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Ilhan Omer After three Minnesota Democrats decided to depart Congress, Tuesday saw crowded primary battles for their open seats — with state Rep. Ilhan Omar continuing her trailblazing ways in a heavily liberal district left vacant by Keith Ellison. Omar, a Somali immigrant who drew national attention two years ago by becoming the first Somali-American […]

A body is wheeled to a waiting ambulance near the Morandi motorway bridge after a section collapsed earlier in Genoa on August 14, 2018. Photo: Federico Scoppa / AFP   Italian rescuers searched through the night Wednesday for any survivors under the shattered remains of a motorway bridge in Genoa as investigators probed what could […]

The comments are the latest attack from President Donald Trump, who has long harassed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Justice Department’s 2016 election probe. | Getty   President Donald Trump wrote online Tuesday that Jeff Sessions is not a “real” attorney general, heaping fresh blame onto him for the Russia investigation […]

File photo: Joe Raedle/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP. Brazilian authorities said on Monday August 13th that they seized 1.32 metric tonnes (2,910 pounds) of cocaine aboard an Italian-flagged ship in Brazil’s main port of Santos, near Sao Paulo. “The drugs were divided into 1,202 tablets distributed in 41 sacks” in two containers on the Grande Francia ship, […]

AA Photo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday that Turkey will impose a boycott against U.S. electronic products amid an ongoing and deepening rift between the two NATO allies over a number of issues. Speaking at a symposium organized by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in the capital Ankara, Erdoğan said: […]

A burned-out car in Frölunda, Gothenburg. Photo: Adam Ihse/TT Dozens of cars burned in several cities in Sweden on Monday evening. Gothenburg police and fire services were alerted to the first blaze after 9pm, after which several more calls came in from the city as well as Trollhättan, Lysekil and Falkenberg some 100 kilometres away. […]

Two people have been injured and a man has been arrested after a car crashed into security barriers outside parliament. A silver car crashed into security barriers in Westminster at 7.37am, prompting a huge response from armed police. It is being investigated by counter-terror officers . The driver, wearing a white shirt and a black […]

File photo U.S. President Donald Trump approved late Monday a defense budget law delaying the delivery of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets to Turkey in a move that goes against trade agreements and disregards international trade law. In a ceremony at Fort Drum military base in New York, Trump expressed his pleasure for Congress’ quick […]

  North Korea threatens to halt denuclearization process The Kim regime takes issue with the Trump administration’s support of international sanctions impacting the country; reaction from Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Recent comments by North Korea’s foreign minister could signal that dictator Kim Jong Un may break his vague pledge to […]

Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, left in the front row, shakes hands with Ri Son-gwon, chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, after the two Koreas agreed to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September, following a ministerial-level meeting held in the North’s side of Panmunjeom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Monday. […]