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New Year's Eve ball drop

Stream live on: Facebook , Twitter and the Times Square New Year's Eve website . As New York City party-goers prepare for a night of festivities and fu...

Conservative Commentator Bre Payton, of Federalist and Fox News, Dies Aged 26

Congress. "24 hours ago I found my friend unconscious and called 911", Murtaugh tweeted . "Rest in paradise you handsome soul", she wrote. According to Th...

Vote counting underway in the DRC

In other areas, election officials began counting ballots by torchlight, keeping count on classroom chalkboards. Provisional results of the presidential conte...

Conway defends Trump's comments about child migrant deaths

Trump has threatened to end aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, despite a State Department announcement on December 18 that the USA was ready to offer ...

Trump Says ‘Big Progress’ Made in Trade Talks With China

An agreement reached between the two countries on the margins of the G20 summit in Argentina in November deferred the imposition of further tariffs till March...

Elizabeth Warren takes major step toward running for president

So far, Julian Castro, the secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama, has announced the formation of an exploratory committee , and R...

Russia Detains American in Moscow Over Suspected Spying

As tensions between the United States and Russia continue to build, it is now being reported by Russian news agency, TASS , that an American citizen named Paul...

4 dead as storm sweeps through central Philippines

The tropical storm brought heavy rain to the Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions, causing massive flooding and landslides , the country's civil defense office sa...

Rescue crew killed in helicopter crash - UAE

Local media reported that the helicopter struck a zip line before crashing and bursting into flames. According to one social media post, Roxburgh was an Advan...

Dead, Dozens Missing After Gas Explosion Hits Russia High-Rise

Rescue teams are scrambling to find survivors after a suspected gas blast caused the partial collapse of a high-rise apartment building in the Russian city of M...

Moscow Dismisses Franco-German Statement on Ukrainian Sailors

Russian Federation expanded a ban on imported goods from Ukraine on Saturday, saying it would halt some $500 million worth of annual imports of mainly industr...

Yemen’s Houthis start redeployment in Hudaydah as part of UN deal

A source from the government said that the Houthis had turned against the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC), chaired by retired Dutch General, Patrick C...

Boko Haram reportedly seizes 6 Borno towns

The police had in their first reaction on Wednesday night strongly denied that the officers absconded, with their spokesperson Jimoh Moshood saying from the For...

Juncker: EU Is Not Trying to Keep Britain In

He also said even if his party won a snap general election in 2019, he would go to Brussels and try to secure a better deal, if possible, in time to allow Br...

Magnitude 6.9 natural disaster strikes Philippines

Notably, the Philippines and Indonesia lie on the "Ring of Fire", a vast region in the Pacific Ocean which is prone to Tsunamis and Volcanic eruptions. The expe...

Authorities ID woman killed by escaped lion

The non-profit center has been closed until further notice. According to the wildlife conservatory, the incident happened as an animal keeper was cleaning t...

Graham: We'll hold hearings on child migrant deaths

THE FACTS: This account is not supported by timelines released by Customs and Border Protection or other accounts. She died after being detained along with he...

France's yellow vest protests rumble on in quieter mood

Scrutiny over Benalla comes at a sensitive time for Macron , who is grappling with a wave of "yellow vest" street protests by disgruntled voters calling for mo...

US, China talk 'progress' after phone call on trade

On Saturday, Trump wrote in a Twitter message that "big progress" was being made in U.S. "If made, it will be very comprehensive, covering all subjects, are...

Governor reshapes board amid congressional probe

Confusing the picture, a state court panel ruled on Thursday that the current elections board should disband at noon on Friday, which it duly did. It's not clea...

Anak Krakatau volcano now a quarter of its pre-eruption size

Heavy rain and high seas are also hampering efforts to rescue victims of the tsunami . More than 40,000 people have been evacuated for fear of another tsunam...

Indian forces martyr four more youth in IoK

The forces retaliated with tear gas and pellets. Pulwama encounter: On Friday, a LeT militant was killed in an encounter in Banderpora area of Pulwama . Ar...

OR hotel fires 2 employees who mistreated black guest

The DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Portland, Oregon, fired two employees days after they were accused of racially profiling a black hotel guest who was takin...

Israel approve Jewish-only West Bank illegal housing units

The move was "undoubtedly part of the long list of Israeli violations of worldwide law", he said. Israeli authorities are slated to pass the construction of 4...

Trump says build US-Mexico wall or he’ll seal border

Congress. Out of a workforce of about 2.1 million federal employees, more than 800,000 have been furloughed without pay. "Either we build (finish) the Wall ...

Trump blames Democrats for migrant children’s death, amid govt budget impasse

Currently, the government remains partially shutdown as Trump fights for border wall funding that Democrats refuse to approve. 'The timeline, action and fac...

Sajid Javid declares rising number of migrants 'major incident'

British interior minister Sajid Javid says the fast-growing number of would-be immigrants crossing the English Channel from France in dinghies is a "major inc...

Winter storm blamed for three deadly upper Midwest crashes

Some airline passengers reported being stranded for days. All this spells more nightmares for holiday travelers heading into New Year's weekend. "I have to ...

Who is Ronil Singh? California Police Officer Reportedly Killed by Undocumented Immigrant

Ronil Singh , 33, a native of Fiji who dedicated his life to law enforcement, was killed in the line of duty Wednesday . Within just a couple of minutes, Singh...

Mystery hacker steals data on 1,000 North Korean defectors in South

Japan's Defense Ministry released on Friday 13 minutes of video footage including radio communications with a South Korean warship which Tokyo claims locked it...

'We are heartbroken': Yemeni boy caught in Trump's Muslim travel ban dies

Ali Hassan with his child Abdullah. Doctors had previously told Hassan that patients like his son are usually on life support for two or three weeks, or a mon...

America's oldest man dies at 112, United States News & Top Stories

Overton enlisted in the USA military in September of 1940, a little over a year before America's involvement in the Second World War began. In 2013 he said ...

Michael Cohen's Phone Puts Him In Prague With Russians

Cohen denied on Twitter that he has ever been to Prague . News website McClatchy reported Thursday that cellphone signals show that Cohen was in the Pra...

China's former spy chief jailed for life

Ma Jian is believed to have collected 109 million yuan ($15.9 million) in bribes between 1999 and 2014. Ma was also found to have instructed his relatives to ...

Japan to resume commercial whale hunting, announces withdrawal from IWC

After Japan's request to adapt the ban fell on deaf ears at the IWC's meeting in September, Suga said, "it unveiled the fact that it is not possible in the IW...