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Trump says he has no deadline for imposing further tariffs on China

The Chinese government would not confirm Tuesday that such a meeting will take place. "We have noted that the USA publicly stated many times that it looks forwa...

United Kingdom minister signs USA bid to extradite Assange

The Home Secretary said this morning: "The final decision is now with the courts". Yesterday, the United States government has formally submitted an extradi...

Botswana's High Court rejects laws criminalizing gay sex

The court unanimously ruled that the provisions are discriminatory, against public interest and unconstitutional. Last month, Kenya's high court refused to ...

Turkey says it has already bought Russian S-400 defense systems

Erdogan also vowed to seek answers on Turkey's "exclusion from F-35 project for reasons that have no rational or legitimate basis", adding that Turkey was not o...

US Formally Asks UK to Extradite WikiLeaks’ Assange

Assange who is also editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks founder was then sentenced to 50 weeks in prison by a court in London for violating bail co...

Voters go to polls as presidential election kicks off in Kazakhstan

He told the BBC his government would be tolerant towards those with different views. Sunday's vote was marred a police crackdown on protesters who took to the...

No, an American Diplomat Didn't Encourage Israel to Annex the West Bank

Palestinian officials did not attend a Middle East peace conference organized in Warsaw in February. Palestinians did not fire back, Quds said. In an intervi...

United Kingdom mobile operators urge government clarification over Huawei

This is a development that will favor Huawei who has invested heavily in 5G and have a lot of equipment out of their store for these telecoms providers to pur...

Feds plan ban on single-use plastics

The move announced by Trudeau also signals the will by the federal government to retake the leading role that, as a national government, it should play regard...

Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam was Central Intelligence Agency informant

A February summit between Kim and Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam had been expected to at least lay out a path forward. It's extremely hard to verify information abou...

Doctor finds 100 bubble tea pearls in girl's abdomen

The girl, who wasn't believed when she said she'd only had one bubble tea drink recently, was sent home with laxatives and instructed to give the drinks a break...

Trudeau eyeing a Canadian ban on single-use plastics by 2021

We expect that the plastics industry will be doing everything in their power to water down these regulations, limit the ban list and lower the collection targ...

Trump Jr set to meet US Senate intelligence panel

The appearance by Donald Trump Jr before the Senate Intelligence Committee follows a dispute that made headlines last month when the president expressed surpr...

Trump calls off proposed tariffs on Mexico, turns threats to China

Trump did not show the document or give any details, but a Reuters photograph of the folded document allowed reporters to read parts of it. The deal lays o...

Helicopter crash-lands on roof of Manhattan building, pilot killed

The crash landing occurred amid rain and fog throughout Manhattan . "There had been no other accidents that everyone knows of as we speak", he talked about, ...

David Ortiz Has Second Surgery In Boston

There is no public indication the man is the suspected shooter. She declined to provide further details. Ortiz was immediately brought to a hospital in the DR w...

Iran to hand over U.S. resident accused of spying to Lebanon

Iranian state television reported Monday, June 10, 2019 , that Zakka, a Lebanese national and a USA permanent resident held for years in Tehran, "will be relea...

Poland Wants 'Fort Trump.' The President Said He May Send Some Troops

While the press conference focused on areas of agreement, Trump said he differed with Poland's efforts to force the country's Supreme Court justices to retire e...

British PM front-runner Johnson says he doesn't want no-deal Brexit

The United Kingdom has already postponed its exit from the European Union on two occasions and Johnson said: "After three years and two missed deadlines, we mus...

Two abducted Canadian girls rescued by police; suspects arrested

Forson also stated that the Ghana Tourism Authority that regulates tourism has shut down the hostel where the two Canadian women were staying, following some ...

Chandrayaan-2 launch on July 15: ISRO

The mission is scheduled to launch on July 15 aboard ISRO's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III. From its launch to the soft landing, the ent...

US Pres. Trump’s "secret" agreement "leaked", reveals a concession for Mexico

The proposed tariffs would have increased 5% per month, maxing out at 25%, until Mexico brought the flow of illegal immigration to a stop. He has called for...

Humans swallowing plastic equivalent to one credit card per week

An examination of staples and consumables also revealed that the highest recorded plastic levels were found in shellfish, beer and salt, the organisation said. ...

Abandoned Baby Discovered Alive In Stockton Dumpster

Pedebone said he picked up the baby boy, who was still breathing and alive. The infant was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. The baby was transported...

40,000-year-old severed wolf’s head discovered in Siberia

The head was found on the Tirekhtyakh river by locals hunting for lucrative mammoth tusks in the remote Siberian region of Yakutia previous year. As The ...

Number of Mysterious US Tourist Deaths in Dominican Republic Hits 6

Wallace died the day of the wedding, Tickenoff told the station. Five days later, Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Day, 49, of Prince George's County,...

‘Very Severe cyclone ‘Vayu now 725 km southeast of Karachi

Indian authorities are evacuating almost 300,000 people on the west coast ahead of Cyclone Vayu . "It is very likely to move almost northward and cross the ...

American Airlines extends Max cancellations again

The largest USA airline had previously said it was canceling flights august 19 after the Boeing Co plane was grounded worldwide in March following two deadl...

Doctor finds over 100 bubble tea pearls stuck in girl's abdomen

Her parents took her to the emergency room at Zhuji People's Hospital, in Zhejiang province, eastern China, on May 28. In addition, each tapioca ball can add ...

Legislation introduced to block billions in arms sales to Saudi Arabia

WELNA: Graham has been a big supporter of President Trump, but he's been critical when it comes to the October murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , a d...

Arab coalition: 26 injured in Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia's Abha airport

At least 26 people who were in the arrival halls of the airport were injured at approximately 12.21am BST (2.21am local time), when the Houthis launched a proje...

Pilot killed in crash wasn't certified to fly in bad weather

The Monday crash killed the pilot, Tim McCormack. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations require pilots to have an instrument rating when flyin...

You've booked a Dominican Republic vacation. Do you go, or cancel?

American tourist Bell Wallace became sick and urinated blood after having a single whisky from his room's minibar on April 11. Bob Wallace had been in the isl...

Brexit Party fails to win first seat in United Kingdom by-election

Dominic Raab, who resigned as Brexit secretary a year ago over Mrs May's deal, said the result "shows yet again that we must get on and deliver Brexit by the ...

Panic at DC pride parade sends people running, some injured

Singh was stopped as he approached a brown paper bag containing a silver-colored imitation pistol, police said. The parade ended early after the incident. A spo...