following news reports that he shared sensitive intelligence about the Islamic State militants with Lavrov and Russi...

Projections show Macron elected French President

The notion that a new movement under Le Pen could lead to political alliances and entice new voters poses a challenge to Macron, who said during his victory spe...

GOP candidate for FBI says no special counsel for inquiry

Cornyn and at least seven other candidates interviewed with Justice Department officials about the position this weekend. Cornyn, 65, was one of 14 people who...

Stadium for Rams, Chargers delayed; won't open until 2020

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Crushing loss for Labour points to big Tory majority in Commons

Since the last election in 2013 there have been boundary changes in Hertfordshire which have increased the number of councillors from 77 to 78. The party won ...

Erdogan's bodyguards in violent clash with protesters in Washington

President Donald Trump walks Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to his auto following his visit to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. Two...

At least one killed as tornado tears though dozens of Oklahoma homes

Fitzgerald says they lifted walls off people who were trapped. "The best chance for discrete surface based cells, and thus the highest tornado and largest hai...

U.S. denies visas to gay Russians fleeing torture and murder in Chechnya

Since the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta first reported the abuse of dozens of gay Chechens in April , just two have managed to secure visas...

Lawmakers demand swift action for Turkish Embassy violence

In a statement, the Turkish Embassy blamed the violence on the demonstrators, saying they were "aggressively provoking Turkish-American citizens who had peacefu...