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NPR 2018: First nuclear report under Trump signals changes for U.S. policy

Nuclear policy received scant mention in the president's recent State of the Union address, although the president did state that he wanted the U.S. A 74-pa...

China, Vatican near accord on appointment of bishops

Even if there is a breakthrough over such appointments, Kao said there remain huge differences between Beijing and the Vatican on various issues concerning reli...

Treasury warns of wide impact if United States sanctions Russian debt

While Treasury's memo does not make any recommendation for or against future sanctions, the congressionally mandated report repeatedly cites the risk that exp...

Budget 2018 : Government focuses more on employment generation

The government looks forward with more incentives to boost employment for each sector in the coming months. "Government has chose to contribute 12 per cent of...

Institutional Investor Sentiment About Automatic Data Processing Inc (NASDAQ:ADP) Up

Analysts await Automatic Data Processing, Inc . It has underperformed by 0.87% the S&P500. 48,989 shares were sold by Siegmund Jan, worth $5.68M on Monday, Jan...

Female shooter opens fire in SCHOOL - casualties reported

He said he talked to the girl just after the shooting and she was sobbing. A 15-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the wrist was hospitalized in fair condi...

Trump just lied about his State of the Union ratings

President Donald Trump claps at his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Ja...

Why Senate Republicans might just impeach Trump

Steve Scalise, R-La., the House GOP vote counter, said in an interview Tuesday. Republicans had mixed legislative success past year: enacting a $1.5 trillio...

Turkey: Tax office blast caused by bomb, attacker killed

The Kurdish-led administration of northeast Syria said Barin Kobane, a fighter with the Kurdish YPJ militia, was killed by Turkey-backed rebels who "played wi...

Bok coach Allister Coetzee sacked

But after months of dragging out Coetzee's inevitable sacking after his Springboks won only 11 of 25 Tests (44%) in 2016 and 2017‚ SA Rugby were deliberately ...

Comey blasts 'weasels and liars' in tweet apparently aimed at GOP memo

Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Monday to release the memo , giving President Donald Trump five days t...

Korean flag raised in South for Olympics

Pyongyang agreed to send athletes , cheerleaders, officials and an art troupe to the South, and both sides chose to march together under the unification flag...

USA to impose arms embargo on S. Sudan to end war

Citing one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, the U.S. State Department on Friday announced it would begin restricting U.S. arms shipments to South Sudan. T...

SC demonstrated huge patience in Nehal Hashmi's case: former CJP

Senator Nehal Hashmi was formally denotified from his Senate seat on Friday by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which was acting on a Supreme Court or...

Rugby rape trial: Accuser feared looking like 'stupid little girl'

The players were on an off-day from Irish Rugby camp. Mr Jackson (26), of Oakleigh Park, Belfast is charged with one count of rape and one count of sexual a...

At least 90 migrants feared dead after boat capsizes

The EU had reached a deal past year to help Libyan coastguard officials in stopping boats carrying migrants and refugees to Italy. She maintained that a large...

Texas man executed for killing his daughters while mom was on th

He was separated from their mom Mary Jean Pearle at the time, and made her listen down the phone as he shot them at his Dallas apartment. His attorneys contende...

Minivan carrying gas canisters ploughs into pedestrians, 18 injured

The 40-year-old driver, identified by his family name of Chen, was one of three who suffered serious injuries. It was later reported that Shanghai police we...

Iranian Police Arrest 29 Women Protesting Against Veiling Law

One day before anti-establishment protests erupted in Iranian cities last December, a video was posted on social media showing an unveiled young woman standin...

Canada's National Anthem Is About To Go Gender-Neutral

The bill to amend Canada's national anthem will now head to Governor General Julie Payette's desk to be signed into law. The House passed the bill in 2016. Be...

South African president faces fresh no confidence vote

She told EFF leader Julius Malema a no confidence vote would be held on 22 February, rather than before SONA as requested. The Guptas and Zuma deny any wrongdoi...

North Korea Calls Trump Administration Racist Billionaires' Club

Three alpine and three long-distance skiers , and two artistic and two speed skaters from Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are already training...

Selena Gomez receives treatment for depression, anxiety

News' source said she "feels great". She wants to go again later this year'. According to The Blast , the singer underwent treatment at a facility in NY, whe...

Sam Simmonds to make Six Nations debut for England vs Italy

Courtney Lawes slots in at blindside flanker and Chris Robshaw at openside with Maro Itoje present at lock, where he partners Joe Launchbury . George For...

NTSB: Witnesses reported 'issues' at Amtrak crash site

National Transportation Safety Board lead investigator Pete Kotowski said at a news conference Thursday that the maximum speed at the crossing is 60 miles p...