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Turkish-backed rebels advance amid airstrikes that killed at least 35

A video posted on social media showed Syrian rebels beating captured fighters allied with the Kurds. Loyalists to the Tripoli-based Government of National Ac...

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Belgian media said the blast was caused by a auto which rammed the building. Police - who have been deployed in force in the area which is cordoned off - sa...

Republicans ask Clinton Foundation to produce correspondence

Bill Clinton announced last week that if Hillary Clinton were elected president, the Clinton Foundation would no longer accept foreign and corporate donations, ...

In Tamil Nadu, flex it like Amma gyms

Recalling that the State government had been implementing solid waste management programme in most of the village panchayats, she said that during the current y...

Mylan to launch generic EpiPen at half the price of original

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In Brazil Senate, Rousseff proclaims innocence, blasts VP

Rousseff blasted interim President Michel Temer as a "usurper". Temer is confident he has the votes needed to remove Rousseff and plans an address to the nati...

Gene Wilder, Comedic Legend and Veteran Actor, Dead at 83

Brooks and Wilder co-wrote the classic comedies Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein , which earned the duo an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay...

Ithaca Student's Family Seeks Witnesses in Fatal Stabbing

Students gathered to remember one of their Ithaca College classmates Monday afternoon after a large fight on Cornell University's campus early Sunday morning en...

Man killed, officer wounded in shooting

Sughrue says Officer B.S. Beausoleil was also involved in the foot chase that led shots being fired. One officer was wounded. Police are investigating an inci...

Local Zika spreads to tourist hotspot Miami Beach

United States health officials have issued fresh travel warnings for pregnant women after five new cases of Zika were found in the tourist hotspot of Miami Bea...

Endwell, New York wins Little League World Series

Endwell becomes the first USA victor since Huntington Beach, California, in 2011, and gave NY its first championship since 1964. The last time a NY team won i...

Judge Blocks UNC's Anti-Trans 'Bathroom Bill'

The students and staff member want to argue that HB2 violates the anti-discrimination Title IX law. In addition, it requires transgender citizens to use publi...

Donald Trump plans major advertisement buy after weeks of being outspent

Trump has a few times tried to do this by making cogent and well-argued speeches on US foreign policy and the economy, only to later ruin any gains he might h...

As its proxies advance in Syria, Turkey warns Kurds to pull back

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook earlier said the YPG move east had " largely occurred ". Accordingly, we call on all armed actors to stand down and take a...

2 brothers arrested in connection with murder of Nykea Aldridge

This tragedy isn't just noteworthy because Ms. Aldridge has a famous family member. They also said they have eyewitnesses, including Aldridge's boyfriend and ...

Appeal for more relief for North Carolina transgender people

Schroeder hinted he may agree with a dissent to the Fourth Circuit ruling but said accepting North Carolina's arguments against the appellate court's reasonin...

First Trump election ad calls Clinton out on immigration

But while Hillary Clinton has held on to most of Barack Obama's coalition of voters from 2012, she hasn't built on it. But those numbers don't concern his fan...

Italy heeds anger of quake survivors over state funeral

Shortly afterward, Pirozzi told his fellow citizens that Italian Premier Matteo Renzi had just called him and told him that Tuesday's state funeral would be hel...

Strive to build a strong, modern strategic support force: Xi

The HQ-9 surface-to-air missile displayed in the military parade for V-Day celebration is a high-altitude and medium and long-range air defense equipment focus...

Minister: Iraq willing to play active role in propping up oil prices

Nevertheless, analysts say that the average price of Brent grade will stand at $61 per barrel mainly depending on the United States dollars rates and the U.S. "...

Turkish airstrikes kill 20 in Syria

Turkey said one of its soldiers was killed on Saturday when a rocket that it said came from a YPG-controlled area hit a tank. "We will continue until we upr...

'Normal' for Clinton Foundation donors to 'want access:' Brazile

Hillary Clinton has arrived at an Federal Bureau of Investigation facility in White Plains, New York , for her first national security briefing as the Democra...

Kerry Visits Bangladesh For Talks About Fighting Islamic Extremists

Kerry said his country has a number of experts who can help fight against the violent extremism. Since Modi has stressed outcomes as a major deliverable of the ...

Lightning kills more than 300 reindeer

It's a peaceful scene turned horrific - hundreds of reindeer corpses now litter a mountain plateau in Norway. Hardanger has about 12,000 reindeer and hunters ar...

Rocket attack on Turkish tanks in Syria kills soldier

A Turkish soldier on his tank as they prepare for a military operation at the Syrian border as part of their offensive against the Islamic State militant group ...

Trump To Give Speech On Illegal Immigration Wednesday

The announcement tweeted by the GOP presidential nominee Sunday came after his surrogates struggled on the weekly talk shows to answer a key question about th...

Willy Wonka star Gene Wilder dead at 83

But Brooks once said he found Wilder "a natural.an Everyman with all the vulnerability showing". Some much-beloved actors and artists have passed away this year...

Scores killed in bombing claimed by Islamic State

The radical terror group has been using Yemen's 18-month-old civil war between President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government and Shiite Houthi rebels loyal to t...

Most Asia stocks slide on Fed officials rate comments, dollar firms

Spot gold touched its lowest since July 26 at $1,314.70, and was up 0.3 percent at $1,324.41 an ounce by 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 GMT), after falling for the past si...

Clinton aide Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner to separate after sexting revelation

I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him. "Antony Weiner poses with his son in this kinky shot he sent in the latest object ...

'Fear the Walking Dead' 209 Los Muertos aka Zombie Respect

He goes outside to find the market place completely empty. Alejandro and Luciana ask the little girl's father if he's ready. All the Colonia people, includi...

Arsene Wenger confirms Shkodran Mustafi and Lucas Perez have passed medicals

It gives us a chance to get some oxygen and some space. "Eden Hazard must be this decisive in every game and I'm pleased because I saw it today". But I think ...

2 men charged in shooting of National Basketball Association star's cousin

Numerous neighborhoods on the city's South and West sides where the violence is concentrated struggle with gang membership, high unemployment and poverty. Sunda...

The Toronto Blue Jays stay at the top

From there, he was all smiles. With the Blue Jays wearing their red uniforms on Canada Baseball Day at Rogers Centre, the Toronto third baseman hit three ho...

French Minister Blames US Protectionism for TTIP Failure

TTIP negotiations have been ongoing since 2013 in an effort to establish a massive free trade zone that would eliminate many tariffs but which critics contend w...