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Melania expresses concerns over child migrant action

Melania expresses concerns over child migrant action

-- 2018-06-18 17:55:01

First lady Melania Trump “hates” to see families separated at the border and hopes “both sides of the aisle” can reform the nation’s immigration laws, according to a stat...

Colombia elects Ivan Duque as new president

Colombia elects Ivan Duque as new president

-- 2018-06-18 11:05:38

Conservative political newcomer Ivan Duque has been elected president of Colombia. At a victory rally in the capital Bogota, he pledged to unite the country following a divisive campaign. But he sai...

17 die in Venezuela stampede

17 die in Venezuela stampede

-- 2018-06-17 11:45:16

At least seventeen people died at a Caracas club early on Saturday morning when a person activated a tear gas grenade inside, Venezuela's interior minister Nestor Reverol said. Over 500 people were a...

2,000 migrant children separate from families in US border

2,000 migrant children separate from families in US border

-- 2018-06-16 11:42:14

Almost 2,000 migrant children were separated from their families at the US border over six weeks, officials say. Following a Trump administration crackdown on illegal border crossings from Mexico, ad...

US judge sends ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to jail until trial

US judge sends ex-Trump campaign head Manafort to jail until trial

-- 2018-06-16 10:53:38

US President Donald Trump's former election campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was sent to jail pending trial on Friday after being charged with witness tampering, the latest episode in his long fall fr...

Putin-Trump meeting likely this summer

Putin-Trump meeting likely this summer

-- 2018-06-15 20:56:32

MOSCOW: Moscow does not rule out a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump this summer, RIA news agency reported on Friday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pes...

Trump will call Kim on Sunday

Trump will call Kim on Sunday

-- 2018-06-15 20:43:17

WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday, following their summit in Singapore this week. “I’m going to be actually...

New York sues Trump charity for ‘illegal conduct’

New York sues Trump charity for ‘illegal conduct’

-- 2018-06-14 22:05:58

New York's attorney general announced on Thursday she was suing the Trump Foundation, as well as Donald Trump and his children, alleging "extensive and persistent" lawbreaking. Barbara Underwood said...

Chile police raid Catholic Church offices in child abuse probe

Chile police raid Catholic Church offices in child abuse probe

-- 2018-06-14 14:50:26

Police and prosecutors in Chile have raided offices and seized documents of the Roman Catholic Church amid a child sexual abuse and cover-up scandal. The surprise raids took place in the capital Sant...

San Francisco elects first black female mayor

San Francisco elects first black female mayor

-- 2018-06-14 11:26:54

A black woman is to lead San Francisco for the first time in its history - at a time when African-American residents are becoming increasingly scarce in the gentrified US city. The ascent of London B...

FBI agent faces assault charge after accidental dance floor shooting

FBI agent faces assault charge after accidental dance floor shooting

-- 2018-06-13 14:28:50

An off-duty FBI agent who accidentally shot a man while dancing in a Denver nightclub has been charged with second-degree assault. The agent, named by police as Chase Bishop, was performing a backfli...

US slaps sanctions on Cambodia PM’s top bodyguard

US slaps sanctions on Cambodia PM’s top bodyguard

-- 2018-06-13 13:11:11

The United States has imposed sanctions on the commander of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit for alleged human rights abuses, the first member of the leader’s inner circle...

Trump warns Canada of incurring financial loss

Trump warns Canada of incurring financial loss

-- 2018-06-12 21:05:37

US President Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "learned" from the mistake of criticising him and it's going to cost Canada "a lot of money." At a news conference Tuesday after...

US opens de facto embassy in Taiwan

US opens de facto embassy in Taiwan

-- 2018-06-12 10:45:32

The United States unveiled a new $256 million representative office in Taiwan’s capital on Tuesday, a de facto embassy that underscores Washington’s strategic ties with the democratic, sel...

US small plane crash kills four

US small plane crash kills four

-- 2018-06-11 14:56:21

Four people were killed when a small plane lost altitude, slammed into trees and caught fire in a field just north of an airport in southern Wisconsin in the United States on Sunday, authorities said....

France condemns Trump’s ‘anger' after G7

France condemns Trump’s ‘anger' after G7

-- 2018-06-10 19:53:49

Diplomacy cannot be dictated by "fits of anger", French President Emmanuel Macron warned after a G7 summit in Canada ended in acrimony. In tweets, US President Donald Trump described host Justin Trud...

Trump throws G-7 into disarray with tweets after he leaves

Trump throws G-7 into disarray with tweets after he leaves

-- 2018-06-10 19:24:49

Lashing out at the longtime US ally and northern neighbor, President Donald Trump tweeted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “dishonest & weak” and that the U.S. was pullin...

$3.0b pledged for girls education at G7 summit

$3.0b pledged for girls education at G7 summit

-- 2018-06-10 18:22:29

Pledges worth nearly $3.0 billion dollars to help vulnerable women and girls, including refugees, get an education were announced at a G7 summit on Saturday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, w...

Manafort aide faces charges in Russia probe

Manafort aide faces charges in Russia probe

-- 2018-06-09 14:24:05

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has added more charges against Paul Manafort, the ex-chairman of the Trump 2016 campaign, and indicted a top aide. Russian citizen Konstantin Kilimnik - considered Mana...

UN Security Council elects five members for two-year term

UN Security Council elects five members for two-year term

-- 2018-06-09 12:54:53

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to elect Germany, Belgium, South Africa, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia for a two-year term in the Security Council starting on January 1, 201...

Trump wants Russia at G7 meeting

Trump wants Russia at G7 meeting

-- 2018-06-08 20:44:09

US President Donald Trump said on Friday Russia should also be attending a Group of Seven nations summit, as he prepared to fly into a chilly reception at the meeting in Canada, where other G7 leaders...

US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain commits suicide: CNN

US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain commits suicide: CNN

-- 2018-06-08 19:25:55

US celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN’s food-and-travel-focused ‘Parts Unknown’ television series, has died at the age of 61, the network said on Friday. Bourdain hanged h...

Search for survivors at Guatemala volcano called off, death toll hits 100

Search for survivors at Guatemala volcano called off, death toll hits 100

-- 2018-06-08 17:15:23

The search for survivors from deadly eruptions of Guatemala's Fuego volcano was temporarily suspended on Thursday due to dangerous conditions for rescue workers, as the death toll from the disaster re...

US Returns Stolen Copy Of Christopher Columbus Letter To Spain

US Returns Stolen Copy Of Christopher Columbus Letter To Spain

-- 2018-06-08 17:02:44

A 500-year-old copy of a letter in which Christopher Columbus describes his voyage to the Americas has been returned to Spain after US authorities tracked down the document, which had been stolen and...

US sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons

US sending 1,600 immigration detainees to federal prisons

-- 2018-06-08 16:09:15

The Trump administration has for the first time begun transferring suspected illegal immigrants to federal prisons, following additional demand for beds. The transfer of 1,600 detainees underscores t...

Trump may invite Kim to US

Trump may invite Kim to US

-- 2018-06-08 13:59:54

US President Donald Trump said he would consider inviting North Korea's Kim Jong-un to the White House if their summit in Singapore goes well. Mr Trump made the comment after meeting Japan's PM Shinz...

Almost 200 missing in Guatemala volcano disaster

Almost 200 missing in Guatemala volcano disaster

-- 2018-06-06 15:26:47

At least 192 people are reportedly missing and 75 are dead as a result of the explosion of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala on Sunday, officials say. Villages on the slopes were buried in volcanic ash...

Argentina charges Pablo Escobar's widow, son

Argentina charges Pablo Escobar's widow, son

-- 2018-06-06 11:53:12

An Argentine judge has charged the widow and son of the late Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar with money laundering, according to the judicial system’s news service. Federal judge Nestor...

Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape charges

Weinstein pleads not guilty to rape charges

-- 2018-06-05 21:11:10

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein Tuesday pleaded not guilty to rape and criminal sex act charges in a New York City courtroom, according to ABC News. Weinstein, 66, wearing dark jeans, a blazer and white...

US arrests ex-intelligence officer over ‘spying’ for China

US arrests ex-intelligence officer over ‘spying’ for China

-- 2018-06-05 10:41:43

A former officer with the US Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested over the weekend for allegedly trying to spy on the United States for China, the Justice Department said on Monday. The Federal B...