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New Zealand Earthquake Rattles Nation as Harry and Meghan Visit

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan had engagements on Tuesday in Auckland where some people said they did feel shaking. There were no immediate reports of major...

Trump Claims He Was ‘Treated Very Nicely’ In Pittsburgh, Despite Protests

He was met by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of Tree of Life and the Israeli ambassador to the US. President Trump and his family - including his wife Melania, his dau...

Sen. Lindsey Graham Says He'll Introduce Legislation To End Birthright Citizenship

It comes from the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which says that " all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdicti...

Pakistan, Iran agree to promote bilateral relations

Islamabad took honest steps towards peace and stability in South Asia, Zarif had said. Tehran has also offered Islamabad support for a joint operation agains...

Chinese intelligence officers charged in US with jet engine hacking conspiracy

Demers, assistant attorney general for National Security. Chinese intelligence officers conspired with hackers and company insiders to break into private comp...

Khashoggi was suffocated, Istanbul prosecutor says

Turkey's prosecutor has said that Jamal Khashoggi was strangled to death as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul , with his body dismembered. T...

Eight Policemen, One Other Wounded As Woman Blows Herself Up

No deaths have been reported at this stage. The place of attack also alleges that the bomber was well aware of her surroundings and hence chose the cultural, ...

Former nurse admits to killing 100 patients

When judge Sebastian Buehrmann asked 41-year-old Niels Hoegel if the charges against him were valid, he responded in the affirmative, adding: "All that I have a...

Ga. NAACP files complaint over voting machine issues

Georgia state law allows local election officials to reject both absentee ballots and applications for absentee ballots over signature discrepancies. U.S. Sub...

Meghan reunites with former IG pen pal while in New Zealand

Meghan Markle reacted with shock and excitement when she spotted an old friend in the crowd during her New Zealand tour. After greeting as many people as...

Full text of Supreme Court ruling in Asia Bibi case

The landmark decision, announced Wednesday morning, effectively challenges an earlier conviction by the Lahore High Court. Chief Justice Saqib Nasir said at...

UAE successfully launches KhalifaSAT to its orbit

By 2021, the UAE aims to lift its space program to the next level by launching a Mars mission. The rocket also carried KhalifaSat, an earth observation satell...

SC acquits Asia Bibi, orders immediate release

About 300 police have been stationed to guard the supreme court . The judgment of high court as well as trial court is reversed. Bibi told AFP by phone from ...

Chuck Grassley Weighs in on Birthright Citizenship

On Monday, Trump described the migrant caravan as an "invasion on our country" as his administration announced plans to deploy at least 5,200 troops to the b...

Pakistan Supreme Court Reinstates Ban on Airing Indian Shows on TV Channels

Pakistan newspaper Dawn reported that Nisar cited as justification the fact that India was constructing a dam in the country's north in territory claimed b...

PM Modi reaches Kevadiya to unveil Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Statue Of Unity

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid rich tributes to country's first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and said this year the birth anniversary...

Indian couple ID'd in Yosemite National Park deaths

Ironically, in a recent Instagram post , Moorthy noted the dangers that might lurk when taking selfies in the wild, the Associated Press reported . An Israe...

Children Struck And Killed, 1 Injured While Boarding School Bus In Indiana

State Police say there were at least three kids on the bus at the time of the crash. A fourth child was injured and airlifted to a Fort Wayne hospital. The ru...

Brothers killed in synagogue shooting were 'inseparable'

According to the Anti-Defamation League , the number of reported anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged 57 percent in 2017, the largest rise in...

Scheme revealed to make 'false claims' of sexual assault against Robert Mueller

According to The Atlantic , Mueller's office said the scheme was brought to its attention by journalists after a woman told them she had been offered $20,000 b...

Two Saudi sisters found dead, tied together in NY

Their mother identified them from the sketches. The sisters lived in Jedda, Saudi Arabia before moving to the U.S. with their mother, who lives in Virginia....

Trump plans final campaign swing ahead of Nov

Sen. In the closing days of Florida's high-stakes races for governor and US senator, President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama will try to ...

US President Trump plans to end birthright citizenship: Axios

Because birthright citizenship is protected by the Constitution, Trump's executive order will likely force courts to enter a constitutional debate over the 1...

Venice flooded as storms hit Italy

Italy's Civil Protection agency declared the highest alert possible in several northern regions on Tuesday, while an orange alert, the second highest on the sca...

Whitey Bulger killed immediately after arriving in West Virginia prison

Richard Heldreth, president of Local 420 of the Federation of Government Employees, said the murder occurred about 8 a.m. Tuesday in a housing unit at the high-...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasts reporters blaming Trump for violent acts: 'Outrageous'

Acosta shouted over other reporters to ask a follow-up question, asking Sanders to state for the record which news outlets the administration considered to be "...

South Korea court orders Japan's Nippon Steel to compensate forced laborers

The court ruled that the former labourers' right to reparation was not terminated by a 1965 treaty normalising diplomatic ties, rejecting the claim by Tokyo and...

Canadian mother reunited with kidnapped son after 31 years

Police allege Jermaine Mann's father, Alan Mann Jr., abducted the boy in Toronto and slipped into the United States where he created false identities for them...

China’s first private satellite launch fails to reach orbit

The company said in a microblog post after nominal first and second stages that the spacecraft failed to reach orbit as a result of an issue with the third stag...

Quebec's Muslim community: 'Madness of men once again struck our Jewish neighbours'

A Justice Department spokesman said the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Scott Brady, started the approval process for seeking the deat...

Clinton on Potential 2020 Run: ‘I’d Like to Be President’

When asked if she wanted to run again, Clinton said: 'No, no'. But she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton , announced earlier this month that t...

Pollution kills 600,000 children a year

The EEA said a wider assessment included in the report found that early deaths each yer due to PM 2.5 have been cut "by about half a million " since 1990. Dr...

Turkey shells Kurdish militia positions in Syria

The village is across the Euphrates River that separates Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces and the YPG. The alliance between the Kurdish fighters and Washi...

Pittsburgh synagogue-shooting suspect leaves hospital, set to appear in court

The gunman surrendered to police inside the synagogue and now faces 29 counts in the deaths, including " federal crimes of violence and firearms offenses". A...

County Clare Returns Michael D Higgins To The Aras

The blasphemy referendum follows a landslide May referendum to repeal the country?s strict abortion laws. His inauguration will be held in Dublin Castle Nov...