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LaLiga’s table-toppers, along with several Premier League clubs including Liverpool and Arsenal, have been linked with the 23-year-old six-time France international, whose contract with PSG ends in June. Barcelona say only contact over Adrien Rabiot has been with PSG Barcelona have issued a statement denying they have...
A French man is detained in Barcelona, Spain, upon entering the Sagrada Familia with a suitcase containing ammunition. The Catalan police do not consider it an act of terrorism.
Seventeen people were killed as violence kept many voters away from the polls STRINGER/REUTERS Violence and accusations of vote-tampering marred the election in Bangladesh yesterday, as its Election Commission announced that the prime minister had won a third consecutive term.</s>DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Latest on...
Voters in Bangladesh head to the polls to elect 299 representatives to parliament. Seventeen people were killed in deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's ruling party.
Previous elections had been marred by low turnout, but there were queues at polling stations this morning INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP At least a dozen people have been killed as Bangladeshis vote in parliamentary elections largely seen as a referendum on the prime minister’s performance. Sheikh Hasina is seeking a third co...
The Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina is declared as the winner of the election with Hasina to serve her third consecutive term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
More than 10,000 people lined up in Beni to stage their own presidential election, after the electoral commission made the surprise decision to bar more than 1 million voters in Beni and Butembo last week — cities in eastern Congo affected by a deadly Ebola outbreak. Image copyright AFP Image caption President Joseph K...
Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo head to the polls to determine a successor to incumbent President Joseph Kabila. Elections are also held for the National Assembly and local councils.
Local media reports that an identified male was seen dropping a box outside the busy South Seas Mall shopping centre in the city, which is located in the Philippines' southern region of Mindanao. In a text message to Rappler, Philippine National Police (PNP) Cotabato Spokesperson Senior Inspector Roel Zafra said the ex...
A bomb explosion outside a busy shopping mall in the city of Cotabato, Philippines, kills 2 people and injures 34 others.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Manchester stabbing: Police restrain suspect The stabbing of three people - including a police officer - in Manchester is being treated as a terrorist investigation, police say. IN PICTURES: Three injured in knife attack at Victoria The full text of Greater M...
Three people are injured after being stabbed in an attack at Manchester Victoria station. The attacker shouted "Allah" during the attack. The attack is being treated as a terror-related incident, police have confirmed, and due to concerns over his mental health, the suspect is being held under the Mental Health Act.
The tropical depression, locally named Usman, brought heavy rains on Saturday, causing catastrophic flooding and triggering deadly landslides, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management agency said Monday. The people, including a three-year-old boy, were reported dead as of Sunday morning, said disaster agency...
At least 69 people are reported dead from flooding caused by Tropical Depression Usman in the Philippines.
Rescuers scrambled amid freezing temperatures to recover people trapped in the rubble of a Russian city apartment block that collapsed in a gas explosion on Monday, killing at least four people and leaving dozens missing, news agencies reported. The blast, thought to have been caused by a gas leak, damaged 48 apartment...
An explosion caused by a gas leak devastated a block of flats in Magnitogorsk, Russia, killing 14 people while 27 others are missing.
In a short statement Monday, Russia’s Tass news agency said authorities arrested American Paul Whelan “in Moscow while on a spy mission” and that he faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison if convicted. “On December 28, staff members of the Russian Federal Security Service detained U.S. citizen Paul Whelan in Mosc...
Russia's FSB state security agency says it has arrested a U.S. citizen "caught spying" in Moscow. According to former CIA officials the arrest was done as a retaliation for the arrest of alleged Russian spy Maria Butina.
WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a presidential run, making her the highest profile Democrat to formally move toward a bid for the White House in 2020. "If we organize together, if we fight together, if we persist together, we can win. We can and w...
Joining several other Democrats in the race, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts announces the formation of a presidential exploratory committee for running in the 2020 presidential election.
They have attacked the city many times in the past, but this time the threat is more serious.” The Taliban confirmed the attacks on the northern Afghan province, claiming that they had captured three checkpoints and killed or wounded 50 members of the security forces. In the north, the Taliban launched two blistering ...
The Taliban kills 27 members of the Afghan National Security Forces in a series of coordinated attacks in northern Afghanistan after refusing to discuss peace in the region with government officials.
LORALAI: Four security officials were martyred and two others were wounded while staving off a terrorist attack on a training centre of a paramilitary force in central Balochistan on Tuesday. Four security personnel were martyred during an attempt by terrorists to storm the residential and administration compound insid...
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan gunmen attack a security base in the Loralai area of Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of four security guards and four terrorists, including a suicide bomber. Two guards were also injured in the attack.
The landslide that plunged down surrounding hills just before sunset Monday buried 30 houses in Sirnaresmi village in West Java’s Sukabumi district. National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said soldiers, police and volunteers fanned out Tuesday across a damaged village of Sirnaresmi in West J...
At least nine people are killed and 34 others are missing after a landslide strikes a village in Sukabumi, West Java, in Indonesia.
A car has rammed pedestrians on a busy Tokyo street that was closed to traffic for New Year festivities. A 21-year-old man initially confessed to a terrorist act but later recanted, leaving investigators puzzled about his motives. The car, which was driving in a wrong lane, bulldozed into revelers in Japan’s capital ci...
A car plows into New Year's celebrators in Tokyo, Japan, injuring eight. A ninth person was assaulted by the driver after he got out of the vehicle. Police believe the incident to be intentional.
Car Attacks In Japan And Germany Mar New Year's Celebrations A dozen people have been injured in two separate car attacks, after authorities say motorists deliberately plowed through New Year's crowds celebrating in Germany and Japan just after the clock struck midnight. In Western Germany, Münster Police say a 50-yea...
Five people are injured after a man intentionally drives a car into multiple crowds of people in the cities of Bottrop and Essen, Germany. Police say the incident appears to be a xenophobic, far-right attack.
Mali has been in turmoil since Tuareg rebels and loosely allied Islamists took over its north in 2012 BAMAKO, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Armed men killed 37 Fulani civilians on Tuesday in central Mali, where ethnic violence cost hundreds of lives last year, the government said. The government said the attackers, who were dress...
Armed men believed to be traditional hunters have killed at least 37 people in an attack on a village in central Mali.
The mass shooting takes place 10 minutes after midnight as Sucheep Sornsung joined his wife's family to ring in the New Year in the southern province of Chumphon BANGKOK, Thailand – A Thai man who felt slighted by his in-laws shot dead 6 family members including his two young children at a New Year's Eve party before ...
A Thai man kills six members of his family before killing himself in a drunken shooting spree.
Austria’s defence minister has said his nation will not be involved in the developing pan-European army, a pet project of leading globalists like Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron, saying the continent should concentrate on cooperation, not integration. The comments from populist-right Freedom Party...
Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria.
Intersex people have historically been subject to unnecessary and traumatic medical interventions, and requiring medical approval also prevents the third gender law from being more inclusive of transgender and nonbinary people who don't identify as men or women. Vanja, whose case was supported by advocacy group, “Dritt...
A law recognising a third gender that can be administered for intersex people takes effect in Germany.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption President Bolsonaro calls for an end of corruption in his inauguration speech Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has used his inaugural speech to promise to build a "society without discrimination or division". With Donald Trump and the so-called "Tru...
Jair Bolsonaro is inaugurated as the 38th president of Brazil, succeeding Michel Temer.
“As acting secretary of defense, I now look forward to working with President Trump to carry out his vision alongside strong leaders including the service secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the combatant commanders, and senior personnel in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.” On Dec. 20, a day after Trump abr...
Patrick M. Shanahan becomes the acting United States secretary of defense following the resignation of Jim Mattis.
The Latest: Trump again calls for complete wall at border WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on a partial government shutdown over money for President Donald Trump's border wall (all times local): President Donald Trump says the southern border is "like a sieve," and he's lamenting how U.S. authorities fired tear gas into ...
U.S. President Donald Trump requests a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers to discuss the wall as a partial government shutdown enters its second week.
Based on its circular orbit, as opposed to the elliptical orbits of the planets, Ultima Thule formed 4 billion miles away in the middle of the Kuiper Belt. The space object is actually called (486958) 2014 MU69 and is believed to have formed more than four billion years ago during the very beginning of our solar system...
New Horizons makes a flyby of Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule, at 05:33 UTC, becoming the farthest object in the solar system visited by a spacecraft. It is a contact binary.
“I think there are a heck of a lot of U.S. companies that have a lot of sales in China that are basically going to be watching their earnings be downgraded next year.” Economic deceleration in China had caught Apple off guard and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing were starting to hurt consumer spending on ...
American electronics maker Apple warns that iPhone sales are slowing significantly and the product is in weak demand, blaming trade tensions with China. The company says that it has lowered its expected fiscal earnings for the first quarter as a result, citing disappointing holiday sales figures, and that it could lose...
Image copyright EPA Image caption One of the freight train's trailers was seen badly damaged by the collision Eight people are now confirmed dead after Wednesday's train crash in Denmark, making it the country's worst rail accident in decades. fottodk/iStock(LONDON) — Six people have died and 16 more were injured in D...
An express train crashes into an object dropped from a cargo train on the Great Belt Bridge between Funen and Zealand in Denmark, killing at least eight people and leaving several injured.
</s>COPENHAGEN — Norwegian officials say four people from Sweden and Finland are missing after an avalanche in northern Norway but strong winds, heavy snowfall and poor visibility are hampering rescue efforts. A woman from Sweden and three men from Finland were last heard from on Wednesday afternoon. A search-and-rescu...
Four skiers—three Finnish men and a Swedish woman—are killed in an avalanche near the Blåbærfjellet mountain in Troms, Norway.
Why would he not do it?” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has already said the bill is a “non-starter,” and Trump invited congressional leaders to return to the White House on Friday to continue negotiations. Likely incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Democrats will not give President Don...
President Trump and congressional leaders fail to resolve their political differences over federal funding for the border barrier, with Pelosi stating that the president will receive "nothing for the wall" from her party.
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - New Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued an executive order on Wednesday making the Agriculture Ministry responsible for deciding on lands claimed by indigenous peoples, in a victory for agribusiness that will likely enrage environmentalists. REUTERS/Sergio Moraes/File Photo Th...
President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro issues a decree to place the responsibility for "identification, delimitation, demarcation and registration of lands traditionally occupied by indigenous people" on the Ministry of Agriculture, instead of the indigenous peoples affairs agency, FUNAI. The management of public forests a...
Deir Ezzor, SANA- Ten civilians among them children were killed after the US-led coalition shelled al-Kishkiah town in Deir Ezzor , less than 24 hours after its massacre against civilians al-Sha’afa village. Local sources told SANA reporter that a house in al-Kishkiah was razed when warplanes of the US-led coalition la...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state media say that a U.S.-led coalition aerial attack killed 11 civilians in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
NEW YORK: New York-based pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb on Thursday (Jan 3) announced it would buy US biotech firm Celgene in a US$74 billion cash-and-stock deal, instantly creating a rival to the world's largest drug manufacturers. Bristol makes an immunotherapy drug called Opdivo that accounts for roughly ...
Pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb proposes the takeover of cancer drug company Celgene for US$95 billion, including debt, the biggest biopharma deal ever.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks went into a steep slide Thursday morning after Apple reported a slowdown in iPhone sales over the holidays in China, a hugely important market for the company. The rare warning of disappointing results from Apple reinforced investors’ fears that the world’s second-biggest economy is losing steam ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 660 points following a warning from Apple on weak demand and trade relations between the United States and China.
MOSCOW (AFP) - The number of people confirmed dead in a New Year's Eve gas explosion that caused a Russian apartment block to partially collapse has risen to 37, officials said on Thursday (Jan 3), with four people still missing. The Soviet-era apartment block was home to about 1,100 people and the explosion left dozen...
The death toll of an explosion caused by a gas leak that devastated a block of flats in Magnitogorsk, Russia, rises to 39. Rescuers end their search efforts at the collapse site as there are no more missing people.
The Netherlands has announced it was prepared to welcome some of the 32 refugees and migrants waiting to disembark from a Dutch-flagged vessel in the Mediterranean, if other countries did the same. "The Netherlands has indicated a readiness to possibly take in a proportional number of migrants who are on board Sea-Watc...
The mayor of Naples offers to berth a NGO-operated ship with 32 migrants who were rescued on 22 December in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Libya.
Containers with items including flat-screen televisions have washed up on Dutch islands in the North Sea. Dozens of containers with items including flat-screen televisions have washed up on Dutch islands in the North Sea after a ship lost part of its cargo in heavy seas, bringing a windfall for local treasure hunters. ...
The Dutch Coast Guard says 270 containers fell off MSC Zoe in heavy seas near the German island of Borkum and floated towards the Netherlands. Treasure hunters revel on the West Frisian islands of Terschelling and Vlieland. Three containers containing hazardous materials are still missing and ships are warned for float...
The wreck happened… FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two big rigs and two passenger vehicles collided and spilled diesel fuel across a Florida highway Thursday, sparking a massive fire that killed seven people, authorities said. Several others were taken to the hospital, some with critical injuries, the Gainesville Sun re...
Seven people are killed after a crash and diesel fuel spill sparked a massive fire on Interstate 75 in Gainesville, Florida, United States.
Read more: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo axes plan to shut down the L Train, saves Brooklynites from commuting hell New York City will instead adopt a new technology previously used for tunnel construction in Europe. Read more: New York's Cuomo is killing a plan that would shut down an entire subway line for 15 month...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that a complete shutdown of the 14th Street Tunnel in New York City, proposed to allow for subway repairs caused by damage from Hurricane Sandy, has been halted. Cuomo says that engineers will use a new technology from Europe to make critical repairs to the tunnel without having...
The foreign affairs ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday that Nicholas Haysom, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Somalia, “is not required and cannot work in this country”, effectively declaring the official persona non grata. Read more: Life in Somalia under peacekeepers and al-Shaba...
Somalia expels Nicholas Haysom, the most senior United Nations diplomat in the country, after accusing him of "acting like the country's ruler".
More: Exclusive: President Trump vows to send as many troops to the border ‘as necessary’ to stop caravan More: US troops deployed to border will aid, not replace, agents More: US border agents fire tear gas across Mexico border to stop 'rock throwers' This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump's DHS reque...
The Department of Homeland Security requests more American troops be deployed to the Mexico-United States border in order to add 160 miles of concertina wire alongside existing border fencing.
Gao Chengyong, 54, nicknamed the “Jack the Ripper of China”, was sentenced to death in March by Baiyin Intermediate People’s Court in northwestern Gansu province for robbery, rape, murder and defiling the dead. Gao Chengyong, 54, was sentenced to death in March during a court appearance in Baiyin, China, for robbery, r...
China executes serial killer Gao Chengyong, who murdered eleven girls and women between 1988 and 2002.
Russia says France has extradited a former regional finance official to face trial on multiple counts of fraud, misuse of funds, and money laundering following a long legal battle. The French law enforcement “have complied with the extradition request,” the Russian Prosecutor General's office said in a statement, addin...
The Prosecutor General of Russia Yury Chaika says that France today extradited Alexei Viktorovich Kuznetsov [ru], a former Finance Minister of the Moscow Region who is accused of fraud and embezzlement amounting to 14 billion Russian rubles (US$200 million).
This post was originally published on this site U.S. NEWS Texas man arrested after allegedly killing three young children, shooting woman in the head https://linewsradio.com/texas-man-arrested-after-allegedly-killing-three-young-children-shooting-woman-in-the-head/ http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/ (TEXAS ...
A man shoots three children to death and wounds a woman in Texas City, Texas, United States. The suspect has not been apprehended.
DUBAI: Iran's health minister has resigned over proposed budget cuts, the official news agency IRNA reported, amid an economic crisis wrought by the reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Tehran. IRNA said on Thursday President Hassan Rouhani accepted the resignation of Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, widely seen as the key offi...
Iran's health minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi resigns in protest against a medical budget. His resignation was accepted by President Hassan Rouhani.
President Donald Trump on Thursday congratulated Democrat Nancy Pelosi on her election as House speaker and insisted on the need for a wall along the US-Mexico border. In a surprising, albeit brief, appearance before reporters, his first of the year, Trump hailed the "tremendous achievement" of Pelosi, who at age 78 o...
The 116th United States Congress, which contains a record number of women and minorities, is sworn in at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time, the first being from 2007–2011.
Beijing: A Chinese lunar rover successfully landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, becoming the world’s first spacecraft to survey the moon’s uncharted mysterious side, a giant leap in cosmic exploration and a major boost to the Communist giant’s quest to become a space superpower. The Chang’e-4 probe touched ...
China National Space Administration's robotic lander Chang'e 4 successfully lands at the Von Kármán lunar crater on the far side of the Moon.
Asian Cup 2019: 5 footballers who might be playing their last continental Cup The AFC Asian Cup 2019 is all set to begin from January 5 and will go on until February 1, with 24 nations participating in the mega event of the Asian continent.</s>DOHA: A Qatari official who helped organise the Asian Cup in the United Ara...
Saoud al-Mohannadi, vice president of the Asian Football Confederation, is banned from traveling to the United Arab Emirates from Oman.
But to see the Huskies lose in the regular season is downright nutty, and that’s exactly what happened Thursday night when eighth-ranked Baylor scored a 68-57 home win over top-ranked U-Conn., snapping its streak of 126 straight regular season victories. They hadn’t lost a regular season game in regulation since a loss...
In women's college basketball, Baylor defeats top-ranked Connecticut 68–57, handing the Huskies their first regular-season loss since November 2014 and ending their NCAA-record regular-season winning streak at 126 games.
• Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi, who has been on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists, was killed in the strike, US officials confirmed to CNN and Voice of America. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The brother of a Sailor who died in the 2000 attack on the Norfolk-based USS Cole spoke with News 3 after U.S. officials sai...
The United States Central Command announces that a U.S. airstrike in Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen, has killed Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi, who is believed to have masterminded the 2000 USS Cole bombing that killed 17 American sailors.
YANGON: Buddhist Rakhine fighters killed seven Myanmar security forces in attacks on four police posts in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state on Friday (Jan 4) as the country marked Independence Day, spokesmen for the military and the armed group said. Militants from the Arakan Army (AA), who are seeeking greater autonomy...
The Arakan Army attacks four police posts in Rakhine State, Myanmar, killing 13 policemen and injuring 9 others.
They were 15-year-old girls Five 15-year-old girls died in a fire that broke out on Friday in an escape room in Koszalin, northern Poland. Initially described as a 25-year-old, the hospital said he was 26. • While you were sleeping: More of our recent overnight world desk roundups • News, sports and more any time ...
Five 15-year-old girls are killed in a fire at an escape room in Koszalin, Poland.
A group of Latin American countries says they will not recognize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's mandate for a new six year term (AFP Photo/Francisco BATISTA) Lima (AFP) - Foreign ministers from Latin America and Canada said Friday their governments would not recognize Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's president whe...
The Lima Group announces that from January 10, 2019, the government of Nicolás Maduro will no longer be recognized by the governments which compose the multilateral body.
While it’s true that, as one foreign-policy commentator recently noted, Trump’s Syria decision took place without an “interagency review, an often-prolonged process that methodically develops options,” or even “major deliberations with allies,” the idea that Trump’s decision shocked Washington’s foreign-policy machiner...
The United States Department of State announces that U.S. Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey also assumes the position of Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, succeeding Brett McGurk. Separately, a State Department official says ...
© Getty/Mark Schiefelbein-Pool Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to prepare for battle on Friday, as Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-Wen called for international support to defend the island’s democracy amid renewed threats of unification from the mainland. President Tsai Ing-wen of T...
Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping orders the country's armed forces to be ready for battle following President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Tsai Ing-wen's call for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy after rejecting of the one country, two systems principle.
Lee Pomeroy, would have been 52-yesterday, but died on Friday afternoon when he was stabbed in the neck during a brief argument with a fellow passenger on a train in Surrey. It was confirmed on Friday evening that the 51-year-old victim of the incident had been travelling onboard the South Western Trains service with h...
A 51-year-old man is stabbed to death on a train in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.
By The Associated Press TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly shooting at a California bowling alley (all times local): 5:10 a.m. Police say three men were shot and killed in a fight at a bowling alley… TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly shooting at a California bowling alley (all times local): ...
Three people are killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting in a bowling alley in Torrance, California, United States.
A federal judge has extended by up to six months the authorization for the grand jury that special counsel Robert Mueller is using to conduct his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and other issues, including ones related to people in President Donald Trump's orbit. "I can confirm...
Chief United States District Judge Beryl Howell extends grand jury "17-1" for up to six months; the original 18-month authorization was set to expire Sunday.
Assistant Chief Constable Sue Southern was responding to questions following a briefing, in which she read a statement on behalf of West Midlands Police regarding the fatal shooting of a man named locally as Sean Fitzgerald. “They classed it as going wrong considering arrests don't usually end in a shoot-out.” Two oth...
Sean Fitzgerald, 31, is shot dead by police officers during a raid on a house in Coventry, England, United Kingdom. Two 26-year-old men were arrested during the same raid, in connection with cannabis production.
The decree, granting "autocephaly," was signed by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at a service with the head of the Ukrainian church Metropolitan Epifaniy and President Petro Poroshenko in St George's Cathedral in Istanbul. The spiritual head of Orthodox Christians worldwide formally granted independence to the Ukrain...
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I signs the independence decree ('tomos') officially separating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church as autocephalous Church.
The electoral commission had said that Cenco was attempting to “brainwash the population” through its comments about the possible victor in the 30 December elections, according to a letter from Corneille Nangaa, the electoral commission’s chief. Most foreign election observers were either not invited or not accredited,...
The Congolese election commission delays announcing the results of the recent election, claiming that only half the ballots have been counted.