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Facebook documents seized in 'unprecedented' move by United Kingdom parliament

Damian Collins, a U.K. Conservative Party politician, used a "rare Parliamentary mechanism" to get an American software company Six4Three to share the documents...

Quake hits Iran and Iraq border at 6.3 magnitude, claims EMSC

According to Iran's state television, most of the injured were immediately released from hospitals and suffered only slight injuries in the quake. The quake s...

Matthew Hedges: British academic pardoned by UAE

The Middle Eastern studies specialist from Durham University visited the country to research his PhD thesis and was arrested in Dubai Airport on May 5. She swif...

Archeologists have found pharaonic tomb of a priest in Egypt

Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anany said that the tomb was unearthed by an Egyptian archaeological mission working at al-Asassif area on the West B...

Schiff says Trump 'dishonest' about Central Intelligence Agency report on Khashoggi

Asked Sunday about Trump's characterization, California Rep. Adam Schiff, who was briefed on the classified report, told CNN: "I think the president is being ...

Indian town tense as thousands of Hindus gather near disputed religious site

Amid heavy security, tens of thousands of monks and activists from Hindu nationalist groups began converging on the Indian town of Ayodhya today to demand the...

Ex-Trump campaign adviser loses bid to delay prison sentence

Papadopoulos tried to delay his sentence by capitalizing on a constitutional challenge to Robert Mueller's authority as special counsel. But in an order S...

Work with Plaid and SNP on Brexit, Price urges Labour

Mrs May said it was the SNP that needed to listen to the people who had voted for Brexit and against independence. "My fear is that if we did have another ref...

N.Y. Supreme Court rules against Trump, won’t dismiss foundation suit

The New York Attorney General's office alleges Trump and his family misused charity funds from the Trump Foundation. The lawsuit was filed by Attorney G...

Rain helps almost extinguish deadly California wildfire

The so-called Camp Fire all but obliterated the mountain community of Paradise, 175 miles (280 km) northeast of San Francisco, on November 8, killing at least...

Second Head Of Russian Intelligence Dies Within Two Years

Korobov's 57-year-old first deputy, Vice Admiral Igor Kostyukov, has been appointed acting GRU chief and is likely become his successor, state news agency TASS ...

Wind and snow expected overnight into Sunday

Conditions will likely deteriorate further at night, as snow builds up with blowing and drifting and lowering visibility, combining with temperatures falling in...

Trump says prepared for G20 meeting with China’s Xi

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has played down the likelihood of a grand bargain and said the U.S. still plans to increase tariffs on US$250 billion worth ...

Trump calls for 'major Border Security package' to fund wall

Some argue that active duty troops are barred from detaining and searching people on USA soil, something prohibited under the Posse Comitatus Act because such a...

Mississauga jewellers fight off robbers with swords

A second suspect then pulled out a semi automatic handgun, walked up to the window and pointed it at an employee, but the employee lunged at him again with the ...

Air raids hit rebel areas west of Syria's Aleppo: monitor

Meanwhile, nine people were in a village near the rebel stronghold of Idlib in an airstrike by Russian warplanes - the first since September. "The planes of ...

God camouflaged me against Navy, Coast Guard: John Allen Chau in diary

But Andamans police chief Dependra Pathak was dismissive of the idea that he was a missionary. The official said the exact reason for Chau's visit to ...

Ukraine claims Russian Federation 'rammed our tugboat' off Crimea

Russia stopped three Ukrainian navy vessels from entering the Sea of Azov via the Kerch Strait on Sunday by placing a huge cargo ship beneath a Russian-contro...

Trump fires back after Chief Justice Roberts issues rare rebuke

In 1992, federal judges in California issued a slew of appeals trying to stop that state's first execution in more than a decade until the Supreme Court order...

'All Will Stay in Mexico': Trump Threatens to Close Southern US Border

Hours earlier, The Washington Post quoted her as saying that the incoming administration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had agreed to allow migrants to stay in...

Death toll from Uganda boat cruise accident jumps to 29

More people died at this incident too, he recalled. Lake Victoria sees regular accidents, often involving overcrowded vessels. Among the dead are local fish...

Stray Bullet Kills Anti-Gun Violence Essay Winner, 13

She chose to write about gun violence because the world had failed to live up to the civil rights leader's dream, she said in an interview with Wisconsin Pub...

At least 26 killed in explosion at mosque in eastern Afghanistan

A suicide bomber carried out an attack during Friday prayers in Afghanistan's Khost Province, targeting soldiers inside a mosque located on an army base. As...

Alabama mall shooting leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded

Police in Hoover, Alabama , originally said 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford pulled a gun and opened fire during a physical altercation in the Rive...

British student Matthew Hedges jailed for spying could be pardoned

Radha Stirling, CEO of Detained in Dubai and a leading legal expert on the UAE, told RT the life sentence for Hedges "sent shockwaves through the British an...

Two Suspects of Chinese Consulate Attack Arrested, Mastermind Under Treatment in India

Photos of the BLA commander hospitalized in the New Delhi hospital have gone viral on social media after the terror attack in Karachi . "Karachi: Fidayeen ...

Woman shot to death by man at Ocala Walmart, shooter found wounded

He has a self-inflicted gunshot wound but is alive and being taken to a hospital. Just before 3 p.m., the woman was taken into an ambulance outside the store,...

Incoming Mexico gov’t: No deal to host U.S. asylum-seekers

The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration has cut a deal with the incoming Mexican government potentially overhauling long-standing asylum ru...

Taiwan president Tsai resigns as party chair after election losses

In the run-up to the elections, Ms Tsai and her Government said repeatedly China was trying to sway voters with "political bullying" and "fake news" - accusatio...

Facebook's Sandberg details company's ties to PR firm

Later, when the "Freedom from Facebook" campaign emerged as a grassroots coalition, Facebook asked Definers to help understand the groups behind them. Noting th...

Lahore court reserves verdict on petition seeking sedition charges against Khadim Rizvi

The minister said that the government "did it [s] best" to convince the party against convening for the protest, "but they refused every offer and started to pr...

The Script Is Getting Old: US Accuses Iran Of Hiding Chemical Weapons

The United States accused Iran on Thursday of failing to declare a toxic arms programme to the global chemical warfare watchdog, in breach of worldwide agre...

15 killed as bus plunges into canal in Karnataka

District officials along with locals were still recovering bodies from the canal. A boy who jumped from the vehicle is believed to be the only survivor and is...

MI5 ‘missed opportunities to stop Manchester bomber’

The report claims there were a number of shortcomings in the handling of Salman Abedi before he launched a suicide attack at the Manchester Arena as people ...

Associate of Trump confidant says he's mulling a plea deal

The talks with Corsi - an associate of both President Trump and GOP operative Roger Stone - could bring Mueller's team closer to determining whether Trump o...