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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed new sanctions against Iran, saying he intends to keep up pressure on the Middle Eastern regime after weeks of rising tensions that nearly led to U.S. military strikes.…

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would impose “major” new sanctions on Iran in two days — a move sure to exacerbate tensions with the Islamic republic inflamed by the downing of a US spy…

President Donald Trump said he will delay mass deportation raids scheduled for Sunday as he seeks compromise with Democratic leaders on immigration issues. In a Twitter message Saturday afternoon, Trump…

The US Senate – in a rare bipartisan move – has voted to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia, strongly wanted by President Donald Trump in recent months, for a total value of eight billion dollars.…

Kim Jong Un’s North Korean regime could collapse within 20 years, a prominent defector predicted Thursday, but due to generational change within the country rather than external force or a coup.However, former diplomat Thae…

Suicide rates among young people have continued to soar in recent years -- so much so that the rate among 15- to 24-year-olds climbed in 2017 to its highest point since 2000, new research has found.An increase was…

Ali Shamkhani, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said on Wednesday there will be no war with the U.S. The state news agency IRNA, quoted  him as saying: ” there will not…

Russia told the United States on Tuesday to drop what it called provocative plans to deploy more troops to the Middle East and to cease actions that looked like a conscious attempt to provoke war…

US officials have seized approximately 16.5 tons of cocaine from a large ship, MSC Gayane, docked at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ship from Chile was headed to…

British finance minister Philip Hammond is “prepared to resign” over Prime Minister Theresa May’s legacy spending plans, ITV said on Tuesday, citing the Press Association. Senior government sources told…

A new book by royal biographer, Angela Levin has claimed that Prince Harry was dating Sarah Ann Macklin when he met and started dating Meghan Markle. In the book entitled Harry: Conversations with the…

Mexican authorities say they have intercepted four trucks packed with nearly 800 migrants in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, according to Voanews.com reports.The National Migration Institute says in a statement that…

A nationwide Fox News poll released Sunday shows President Donald Trump trailing former vice president Joe Biden and no fewer than four other Democratic contenders as early campaigning for the…

President Donald Trump’s promises that surging economic growth in the United States would pay for massive tax cuts are falling flat. After an initial bounce in 2018 and in the first three…

Scores of foreign citizens, recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as witnesses and informants, disappeared between 2015 and 2017 in the United States, according to a new audit. The Justice…

Indonesia’s communications ministry on Thursday said it would remove all cigarette advertisements from the internet, following a request from the health ministry. A cigarette, also known…

Canada will ban single-use plastics from 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday, declaring it a “global challenge” to phase out the plastic bags, straws and cutlery clogging the world’s oceans. “I am very…

President Donald Trump said Monday the US central bank has been “very, very destructive” to the economy by raising interest rates too quickly.Trump has repeatedly criticized the Federal Reserve and called on the independent…

Boris Johnson, the leading candidate to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s next prime minister, said he would withhold a previously agreed 39 billion pound ($50 billion) Brexit payment until the European…

The United States and Mexico have reached an 11th-hour deal to crack down on migration from Central America with President Donald Trump relenting on threats to slap potentially devastating tariffs…

Russian and U.S. warships nearly collided on Friday in the Philippine Sea, with both nations blaming each other for the incident. The two ships came within 15 to 30 metres of each other in the…

Russia and China have expressed opposition to any military intervention in Venezuela, calling for “inclusive political dialog” between conflicting parties and their adherence to the principles of…

U.S. Republican and Democratic senators said on Wednesday they would introduce legislation that would block President Donald Trump’s plan for $8 billion in military sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates…

The FBI has access to more than 641 million photos of people's faces in searchable form, a government watchdog official said on Tuesday.The information released in prepared testimony from US Government Accountability…