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May's top aides resign after UK election fiasco
May called the early election in April, when opinion polls suggested she was set for a sweeping win. A party spokesman confirmed the resignation of Hill, a combative character who one former colleague said had helped create a "toxic" atmosphere at the heart of the government. [Full Article...]
Netanyahu calls for dismantling UNRWA
Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley visited Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Earlier this month, the agency discovered a tunnel running underneath one of its centres and reported this, condemning Hamas . He said that while millions of other refugees around the world were cared for by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), only the Palestinians have their own body. [Full Article...]
Max Scherzer Becomes Third-Fastest to Reach 2000 K's
Shin-Soo Choo went 2 for 3 with a solo home run, while Elvis Andrus went 1 for 4 with a triple and 2 RBI. The game remained tied 1-1 until the top of the eighth when Texas busted out for four runs. DeShields reached on an error by Washington third baseman Anthony Rendon with one out in the eighth and pinch hitter Jurickson Profar walked. Clayton Kershaw surpassed Pedro Martinez as the ... [Full Article...]
London police arrest another attack suspect
She said: "People will be thinking about what happened last Saturday night and respecting those who have lost their lives, their families and those who have been affected but also not giving in to terrorists and that includes in the immediate surrounds of Borough market". [Full Article...]
Young 'Wonder Woman' Star Hopes To Be 'Just Like' Gal Gadot
Not to diss love interests like Lois Lane or heroes like Black Widow, but those characters fit the molds that comic books and superhero movies have made for them. "I think if it didn't go well, people would be saying it's because people don't care about female superheroes", says Dingwell. I hope they realise they have to keep her and also I hope Jenkins forces them to back a dump truck full of m... [Full Article...]
US Ambassador Nikki Haley Lambasts UN Rights Council
Later Tuesday, Haley was scheduled to make an address to the Geneva Graduate Institute, where she said she will outline a plan to make the Council "more effective, more accountable and more responsive". KELEMEN: At a time when the U.S.is pulling out of a global climate agreement and questioning longstanding alliances, Donahoe worries about the signal Trump would send if he also backs away from t... [Full Article...]
Top two aides to British PM Theresa May quit
The results of the snap United Kingdom election called three years beforehand by PM Theresa May are out, and reveal a strategic blunder, as in the case of the Brexit referendum under David Cameron, who resigned on that score. The Telegraph newspaper, seen as leaning toward Britain's Conservative Party , reported Friday - citing anonymous party sources - that May had been put "on notice" by her ... [Full Article...]
Sydney: the plane had to land because of the unusual situation
The Airbus A330 was directed back to Sydney and vacated, while being closely followed by NSW emergency fire services. One passenger told Australia's Seven News network: "All of a sudden we heard this noise.it kind of smelt like burning". [Full Article...]
Qatar Airways profits hit $540 million before Gulf crisis
On Saturday, in Moscow , Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with his Qatari counterpart. The head of the industries, business and trade organization in the Fars province was also quoted by the Tasnim news agency as saying on Sunday the first planes carrying food to Qatar had flown from the southern city of Shiraz. [Full Article...]
Trump lawyer won't rule out firing special counsel in Russia probe
Trump , 70, took to Twitter on Friday morning to give his thoughts on Comey's testimony regarding potential collusion between Trump's campaign and Russian Federation. A member of Trump's legal team, Jay Sekulow said "the president said he is going to address the issue of the tapes , whether the tapes exist or not, next week". [Full Article...]
Rallies against Islamic law draw counter-protests across US
Demonstrations against Islamic law led to arrests, tense confrontations and physical fights in some US cities Saturday amid several rallies sponsored by ACT for America , which the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as an anti-Muslim hate group. [Full Article...]
A challenging time for LGBT activists in US and abroad
From Portland, Maine, to Anchorage, Alaska, members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters marched against hate, violence, and all forms of discrimination on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Numerous those attending said they felt their community was under threat from the new government. They all identify as gay men. The pride parade began at the st... [Full Article...]
United States kills 8 militants in Somalia
USA forces conducted a strike operation against al-Shabaab in Somalia on Sunday in Mogadishu, Chief Pentagon Spokesperson, Dana White, has said. Did you find this article informative? Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi released a statement saying government forces coordinated with the U.S.to launch the strike. [Full Article...]
May to form government with DUP backing
Reports surfaced Saturday that May was nearing a final deal to form a government with the help Democratic Unionist Party, a socially conservative , primarily Protestant bloc based in Northern Ireland. Former minister Anna Soubry said Mrs May should "consider her position" after a "dreadful campaign" while backbencher Heidi Allen suggested she could be out within a matter of months, depending on... [Full Article...]
Sessions' plans to testify surprised Senate intelligence panel members
On Friday, the panel told the White House it wants to know if there are Trump tapes. Ousted FBI Director James Comey's testimony last week heavily implicated Session in multiple matters related to the Russian Federation investigation and called into question how thorough his recusal has been from matters relating to the 2016 presidential campaign. [Full Article...]
United Kingdom leader May seen fighting for survival after election failure
It said the campaign failed to get "Theresa's positive plan for the future across" or "notice the surge in Labour support, because modern campaigning techniques require ever-narrower targeting of specific voters , and we were not talking to the people who made a decision to vote for Labour". [Full Article...]
Downing Street: May, Democratic Unionist Party Have Not Reached Deal
That calculation backfired spectacularly on Thursday as voters stripped her Conservative Party of a parliamentary majority and forced her to turn to a small political party from Northern Ireland to prop up a minority government. "That's not a matter for me", she said. Mrs May responded that the DUP deal "would provide stability and certainty for the United Kingdom going forward", her office ... [Full Article...]
Merkel urges speedy Brexit talks after UK vote
Britain is part of Europe, even if it will no longer be part of the European Union ". Now that it has made a decision to jump ship, it seems it can't get its act together to actually leave. The European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator, Guy Verhofstadt, said: "Yet another own goal, after Cameron now May, will make already complex negotiations even more complicated". [Full Article...]
Afghan soldier kills 2 US soldiers
The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the deaths, by using one of their members to infiltrate the Afghan Army. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the shooter was a member of the militant group and had killed four Americans and wounded several more. [Full Article...]
Captors release Moammar Gadhafi's son after 5 years
Since the Gaddafi four-decade rule ended in 2011, Libya has struggled to establish basic institutions and rule of law, with militias and former fighters challenging the authority of the weak central government. The former playboy often appeared in the West as the public face of the Gaddafi regime and was his father's heir-apparent. Seif al-Islam, 44, and eight other Gadhafi-era officials were s... [Full Article...]