Australia urges China to treat detained dual citizen fairly：The Asahi Shimbun
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying offered no further details in making the comments about Mr Yang at a daily news briefing in Beijing on Thursday. "I'd be concerned if there was an indication of that", Payne told reporters in Sydney. "W... More..
Murder Rate In Mexico Rises To New Record High
The previous record was 28,866 homicides in 2017 . Baja California Sur, the state where the resorts of Los Cabos are located, suffered through a bloody year in 2017, as drug gang battles boosted the number o...More..
Locked out of House by Pelosi, Trump vows State of Union alternative
Earlier today, Ms Pelosi barred the President from delivering his speech to Congress until after the partial government shutdown was over, after last week expressing doubts adequate security could be provi...More..
Los Angeles teachers OK contract, will end strike
Now that all students and our educators are heading back to the classroom, we have to keep pour focus and pay attention to the long-term solutions. Let's capitalize on this. A strike vote is scheduled for the ...More..
Republicans Show Signs of a Possible End to the Shutdown
But in a sign of cracks in that resolve, or a desire for compromise, six Republican senators voted with Democrats on their measure to temporarily reopen government agencies without money for Trump's wall. G...More..
The Doomsday Clock Is Frozen At Two Minutes To Midnight
It's a state as worrisome as the most risky times of the Cold War, a state that features a constantly shifting landscape of simmering disputes that keep the world unsettled and multiply the chances that major...More..
As US proceeds with extradition of Huawei CFO, China threatens retaliatory action
In a clip shown by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, McCallum said Meng had "quite good arguments on her side", the first of which was "political involvement by comments from Donald Trump in her case". Claiming...More..
Kim Jong Un Optimistic on Denuclearization After Letter From Trump
Trump's meeting with Kim Yong Chol came with negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington on the North's nuclear arsenal deadlocked. Experts said a major sticking point was what denuclearisation steps Mr...More..
Gunman kills 5 at Florida bank, surrenders to police after hostage standoff
He could have gone anywhere. He shot at least five people dead before surrendering to police, authorities said. Zephen Xaver , 21, "for some reason always hated people and wanted everybody to die", Alex ...More..
'Sex Trainer,' Escort 'Nastya Rybka' Released But Remains Suspect, Lawyer Says
Russian authorities said she remains a suspect in an unrelated criminal case, the Tass news agency reported. Since February 2018, when the Anti-Corruption Foundation first revealed that Deripaska hosted Deput...More..
Airbus calls Brexit process a disgrace, threatens to leave UK
Airbus chief Tom Enders said a so-called " Brexit " threatens to destroy a century of development in Britain's world-leading aviation industry. Emerging from Downing Street after talks with Mrs May, TUC gen...More..
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond arrested and charged by police
He faced a total of 14 charges at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, also including breach of the peace and indecent assault. He made no plea during the hearing and was released on bail. No further details of the cha...More..
France Summons Italian Envoy Over Deputy PM's 'Africa Colonisation' Remarks
Di Maio, who leads the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, said the European Union should "address the question of the decolonization of Africa", accusing France of still treating a number of African coun...More..
Netanyahu warns of ‘lethal’ reaction to any Gaza escalation
Mahmoud al-Nabaheen, 24, was killed by tank fire while four other people were hurt, a Gaza health ministry spokesman said. An Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also cancelled a Qatari do...More..
Italy's Salvini says hopes Macron support dwindles at EU elections
Earlier on Monday, the French Foreign Ministry summoned the Italian Ambassador to France, Teresa Castaldo, to protest remarks made by Italian Deputy Prime Minister , Luigi Di Maio , who accused France of "i...More..
Which politician says she turned down chance to be Donald Trump’s vice-president?
She says it was a sacrifice she made for her husband, who wasn't fond of her political career. Trump eventually chose Mike Pence, the governor of IN, for vice-president out of a group of three finalists that ...More..
Priyanka Gandhi appointed as AICC general secretary for Eastern UP
After years of speculation, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the charismatic younger sister of Congress president Rahul Gandhi , seems to have finally shed her reticence and chose to play a more active and visible role ...More..
UK Labor proposes MPs vote on new Brexit referendum
But Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the prime minister was in denial about the level of opposition to her deal. "This really does feel a bit like 'Groundhog Day, '" he said, referring to the 1993 film st...More..
Nuclear-Capable Tu-22M3 Strategic Bomber Crashes in Russia, Killing 3 Crew Members
The latest crash follows a deadly collision between two Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers over the Sea of Japan in Far East Russia on Friday. Of the four crew members, two were injured and were transported to a medi...More..
USA vice president to Venezuelan opposition: 'We are with you'
Venezuela's pro-government Supreme Court ruled on Monday that it did not recognize Guaido as head of congress and declared that all the body's actions were null and void. "We are with you", Pence tweeted. Th...More..
Mike Pence Tells Venezuelan People Nicolas Maduro Is a ‘Usurper’
Each of them said the United States would take all diplomatic and economic measures necessary to support a transition to a new government. Since then, Trump has mulled recognizing Guaido - the president o...More..
Cause of death released for Saudi sisters found in Hudson River
A statement from the Chief Medical Examiner's office stated that Tala Farea, 16, and Rotan Farea, 23, "bound themselves together before descending into the Hudson River", Fox 5 reports. Tala and Rotana moved to...More..
UK PM Theresa May's Brexit 'Plan B': What Happens Next in Parliament?
Paris - France has put in motion a contingency plan to deal with an eventual "hard Brexit", Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Thursday, including 50 million euros ($57 million) of investments to help po...More..
Trump, Erdogan agree to pursue a negotiated solution for northeast Syria: WH
In his attempt to fix matters with coalition members, McGurk said that he discovered United States "counterparts in coalition capitals were bewildered". Pence said. ISIS has not only managed to sow discor...More..
Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests 3 Kenyan-Americans linked to ISIS terrorist group
Muse Muse and Haji allegedly discussed with each other their desire to join ISIS , to kill non-believers, and even to potentially use a vehicle for a martyrdom operation to run down non-believers in the USA i...More..
Russian Federation slams European Union sanctions over Skripal case
Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov , who were formally accused of attempting to murder former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, are seen in an image handed o...More..
Ice and snow warning for Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall from Met Office
Weather warnings for snow and ice have been issued by the Met Office with "some injuries" to be expected. They will be mainly of rain or sleet during the day and will be most frequent over the western half of ...More..
Islamic community saddened by alleged bomb plot targeting Muslims
They have been named as Andrew Crysel, 18, Vincent Vetromile, 19, and 20-year-old Brian Colaneri. They're charged with first-degree criminal possession of a weapon and conspiracy. During the 1980s, the Pakistan...More..
Iranian soldiers among 21 killed in Israeli strike on Syria
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Ali Jafari, responded by saying that Iran would keep "its military advisors, revolutionary forces and its weapons" in the Arab Republic, despite the I...More..
Boy, 6, airlifted to hospital after dingo attack
He said one dingo was trying to drag the boy down the dune. The family was on Fraser Island, a sandy location popular among tourists on the Sunshine Coast, where the local dingos have become increasingly bold...More..