China to hold next Belt and Road forum in 2019
Speaking to reporters at the Yanqi Lake resort, the forum venue in the outskirts of Beijing , Mr Xi said the forum has sent a "positive message" to the rest of the world on "Belt and Road global cooperation". Other governments welcome Chinese invest... More..
Three Years After Their Kidnapping, These Chibok Schoolgirls Are Coming Home
She met with the girls in Abuja, accompanied by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and the Minister of Women's Affairs, Jummai Alhassan. But the discovery of one of them with a baby last May raised hope...More..
China's Xi says Belt and Road summit reaches consensus, achieves positive outcomes
The summit is showcasing Xi's cherished One Belt, One Road initiative, a revival of the ancient Silk Road trading routes that could cement China's growing global clout on trade and geopolitics. IMF's Managing...More..
Philippine lawmakers hear impeachment complaint against Duterte
The motion filed by Alejano, whose party comprises military officers who staged a failed coup in 2003, is the first attempt to start impeachment proceedings against Duterte since he assumed office at the end of...More..
Heroes and villains win Bafta glory
USA actor Cuba Gooding Jr was on hand to accept the worldwide award on behalf of The People Vs OJ Simpson: American crime story , in which he played the title role, beating out Netflix's critically-acclaimed ...More..
Macron pick for French premier about to be named
Mr Philippe is a close associate of former prime minister Alain Juppe, who leads the moderate wing of The Republicans and has indicated that he favoured helping Mr Macron. She replied: "I am the last person who...More..
Liberals hang on to win BC's first minority government in 65 years
Hitting back at USA plans to implement duties on Canadian softwood lumber, a key export for British Columbia, Clark said the Liberals would add a carbon levy on thermal coal exports from the province that would...More..
Who is Sally Yates?
New information we learned was how vehemently Yates warned the White House that Michael Flynn had misled officials on his communications with Russian Federation. Mr Obama, who had fired Mr Flynn as the head o...More..
Merkel 'to withdraw all German soldiers from Turkey' in MAJOR diplomatic snub
The German foreign ministry described as "absolutely unacceptable" Turkey's latest ban on a visit to the Incirlik base in southern Turkey, used by the global coalition fighting the Daesh group. A spokesman for ...More..
Hong Kong Rejects Asylum for Refugees Who Sheltered Snowden
The refugees include former Sri Lankan soldier Ajith Pushpakumara; Vanessa Mae Rodel, who is from the Philippines and has a 5-year-old daughter; and a Sri Lankan couple, Supun Thilina Kellapatha and Nadeeka Dil...More..
Laurence Tribe: Trump must be impeached. Here's why
Tribe then pointed to a report that Trump had asked former FBI Director James Comey to pledge his loyalty during a dinner earlier this year. Officials sought to protect the President from accusations by De...More..
Will GOP Senators Approve a Trump Poodle as FBI Director?
Here's the president in yesterday's NBC interview. "It's all about the goal with which it's done". Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, Republican Senator John Cornyn, New York Appeals Court Judge Michael Gar...More..
White House, Pentagon weighing Syrian safe zones
Germany's foreign ministry said it was anxious by reports of violations but that successfully implementing the deal could be the first step towards a real ceasefire in Syria. The complicating factor, as expec...More..
South African opposition wants secret ballot on Zuma vote
In short, it's the path of least resistance for Parliament to rid themselves of Zuma and his cabinet. "Of the available methods, the only method that can prevent that crime is the secret ballot". Such a ruling ...More..
Lawmakers urge Trump to avoid picking a partisan for Federal Bureau of Investigation job
Trump sparked a political firestorm when he abruptly fired Comey last week. Graham chairs a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that is examining the Russian government's attempts to meddle in US elections, and h...More..
Jeremy Corbyn vows NHS 'for the many' with package of health reforms
The package includes a commitment to further increases in the national living wage and measures to protect workers' pensions in the wake of the BHS scandal. "We are putting an extra £10 billion into the NHS and...More..
N.Korea says missile test part of defense effort
Sunday on ABC's This Week, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the administration will "continue to tighten the screws" on the North Korean leader. Shen Dingli, a professor of worldwide re...More..
Police used stun gun, neck grab in fatal Vegas Strip arrest
Sunday near The Venetian casino-hotel. Officers said the man, who approached two uniformed officers inside The Venetian, was "acting erratic" and paranoid, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The neck grab...More..
Democrats Keep Pressure on Trump Over Comey Firing
The Trump Administration is wasting no time in naming Comey's replacement. "The president has a chance to clean up the mess he mostly created", he said, adding, "I have no evidence that the president coll...More..
Ransomware attack should be wake-up call for governments
USA package delivery giant FedEx, European vehicle factories, Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, Britain's health service and Germany's Deutsche Bahn rail network were among those hit. Brad Smith, who is Micros...More..
Final Push on Syria's Raqa in Early Summer
Trump's Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said after talks in London on Thursday with Yildirim that he had no doubt the two countries could work through the tensions caused by the decision to arm the YPG. "Trump is ...More..
Russian top diplomat says Trump team members are 'people of action'
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a photo of Trump and Lavrov shaking hands in the Oval Office. Trump welcomed Lavrov to the White House marking his highest level face-to-face contact with a R...More..
China's Xi appeals to foreign leaders for freer trade
Xi described the "Belt and Road" initiative as a "project of the century" before pledging an additional 100 billion yuan ($14.5 billion) for China's Silk Road Fund, 380 billion yuan in new lending for partici...More..
Indira most acceptable PM even today: Pranab
But in meeting itself I said we are perhaps taking the most risky decision. "These decisions can not be avoided", he recalled Indira as having told him. "Indiraji waged throughout her life a relentless war agai...More..
Australian Treasurer Unveils Near Universally Popular Budget Measure
It was a shift to the middle for the government, which had previously linked funding the $22 billion scheme to its doomed Omnibus bill, ditching the threats and moving to an increase of the Medicare Levy to r...More..
Tillerson: Trump weighs embassy move impact on Mideast peace
Trump had promised during the presidential campaign to move the USA embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would upend US policy in the Middle East. It later annexed East Jerusalem, and in 1980, Israel unila...More..
Palestinians hope for settlement curb if peace talks resume
Though the Indian Government has constantly engaged with Palestine and supported it on worldwide fora, the two sides held their first ever Joint Commission Meeting in November 2016 that was co-chaired by Minist...More..
China pressures South Korea on missile system
The US is the South's security guarantor and has 28,500 troops stationed in the country, but Seoul was startled when Trump suggested it should pay for the $1 billion THAAD system. The two countries are also at ...More..
North Korean Defector Says War With US 'Unavoidable' Amid End Times Warning
Song is, however, fearful that Kim will invade South Korea. North Korea has vowed retaliation for an alleged failed assassination attempt against its leader Kim Jong-un. The 58-year-old went on to accuse the ...More..
First lady: Barron to attend private Episcopal school in MD
There are 580 students enrolled in preschool through grade 12, with a 7:1 student-teacher ratio. "We look forward to the coming school years at St. Andrew's", Mrs. St. Andrew's Episcopal School does not soun...More..