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United Kingdom court criticizes Northern Ireland abortion law but rejects bid for reform

Britain's Supreme Court said on Thursday that Northern Ireland's strict abortion law was incompatible with human rights, but also said it did not have the power...

Lawmakers to question FBI officials in review of Clinton probe

The president suggested in a Tuesday morning tweet that the investigation was tainted by politics. Lawmakers on Tuesday are scheduled to interview the prima...

Man arrested after stealing armored vehicle from National Guard base

State police say the vehicle was not a tank and was not equipped with weapons, CBS 6 reports . Capitol police officers with combat-style rifles guarded the...

South Korea seeks 'early' agreement on ending Korean War

New details on Korea summit MORE . The designated Special Zone. "We talked about ending the war", Trump said following a meeting with a senior North Kore...

Israeli troops shoot dead relative of Ahed Tamimi

The IDF spokesperson explained that troops " responded with riot dispersal means ". The testimony of the Israeli army and the suggestion that Tamimi was kille...

U.S. embassy pulls more China staff over mystery illness

Most of the incidents were accompanied by freakish, unexplained sounds that initially led USA investigators to suspect a sonic attack . A USA official said t...

US Ex-Defense Intelligence Officer Held Over Alleged Spying for China

Investigators eventually learned that from 2013 to 2017, Hansen attended US government-sponsored conferences on IT security, sometimes trying to "conceal his at...

Trump hosts first iftar of his presidency

After delivering his remarks, Trump sat on the head table which among others included Saudi Ambassador Prince Khalid Ben Salman and Jordanian envoy Dina Kawar. ...

OAS Passes Resolution Opening Way for Venezuela's Withdrawal

Maduro calls the OAS a pawn of US foreign policy and last year his government said it had started the two-year process to pull out of the organization. Venezuel...

USA says diplomats in China hit by mystery illness

The Americans who were evacuated worked at the US Consulate in the southern city of Guangzhou, and their colleagues and family members are being tested by a Sta...

Woman from Wildwood beach arrest speaks out

But she says the negative responses people have made about her have been upsetting. "I guess it's a smart that they're going to stop talking", Dicht responded...

First Saudi woman receives drivers license

The impact of this is important for ride-hailing companies like Uber, which prior to the ban had a customer base that was 80% female customers , according to C...

Kim Jong Un lookalike set to make impression at summit

Singapore's foreign minister will make a two-day trip to Pyongyang starting on Thursday, as preparations for the summit Trump-Kim summit in the city-state accel...

China warns US against provocations following B-52 flyby

The US Pacific Air Forces told The Japan Times that two B-52 heavy bombers left a military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for drills "in the vicinit...

Plastic bans can work, but need planning and enforcement

Since plastic bags take around one thousand years to decompose one can only imagine how long the existing ones will remain in our lives. John Duncan, head of ...

White House Announces Venue for Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore

Trump met last week at the White House with Kim Jong Un's top deputy, Kim Yong Chol, who delivered a letter from the North Korean leader. North Korean o...

Pakistan resumes shelling on civilian areas

The heavy firing and shelling from the Pakistani side lasted for nearly 12 hours in Pragwal area of Akhnoor, Kanachak and Khour sectors of Jammu district and ...

Donald Trump To Fight For His "Right" To Block People On Twitter

In July 2017 the complaint in the Manhattan court to block the President filed on behalf of seven users of the social network, Knight First Amendment Institut...

Judge who sentenced Brock Turner recalled

However, nearly two years to the day that Persky handed down the lenient sentencing to spare Turner from the " severe impact " of prison and some actual fucking...

Canada Rejects U.S. Push To Replace NAFTA With Bilateral Trade Deal

After Washington slapped 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada , Mexico has retaliated with tariffs on a diverse range of America...

USA first lady Melania Trump to skip G7, North Korea summit

On Monday, during a meeting with the families of fallen soldiers, President Donald Trump quipped about speculation that the first lady had left him. Here's so...

U.S. urges China to account for ‘ghosts’ of Tiananmen

Chinese authorities each year censor online content relating to the crackdown - a human rights issue which remains a point of contention with many Western cou...

100 firefighters tackle blaze at central London hotel

She said: "Just evacuated Mandarin Oriental hotel to see this. absolutely insane!" The cause of the blaze was not yet known, it added. Crews wearing breathi...

Kiev protests against jail sentence for Ukrainian national in Russian Federation

Since 2002, Sushchenko has worked as a correspondent for Ukrinform, a Ukrainian news agency, and continued doing so from Paris after moving in 2010. According t...

U.S. first lady Melania Trump to skip G7, North Korea summit

Last year, the first lady joined the president for his first G7 trip to Italy, where she took part in public appearances with the spouses of other G7 leaders....

Children burned in Guatemala volcano eruption to be treated in US

A pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving current of extremely hot gas and volcanic matter that pours down volcanic slopes at incredibly high speeds. Emergency cr...

Puerto Rico: Death toll increased by more than 1400 after Maria

Many believe the official death toll of 64 is an undercount. Earlier this week, Harvard researchers released a study indicating Hurricane Maria likely killed ...

US must stop separating immigrant children from parents

A statement released today from spokeswoman for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, Ravina Shamdasani, outlines everything wrong with the Trum...

Explosion rocks Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, sending ash 1 mile high

There was some confusion on Tuesday concerning Big Island Mayor Harry Kim's second home in Vacationland. The official said aerial surveillance of the area sho...

GOP leader McConnell cancels most of Senate's August recess

McConnell's move, the aide said, was aimed at keeping those Democrats off the campaign trail and underscored Republican jitters over retaining majority control ...

Guatemala Volcano Eruption: Toll rises to 62; over 3000 evacuated

The very top of it reaches a height of 3,763 meters above sea level. Authorities have said they feared the death toll could rise with an undetermined number o...

'Nobody is left' - Guatemala volcano ravaged entire families

Orange, super-heated gas and rocks shot into the sky from Volcan de Fuego and poured down the mountain, wiping out entire villages on Sunday. People gather ...

Crocodile kills pastor baptizing followers at lake in Ethiopia

A pastor has died after a crocodile mauled him as he baptised believers in a lake in Ethiopia. In a gruesome occurrence, a crocodile killed a protestant pasto...

Kelly Sadler, White House aide who insulted John McCain, is out

A White House communications aide who drew criticism for reportedly joking about Senator John McCain's cancer has left her role, an official says. White Hou...

Russian Federation 'not trying to split EU', says Putin

He then had meetings with conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, whose nationalist Freedom Party entered the govern...