League player Nichols on cocaine charge
News Corp reported that police allegedly found three resealable plastic bags containing about 1.1 grams of a white powder which they believed to be cocaine. "The Western Sydney Wanderers remains tot...
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As Mexico mourns, president vows to protect journalists
Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto promised yesterday to better protect journalists after the killing of a renowned reporter who wrote about drug gangs sparked worldwide outrage. Homicides in gener...
Nigerian leader meets with 82 Chibok schoolgirls
Eighty-three Chibok schoolgirls seized three years ago by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria have been released into military custody, with authorities saying hopes are high a further mass release will ...
Greens win three seats in British Columbia election
On the West Shore, the NDP showed their support remains strong, with party leader John Horgan racing to a huge victory over challengers Cathy Noel of the Liberals and Brendan Ralfs of the Greens - tha...
Israel dismisses US concern over Jerusalem embassy move
The Israeli prime minister released an excerpt of minutes from a February meeting at the White House with Mr Trump that his office said proved he called for the embassy to be moved. Israel has mad...
Rouhani Rallies Supporters in Khorramabad in Final Stretch Before Iran Elections
Three front-runners have emerged in Iran's presidential election: Hassan Rouhani, Ebrahimi Raisi, and Mohammad Ghalibaf. Mohammad-Baghar Ghalibaf, who has twice before been defeated in presidential ...
B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver reelected in Oak Bay-Gordon Head
The unofficial Elections BC numbers have the Liberals elected in 43 ridings, the NDP elected in 41 ridings with the Green Party holding the balance of power with three of its members elected. "People ...
Conservatives make strong gains in United Kingdom local elections
The result is a shift from Labour to Tory - with Labour winning the most seats last time out. " There are some disappointing results, but there are good ones too such as holding on to the counci...
Jeremy Corbyn casts doubt over Labour pledge to renew Trident
He said that while a Labour government would want a "strong and friendly" relationship with the U.S., it would "not be afraid to speak our mind" to Washington. "It doesn't make me a pacifist". He sa...
White House: Trump interviewing 4 FBI candidates
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore chooses Connecticut Sen. The other candidates scheduled to speak with Trump about the job are acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former Oklahoma Gov. John C...
Putin says he can prove Trump did not give secrets to Russian Federation
Earlier a spokesman in Netanyahu's office confirmed the phone call took place on Tuesday afternoon but did not say who initiated it. President Trump secretly spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjam...
Hinting at secret tapes, Trump warns ousted Federal Bureau of Investigation director
The President has long insisted the investigation will not discover any wrongdoing. At a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the acting Federal Bureau of Investigation director Andrew McCabe contra...
Ex-French PM Manuel Valls wants to be Emmanuel Macron candidate
Valls, a man deeply associated with the unpopular President François Hollande, supported Macron rather than the Socialist Party candidate during the presidential election. Macron's party now has no se...
Comey's abrupt ouster boomerangs on Trump, courtesy former's aides
The White House is disputing a report that President Donald Trump asked Comey to shut down an investigation into ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey was so appalled by the reques...
Labour and Tories set to woo working-class voters with new policies
While the national living wage for workers aged 25 and over, now £7.50 will rise in line with average earnings until 2022. Mr Serwotka added: "As a government, they have introduced the most anti-tra...
Vladimir Putin dismisses Donald Trump information-sharing scandal
The news, which sent another shock wave through Washington, heightened concerns that Trump tried to block the probe into his campaign's ties to Russian Federation, the Globe's Matt Viser reports. Na...
Democrat Representative on House Floor: Trump 'Must Be Impeached'
There is no question that, as the former adviser to Nixon and Clinton, David Gergen, put it this week we are in "impeachment territory". There is a belief in this country that no one is above the law....
Pentagon head makes clear US commitment to protecting Turkey
The dispute could ignite more fighting between the two key USA allies in the battle against the Islamic State group as Syrian Kurdish forces gear up for a major operation to drive the militants from...
Weaver says Greens will fight pipeline; calls Clark's Liberals 'reckless'
The splintered election outcome that saw the Greens win three seats and potentially hold the balance of power in an 87-seat legislature has Green leader Andrew Weaver calculating the benefits of co-op...
Indian mountaineer creates history by scaling Mt Everest for the fourth time
Anshu's double ascent expedition was flagged off this year by His Holiness Dalai Lama on April 2 from Guwahati. A mother of two teenage children, Anshu scaled Mount Everest twice in May 2011 and aga...
US Rep. Vern Buchanan Weighs in on Comey Trump Memo
If the Trump administration deemed it appropriate, Putin said Russian Federation could hand over a transcript of Trump's meeting with Lavrov to us lawmakers to reassure them that no secrets were rev...
Vietnam urges prevention of WannaCry ransomware
The cyber attack has dominated headlines for a number of days, with hackers requiring payment to allow users back into an estimated 230,000 computer systems across the world. "It spread very, very qui...
North Korea accuses United States of assassination plot against Kim Jong Un
Rodong Sinmun specifically criticized the Chinese media's call for more sanctions against North Korea as a way to avert war. And Beijing's role in helping do so seems to be a litmus test that will ...
McCain Compares Trump Scandals to Watergate
John McCain invoked Watergate when he described the escalating controversy that surrounds alleged ties between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russian Federation. After the firings, calls f...
Wakefield cat could lose his world record
The current record-holder, from the United Kingdom, is also a Maine Coon which is just over 118cm long. Ms Hirst said she was contacted by Guinness World Records who said Omar could be the longest...
Sturgeon Claims Independent Scotland Will Rejoin EU in Stages, Without Euro
An English lawmaker from the ruling Conservatives who told a schoolgirl supporter of Scottish independence to "fuck off back to Scotland" and said he meant that as a joke, drew criticism on Monday f...
Chelsea Manning to participate in documentary about her
Manning was arrested in 2010 and sentenced in 2013. "I can imagine surviving and living as the person who I am and can finally be in the outside world", she wrote last week. Manning attempted suicide ...
Friction between Trump, Israel on Western Walls grows ahead of visit
Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., claimed that moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem "will cause [Palestine] to understand that Israel will be here forever with Jerusa...
French right torn apart as Emmanuel Macron, PM prepare to name government
On Monday evening in Berlin, the president said he doesn't want to pull existing euro area government debt and pledged to implement economic reform in France as he sought to revive the French-German p...
82 kidnapped Nigerian girls free after prisoner swap deal
The girls were released near the town of Banki in Borno state near Cameroon and will be transported to the capital, Abuja . The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to sp...
