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El Capitan: two climbers die in fall from Yosemite rock face

Richards had little specifics but shared, "We still don't know what happened, who these climbers were, where they were from". Updated 6:05 p.m. with names of ...

Woman Speeds Onto Baseball Field During Game, Killing One

The woman turned around right in the middle of the field and drove back through the gate when she struck 68-year-old Douglas Parkhurst, according to police. The...

Nasir-ul-Mulk to take oath as caretaker PM today

Photograph released by the Press Information Department (PID) on June 1, 2018 shows Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain (L) meets with caretaker Prime Mini...

China says U.S. accusation of SCS 'ridiculous'

The acts have complicated the situation in the East Sea, and affected negotiations on the Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) between ASEAN and China as well ...

Trump lawyers' letter to Mueller challenges subpoena

His lawyers at the time , John Dowd and Jay Sekulow , contended that the U.S. Constitution empowered the president to, "if he wished, terminate the inquir...

US Defense Secretary Mattis Slams China for Militarising South China Sea Islands

In Singapore , Mattis named deployment of anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles and the recent landing of bomber aircraft at Woody Islands as examples ...

The Official Hunt For MH370 Is Over, Leaving The Mystery Unsolved

After pressure from the families of the victims, the former Malaysian government struck a deal with Ocean Infinity to restart the search in January on the condi...

What to Expect From Singapore Summit

Citing two people familiar with the talks, the Post reported that the U.S. is open to covering the costs, but is considering asking the host country, Singap...

Major drug companies to announce voluntary price cuts soon

Many American public health groups and Democrats are against the Right to Try bill , saying the life of the patients could be put in danger. While many peop...

Trump lawyers reportedly warned Mueller to back off

In arguing that Trump has the power to end an investigation or pardon people, his lawyers left open the possibility that they were referring only to a probe i...

Double homicide in Scottsdale connected to Steven Pitt shooting

The murder of the forensic psychiatrist who worked on the JonBenet Ramsey murder case , Steven Pitt , has been linked to the deaths of two other women. Witn...

Family was awarded just four cents in police shooting death of father

A SWAT team first discovered that Hill was dead after using a robot to photograph the inside of the garage, The New York Times reported . After all, there were...

U.S. vows UN Security Council veto of proposal on Palestinians

Kuwait presented the draft two weeks ago, initially calling for an worldwide protection mission for the Palestinians as protests turned violent on the Israeli-G...

Pro-Choice Campaigners Test Law In Northern Ireland By Swallowing Abortion Pills

The UK's highest court rules next week on a challenge over the legality of Northern Ireland's strict abortion law. Today a tiny robot, less than the size of a...

Navarro Hits at Mnuchin for U.S.-China Trade War Comments

Earlier this week, trade tensions between China and the USA flared after Washington threatened to enact 25% tariffs on USD50 billion worth of Chinese imports,...

First lady stays behind on Trump’s Camp David weekend

While there are plenty of theories about Melania's public disappearance , it is most plausible that she is in fact inside the White House right now taking it e...

Kashmir unrest as protester run over by police dies

Witnesses said that the injured were immediately rushed to the hospital for treatment. "Almost every single civilian casualty in Kashmir is due to continued...

Uganda imposes WhatsApp and Facebook tax ‘to stop gossip’

Yoweri Museveni , the Ugandan president, had said that the use of these platforms encourages gossip. According to David Bahati , state minister for finance, ...

Parliament ousts Spain PM, replaced by Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez

Sanchez toppled Rajoy following a court ruling in a major corruption case involving the conservative leader's Popular Party. He has already committed to respe...

Giuseppe Conte named Italian PM as leading parties form alliance

Italy's populist parties on Thursday agreed to form a coalition government , almost three months after an inconclusive March 4 general election . Many w...

The One Thing Trump’s Tariffs Has Taught Us About Post-Brexit Trade

We lose a lot of money with Canada, and we lose a fortune with Mexico... 'NAFTA look it's been a bad deal for the United States. Trump had reportedly offere...

Saudi's King Salman announces new cabinet reshuffle

King Salman also appointed Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al al-Sheikh as minister of Islamic affairs , call and guidance. In December 2017, Qatar'...

EU, Mexico respond to USA tariffs on steel and aluminum

The Trump administration argues the tariffs are limited and created to save America's ailing metals industry, which is needed for defence and national security ...

Kim complains of U.S. 'hegemonism' to Russian Federation

Denuclearisation and a formal end to the Korean War would be on the table in Singapore, said Mr Trump after talks with top North Korean official Kim Yong C...

Mattis warns of Chinese 'intimidation'; says US seeks 'results-oriented' ties

China's state-run Global Times newspaper said in an editorial tension in the South China Sea was "due to the US continuing to increase its military presence in ...

UNSC rejects U.S. draft resolution on Gaza

The Israelis have also accused Hamas and its militant affiliates in Gaza of using the protests as cover for sending attackers into Israel . The Kuwait-draf...

Israel Wins Russia Concession to Move Iran, Hezbollah from Syria-Israel Border

Over 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria are embedded with the SDF in the northeast as well as in the enclave of At-Tanf in the south, along the Jordanian border. The SD...

Macron talks tariffs to Trump

Australia has once again sidestepped US President Donald Trump's haphazard use of hefty steel and aluminium tariffs against his allies, as a trade war looms . ...

Trump Eases Tone on North Korea With Singapore Summit Back On

Trump said . Still, Pompeo said he doesn't yet know whether the meeting will proceed on the announced date of June 12 and that he believes North Korea's lea...

Why Modi visited Mariamman Temple and Chulia Mosque in Singapore

I see ASEAN as an example and inspiration". "India does not see the Indo-Pacific region as a strategy or as a club of limited members", Modi said in a spe...

Trump Administration Defends Its Immigration Policies

That means that many more people will be sent directly to jail after crossing the border, instead of being allowed temporary freedom while they await deportat...

U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution on Gaza

The United States on Friday vetoed a Kuwaiti-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that would have asked for measures to protect Palestinians. Thou...

China says it's ready to fight back after USA revives tariffs

Trump is under pressure from Congress to stay tough on China , especially Chinese telecoms-equipment maker ZTE Corp. The tariff threat is unlikely to derail...

IISC Bengaluru featured among world's top 100 university rankings

Japan has five institutions across the top 100 (down from six), and four of these have declined. Meanwhile, India features in the table for the first time sin...

U.N. voices concern over Saudi arrest of women's rights activists

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has courted Western allies to support his reforms. Saudi women increasingly find themselves subject to ...