BEIRUT – Russian officials blamed Syrian rebels on Wednesday for a chemical attack which killed scores of people, many of them women and children, and has been widely attributed to the Syrian government.
(CNN) Ahead of the first meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korea fired a ballistic missile off the coast of the Korean Peninsula, US and South Korean officials said.
The European Parliament has backed a motion setting out its position for the Brexit negotiations by 516 to 133. Although MEPs will not participate directly in the exit talks they will have to vote in favour of the final deal for it to go ahead.
View of an empty room at a destroyed museum in Mosul, Iraq, April 2, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares. 1/5. left. right. View of an empty room at a destroyed museum in Mosul, Iraq, April 2, 2017.
BEIJING – China is criticizing India for allowing the Dalai Lama to visit a disputed border region, saying it did not consider the incident a purely internal Indian affair.
The centrist Emmanuel Macron after the French presidential debate on Tuesday. He is currently expected to be one of the top two vote-getters in the election’s first round, set for April 23.
The “Pink Star” diamond is the most valuable cut diamond ever offered at auction. AP. More On: diamonds · This is what a $50 million necklace looks like · Pastor finds 706-carat diamond · ‘King of Diamonds’ wins $209M after years of feuding with …
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s approval ratings continued to drop in a poll taken after the health care plan he supported failed to pass the Republican-controlled House.
LAHORE, Pakistan – A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying census workers in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six people – two data collectors and four soldiers who were escorting them, a government …
‘Ice is a scourge. It destroys lives. It destroys families and communities,’ Mr Turnbull told reporters in Tasmania. The ice was seized in a joint Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police operation.
While the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh is reviewing schemes launched by former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav – with some slated to be closed down – there is one that is likely to escape Yogi Adityanath’s axe – the 1090: …
The Trump administration will withhold $32.5 million in funding that had been earmarked this current fiscal year for the United Nations’ lead agency on family planning and maternal health, known as the United Nations Population Fund or UNFPA.
The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and …
NEW DELHI – A Muslim man beaten by a mob who accused him of transporting cows for slaughter has died in western India, police said Wednesday, in the latest incidence of violence by Hindu vigilante groups enraged over the treatment of the animal they …
(CNN) In politics, if you’re lacking in foreign policy experience, one quick fix is to hop on a plane headed overseas for a photo op and crash course in diplomacy and international relations.
Dozens of people were killed, including women and children. Witnesses described traumatic scenes. Graphic photographs and videos posted online showed people struggling to breathe.
(CNN) The Department of Homeland Security is targeting and isolating certain aircraft for additional screening upon landing in the United States as part of the larger electronics ban the agency announced late last month.
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