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Trump threatens to shutdown if no funding for wall

US President Donald Trump threatens to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
US hopes Korean summit will lead to 'future of peace'

Donald Trump's White House voice hope that a Korean summit would "achieve progress toward a future of peace," as the leaders of the two countries sat down to talk.
Pompeo gets Senate nod for secy of state

US President Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, narrowly won approval from a Senate panel Monday, paving the
HW Bush hospitalised day after wife's funeral

Former president George HW Bush was being treated for a blood infection on Monday, one day after laying his wife Barbara to rest, his
Nepalese peacekeepers accused of child rape

UN peacekeepers from Nepal are facing allegations of child rape in South Sudan, the UN spokesman said Monday, describing the case as
Toronto van attack suspect a withdrawn figure

The suspect in a Toronto van attack that killed 10 people and injured 15 others attended a high school program for students with special needs where he would often walk the halls with his head down and hands tightly clasped, according to former classmates.
Driver kills 10 plowing van into Toronto sidewalk crowd

A driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto, Canada on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with pedestrians, the country's police say.
State visit set to test Trump-Macron ties

French President Emmanuel Macron flew into Washington yesterday on a three-day state visit expected to test his much-vaunted
Cambodia king urges Senate to protect rights

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday urged senators to protect justice and human rights as the upper house of the country's
'I was wrong'

Armenia's Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian resigned yesterday after mass protests against his election, seen as a blatant power grab by the
Funeral held for Barbara Bush

Past presidents, family and friends came together Saturday to bid a tearful farewell to Barbara Bush, the matriarch of one of America's
'Long way' to go on N Korea crisis: Trump

US President Donald Trump said the North Korean nuclear crisis is a long way from being resolved on Sunday, striking a cautious note a
Trying to appease Trump futile

Iran warned Saturday it is ready to "vigorously" resume nuclear enrichment if the United States ditches the 2015 nuclear deal, and said
Senate panel likely to reject Pompeo

President Donald Trump's secretary of State pick Mike Pompeo is likely to be rejected by a Senate panel after all its Democrats opposed
Democrats sue Trump campaign, Russia for alleged polls conspiracy

The Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that Russia, WikiLeaks and top officials from Donald Trump's campaign conspired
China, Russia, Iran, North Korea 'forces of instability'

The United States on Friday labeled China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as "morally reprehensible" governments that it said violated
FB confirms it collects data beyond its users

Facebook, embattled in a scandal over the mishandling of user data, confirmed Monday that it also collected information from people
Macron warns EU divisions like 'civil war'

French President Emmanuel Macron warned yesterday that divisions between democracy and authoritarianism in Europe were becoming
Hannity revealed as mystery client of Trump's lawyer

US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer was forced on Monday to reveal in a New York federal court that Fox News personality
US recalls more than 200 million eggs over salmonella fears

Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine US states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said.
Trump lawyer forced to reveal another client: Sean Hannity

A legal fight over what should happen to records the FBI seized from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney takes a surprise twist when the lawyer, Michael Cohen, was forced to reveal a secret — that he had also done legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Quebec City mosque shooter set off by Canada's open stance on refugees

The man responsible for killing six Muslims inside a Quebec City mosque had been anxious for months about his own family becoming victims of a terror attack, and that peaked when he saw reports the Canadian government was going to allow more refugees into the country, a court heard Friday.
Trump on Syria attack: ‘Very soon or not so soon at all!’

President Donald Trump says today that an attack on Syria could take place “very soon or not so soon at all,” arguing he had never signaled the timing of retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack that he had suggested was imminent a day earlier.
Facebook to verify identities, require labels for political ads

Facebook announced Friday it will require political ads on its platform to state who is paying for the message and would verify the
Pentagon 'concerned'

Amid allegations of China engaging in massive land grabbing in the Maldives, the Pentagon yesterday said it was a cause of concern for
Trump to again snub White House correspondents' dinner

Donald Trump will again snub the annual White House correspondents' dinner, organizers said Friday, amid sustained attacks by the
YouTube attacker's father called cops 2 days before

A woman who believed she was being suppressed by YouTube, told her family members that she “hated” the company.
YouTube attacker was a vegan blogger

The woman identified by police as the attacker who wounded three people at YouTube's headquarters in California is a vegan blogger who accused the video-sharing service of discriminating against her, according to her online profile.
Trump, Abe to meet in US on North Korea

Donald Trump will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe April 17-18 to discuss the US president's planned summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un and other matters, the White House said yesterday. Trump and Abe will be at Trump's Mar-a-Lago in Florida where they "will discuss the international campaign to maintain maximum pressure on North Korea," the statement said.
Facebook needs 'a few years' to fix problems: Zuckerberg

Facebook will likely need "a few years" to fix the problems uncovered by the revelations on the hijacking of private user data, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview released yesterday.