President Trump Breaks with Tradition, Skips Annual Ramadan Dinner
Last year's event saw more nearly 90,000 take part - and today that number is expected to rise. The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will meet today (Sunday), June 24, after the Maghreb prayers for sighting the crescent of the holy month of Shaww... More..
Police carry disabled demonstrators away from USA health bill protest
Online footage of the protest shows Capitol Hill Police lifting protesters from the floor outside McConnell's office. Ted CruzTed CruzTrump making calls to senators on healthcare bill Trump maintains healthc...More..
UK: All building cladding samples tested failed fire safety
London's mayor has backed a decision to evacuate tower blocks, insisting "you can't play Russian roulette with people's safety". Downing Street said last week 600 tower blocks in England are encased in cladd...More..
North Korea carries out another rocket engine test
It is not the first time proposals for North Korea to host competitions at the Games have been mooted, with the suggestion having been raised back in 2015. Relations with North Korea deteriorated further af...More..
Interracial couples still face strife 50 years after Loving decision
The new signage sits beside what was once Virginia's Supreme Court . Weeks after the Lovings were married in Washington, D.C., in 1958, sheriff's deputies burst into their Virginia home in the middle of th...More..
Australia says to resume air strikes in Syria after Russian Federation threat
The Russian defense ministry's statement added that any coalition aircraft flying west of the Euphrates River would be tracked and "considered air targets". The U.S. action also comes two days after a U.S. wa...More..
BJP backs PM Modi's Emergency remark
He stressed that democracy is not only a value system, but also a part of the Indian ethos, and we must preserve and strengthen it. "This country is seeing just that", he added. "I express my gratitude to the a...More..
String Of Explosions In Pakistan Leave Over 50 Dead
LeJ's Al Alami faction said in a statement it was targeting minority Shiah Muslims and threatened more attacks over Pakistanis fighting against Sunni militants in Syria's civil war. In the evening, two armed ...More..
Trump suggests fitting border wall with solar panels
Gleason said sales of electricity to utilities could cover the cost of construction in 20 years or less, and suggested that power could also be sold to Mexico. The government has selected the finalists for cont...More..
Wonder Woman Crosses $300 Million Stateside
In addition, this weekend saw Wonder Woman pass the trajectory of 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice domestically, as it had brought in $311.3 million through four weekends versus Wonder Woman's $3...More..
Jewish group cancels meeting with Netanyahu in protest
Under ultra- Orthodox management, the wall is now separated between men's and women's prayer sections. The landmark compromise, adopted by the Israeli Cabinet on January 31, 2016, recognized that the religious ...More..
Finsbury Park terror suspect's mum responds to mosque attack
We hope free legal advice will assist victims to deal with unforseen and sometimes complex legal issues that will arise in the weeks and months to come as a result of these awful events'. Darren Osborne , 47, h...More..
Dennis Rodman Thinks He Helped Broker Otto Warmbier's Release
We jumped up and down. Warmbier, a junior at the University of Virginia, was on a trip to North Korea in January 2016 when he was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda poster in the Yanggakdo Hotel in Pyong...More..
US shoots down drone in Syria
That incident prompted the Russian ministry of defense to announce that it would suspend the de-confliction hotline with the coalition which is created to prevent any accidents in the skies over Syria. "The fo...More..
Nitish Kumar's JD-U to support Ram Nath Kovind in Presidential elections
Reports say both Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee were not too thrilled by the NDA's choice of Kovind for the post of India's President. W...More..
Senator: GOP plan doesn't 'repeal nor replace'
While discussing the Republican health bill during an interview that aired Sunday on Fox & Friends, Trump said it would be great if lawmakers from both parties could "come up something that everybody's ha...More..
Australian Crown Resorts employees sentenced
Australian Consul General Graeme Meehan told media the sentences were backdated to begin on the day the employees were detained - October 14. The Australian consul general in Shanghai told reporters at the Ba...More..
'Father's Day for Philando' protest outside St. Anthony Police Dept
Within hours of the verdict, thousands of protestors came together at the state Capitol, starting a march toward St. Paul Cathedral. The officer shot Castile , seconds after he informed him that he was car...More..
Professor says N. Korea detainee got what he 'deserved'
Dettwyler did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The University of DE is cutting ties with a part-time professor who provoked a controversial firestorm for saying North Korea detainee Otto War...More..
Al Jazeera faces closure demand
The four countries are Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Bahrain . "Qatar will realize that this is a new state of affairs and that the isolation can last for years", said the Emp...More..
West Bengal Govt Protests Against Sikkim CM's Support for Gorkhaland
The GJM has made a decision to burn the copies of the Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) Accord, signed in 2011 between the Union home ministry, the West Bengal government and the outfit, on June 26 and ...More..
Justin Trudeau Joined the Toronto Pride Parade to Celebrate Equality
The massive and extremely good and joyous Toronto Pride march took place earlier today (AUS time) throughout the downtown Toronto area, and the Canadian PM - with his family in tow - lead proceedings from the...More..
President poll: CM Siddaramaiah to be proposer for Meira Kumar
In the last presidential election , BJP's MLAs had cross-voted in favour of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee rather than supporting their own nominee P.A. Tejashwi Yadav does not mention the Congress or Rahul ...More..
South Korean leader observes missile test amid North's threats
The head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency told Congress last month that North Korea could be on an "inevitable" course to having a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the country. US-led United Nation...More..
Hillary Clinton and Democratic Party 'colluded' against Sanders
The tweet comes as congressional committees and Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller continue investigations into Russia's efforts to influence the USA election and the Trump campaign's contacts...More..
NKorean taekwondo team in SKorea for 1st time in 10 years
The new South Korean president was speaking before 971 athletes and 796 officials from 183 countries, making the seven-day biennial event in Muju, located 240 kilometers south of Seoul , the largest of its k...More..
Putin jokes he'd offer Comey asylum like he did with Snowden
Comey stated in his testimony before a congressional panel that President Donald Trump fired him in an attempt to undermine the investigations into possible collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign ...More..
North Korea rebuttal: Otto Warmbier's death 'a mystery'
Some 2,500 family, friends and well-wishers gathered for the funeral of Otto Warmbier , the U.S. student who died after falling into a coma while in prison in North Korea. Warmbier had been on a tourist trip...More..
Authorities find missing Charlotte teen in Georgia
Suspect Michael Ren Wysolovsk, 31, is now facing unspecified charges. Among other charges, Wysoloyski was charged with false imprisonment, interference with custody and cruelty to children involving first-deg...More..
UN envoy: Israel flouting UN Security Council settlement demand
The incident came as U.S. President Donald Trump's Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt , started his meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Jerusalem and Ramall...More..