Merkel clashes with Erdogan in row over press freedom

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday recalled an extradition agreement between Turkey and Germany and called fugitive Can Dundar "a convict, spy". "I think you have received false information", Erdogan said. Rumors were circulating Frid... More..

Johnsons brands British PM's Brexit plan as 'deranged'
But her first announcement - for an additional levy on foreign home buyers - did little to reset the conversation, with Sunday dominated again with Brexit, a possible leadership campaign and the prospect of an ...More..

Graham defends Kavanaugh temperament at hearing as 'innocent' man being 'destroyed'
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) launched into a fiery speech, chiding both Democrats and Republicans for their conduct in this debate on allegations of sexual assault against him. Her allegations clearly constituted a...More..

Tsunami Hits Indonesia, Leaving More Than 300 Dead
Outside a police hospital, dead bodies are being laid in bags outside for relatives to come and look for missing loved ones. He said there could be 50 people trapped inside. "We have heard nothing from Dongga...More..
Indian, Pakistani troops trade heavy fire along LoC in J&K’s Kupwara
They said the helicopter, which was flying very high, came almost 700 meters inside the Indian territory. Haider also said that India continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and commits atrocities in Ind...More..

Cops nab suspect after shooting leaves two officers dead
A suspect, identified as Marquis Flowers, 25, was wounded and taken to a Jackson hospital, where he is being treated and is in police custody, police said. The FBI has also offered to assist the investigation. ...More..

Kellyanne Conway On CNN: "I’m A Victim Of Sexual Assault"
Ms Conway, 51, has hinted previously that she was molested by Congressmen. Conway told CNN host Jake Tapper . "You have to be accountable for your own conduct", she said to Tapper. Conway did not seem prep...More..

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says White House not 'micromanaging' Brett Kavanaugh FBI probe
Chris Coons of DE, and crafted a plan to force the hands of McConnell and President Trump. At least three women have accused Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, of years-ago misconduct. Flake and Democ...More..

White House says it's not 'micromanaging' Federal Bureau of Investigation probe of Kavanaugh
While we don't know whether Manchin will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh , the Democrat did say he supports an FBI investigation . Since the New Yorker interview, Ramirez has not spoke...More..
How The FBI Will Investigate The Brett Kavanaugh Allegations
Ramirez and she has agreed to cooperate with their investigation", Clune said in a tweet . Kavanaugh angrily denied the allegation that he assaulted Ford while they were both in high school, but she said she...More..

Handwritten note on Kavanaugh, Ford hearing room table: 'Good luck, Dr. Ford'
Set the alert on your iPhone for 10 a.m. Thursday. Kavanaugh's confirmation seemed assured until a California college professor, Christine Blasey Ford , accused the appeals court judge of attempting to rap...More..

Judge allows Dems' lawsuit against Trump to proceed
Richard Blumenthal of CT and Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of NY, had standing to sue Trump because he did not ask Congress before accepting anything that could be considered a foreign emolument . "We are th...More..

Syria foreign minister tells United Nations country is ready for refugee return
Mr Al Muallem spoke at the United Nations General Assembly , where he told the worldwide gathering that US, French and Turkish military presence in Syria was illegitimate and would be dealt with accordingly....More..
Conservative Party conference app reveals MPs' numbers
Johnson, long tipped as a successor to May, published his own Brexit program last week, and in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, condemned her plan as "deranged" and "preposterous". "But crucially...More..

Skydiving instructor in Lebanon presumed dead after jump accident
Merrill said the second skydiver landed safely. He said Bickford didn't have a backup parachute. Even with this discovery, ME officials said the investigation continues to try to find clues for what led to th...More..

Video shows tsunami hitting Indonesian city after 7.5-magnitude quake
But the death toll is still unclear. More than 120,000 died in Indonesia. Indonesia's disaster agency issued a tsunami warning for the west coast of Sulawesi and east coast of Indonesia's part of Borneo i...More..
Kavanaugh accuser Ramirez contacted by Federal Bureau of Investigation, says lawyer
The claims of Christine Blasey Ford , who testified to a Senate panel on Thursday about an alleged high-school-era assault by Kavanaugh, and of Deborah Ramirez , a Yale University classmate of the judge, wi...More..

Federal Bureau of Investigation reaches out to 2nd Kavanaugh accuser, lawyer says
Shortly after, he was confronted in an elevator by two women who, through tears, implored him to change his mind. She said Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, grinded against her, held his hand over her mouth an...More..

Trump says he and Kim Jong Un ‘in love’
Even before that summit, his Government took significant goodwill measures such as stopping nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, dismantling the nuclear test site in a transparent manner and af...More..

Brett Kavanaugh: FBI contacts second woman
An attorney for PJ Smyth, another person who Ford said was in the house when she was attacked, said his client "is happy to cooperate fully with this FBI investigation". House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca...More..
WH Limits Scope Of FBI's Kavanaugh Probe, Including List Of Approved Interviews
Leland Keyser, an alleged witness to the Kavanaugh incident, reiterates she can not corroborate Christine Blasey Ford's claims. Blasey, now a psychology professor, told the Senate committee this week she ...More..

Tropical Storm Kirk weakens as it moves into Caribbean
Meanwhile, Hurricane Rosa weakened slightly off Mexico's Pacific Coast and had maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 kph) late Friday night. If it sticks to the forecast track, the center of Kirk...More..

Iraqi model shot dead in Baghdad, in the latest murder of women
She was a Christian whose father is Iraqi and mother is Lebanese. Her final post on the social media platform displayed a black-and-white photo of Fares with a message mourning her passing. Kurdish publicatio...More..

Typhoon Trami injures 45, direct hit on Japan mainland expected
As the closure of Kansai airport was expected Sunday, several airlines announced they were canceling flights to and from Taiwan, the Apple Daily reported. "The typhoon is feared to bring record rainfalls and vi...More..
Anita Hill: Kavanaugh Hearing On Sexual Assault Accusations 'Cannot Be Fair'
Anita Hill said Wednesday her pivotal 1991 Senate testimony about sexual harassment by a Supreme Court nominee sparked a wave of awareness, but lasting change failed because of a lack of clear leadership and a...More..
North Korean leader: Nation won't disarm until it trusts Washington
General Assembly. Washington is wary of agreeing to the declaration without Pyongyang first making significant disarmament moves. US President Donald Trump said he and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have f...More..

Jacinda Ardern delivers debut United Nations speech: 'We're all in this together' - RNZ
After his speech, Trump claimed that the wave of laughter after his comments was intentional. When he asked, 'What did you experience?', Ms Ardern replied by asking the talk show host, 'Are you trying to crea...More..

Kavanaugh's yearbook page is "horrible, hurtful" to a woman it named
The ABA, with 400,000 members, is the legal profession's largest organization. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., describing the imprimatur as the "gold standard". "For 12 years, everyone who has appeared before me on the...More..
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Erdoğan to pay first official visit to Germany in 7 years
Brunson has been detained on terrorism charges ... But with Turkey's economy in crisis and Germany home to three million ethnic Turks and reliant on Turkey to help contain a Syrian migrant crisis beyond Eur...More..

Trump orders FBI to update Kavanaugh file in less than a week
In a sworn statement released Wednesday, Swetnick accused Kavanaugh and Judge of excessive drinking and inappropriate treatment of women in the early 1980s, among other accusations. In her testimony yesterday, ...More..