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USA jets bomb Assad tank convoy advancing on coalition base in Syria

United States officials said the strike was purely a defensive measure. Officials from the US -led coalition attempted to use a hotline established with th...

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Former FBI Director James Comey will testify in an open hearing before Congress, senators from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence announced Friday - gi...

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This year's meeting won't have as much juice as it would have last year, when the two teams had combined for 140 regular season wins, but it's still a tremendou...

Trump told aides firing Flynn was a mistake

The Kremlin is growing increasingly unhappy at being in the center of USA political storms that threaten to knock President Donald Trump off course. Flynn has...

U.S. Treasury Department Imposes Sanctions on Venezuelan Supreme Court

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Swedish prosecutors drop Julian Assange rape investigation

In 2015, the sexual assault charges against Assange were dropped after the statue of limitations expired, but the rape investigation remained open until Friday....

Russian Federation investigation identifies White House official as person of interest

Robert Mueller, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation director who also served in the Department of Justice under both Democratic and Republican presidents, ...

Donald Trump flies out amid new storm clouds

And though Trump told the Russians he wasn't under investigation, that assessment was challenged by another bombshell report from The Washington Post that ...

Russia's Lavrov says he did not discuss Comey with Trump

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Rep. Jason Chaffetz to Leave Congress in June

Later that same day, Thursday, Chaffetz' office released a statement that the congressman would leave his cot and office in Washington at the end of June. Cha...

How Jeff Sessions Could Make the Opioid Epidemic Even Worse

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Trump Campaign Had At Least 18 Undisclosed Contacts With Russians, Sources Say

Perhaps most importantly, content of the contacts has uncovered evidence that Flynn was involved in an attempt to create a covert line of direct communication b...

Time Magazine Cover Shows White House Overtaken By Russian Onion Domes

According to Reuters , six of the exchanges were between Sergey Kislyak , Russia's Ambassador to the US, and Flynn. Intercepted communications of Russian ...

Girls Have Reportedly Been Released By Boko Haram

The girls were among a group of 270 schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014 by the militant group Boko Haram, which has waged an eight-year-old insurgency to create...

[Breaking] NK fired another ballistic missile: S. Korean military

He further took aim at Washington for test-firing intercontinental ballistic missiles on May 3 and April 26 at a time when the situation on the Korean peninsula...

Talks on airplane laptop ban end with no ban, more talks

It would be an expansion to an existing United States laptop ban on flights from ten Muslim-majority countries. The four-hour meeting on Wednesday was held be...

North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Into Sea

North Korea fired a ballistic missile into waters off its east coast on Sunday, its second missile test in a week, which South Korea said dashed the hopes of th...

US May Soon Ban Laptops In Cabins On Flights From Europe

The US Department of Homeland Security sparked deep concern in Europe on Tuesday when it said was close to a decision on extending to European airlines an exi...

White House calls North Korea 'flagrant menace' after latest missile test

North Korea test-launched what appears to be a long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, claiming that it can carry a "large nuclear warhead". The Security Coun...

Democratic Texas congressman calls for Trump's impeachment

In fact, Congressman El Green from Texas on Wednesday became the first U.S. lawmaker to demand the impeachment of Trump from the House floor. "I think that ...

UN Urges Nigerians to Embrace Freed Schoolgirls

Receiving the girls, President Buhari said he was deeply grateful to security agencies, the military, the government of Switzerland, the International Committe...

Korea tests midrange ballistic missile

It didn't immediately provide more details. White House officials said the system, which was last tested in February, has a shorter range than the missiles la...

Russian officials 'bragged over ability to influence Donald Trump before election victory'

Trump also didn't feel Flynn should have been under investigation at all. It now appears that Moscow had been cultivating Flynn for months before he became a me...

Former FBI Chief James Comey to Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee

Comey has now agreed to testify before the senate intelligence committee, sometime after Memorial Day. The date has not been set. Russian Federation has de...

Iran slams Trump's new USA missile sanctions

As contentious as the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is in the USA, it has been even more divisive in Iran. The development shows that Trump's softened stance on the ...

Polls show Labour making ground on Tories following manifesto releases

However, there have been words of caution from within the Labour Party, with candidate Lucy Powell writing on Twitter "let's not over-analyse the polls". If...

UK PM May's Conservatives lead Labour by 13 points: Opinion poll

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Trump in Saudi Arabia: Fight 'Islamic Terror' & 'Drive Them Out'

In Riyadh , Trump said he was not lecturing to the world or seeking to impose the American way of life on others, including "how to live, who to be or how to w...

Israel Intelligence Officials Find Trump's Secrets Disclosure 'Horrifying'

Trump jeopardized a critical Islamic State intelligence source - reportedly cultivated by Israel - by revealing highly classified information to Russia's...

Suspect in deadly Times Square mayhem charged with murder

Eighteen-year-old tourist Alyssa Elsman , of Portage, Michigan, was killed in the crash. Elsman, a native of Southwest Michigan, died at the scene. "He went ...

Russian foreign minister mocks US media over intelligence reports

PILLAR: Well, I think the U.S. "It would be good for the country". Besides, if the initial report is accurate - and the combination of the White House reach...

Trump basks in lavish Saudi welcome, escaping troubles in DC

Abandoning some of the harsh anti-Muslim rhetoric of his presidential campaign, the draft of the speech, slated to be delivered in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, envis...

Shkodran Mustafi remains hopeful over Arsenal's top-four chances

Arsenal defeated Southampton 2-0 on the road in the Premier League as they claimed fifth place above Manchester United on Wednesday. Arsene Wenger's men ...

Veteran negotiators optimistic about Trump's Mideast bid

Congress in March 2015 to try to derail the Iran nuclear deal that Obama supported. Despite concerns over Trump's shifting policy positions on the conflict, t...

Ex-FBI chief Mueller to head Trump-Russia probe

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee said in a statement: "Knowing Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein from his tenure in...