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Puerto Rico governor will not seek reelection amid texting scandal

Angry protesters blocked the main road in Puerto Rico's capital on Monday as they launched what was expected to be the largest yet of a wave of demonstrations s...

South Africa's anti-graft chief Busisiwe Mkwebane 'lied under oath'

The court ordered Mkhwebane's office to pay Absa's legal costs for the application and said she should cover a portion of the central bank's expenses personally...

MAGA couple: Trump crashed our wedding - 'he's such a gentleman'

The bride stated she'd despatched a form of requests to the president in hopes he would attend - and that Trump ended up paying two visits to separate wedding e...

Officials Say Tainted Alcohol Linked to 19 Deaths in Costa Rica

The Ministry of Health said information on the deaths is "preliminary" and an investigation is ongoing. "Government officials confiscated more than 30,000 bo...

Canadian Cop Gets Cute Cat Ears While Addressing Double Homicide Press Conference

Police confirmed that Deese and Fowler, whose bodies were found along the Alaska Highway in a remote part of British Columbia, were both murdered . The cat f...

China issues white paper on historical matters concerning Xinjiang

However, the document rejects the emergence of hostile forces inside and outside China, especially separatists, religious extremists and terrorists, who have tr...

New Zealand plans firearm register, tighter licensing amid gun law reforms

The new law would ban the sale of guns to overseas visitors, create a register to track all guns in the country, and require gun owners to renew their gun licen...

RCMP to update separate homicide, missing persons investigations in Northern B.C.

Officers from the Northern Rockies Royal Canadian Mounted Police discovered the bodies of Chynna Deese, 24, and her boyfriend Lucas Fowler, 23, along Highway 97...

Huawei reportedly helped to build North Korea's internet

Suffice it to say, today's revelations make the issue infinitely more complicated and offer evidence that will likely help ostracize Huawei even more than it ...

Trump says he won't watch Mueller testify, but he might

The president also repeated a claim that Mueller's investigation found "NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION!" The lawyer's investigation into Russian interference ...

Zarif Says US Economic Terrorism A Global Threat

U.S. waivers which allowed eight countries to keep buying Iranian oil - China, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey - expired on May 2. T...

French submarine Minerve found, went missing 50 years ago

The wreckage was found in 2,370-metre-deep water 45 kilometres off the coast of Toulon by the U.S. ship Seabed Constructor . The Seabed Constructor was als...

There's a cold front coming! It's a rare sight for July

The National Weather Service says it's true: A real, bona fide cold front will make it through all of the state over the next few days and bring a little br...

Power restored to some in New York after heat wave outage

Much of the nation is also dealing with high heat. As a result, they say they've reduced voltage in these neighborhoods. Cyclists ride down a path near the ...

Parish priest describes 'frightening' moment vehicle drove through crowd at Dundalk cemetery

It is being reported that the auto in question had been hijacked by the driver in the carpark of the cemetery where he carried out his attack. A parish priest...

Independent Karnataka MLAs move Supreme Court

He even said MLAs in Mumbai have been separated, with one group in Lonavala, and the others holed up elsewhere. Mayawati asked her lone MLA in the state to su...

Bernie Sanders' Staff Demands $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage

The union representing the campaign staff prepared a draft of a letter to potentially send to Sanders's campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, this week. Now his employ...

India moon mission lifts off to send rover to lunar south pole

ISRO chairman K. Sivan has described Chandrayaan-2 as the, "most complex space mission ever to be undertaken by the agency". The launch was scheduled to take...

British Airways suspends flights to Egyptian capital

The unluckiest travelers were hit by the measure right before boarding their flights and were left stranded at the airport as a result. According to insiders,...

Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Halifax area

Hundreds of McHenry County residents are without power after a thunderstorm swept through the area Saturday afternoon. That makes the storm the worst of 2019, a...

Venezuelan fighter 'aggressively shadowed' US Navy intel aircraft over Caribbean: Pentagon

Navy EP-3 Aries II was in global airspace on a routine "detection and monitoring mission" when the Russian-made SU-30 flanker "approached in an unprofessional ...

Britain's May to chair emergency session on seized tanker

Hunt called it a "tit-for-tat" situation, which flared hours after a Gibraltar court extended by 30 days the detention of an Iranian tanker seized two weeks ago...

Israeli forces enter Sur Baher village for planned demolitions

The Palestine Liberation Organization on Sunday warned against Israel's threat to demolish Palestinian buildings in the area, calling the move "a war crime unde...

Iran captured 17 CIA spies, some sentenced to death

The disc also included names of several U.S. Embassy staff in Turkey, India, Zimbabwe and Austria who Iran claims were in touch with the recruited Iranian spies...

Ukraine comedian president's party tipped to win Parliament vote

He noted that the party will be ready to start negotiations after the announcement of the official election results. Instead, Zelensky has offered a chance to...

Gov't working on release of Filipino seafarer after Iran seized tanker

Britain has denounced Iran's Friday seizure of the oil tanker as a "hostile act", rejecting Tehran's explanation that it had seized the vessel because it had be...

Nadler: Mueller hearing to air evidence of Trump wrongdoing

Adam Schiff , the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CBS' " Face the Nation " that part of the goal of the hearings is to ensure the American...

ISRO gets ready for second moon mission

The actual landing will happen on September 6, as originally scheduled, or in the early hours of September 7. He said that Chandrayaan-2 will be landing on th...

S.Korea may be more concerned after Japan election

In his speech, Kim Hyun Jung also commented on Tokyo imposed export restrictions, calling them "contrary to the principles of the world trade organization and t...

British Airways cancels all flights to Cairo due to security "precautions"

Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation said in a statement late on Saturday that it had contacted the British Embassy in Cairo which had confirmed that the decisio...

Animal shelter encourages Area 51 fans to "storm our shelter"

To entice potential adopters, the Facebook post shows an array of cute animals with their noses up towards the camera wearing tinfoil hats, in reference to ur...

Hackers post weird series of tweets on Met Police account

The Metropolitan Police's Twitter account has been targeted by hackers who posted a series of freaky tweets on the force's official account. The attack took p...

Trump Resumes Twitter Attack on Four Democratic Congresswomen

President Donald Trump is unshaken by the accusations of "racism" he faces amid a feud with the Democratic Party's 'Squad, ' slamming them for being "hateful"...

US Lawmaker Calls For Investigation Into FaceApp Privacy And Security Concerns

Wireless Lab, the St. Petersburg, Russia-based company behind FaceApp , has also denied selling or sharing users' data with third parties. The main reason why ...

Two policemen martyred as terrorists attack check-post in DI Khan

Deputy Superintendent of Police Iftikhar Shah said that the second attack took place at a hospital where policemen were recruiting their injured colleagues. The...