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Obama plays Santa delighting patients in children's hospital

The former president who is globally known for being a down-to-earth human being and all-round awesome man spent time with the kids; planting huge smiles on t...

'I can’t hide my disgust, my disdain’: judge lambasts Michael Flynn

Sullivan also quickly clamped down on any suggestion that Flynn's admitted crime - lying to federal investigators - had occurred in part because the retired gen...

Trump announces Defense Secretary Mattis will retire in February

U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis has announced he is stepping down one day after President Donald Trump surprised U.S. allies and members of Congress by ...

USA says migrants will wait in Mexico after claiming asylum

The Trump administration has said many immigrants claim asylum to gain entry into the United States only to disappear before a court date. The recent arrival ...

Bipartisan criminal justice reform bill clears US Senate

The Senate will then move to the House, which may take up the legislation sometime this week. Opponents say the bill endangers public safety and have sought t...

Dying neighbour leaves 14 years of Christmas presents for little girl

In the sack were all the Christmas presents he'd bought for *our* daughter for the next thirteen years", the first tweet in his thread read, later realizing t...

Khalilzad meets COAS, appreciates Pakistan’s role in Afghan peace process

After the meetings, he had tweeted that the two-day talks, to promote intra-Afghan dialogue in order to end the conflict in Afghanistan , had been productive. ...

WWE Pressing Ahead With Saudi Arabia Shows In 2019

The spike includes the deadliest attack on the US media in recent history, when a gunman who had filed a failed defamation lawsuit against the Capital Gazett...

Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan bemoans the state of America's 'broken politics'

Speaking at the Library of Congress, Ryan thanked his constituents, friends, staffers, colleagues, mentors, allies, and family for their support over what he ...

Blind, worm-like amphibian named after Donald Trump

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Foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and turkey join Syria talks in Geneva

The foreign ministers of Russia , Turkey and Iran agreed on mechanisms in Geneva to organize the first constitutional committee meeting for Syria in ea...

United States and allies: New hacks mean China broke 2015 economic espionage pact

USA corporations involved in aviation, space and satellite technology, and government agencies including the Navy and the space agency Nasa were targeted, it ad...

Ocasio-Cortez Targets Hakeem Jeffries With 2020 Primary Challenger

Rep. -elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Tuesday blasted Politico for an article about her earlier in the day, saying the publication had zero named...

Judge slams Flynn for 'arguably' selling out US

But these statements reflect a kind of abiding bias that might well result in reversible error if Flynn's lawyers appeal a sentence he eventually receives from ...

Massive cargo ship runs aground off Cornish beach

Prior to that, reports stated that the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom was contacting rescue services to receive clarity regarding the situation with the ...

United Kingdom unveils post-Brexit immigration plan

Javid said the "exact threshold" would be decided after public consultation. However, low-skilled workers can apply for short-term visas for up to a year, eve...

Award winning German reporter sacked over 'invented' reports

Claas Relotius, who worked at Der Spiegel as a freelancer for 6 years until receiving a staff position in 2017, seemed to be a paragon of modern journalism. A...

Software Bug Could Have Exposed Users' Phones' Country Codes

A company spokesman declined to elaborate as Twitter shares posted their biggest drop in more than two months. Social network blocks an account if it consi...

James Comey Slams the Republican Party After Second Interview on Capitol Hill

The words of a president matter, the rule of law matters, and the truth matters. Comey said Trump "is calling a witness who is cooperating with his own Justic...

North Korea says it won't give up nukes until U.S. does

The North's state media recently warned that the United States' continued commitment to sanctions and criticism about the North's human rights record could "blo...

One suspect arrested over the murder of two female tourists - morroco officials

The man was arrested in Marrakech, Morocco's largest tourist hub. The tourists, from Denmark and Norway, were found with signs of violence on their necks ...

Taliban attach strings to USA call for ceasefire

Imran Khan on Tuesday assured that Pakistan will do everything within its power to further strengthen the Afghan peace process, ARY News reported. Participan...

Britain in Brexit limbo with 100 days to go

The European Union set out on Wednesday a series of short-term measures to limit disruption to air traffic, financial services, and trade if Britain left the bl...

US OKs Potential Sale of Patriot Missile System to Turkey

The Kremlin says there is no link between Turkey's possible purchase of US Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems and that of the advanced Russian-built...

Washington sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica’s data use

The lawsuit is believed to be the first major regulatory lawsuit stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that broke earlier this year. Facebook says t...

Belgian prime minister quits after losing coalition allies

A federal election was due in Belgium in May. Tuesday's announcement in Brussels followed the submission of a no-confidence motion against Michel's governme...

USA begins Syria troop withdrawal as Trump says IS group ‘defeated’

Mr Bolton, the US Central Command that oversees military operations in Syria strongly opposed Mr Trump's decision, while diplomats who handle the Syria file at ...

Jeremy Corbyn DENIES calling Theresa May a 'stupid woman'

Mr Corbyn's spokesman added: "I think he was referring to the remarks and the exchanges about pantomimes, and so on". Commons leader Andrea Leadsom then tur...

Russia’s new hypersonic weapons have no foreign match, Putin boasts

The president spoke after Washington this month said it would withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) within 60 days if Russian Federat...

Volker: Idea of extra Russia sanctions gaining traction

Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky said of the resolution. According to the results of the vote, the UN General Assembly supported the resolution on "the Problem o...

Corbyn's Former Advisor Explains Why Labour Leader Called A Crunch Vote

THE First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, will today warn the Prime Minister that a no deal Brexit would be disastrous for Wales. He said it would be "fu...

Mitch McConnell will introduce bill to avoid looming shutdown

In addition to everything else, billions of dollars will be saved", Trump tweeted. "President Trump has asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look f...

Mueller continues to be interested in interviewing Trump

The guilty pleas came in the same hour that a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, convicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of eight charges of t...

OIC calls on Australia to review decision on Jerusalem

Jerusalem should remain as it is now and not the capital of Israel. Tension has been running high in the occupied Palestinian territories since a year ago ...

US preparing for 'full' and 'rapid' withdrawal from Syria

The Pentagon did not immediately address the plans for withdrawal in a statement. Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning told CNN that, "at this time, we con...