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Homeland Security arrests about 50 migrants who crossed U.S. border, official says

United States authorities on Sunday closed off the busiest port of entry along the USA border with Mexico as thousands of the Central American migrant caravan r...

Northern Irish DUP says will vote against May's 'pitiful' Brexit deal

The DUP's main objection to the plan is the so-called backstop arrangement, the insurance policy insisted on by the European Union to avoid a hard Irish border ...

"Heart" of winter storm system to hit here this evening/overnight

In eastern Nebraska, part of Interstate 80 between Lincoln and Omaha was closed Sunday morning because of multiple accidents after snow blanketed that area. "Sn...

Senior Saudi prince says CIA cannot be trusted on Khashoggi conclusion

He further called for an end to U.S. support for the monarchy's bombardment of impoverished Yemen . Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who co-sponsored an effort wi...

India marks 10 years since Mumbai attacks; United States offers reward

On the evening of November 26, 2006, ten terrorists of the LeT who had infiltrated into India through the sea route carried out a series of shoots outs and bomb...

United Kingdom confiscates internal documents of Facebook to investigate privacy practices

Damian Collins , a U.K. Conservative Party politician, used a "rare Parliamentary mechanism" to get an American software company Six4Three to share the document...

The deadliest wildfire in California's history has been contained

Authorities battling the Camp Fire made the announcement on Sunday morning (Monday NZT), after spending 17 days beating back a blaze that roared through Butte...

Pakistan detains hard-line Islamists ahead of protests over Christian woman's acquittal

Qadri has been admitted to the jail's hospital. Meanwhile, a major police crackdown is underway across Punjab to foil TLP's gathering in the federal capital. ...

200 wounded as magnitude 6.3 natural disaster shakes western Iran

Iranian media said tremors were felt in at least seven provinces of Iran , most strongly in Kermanshah province, where previous year over 600 people were kille...

Wife of jailed spy Matthew Hedges has asked the UAE for clemency

The U.A.E. Foreign Ministry said Thursday it was seeking an "amicable solution" to the case. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the pardon was "fantastic ne...

Saudi crown prince begins second leg of Arab tour

Congressman Adam Schiff, set to become the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee when Democrats take control of the House in January, told CNN , "I have...

No reason to fear Dharm Sabha: Ayodhya case litigant

The demonstrators aim to put pressure on the government to build a new Hindu temple on the disputed site. The VHP has also recently released a pamphlet which ...

Do Not Pass Go: Papadopoulos Will Report To Prison Monday, Judge Says

The judge ordered Papadopoulos must surrender Monday as scheduled . A federal judge denied a request that would've delayed the two-week prison sentence George...

Brexit: SNP is ready to back a soft exit deal

A Downing Street source said SNP plans only made a no-deal Brexit more likely. "Isn't it the case that Parliament will rightly reject this bad deal, and if th...

NY AG's lawsuit against Trump foundation can proceed, judge says

In her ruling, Scarpulla wrote that the attorney general's allegations that "Foundation checks were drawn up at Mr. Trump's and the Campaign's direction" we...

Rain helps douse California fire but slows search crews

The grim search for human remains has continued for days in the hard-hit town of Paradise, but it came temporarily to a standstill Friday after rain and strong ...

Wind and snow expected into Sunday

Snow might fall as fast as two inches per hour and cause periodic life-threatening blizzard conditions, according to the weather service. Part of Interstate 8...

China hopes for trade war solution at G20 Xi-Trump talks

Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports - about $267 billion more in goods - if Beijing fails to address USA demands. Citing s...

Trump says time for action on 'the Wall,' visits golf course

Trump would not say Thursday which positions he was interviewing people for, but Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen (KEER'-sten) Nielsen and chief of staff Jo...

Mississauga jewellery store workers fight off would-be thieves with swords

Danny Marttini said. The video, shared on Facebook , shows people breaking the front window of the store. She says that in a case like this, anyone who cho...

Facebook executive admits hiring PR firm

TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo that Schrage sent his colleagues at Facebook about the controversy, in which he said the hiring of Definers was his re...

Syrian rebels dismiss poison-gas claims

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Thiqa News Agency, an activist collective, said warplanes pounded rebel-held areas west and south ...

Journal Reveals Last Days of Man Killed By Isolated Tribe

For this, Chau paid the local fishermen around Rs 25,000 which is why they have been booked under the provisions of the IPC, which include offence of not comp...

Ukraine: Russian Ship Rams Navy Tugboat In Sea Of Azov

Military helicopters and fighter jets were seen patrolling overhead. The Ukrainian navy said Russian border patrol vessels "carried out openly aggressive acti...

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe unable to walk, seeking treatment in Singapore

During his later years in power, Mugabe made several medical trips to Singapore. For years, Zimbabweans who saw their ageing leader nod off during events spec...

Trump Begins Thanksgiving by Renewing Spat with Chief Justice

Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California and much of the U.S. west coast. On Friday, Senate Minority Leader hilariously and unwittingly confirmed tha...

Trump says asylum seekers to wait in Mexico, incoming govt denies

The deal known as " Remain in Mexico ", would "break with long-standing asylum rules and place a formidable barrier in the path of Central American migrants att...

At least 29 dead after cruise boat capsizes in Uganda

The boat, on which party-goers were drinking, dancing and listening to music, sank a short distance from the shore off Mutima in Mukono District, close to the...

Milwaukee teen killed after penning essay about ‘senseless gun violence’

Martin Luther King Jr. The essay called Our Truth , which Parks wrote two years ago, featured the lines: "Sometimes, I sit back and I have to escape from wha...

At least 26 killed in explosion at mosque in eastern Afghanistan

A spokesman for the First Brigade of the 203 Army Corps, where the mosque was located, said initial information showed "more than 10" soldiers had been killed a...

UAE ambassador to United Kingdom defends trial of Matthew Hedges

Matthew Hedges, 31, was sentenced after a five-minute hearing, with the UAE's public prosecutor saying he "confessed before court to the charges brought against...

Police likely killed wrong man responding to U.S. mall shooting

They are not longer taking lead with the investigation. Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr , 21, was shot dead at the mall in Hoover. But police later retracte...

PH condemns attack on Chinese consulate in Pakistan

The brazen assault, claimed by a militant group from the southwestern province of Baluchistan, reflected the separatists' attempt to strike at the heart of Pak...

Woman shot dead at Florida Walmart in domestic dispute

The alleged shooter went to a residence less than five miles from the store and remained inside the house as Marion County Sheriff's deputies surrounded the b...

US in Deal with Mexico Over Asylum Seekers

Incoming Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero also told news agency Reuters no agreement had been reached - although the Washington Post article initial...