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Navy Could Remove Gallagher from SEALs, Even after Trump Intervention

A spokesperson for Naval Special Warfare Command, Capt. Tamara Lawrence, told ABC News that the SEALs have implemented Trump's order to restore Gallagher's pa...

Ministry of Equality Deliver Presentations to Mark International Men's Day 2019

Jerome Teelucksingh in 1999. On this day, the importance of setting the right example is communicated and awareness is sought to be spread among men. The them...

PM phones new Lankan president

Indian prime minister dispatched his Minister for External Affairs (MEA) S Jaishankar on the first day of the president in office. With Gotabhaya Rajapaksa ...

China attacks Western reporting on Xinjiang as 'pure fabrication'

Human rights groups say these so-called re-education camps are an attempt to suppress the Uighurs' religion and Islamic identity by involuntarily detaining them...

Trump spokeswoman says Obama aides left behind mean notes - 47abc

The Daily Mail said, citing seven unnamed former West Wing aides - all of whom came to the White House at the beginning of the Trump administration - that t...

Russia balks at Turkish idea of new Syrian military operation

On Monday, Turkish Foreign Ministry Mevlut Cavusoglu accused both Russian Federation and the U.S. of failing to abide by their respective ceasefires with Tur...

Israel says attacks Syria military targets after rocket launches

According to SANA, the attacks were carried out from "Lebanese and Palestinian territories". Syria's air defences were able to destroy most of the missiles fi...

Stowaways found in refrigerated container bound for UK

The ship had departed from Vlaardingen on Tuesday night. According to the spokesman, the people were discovered by the ship's staff and seemed initially to be...

Swedish prosecutor drops Assange rape probe

Assange, 48, had repeatedly denied the allegation . In June, a Swedish court ruled that Assange should not be detained, meaning that while a preliminary inve...

GOP counsel’s full questioning of Vindman and Williams in the impeachment hearing

If the witness has a good faith belief that this may reveal the identity of the whistleblower, that is not the objective that we're here for. "My simple act o...

Sweden drops rape investigation against Julian Assange

While denying the allegations in Sweden , he sought asylum for protection from possible extradition to the US on charges. "After completing the investigation...

Mood in Beijing about trade deal is pessimistic

Some of his advisers had been pushing to keep those in place longer term, to ensure China lives up to its end of the bargain, but now are open to a partial reli...

White House expert tells hearing that Trump made improper 'demand' of Ukraine

During his testimony he fended off Republican efforts to cast doubt on his competence and loyalty to the United States. Vindman, who arrived in the U.S. Forme...

Oxford Union debate: Blind student 'violently' pulled from seat

Following the incident last month, Mr McGrath called a disciplinary committee, where it was alleged that Azamati had behaved aggressively and thrusted his arm...

Ex-PM Sharif leaves Pakistan for medical treatment

Earlier this morning, Sharif, accompanied by his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif and personal physician Dr Adnan, departed for London in an air ambulance via...

China calls on U.S. to "stop flexing muscles" in South China Sea

BANGKOK (AP) - China on Monday urged the USA military to "stop flexing muscles" in the disputed South China Sea , a point of persistent friction in a relation...

USA breaks off defense cost talks amid South Korea backlash

James DeHart, the chief negotiator for the U.S., said at a press briefing that the USA delegation came "with open minds, and even prepared to adjust stance as n...

PM: US rewarding violence, murder by backing Israel’s settlements in West Bank

Meanwhile, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the United States decision to effectively back Israel's right to build Jewish settlements in the...

Jeffrey Epstein Prison Guards Indicted for Falsifying Records

Epstein had pleaded not guilty to child sex charges, including the alleged abuse of girls as young as 14, in NY and Florida in the early 2000s. The arrests ...

Rep. Eric Swalwell or Chris Matthews May Have Farted on National Television

In a text message to a BuzzFeed reporter, Swalwell denied it, but does that mean he supplied it? MSNBC's Hardball responded to the dust-up (cropdusting?) ...

Protesters Risk Dramatic Escape at Embattled Hong Kong University

Police and antigovernment protestors clashed violently at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus on Sunday into Monday morning, the latest development in w...

Republican congressman calls new details about Trump revealed in impeachment testimony 'alarming'

Longtime White House budget employee Mark Sandy is expected to appear in a closed hearing on Saturday before the House committees conducting the impeachment in...

Sweden discontinues rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Assange is now being held in a UK prison and is in the middle of a court battle to avoid extradition to the United States. Swedish authorities are ending th...

"This is Modi's Emergency": Sitaram Yechury On Protesting JNU Students

The students from Jawahar Lal Nehru University are chanting slogans and attempting to cross police barricades. This, even as the JNU administration announced a ...

Iran's Khamenei backs fuel price hike, slams 'hooligans'

NetBlocks , a group that monitors worldwide Internet access, said that by the night of November 16, connectivity had fallen to just 7 percent of normal leve...

Sydney air quality worse than Beijing as fires persist

Sydney woke to a thick blanket of smoke as NSW residents are urged to "stay vigilant" amid severe fire dangers and a hot, windy weather forecast. On Tuesday m...

Taliban officials: 3 Taliban in Qatar for prisoner swap

It wasn't immediately known if the two hostages, both professors at the American University of Kabul, were handed over to Afghan government representatives, int...

Sri Lanka strongman Rajapaksa wins presidency by big margin

However, chairman of the Elections Commission Mahinda Deshapriya said this did not impact attendance. Addressing the media shortly after releasing the final r...

Sydney covered by smoke from Australia fires

NSW Health says those with conditions such as asthma , emphysema and angina are particularly sensitive to the effects of smoke. With the national standard b...

Supreme Court Orders Delay Over Fight for Trump's Tax Records

Democrats believe the redacted information could shed light on key episodes of the investigation, including discussions Trump is reported to have had with assoc...

Trump was not treated for any urgent health issues - Physician

Reiner said he was told by his contacts at the White House that Trump and his people had been thinking about going to Walter Reed for some time and he went when...

U.S. Cancels Civil-Nuclear-Cooperation Waiver For Iran

Large protests in many major cities across Iran are focused on an increase in gasoline prices, but U.S. officials are hoping to restructure them as a US-backed ...

South Dakota’s ‘I’m on meth’ campaign prompts online guffaws

Ultimately, the Department of Social Services wants to help people who are using the drug, get off it. That sounds much better than the life I'm having now. Sou...

Trump floats idea of testifying in impeachment inquiry

McConnell said House Democrats "are seized with 'Trump derangement syndrome,"' a catch-phrase used by the president's supporters. The New York Times repor...

McGill University has 'strongly encouraged' its students in Hong Kong to leave

Mediaite reached out to Reuters for comment. A senior government adviser told the Nikkei Asian Review earlier this month that the law had "significantly" reduce...