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White House to withdraw nomination of controversial figure to chair Council on Environmental Quality The nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate change sceptic, to serve as Donald Trump's top environmental advis...

A senior Tory singles out the chancellor for criticism as he calls on MPs to get behind the PM.

(WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.) — A Bahamian man has been restored to health at a Florida hospital after drifting on the Atlantic Ocean for 16 days. Samuel Moss Jr. of Nassau, the Bahamas, spoke with reporters Friday at St. Ma...

The Trump administration rode to special counsel Robert Mueller's defense in a court filing related to his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election -- a probe that, ironically, President Trum...

A gang of bicyclists riding through Chelsea smashed a driver's windshield when he struck one of them with his car, police said.

German intelligence head says equipment acquired by North Korea has military use Germany's domestic intelligence agency chief has claimed North Korea has been acquiring equipment and technology for its nuclear and weapon...

Broadcaster's Indonesia editor was forced out for tweeting about type of food being sent to tackle malnutrition crisis A BBC journalist reporting on a health and malnutrition crisis in Indonesia's easternmost area of Pap...

The Russian government reacted with "alarm" Saturday to a Trump administration plan to allow the use of "low-yield" nuclear weapons against non-nuclear attacks. Russia's Foreign Ministry said a newly released Pentagon do...

Vladimir Putin's toughest political opponent is not allowed to run against him. "He is scared of all real competition," anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, 41, told CNN last week. "He only allows those to run who ...

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.1 earthquake has struck off Taiwan's east coast. The USGS says the Sunday night quake's center was 14 kilometers (9 miles) northeast of the …

A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in South Carolina has left two people dead and about 70 people injured. (Jan. 4)        

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Trey Gowdy: dossier 'has nothing to do with Trump Tower meeting' Gowdy grilled Hillary Clinton over deaths in Benghazi in 2012 What is the Nunes memo and why is it important? A memo released on Friday by House intelligen...

Tragedy is latest sign more migrants and refugees are using sea crossing from north Africa to Spain Moroccan rescue services have recovered the bodies of about 20 migrants and refugees from the Mediterranean, a spokeswom...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is under mounting pressure to take sides in the Conservative Party's civil war over Brexit, as a new round of talks between Britain and the European Union is set to begin

Hundreds of thousands gather in Athens to urge the government not to back down.

Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the 10-man Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015, appears in public for the first time since his capture.

The woman had been forced to climb on her car roof to escape rising sea water on the Cumbrian coast.

President Trump followed up his initial claim that the Nunes memo "totally vindicates 'Trump'" in the Russia probe with additional tweets Saturday evening accusing the FBI and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ...

Drug dealer claims he unwittingly harboured November 2015 attacks' ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud The trial of a drug dealer and slum landlord accused of harbouring two members of the cell that attacked Paris in November ...

The extreme right-wing suspect in a shooting rampage that wounded six African migrants in Italy has demonstrated no remorse for his actions and was "lucid and determined, aware of what …

Two people were killed in a crash involving a freight train and an Amtrak passenger train headed to Miami early Sunday in South Carolina, authorities said.