Global News

White House calls for 'law and order' as violent protests rage

MORE NEWS THIS CATEGORIES

USA must condemn white supremacy

The president said that gun crime would be reduced if "video games that celebrate violence" were more hard to access, despite the prevalence of mental illness...

Sushma Swaraj, prolific orator, remarkable leader

One of the most prolific politicians of India, Swaraj had many firsts to her credit such as being the country's youngest-ever Cabinet Minister, first woman Chie...

Female flagger target of attempted abduction, RCMP say

Police say a dark blue van with silver striping approached the lone female flagger, and an unknown man jumped out of the back doors and tried to pull her in. Th...

Australia won't host USA missiles, prime minister says

The move is likely to anger China. Prime Minister Scott Morrison later echoed Ms Reynolds' comments that the missiles would not be based in Australia . "Righ...

Gov. DeWine calls for background checks on all firearm sales in Ohio

Brickler recalled sitting on a school bus about nine years ago when he saw Betts getting escorted away by officers investigating the threats. The suspected sh...

North Korea launches two 'projectiles' into the sea

The foreign ministry said the military drills were violations of diplomatic agreements and added that North Korea had remained unchanged in its commitment to ...

Britain ready and willing to do a Brexit deal: government source

It comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock issued a fresh warning to rebel Tory MPs that they can not stop Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the Europea...

Air strike on town hall kills 42 in Libya

The LNA seized Murzuq at the start of this year as part of an offensive to control the oil-producing south. Pro-Haftar media outlets said they were attackin...

Democrats target Trump rhetoric after deadly mass shootings

He said his agency was "aggressively" investigating such crimes. Trump, in denouncing the El Paso shooting on Twitter as "an act of cowardice", said nothi...

Khalifa Haftar's army kills 42 civilians in Morzuk

The LNA confirmed a strike late on Sunday on Murzuq , but denied it had targeted any civilians. The overnight attack in Morzuq, in southern Libya, came as re...

Ohio GOP calls on conservative lawmaker to quit for comments

A conservative Republican state lawmaker from OH has come under fire after posting a message on Facebook blaming mass shootings in America on, among a long list...

Massive explosion at Russian military depot sparks evacuation

In this image taken from video, explosions are seen at the military base, about 10 kilometers from Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk region, Russia Far East, Monday, Aug. Ac...

Anti-Japan banners in Seoul taken down after public outcry

North Korea fired two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea Tuesday and lashed out against the US and South Korea for continuing military exerc...

Judge sentences man who sent pipe bombs to Dems to 20 years

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff is scheduled Monday to decide how long Fil-Am Cesar Sayoc will spend behind bars. "Now that I am a sober man, I know that I a...

Death toll increases a second time Monday in El Paso mass shooting

Shortly after that, police officials announced the death of another shooting victim raising the death toll to 22. Mexico's foreign secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, ...

North Korea took US$2 bln in cyberattacks to fund weapons programme

Since early past year, however, peace talks initiated by Kim have seen him meet President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on multiple occa...

Sporadic Outages at 8chan and a New Host After Mass Shooting

A virtual one anyway. Voxility barred 8chan's new host Epik from its platform, effectively cutting off other hate sites that also use Epik's services. "Howe...

Syrian army to resume operations in rebel-held Idlib

Turkey wants to control - in coordination with the USA - a 19-25 mile-deep zone within Syria, east of the Euphrates River, and wants no Syrian Kurdish forces th...

Two More El Paso Shooting Victims Die - 22 in Total

US gun control advocates have noted that the internet and video games are popular in many other countries where mass shootings are virtually unknown, in part be...

China warns Hong Kong protesters not to mistake restraint for weakness

But the protests have swelled into a broader backlash against the government of the Asian financial hub and its political masters in Beijing. "I dare say they...

No indication of racial motive in Ohio mass shooting, police say

But by then, Dayton's popular Oregon District was already the scene of widespread carnage. One of the victims was the gunman's own sister. Eleven remained hos...

Mexico explores legal action against USA following El Paso shooting

Hours after the shooting in El Paso, another gunman in Dayton, Ohio, killed nine people in a gun attack. Investigators are looking into a manifesto they belie...

$Mitch McConnell fractures shoulder after falling in Ky$

Mitch McConnell fractures shoulder after falling in Ky

Several names are legible on cardboard cut-out memorials placed in front of a Kentucky Farm Bureau camper at Fancy Farm, the Kentucky political tradition know...

We'll develop new nuclear missiles if you do

The INF Treaty, as Reuters reported "banned land-based missiles with a range of between 310 and 3,400 miles (500-5,500 km), reducing the ability of both cou...

Moon slams Japan, calls for 'peace economy' with N

The US Department of Defence will "continue to monitor the situation and are consulting closely with our South Korean and Japanese allies", a department spokesm...

Egypt vehicle crash sets off deadly explosion outside Cairo hospital

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged to eradicate "this brutal terrorism". There has been no confirmation of a terrorist attack yet. Twenty people have be...

Northern B.C. murders: RCMP end river search near Gillam, Man.

Divers from the RCMP underwater recovery team have left the Nelson River, northeast of Gillam, Man., after finding nothing to draw them closer to capturing tw...

Vote over Puerto Rico's new governor delayed

Pedro Pierluisi, a former lawyer, freely admits that despite being sworn in the Senate may not ratify him on Wednesday. Pierluisi told reporters that the terr...

Brazilian gang leader allegedly dresses up as daughter in failed prison escape

It didn't work, despite his best efforts to look his 19-year-old daughter. Prior to his arrest, Clauvino da Silva was part of the leadership of the Red Comm...

NZ to decriminalize abortion

Abortion will no longer be considered a crime, no compulsory medical test will be required for women who are less than 20 weeks' pregnant and safe spaces around...

Shooter's Sister, Who Organized the Shooting in Dayton, is Among the Victims

Police on patrol in the entertainment district fatally shot him less than a minute later. The officers were not injured. The city identified the nine people...

British girl, 15, is 'abducted' while on family holiday to Malaysia

Police have deployed an additional 40 personnel from the Police General Operations Force from Cheras as the search for an Irish girl who went missing yesterday ...

European Union hails signing of constitutional declaration in Sudan

The military council and the opposition coalition will put their final signatures on a constitutional declaration on August 17. Image copyright EPA Image ca...

At least 1 killed, 4 injured in Indonesia earthquake

A powerful undersea quake that struck off the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java has killed four people and damaged hundreds of buildings, the nation's di...

Trump administration sanctions Iran foreign minister Javad Zarif

Moscow condemns Washington for imposing sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as it sees this as unprecedented pressure, Russian Deputy For...