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The White House has disseminated that President Donald Trump is working hard over the weekend in a bid to avert the impending government shutdown. The president spent his inauguration anniversary at his desk rather than partying with supporters at a planned...

Defying Russia, the US, and Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Turkey’s headstrong president is betting on a decisive victory over Syrian Kurd forces. But his risky gamble could quickly turn sour. The initial incursion by Turkish troops and their Free Syrian Army...

Turkish jets have bombed the Kurdish-controlled city of Afrin in northern Syria, as the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, promised to expand Turkey’s military border operations against a Kurdish group that has been the US’s key Syria ally in the war on...

Donald Trump has defied tremendous global opposition by recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but insisted that the highly controversial move would not derail his own administration’s bid to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a short...

The U.S. Government has shut down as Congress and President Trump were unable to come to an agreement on funding the Government. Democrats and some Republicans had premised the continued funding of Government to two conditions: - legalisation of so-called...

The United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson has made it clear that one of the objectives of a sustained military presence would be to disrupt what the US, Israel and their allies see as an Iranian strategy to control a large swath of the Middle...

The US is showing a new commitment to forcing the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad to make concessions to end the country’s seven-year civil war, but must still do more to persuade Russia to put pressure on Assad to negotiate, the Syrian opposition leader...

Donald Trump shields himself from getting wet; leaves wife, Melania, out. Yahoo photos Pictures of the President getting on board Air Force One in Florida show him holding the umbrella above himself to stop him from getting wet. Unfortunately, Trump didn’t...

For more than a year now, Brexit is not uncommon among Britain international politics talk, while both Britain and European Union have been on table for meetings on how to go about it. However, the European council President, Donald Tusk, has told Britain...

There has been an outbreak of measles in Britain, which has spread to five regions in Britain. According to reports, Liverpool, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Surrey and Sussex, and the West Midlands have been affected by this deadly disease outbreak...

Donald Trump has refuted a newspaper’s account of an interview with him last week in which he was quoted as saying he probably had a “very good relationship” with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. 'I am not racist,' Trump says, after 'shithole' nations...

On Christmas Eve and early into the next day, Germany’s power trading exchange, EPEX Spot, had to pay companies and other large energy consumers up to $60 per megawatt-hour to use energy. The company bills consumers negative rates when too much power...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the United States of destabilizing the world, airing a list of grievances over the Trump administration's foreign policy. Lavrov dedicated the opening of his annual press conference Monday to castigating...

Twin suicide bomb explosions on Monday struck busy area in downtown Baghdad, leaving 27 people killed and 92 others wounded, police and medical sources said. The Iraq interior ministry disclosed the twin massive blasts were carried out by two suicide...

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has accused the US of forming a “terror army”, after Washington announced plans for a 30,000-strong force inside Syria to protect territory held by its mainly Kurdish allies. On Sunday, the US-led coalition said...

Turkey’s president disclosed the country will launch a military assault on a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria “in the coming days” and urged the US to support its efforts. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the operation against the Afrin enclave aimed to “purge...

Liberia’s outgoing ruling Unity Party (UP) has expelled President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for alleged breach of the party’s constitution. The party conveyed the decision in a statement issued by its Assistant Secretary General for Public Outreach, Mohammed...

Sri Lanka has lifted a 39-year ban on women buying alcohol or working in places that sell or manufacture liquor, an official said Sunday. The 1979 law prohibiting the sale of any type of alcohol to women on the island of 21 million people was overturned...

Steve Bannon suggested that Donald Trump’s lawyers paid off 100 women who had sexual encounters with the then-candidate during the 2016 presidential campaign. Porn star Stephanie Clifford is said to have been paid $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli will not seek to extend presidential terms in the country, his party said Saturday, moving to quash calls from his own party to prolong his rule. Magufuli “informed party members and other Tanzanians that the ongoing...

The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, led the first round of the Czech Republic’s presidential election on Saturday by a wide margin but short of winning outright, partial results have showed. Eight candidates are seeking to oust Zeman, whose inclination...

African Union ambassadors to the UN demanded an apology from U.S. President Donald Trump for his racist remark on the people of Africa. The group of over 50 nations in a statement said: “the AU expressed its disappointment and outrage over the unfortunate...

Iran says the US has "crossed a red line" by imposing sanctions on the head of its judiciary, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli-Larijani. The foreign ministry vowed to retaliate, but did not say what form any action might take. Iran also rejected any changes to its...

Iran says the US has "crossed a red line" by imposing sanctions on the head of its judiciary, Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli-Larijani. The foreign ministry vowed to retaliate, but did not say what form any action might take. Iran also rejected any changes to its...

Donald Trump has been globally described as a shocking and shameful racist after it was credibly reported he had described African nations, as well as Haiti and El Salvador as “shitholes” and questioned why so many of their citizens had ever been permitted...