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Chinese Telecom Giant ZTE Resumes Trading, Drops 39% After Deal With US

It would also ban USA government agencies from purchasing any devices or services from ZTE or Huawei , another major Chinese telecom firm, or using government ...

China wants UN Security Council to lift sanctions on North Korea

In the two weeks following that summit, home prices rose by more than 50%, according to a local real estate agent interviewed by NPR. North Korea and the US...

Trump trade adviser apologises for insulting Trudeau

Navarro offered the apology at a Wall Street Journal conference Tuesday, the Journal's Gerald Seib tweets. The president's staff then blasted Trudeau on S...

Macedonia agrees to new name after 27-year dispute with Greece

A former republic of Yugoslavia, Macedonia broke away in 1991, and its name is recognized by the vast majority of countries around the world, including the U....

Kim summit signals new breakthrough and echoes past problems

However, one never knows with North Korea but it seemed like Donald Trump used tricks he knows best to convince Kim Jong-un of his sincerity as well as titi...

Brexit: House of Lords EU Withdrawal Bill amendment voted down by MPs

What was the government's response? It meant that the United Kingdom government successfully defeated the Lords amendment, 324 to 298, to the dismay of Labour a...

Adviser apologizes for 'place in hell' comment

However, despite Trump's heated rhetoric, the United States ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has expressed confidence that the trade conflict can be s...

Amazing 'Spidey' raccoon reaches roof after scaling skyscraper

According to the Associated Press, the raccoon safely reached the roof of the building Wednesday morning. Perhaps the little rascal knows exactly what it's doin...

Previous GOP House Rep Loses Primary After Attack By Trump

But Trump says Rep. Katie Arrington "was such a good candidate, and Sanford was so bad, I had to give it a shot". Sanford made enemies as governor in 2009...

Virginia Primary Voters to Pick Nominees in Local, Federal Races

Elections in Maine , Nevada , North Dakota , South Carolina , and Virginia will choose Republicans and Democrats to face off in November. Small business...

Fire catches Iraq's biggest ballot warehouse before recount

The fire in Baghdad , at one of the ballot warehouses, has fueled even more claims of a cover-up of the results. Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi described t...

Man holds two people hostage in Paris

Three people, including a pregnant woman, were taken hostage however one managed to escape. The incident is not believed to be a terrorist attack although the...

Taliban kill Afghan district governor despite truce

The attack occurred as employees were leaving their offices early for Ramadan, police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said. "We are told to stay inside for now". IS...

Otto Warmbier's parents: ‘Hopefully something positive' will come from Trump-Kim summit

The lawsuit says Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was on an innocent five-day trip to North Korea in December 2015 at the time that the U.S. The pa...

British PM Supports G7 Communique to Keep Russia Sanctions

Addressing the summit, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose country has an observer status in the group, said that Iran would expect other participants in th...

New AIT complex unveiled as symbol of 'strong U.S. commitment to Taiwan'

With the world's attention focused a few thousand miles southwest, where President Donald Trump was shaking hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a hi...

Athens and Skopje reportedly reach deal in name dispute - English

The nationality of the country's citizens will be listed on official documents as "Macedonian/citizen of the Republic of Macedonia ". "We wholeheartedly cong...

Police operation in Paris as man holds 2 hostages

Officers are trying to determine whether the incident is terror related. Emergency services arrive at the scene of a hostage situation in central France on Tu...

Warning issued days before Florida woman attacked and killed by alligator

Two days before a south Florida woman was killed by an alligator , an emailed warning about a gator was sent out to homeowners in the waterfront community wher...

Officer rescues toddler running on side of IL highway

As a thanks for his heroism, Sgt. Mannino received a life saving service award from the department. Mannino, who was on patrol, stopped his police auto to blo...

Police operation over hostage situation in Paris

He said to be armed with a bomb and a fake handgun and had originally taken three people hostage but one managed to escape. There were no immediate details on...

Trump, Trudeau trade fight: Map of Canada exports to US

Trump just a week before the summit imposed 25% tariffs on steel and 10% tariffs on aluminum from the European Union and Canada . "There are always irritants...

Iran to North Korea: Don’t Trust ‘Deal-Breaker-in-Chief’ Trump

It also seemed to leave officials in South Korea , where the presence of U.S. troops has always been described as necessary to maintaining peace on the penin...

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner made $82 million past year

Per the Washington Post , ethics experts are concerned that the extraordinary outside cash flow could create intense conflicts of interest. While both Kushn...

Picture worth a thousand words: Trump, Merkel 'standoff' captures G-7 tensions

According to Merkel, the European Union is, like Canada, preparing counter-measures against Trump's steel and aluminium taxes, in line with regulations set by...

Dennis Rodman: I got call saying Trump was proud of me

And I believed in North Korea , but I couldn't even go home. I had to hide out for 30 days. I just kept going back. "(Kim) is trying to change his people and...

U.S. unveils de facto embassy in Taiwan amid China tensions

While Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress do not always get along, "we recently passed the Taiwan Travel Act unanimously". On Sunday, Heather Nauert,...

International Court Throws Out War Crimes Conviction of Congolese Politician

Bemba's efforts to stop the crimes "extinguished his responsibility in full". Bemba led the MLC party in the Democratic Republic of Congo and later became o...

Tory minister criticised for "plain nasty" Brexit hanging comments

It is thought a second ministerial resignation could follow. Pro-Remain Tories are considering whether to vote in favour of peers' changes to the bill on thei...

Tearful Dennis Rodman: 'I Knew Things Were Going to Change'

Though small, Singapore is also wealthy, and able to shoulder the cost of the historic summit , which would appeal to cash-strapped North Korea . According...

The agreement signed by Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in full

But there are major doubts, given how hard it has been for Kim to build his program and given that the weapons are seen as the major guarantee to his holding ...

Judge Halts Deportation of Pizza Delivery Man-For Now

Chica said she's been trying to convince the girls - Luciana, 3, and Antonia, 2 - that their father, illegal immigrant Pablo Villavicencio , is "out workin...

Egypt and Ethiopia Agree to Avoid Clash over Huge Nile River Dam

But at a press conferee in Cairo, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signaled they had made a breakthrough. Constru...

Man held over deadly Japan shinkansen stabbing spree

Odawara police official Satoshi Oiye said the suspect admitted to police that he had attacked the passengers. The stabbing occurred last night on board a Shi...

Ash Eruption At Kilauea Summit Registered As 5.4 natural disaster

While the new land is owned by the state, people that have private property in the affected areas will still own their land, although it will need to be reasses...