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Jun 01 2017
Philippine military: City siege was start of extremist plan
Some 2,000 residents are feared trapped while more than 100 people have been confirmed killed in the conflict, which began last week when gunmen waving black flags of t...
Jun 01 2017
UK ready to leave EU without a Brexit deal
She was also accused of dodging the debate because the viewers "won't like what they see - and they will think that's what it will like in the Brexit negotiations"....
Jun 01 2017
Bomb kills 10, hurts 22 in Baghdad; IS claims responsibility
Islamic State claimed the attack, in the Karrada area at about midnight, saying it was carried out by an Iraqi who detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle. A second deadly...
Jun 01 2017
Scores killed as massive explosion rocks Kabul
The Taliban denied responsibility for the bloodbath and said the identity of the attackers "shall become clear at a later stage". No group has yet claimed it. A police ...
Jun 01 2017
Bombing in diplomatic area of Kabul kills 64, wounds scores
Since most global troops withdrew at the end of 2014, the Taliban have gained ground and now control or contest about 40 per cent of the country, according to U.S. Af...
Jun 01 2017
Jury Selection Begins in Philando Castile Trial
Authorities also have audio and video from Yanez's squad auto that haven't been made public. Now, Yanez, who worked for the St. Anthony, Minnesota, police department, f...
Jun 01 2017
Election day ahead: May and Corbyn to face Paxman, but not together
He says Brexit is not the defining issue in a constituency where an estimated 52.4 per cent backed Remain in the referendum. Mrs May committed to a cap on costs in resp...
Jun 01 2017
Japan urges China to do more to pressure North Korea
This is the 45th anniversary of the normalization of relations between the two nations. "North Korea's provocation by ignoring repeated warnings from worldwide society ...
Jun 01 2017
Nancy Pelosi to talk about Trump in San Francisco appearance
It is not the first time Pelosi has slammed the president. "I'm the highest ranking woman politically in our country", Pelosi said. Pelosi's stated preference for Bus...
Jun 01 2017
U.S. election claims fiction, insists Vladimir Putin
In answering a reporter's question, Macron minced no words in explaining why his campaign team had shut out two Russian-associated news organizations, Russia Today an...
Jun 01 2017
Major fire in textile showroom in Chennai
At around 1pm, they made a decision to break through a portion of the back of the building in order to gain better access to the fire. Twelve men who were working in the ...
Jun 01 2017
The Guardian view on the SNP manifesto: a step back for Sturgeon
The Conservatives say another ballot can not take place until after Brexit and only if there is public consent for a vote. Sturgeon told BBC on Sunday that if the J...
Jun 01 2017
Philippine military says foreign fighters killed
The death toll has exceeded 100, with 19 civilians and at least 65 rebels killed. He maintained that only "a few pockets of resistance" remained, which the military and p...
Jun 01 2017
American climber dies, Indian goes missing after successfully climbing Mount Everest
It is not clear if Yearwood fulfilled his dream of reaching the Everest summit before he died. On the Tibet side of the mountain, an Australian climber died, the lo...
May 31 2017
State Highway Damage From Winter Storms Tops $1B
The resulting wall of earth "now extends 1,500 feet in length over State Route 1 and is about 35 to 40 feet deep". There's no estimate on how soon the road could reopen...
May 31 2017
Threat coming from North Korea entering new stage: Japan PM Shinzo Abe
United States rocket scientists have said that the missile launched by North Korea on Monday showed considerable progress the country made towards developing an interco...
May 31 2017
Ariana Grande announces she will return to Manchester for a benefit concert
A German intelligence official said, "we must clarify whether Abedi knew people in Syria who he met" in Germany. British authorities did not say that the investigation ...
May 31 2017
U.S. successfully destroys mock ICBM, calls it a milestone programme
And it was the first test ever targeting an intercontinental-range missile like North Korea is developing. In a sign of growing USA anxiety over North Korea's weapons d...
May 31 2017
'Top Gun 2' is taking flight
Tom Cruise always said that the cast of original Top Gun was just fantastic, it starred Val Kilmer , Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Tom Skerrit and Kelly McGillis . " It's t...
May 31 2017
Who Was Noriega? From CIA Puppet To Drug Trafficking Dictator
Pictured right is Miss Colombia, Maria Monic. Jaco says Manuel Noriega's security forces called "the Dobermans" tear-gassed and beat him while he was covering a 1988 de...