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Gaza militants fire rockets, Israel responds with airstrikes

The IDF said that Hamas is responsible for "everything that transpires in the Gaza Strip and will bear the consequences for deliberately targeting Israeli civil...

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Under the new executive order , the United States will allow children to stay with their parents for the duration of the court proceedings, and additional fa...

Republican leaders, Trump leaders strain for migrant-kids solution

The order states that family incarceration will continue under Trump and instructs the DOJ to attempt to "modify" the 1997 Flores settlement , which says t...

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Ardern's due date was June 17. The deputy leader of the National Party, Paula Bennett, wished Ms Ardern well in Parliament this morning. Just a handful of e...

Dozens feared dead as overloaded Sumatra ferry sinks

Information on whether among the passengers of a wrecked vessel, foreign nationals, no. The ferry had capacity for 60 passengers but was overloaded and also c...

China ‘expresses regret’ over USA withdrawal from UN Human Rights Council

China's foreign ministry expressed regret, with state media saying the image of the United States as a defender of rights was "on the verge of collapse". She ch...

Tropical Storm Carlotta pounds Mexico's coast - Latest forecast, path, track today

Most of this has been south and west of metro New Orleans today. Majority of the rain Monday was found in the Beaumont area back into the Gulf of Mexico. Even...

Trump expected to 'sign something' on immigration

Still, Trump believes that his immigration pledges helped win him the presidency and that his most loyal supporters want him to follow through. "We want to ...

Deputy Arrested For Sexually Abusing 4-Year-Old Undocumented Immigrant In Texas

Authorities allege 47-year-old Jose Nunez, at 10-year veteran of the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, sexually assaulted the girl before exploiting her mother's f...

MSNBC Panel Argues That Obama Separated Immigrant Families, Too

President Trump met with House Republicans Tuesday amid mounting public outrage over the separation of children from their families at the border-but insiders s...

FBI's Peter Strzok Agrees to Appear Before Lawmakers

Trey Gowdy of SC, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. While Republicans have said they will subpoena Strzok to testify, his l...

UN chief warns of risk of war in Gaza

Faced with global censure over its use of live fire in the fence protests, Israel says troops have been holding off border breaches and responding to gunmen w...

Republicans turn on Trump's 'cruel' border policy

But things came to a head when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or "Dreamers Act" was due to expire, and the cost of the "great wall" was revea...

Banned Blatter arrives in Russian Federation for World Cup

However, Blatter pointed out that the new "one person one vote" ballot system that resulted in the U.S., Canada and Mexico being chosen as joint hosts for the...

Trump defends separating families at USA border, ‘politically correct or not’

Yet the classic rambling stem-winder delivered by Trump left members grasping for a clear sense of whether he supports both of the GOP immigration bills they ...

Rachel Maddow breaks down in tears reporting on 'tender age' shelters

As she tried to read the text, Maddow, a seasoned and highly respected journalist, displayed unusual emotion, blurting out, " this is incredible ". "We'll see y...

Former Trump campaign manager mocks girl with Down syndrome

Lewandowski had said prior to Petkanas relaying the story of the girl with Down syndrome that "as soon as you cross the border illegally, you have committ...

Van crashes into fans at Dutch festival

The vehicle was driven away after the incident at the PinkPop festival in Landgraaf, which happened just hours after USA star Bruno Mars had performed his...

Afghan Taliban frown at militants' Eid ceasefire selfies

ISIS, who did not observe the ceasefire, claimed responsibility for that attack. Although his authorship is unknown, everything points to local branch of Islami...

Donald Trump pushes for merit-based immigration system

But some worry the lack of a clear resolution could exacerbate an already tough situation as his party heads toward the mid-terms. For the thousands of childr...

Attorneys General Call On Trump To End Family Separation Policy

In April, Sessions announced the zero-tolerance policy, which has resulted in around 2,000 children being separated from their parents within a six-week perio...

Grieve: Brexit amendment will not bring government down

Described by the former Tory minister as "Grieve 2", it would require the Government to allow MPs to vote on how it would proceed in the absence of a Brexit dea...

India to Impose Tariffs on $241M Worth of US Goods

The move is a retaliation to Washington imposing in March a 25 per cent duty on certain steel products and 10 per cent on aluminium products, which will help th...

BJP Pull Out of the Government in J&K

Terrorism, violence and radicalism have risen and the fundamental rights of citizens, including right to life and free speech, are in danger, the BJP leader sai...

Beijing Ready to Retaliate Against US Tariffs on Chinese Goods

The Commerce Ministry says "the Chinese side doesn't want to fight a trade war , but facing the shortsightedness of the USA side, China has to fight back str...

Merkel, Macron agree on major European Union reforms

Merkel was due to meet with Italy's newly-minted Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Monday, and the following day with French President Emmanuel Macron . The mo...

2 injured in Israeli drone strike in Gaza

Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for the fires. Firebomb kites and balloons launched from the Gaza Strip on Saturday have caused more than 15 fires in...

Canada votes to legalise recreational cannabis use

The Green Party in Ireland have been determined to legalise cannabis for medicinal use for quite some time, but there is no sign of the drug being readily ava...

What's happening at the United States border

But it was the Trump administration's decision to break the longstanding practice. While leading Democrats have said they wouldn't support either bill ...

5 charged in 'smuggling scheme' after fatal crash in Texas

Federal officials said the immigrants were only being processed and wouldn't be here longer than three days, but lawmakers reported they'd been told by immi...

Epileptic boy´s mother urges meeting with ministers on…

Ms Caldwell says the oil is keeping the boy's seizures at bay and he had been free of seizures for more than 300 days while using it previously. He is still...

United States to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council, ambassador says

The council also has been a forum for criticism of Trump's economic policies . " The US decision to leave this prejudiced body is an unequivocal statement ...

To prosecute migrants, 'you have to take the children away'

The president also accused illegal immigrants of endangering the lives of their children by sending them unaccompanied to the US. There is no USA law requirin...

Britain has lost the war on cannabis: former Conservative leader

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Greece, Macedonia Sign Landmark Name Pact

The nationalist party that is a junior coalition partner says it will reject the motion despite vehemently opposing the name deal that Tsipras reached with his ...