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Sen. Kamala Harris said she would have the Justice Department pursue obstruction charges against Trump if she were elected. | Scott Olson/Getty Images   Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said the Justice Department would have “no choice” but to charge President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice if he finished his term without being impeached. Speaking […]

Delil Souleiman, AFP | US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) escort a woman and child in the northern Kurdish city of Qamishli as they are handed over to diplomats from Uzbekistan, May 2019. Since the fall of the Islamic State group’s so-called “caliphate” in March, the international community has been torn over what to do with […]

In this Feb. 28 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel in Vietnam. AP-Yonhap Despite the continued impasse in denuclearization talks between the United States and North Korea, efforts to bring nuclear diplomacy back on track […]

Japan chooses a new, slimmed down 2020 Olympic stadium design, after an earlier version set off a row over a $2.0 billion price tag that would have made it the world’s most expensive sports venue. (AFP Photo) Podiums at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be made from plastic waste donated by local residents or collected […]

US says Turkey’s acquisition of the S-400s poses a threat to its F-35 jets [Petros Karadjias/AP] The United States has stopped the training of Turkish pilots on F-35 fighters at an airbase in Arizona, US officials said, as Washington winds down Ankara’s involvement in the programme over Turkey’s plans to buy a Russian air defence system. The move […]

Schneyder Mendoza, REUTERS | People queue to cross the Simon Bolivar international bridge from San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela to Cucuta, in Colombia, to buy goods due to supplies shortage in their country, on June 8, 2019. Several thousand Venezuelans, desperate for food and medicine, packed a border crossing to Colombia on Saturday, hours […]

The UK officially opened a training facility in Somalia on Saturday for the Somali National Army (SNA), as the Horn of African country readies to take up security responsibilities. The British Embassy in Somalia announced that “the new centre will help develop Somali led security forces & promote long term stability and security in the […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming visit to Tehran with the aim of calming tensions between Iran and the US is far beyond just a political stride for Tokyo as the East Asian economic power has a lot at stake in the Persian Gulf region, a senior Iranian analyst says. Reza Nasri told IRNA that […]

All six lanes of Hennessy Road and Lockhart Road are now open to protesters, according to police. Police had reserved three westward bound lanes for the protest against fugitive law amendment. But at around 4pm, protesters rushed out to eastward bound Hennessy Road under Canal Road Flyover. Red warning flags were raised twice, and a […]

The full Moon rises in the sky to the right of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket on July 2014, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. | Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon — We did that […]