Wednesday June 20-th, 2018
The US may have missed its chance to rejoin the TPP
President Trump had asked two of his economic advisers to explore rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement he withdrew from shortly after taking office a year ago. Trump also indicated that talks are progressing toward successful re...
Cheers, cries of 'Winnie!' at funeral for icon
In old age, Winnie Mandela emerged as a respected elder who was feted as a living reminder of her late husband - and of the long and celebrated struggle against apartheid. Committing to her spirit of strength and defiance, speakers at her funeral o...
Russian Federation urges calm as Trump keeps Syria attack options open
This is in contrast to an incident one year ago in which the USA government had video and other evidence of certain aspects of an actual attack by Syrian aircraft, which involved the use of sarin gas. According to a statement by the French presidency...
Eight Egyptian soldiers, 14 militants killed in Sinai attack
President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi of Egypt has issued a resolution extending a state of emergency across the country for another three months. Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, saw his presidency beset by popular protests. Saturday's attack c...
The late Winnie Mandela's burial underway in Johannesburg
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has shared close relationships with both Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and husband Nelson Mandela since the early 1990s. At the age of 22, she met and married a young lawyer and anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela.
Boko Haram has abducted over 1000 kids in Nigeria
Nigeria's president in 2014, Goodluck Jonathan, was heavily criticised for his response to the abduction but the man who replaced him, Muhammadu Buhari, has had more success. The Boko Haram conflict is in its tenth year, but shows little sign of e...
Julie Bishop 'supports Syrian air strike' as Trump issues missile threat
Trump's bellicose tweets came in response to a warning from Russia's ambassador to Beirut, who took to a television network run by the armed group Hezbollah to declare that any U.S. Is there proof of the recent "chemical attack"? Then Thursday h...
Syria strikes send 'clear message' on chemical weapons: British PM
The Syria attack drew support from the European Union, Germany, Israel and other allies while British Prime Minister Theresa May said reports indicate the Syrian government used a barrel bomb to deliver the chemicals used in an attack on Douma.
IRFU And Ulster Rugby Revoke Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding's Contracts
Despite being acquitted, lurid WhatsApp messages sent by the players - which were used as evidence in court - prompted a backlash from sections of support who do not want to see them play for Ulster Rugby or Ireland again. He had already been made un...
Starbucks Corp (SBUX) Shareholder Riggs Asset Managment Company Decreased Stake
The stock decreased 2.28% or $6.85 during the last trading session, reaching $294.08. The fund owned 28,427 shares of the coffee company's stock after acquiring an additional 4,164 shares during the period. The firm has "Hold" rating by BMO Capital M...
01:21OPCW to Start Investigation Into Alleged Chemical Attack in Syria's Douma
The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present, Mr Guterres said. Syria and Russian Federation have both denied using chemical weapons and said the claims were fabricati...
California woman who drove family off cliff was drunk: sheriff
Bruce Carpenter told reporters that toxicology tests showed that "the preliminary blood-alcohol content was a.102" for the driver, a reading that's about 25 percent high than the state's legal drunk driving definition of.08. Parts of what appear to b...
Turkey welcomes strikes on Syria as 'appropriate'
Earlier, US President Donald Trump has promised a "forceful" response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria. Meanwhile, Mahir Ünal, longtime-ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Deputy and Spokesperson, said Turkey was informed about the ...
United Nations chief calls for restraint after Syria airstrikes
Any countries that carry out a strike on Syria over the chemical weapons attack could also defend their action under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which covers an individual or collective right to self-defense against armed attack. "I have repeated...
The rape and murder of eight-year-old Bakerwal girl has created a large controversy in the state. On Friday the Supreme Court took a serious note of lawyers of the Jammu bar association obstructing the judicial process in the case and initiated a...
BB&T Corp Increases Holdings in Amazon.com, Inc
The stock outperformed the S&P500 by 65.23%. Rand Wealth Llc decreased its stake in Visa Inc (V) by 7.7% based on its latest 2017Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. 168 funds opened positions while 667 raised stakes. It also reduced Liberty Media Co...
Peru President Vizcarra Calls for Protecting Trade Agreements
About 20 leaders from North, Central and South America have begun arriving in Lima, Peru for the eighth Summit of the Americas. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was at his hotel in Lima, Peru, when President Donald Trump announced retaliatory airst...
Week honors crime victims
The Orange County Crime Victim Coalition is comprised of the Orange County Crime Victims Assistance Program, Fox Hill and Bellvale Communities, Mental Health Association of Orange County-Rape Crisis, Orange County District Attorney's Office, Orange C...
Facebook apology 'simply is not enough — European Union privacy watchdogs
With that in mind, obviously the company is going to see users' information. "Every time that someone chooses to share something on Facebook . there is a control". Facebook mishandling that data isn't fair, but neither is advice to stop posting p...
Man arrested after allegedly shooting into Salisbury home
Assault - Longview police Thursday arrested Chad Lewis Bagley, 28, of Longview on suspicion of fourth-degree assault domestic violence, felony harassment and first-degree malicious mischief. While investigating the crash, James Bovill, 36, of Bellow...
Theresa May explains why Britain conducted missile strikes against Syria
The US president said the U.S.is prepared to "sustain" pressure on Assad until he ends what the president called a criminal pattern of killing his own people with internationally banned chemical weapons . Nikki Haley , the USA ambassador to the ...
UK says May, Trump to work on response to Syrian chemical weapons
US officials have acknowledged the risk of retaliation drawing Washington and Moscow - both of which have troops in Syria - into direct military conflict. Trump also directed a message to Assad's main backers, Russian Federation and Iran: "What...
Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen under criminal investigation
On Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Cohen's office, hotel room and home, seizing numerous documents and other evidence. US Attorney Robert Khuzami, in a motion filed with a US District Court judge in NY, redacted the alleged crimi...
United Kingdom 'war cabinet' agrees on 'need for action' in Syria: Downing Street
British Prime Minister Theresa May joined the US and France on Friday in announcing a military response to a chemical weapons attack in Syria , saying her authorization of targeted airstrikes was meant to deter the use of such chemical weap...
Russian Federation calls chemical attack in Syria a 'fabrication'
The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook transits the Atlantic Ocean May 28, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced a US-led air strike on Syria as an "act of aggression" that will exacerbate the hu...
According to American Airlines, the delay, which began around 8 a.m. and ended at 10 a.m., was due to technical issues with their regional carrier PSA. The airline released a sta...
Lounging in a suite at the Wynn Las Vegas , which has installed Amazon's Echo device in hundreds of rooms earlier this year. Amazon's Alexa-Marriott partnership will begin this ...
In a now-deleted tweet, Bithumb said today that 35 billion won of tokens - around $31 million - were snatched. The hack forced Bithumb to put up a notice on its site, saying that...
Last week, a judge signed off on AT&T's purchase of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN. Comcast bid $35 per share for Fox's entertainment assets, while Disney's agreed offe...
In the past year, Starbucks has opened nearly 1,000 new stores in the Americas, which includes the U.S., Canada and Latin America. The stock slumped 3.5 percent in after-hours t...
China denies such theft and accuses Washington of "deviating from the consensus reached by both parties". The fact that America imports more from China will make it harder for ...
Peter Fonda apologizes for 'vulgar' Barron Trump tweet
And now, Donald Trump Jr .is firing back. While Fonda deleted his initial tweet , he did issue two follow-ups that offered his support for an upcoming planned nationwide protes...
Federal Bureau of Investigation agent escorted from office after text messages critical of Trump
Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket and mortar fire
House GOP gets little direction from Trump on immigration
Palestinian killed in Gaza border fence blast
MP who blocked legislation on upskirting says he is being scapegoated
Trump adviser Roger Stone reveals new meeting with Russian
