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The United States and China have announced a ceasefire in their tariffs war, hours after US President Donald Trump upended another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change. Over a…

A Sino-US showdown on trade loomed on Saturday as G20 leaders wrapped up tense summit talks with a rare show of unity over the death of former president George Bush. There was an implicit contrast in some of the tributes…

President Donald Trump will attend the state funeral of former president George H.W. Bush, who has died at 94, the White House said Saturday. Trump’s spokeswoman said: “A state funeral is being arranged with all of the…

Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA), whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated — whether it wants to or not. He is scathing about…

George Herbert Walker Bush, the president who managed the end of the Cold War and forged a global coalition to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait, has died at age 94. In a political career that spanned three decades, he lost his bid…

India’s most expensive movie to date has fallen prey to piracy. On Nov. 28, Lyca Productions, the producer of 2.0, starring Tamil megastar Rajnikanth and Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, filed a civil suit …

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in a New York court Thursday to misleading Congress over the ongoing Russia investigation.The 52-year-old exited a Manhattan federal court…

The governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando Pezao, was arrested on Thursday over allegations he received bribes as part of the sprawling “Car Wash” graft probe, according to Brazilian media.The Globo News television channel…

The impoverished state of Central African Republic landed a windfall on Tuesday, at least on paper, when Russian state bank VTB reported it had lent the country $12 billion -- but the bank then said it was a clerical error and…

ROMAN ABRAMOVICH is to try and double the living space of his Tel Aviv pile amid visa issues in the UK, it emerged this week. But the £17.1million former hotel - which Chelsea'sowner is planning to turn into a 12-bedroom…

Turkey’s top diplomat, for the first time, described grisly details from audio tapes purportedly of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in Istanbul on Oct. 2, in an interview with a German newspaper. A forensic doctor…

Christopher Blair takes a sip of his coffee. Then he carefully focuses on one of the three screens in front of him. He’s in his home office, 45 minutes outside Portland, Maine, on the US East Coast.…

Matthew Hedges, the British man who was jailed for allegedly spying in the UAE, has landed back in London after receiving a presidential pardon. The 31-year-old academic arrived at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday…

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine against any “reckless acts” on Tuesday after Kiev declared martial law in response to Moscow’s seizure of three of its navy vessels.The Ukrainian parliament late on Monday voted in…

US President Donald Trump has suggested the establishment of a national television station to counter what he termed “the unfair and false way” CNN is portraying the country.Trump, in a tweet, alleged that CNN was not doing great…

Mexican authorities said Monday they have deported almost 100 Central American migrants after hundreds rushed the US border before being repelled by tear gas and rubber bullets. “Ninety-eight people were handed over to the…

Vernita Lee, the 83-year-old mother of media mogul, Oprah Winfrey, is dead.According to Daily Mail, Lee died last Thursday on the United States Thanksgiving Day.The death was first revealed by Oprah’s niece, Alisha Hayes, on…

The former Trump campaign aide whose Russia contacts set off the investigation over collusion in the 2016 US president election began a two-week jail sentence Monday over lies he told to the FBI.George Papadopoulos entered the…

Donald Trump says Theresa May's Brexit agreement "sounds like a great deal" for the EU but may hinder trade between the UK and US.Speaking to reporters before a trip to Mississippi, the president said the deal Mrs May secured with…

Dolce&Gabbana learned that lesson the hard way when it faced a boycott after Chinese expressed outrage over what were seen as culturally insensitive videos promoting a major runway show in Shanghai and subsequent posts of…

British academic Matthew Hedges, who was jailed for spying in the United Arab Emirates, has been pardoned with immediate effect. Mr Hedges, 31, denied spying and said he had been researching his PhD, but prosecutors…

An Israeli technology firm specialising in cyber intelligence offered Saudi Arabia a highly advanced system that hacks into cellphones, months before the kingdom’s crown prince launched a mass purge, according to Haaretz.…

Democrats intend to probe US President Donald Trump’s financial ties to determine whether they are the “hidden hand” driving US foreign policy on Russia and Saudi Arabia, the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee…

California’s deadliest wildfire ever in the history of the city  was finally brought totally under control by firefighters, more than two weeks after it erupted, authorities said on Sunday, Yahoo News reports. “#CampFire … is now 100%…