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Cohen to plead guilty for lying about Russia inquiry

Cohen to plead guilty for lying about Russia inquiry

-- 2018-11-29 21:04:20

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to plead to lying to Congress in relation to Russia inquiry, US media report. Mr Cohen will admit misleading lawmakers about a Trum...

Trump may cancel talks  with Putin at G20 summit

Trump may cancel talks with Putin at G20 summit

-- 2018-11-28 21:44:39

US President Donald Trump says he may cancel a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin following a maritime clash between Russia and Ukraine, reports agencies. Mr Trump told the Washington Post...

Trump may cancel Putin talks over Ukraine

Trump may cancel Putin talks over Ukraine

-- 2018-11-28 11:36:10

US President Donald Trump says he may cancel a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin following a maritime clash between Russia and Ukraine. Trump told the Washington Post he was waiting for a...

Unauthorised immigrants in US at lowest level since 2004, study shows

Unauthorised immigrants in US at lowest level since 2004, study shows

-- 2018-11-28 10:57:22

The population of unauthorised immigrants in the United States fell to 10.7 million in 2016, its lowest level since 2004, due largely to a decline in the number of people coming from Mexico, a study r...

Mueller accuses ex-Trump campaign chair of lying to FBI

Mueller accuses ex-Trump campaign chair of lying to FBI

-- 2018-11-27 10:50:16

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to federal investigators, according to a court filing on Monday, in a potential setback to the special couns...

HRW asks Argentina to probe Saudi prince Salman over Yemen, Khashoggi

HRW asks Argentina to probe Saudi prince Salman over Yemen, Khashoggi

-- 2018-11-27 10:43:18

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked Argentina to use a war crimes clause in its constitution to investigate the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s in possible crimes against humanit...

US closes Mexico border, fires tear gas at migrants

US closes Mexico border, fires tear gas at migrants

Reuters 2018-11-26 10:09:15

US authorities shut the country’s busiest border crossing and fired tear gas into Mexico on Sunday to repel Central American migrants approaching the border after US President Donald Trump vowed...

Mexican officials deny deal with US on asylum seekers

Mexican officials deny deal with US on asylum seekers

-- 2018-11-25 13:45:22

Mexico's incoming foreign minister has said discussions on how to deal with migrants travelling to the United States are continuing despite reports a deal has been reached. Marcelo Ebrard denied reac...

Trump takes bid to restrict transgender troops to top court

Trump takes bid to restrict transgender troops to top court

-- 2018-11-24 13:53:55

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review lower court rulings blocking a policy barring certain transgender people from military service, declining t...

Trump warns of govt shutdown next month over border security

Trump warns of govt shutdown next month over border security

Reuters 2018-11-23 13:48:16

US President Donald Trump warned on Thursday there could be a government shutdown next month over security on the border with Mexico, suggesting he could hold up a funding deal if no more money is pro...

Saudi prince demanded Khashoggi be 'silenced': CIA

Saudi prince demanded Khashoggi be 'silenced': CIA

-- 2018-11-23 09:55:00

A Turkish newspaper reported on Thursday CIA director Gina Haspel signalled to Turkish officials last month that the agency had a recording of a call in which Saudi Arabia’s crown prince gave in...

Canada's murder rate hits 10-year high

Canada's murder rate hits 10-year high

-- 2018-11-22 12:15:35

Canada’s murder rate in 2017 jumped by 7 per cent to a near 10-year high and gun-related deaths were the highest in 25 years, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday. Police reported 660 homicide v...

US mulls sanctions on Cuban officials aiding crackdown in Venezuela

US mulls sanctions on Cuban officials aiding crackdown in Venezuela

-- 2018-11-22 10:41:49

The Trump administration is considering imposing sanctions on Cuban military and intelligence officials who it says are helping Venezuela’s socialist government crackdown on dissent, according t...

At least six die in Haiti as govt car loses control

At least six die in Haiti as govt car loses control

-- 2018-11-22 10:19:08

A Haitian government car went out of control into a group of people on Wednesday, killing at least six and further inflaming unrest in a capital wracked by violent protests. Police spokesman Michel-A...

Trump clashes with chief justice over judiciary

Trump clashes with chief justice over judiciary

Reuters 2018-11-22 09:51:55

US Chief Justice John Roberts defended the independence of the federal judiciary on Wednesday a day after President Donald Trump called a judge who ruled against his policy barring asylum for certain...

Woman throws infant from car to death

Woman throws infant from car to death

-- 2018-11-21 16:11:25

An American woman allegedly threw her two-month-old daughter from a moving car on the tourist island of Bali and then tried to kill herself by jumping from the vehicle, Indonesian police said. Sout...

US judge halts Trump's asylum ban

US judge halts Trump's asylum ban

-- 2018-11-20 18:28:36

A US federal judge has blocked an order issued by President Trump to deny asylum to migrants crossing the southern US border illegally. US District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco issued the tempora...

Chicago hospital shooting leaves four dead

Chicago hospital shooting leaves four dead

-- 2018-11-20 11:10:07

A gunman shot a doctor to death outside a Chicago hospital on Monday before storming the facility and killing a pharmaceutical assistant and a police officer during an exchange of gunfire and dying...

Mexican drug lord Beltran Leyva dies of cardiac arrest

Mexican drug lord Beltran Leyva dies of cardiac arrest

-- 2018-11-19 14:44:25

Hector Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug lord whose cartel earned a reputation as one of the country’s most vengeful and ruthless, died late on Sunday in hospital of cardiac arrest after being trans...

Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder ‘very premature’

Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder ‘very premature’

-- 2018-11-18 12:56:32

President Donald Trump on Saturday called a CIA assessment blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi “very premature” and said he w...

US to join Australia in Papua New Guinea naval base plan

US to join Australia in Papua New Guinea naval base plan

-- 2018-11-18 12:24:37

The US says it will join Australia in developing a naval base in Papua New Guinea (PNG), in an apparent move to curb China's growing influence. Vice-President Mike Pence said the three countries woul...

California fires: death toll rises to 71, over 1,000 missing

California fires: death toll rises to 71, over 1,000 missing

-- 2018-11-17 18:38:27

Rescue workers said on Friday they were searching for more than 1,000 people reported missing in a northern California town reduced to ashes by the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history, as...

Trump threatens to leave briefings if reporters don’t act with ‘decorum’

Trump threatens to leave briefings if reporters don’t act with ‘decorum’

-- 2018-11-17 12:02:50

Donald Trump has threatened to walk out of future press briefings if reporters do not act with 'decorum'. The US president was speaking after a Washington DC court ordered the White House to return C...

631 missing in US fire

631 missing in US fire

-- 2018-11-16 15:13:41

The number of people missing in northern California's devastating wildfire has leapt to more than 600, and seven more bodies have been found, according to local authorities. The missing persons' list...

Death toll reaches 56 in California fire; 130 missing

Death toll reaches 56 in California fire; 130 missing

-- 2018-11-15 18:47:19

As the scope of a deadly Northern California wildfire set in, the sheriff said more than 450 people had now been assigned to comb through the charred remains in search for more bodies. The blaze has k...

Trump nominates ex-army general as US ambassador to KSA

Trump nominates ex-army general as US ambassador to KSA

-- 2018-11-14 14:52:10

US President Donald Trump has nominated a retired Army general to be the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, as Washington faces pressure to respond to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashogg...

Death toll rises to 23 in California wildfire

Death toll rises to 23 in California wildfire

-- 2018-11-11 10:36:56

The charred remains of 14 more people have been found in and around a Northern California town overrun by flames from a massive wildfire, officials said on Saturday, raising the death toll to at least...

Fire levels California  town within 24 hrs

Fire levels California town within 24 hrs

-- 2018-11-10 21:56:13

PARADISE, Nov 10 (AP): Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever.Abandoned, charred vehi...

California wildfires kill nine; over 150,000 evacuated

California wildfires kill nine; over 150,000 evacuated

-- 2018-11-10 10:50:25

At least nine people have been killed and more than 150,000 evacuated as two big wildfires rage in California in the United States, officials say. Five people of the dead were found in cars in a town...

US halting refuelling of Saudi-led coalition aircraft in Yemen's war

US halting refuelling of Saudi-led coalition aircraft in Yemen's war

-- 2018-11-10 10:44:39

The United States is halting refuelling of aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen, the United States and Saudi Arabia said on Friday, ending one of the most divisive aspects of US assi...