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1,000 Shot In Chicago So Far This Year
Chicago hit a grim milestone Tuesday, with more than a thousand people shot in the Midwestern US city since the...
UN Council To Vote On Re-Launching Western Sahara Talks
The UN Security Council is expected to vote Thursday on a draft resolution backing a UN bid to re-start talks on...
Trump Says Assad’s Future ‘not A Deal Breaker’ On Syria
US President Donald Trump told UN Security Council ambassadors that the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was...
NASA’s Cassini Poised To Plunge Beneath Saturn’s Rings
An unmanned NASA spacecraft, Cassini, is poised to plunge into the gap between Saturn and its rings, a pioneering...
Trump, Australia’s Turnbull To Bury the Hatchet In New York Meeting
Donald Trump will meet Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in New York next week, rebooting a relationship that...
Disney Sets Summer 2019 Release For ‘Star Wars IX’
Disney announced Tuesday it had set the date of May 24, 2019 for Colin Trevorrow's "Star Wars: Episode IX" and is...
Madonna Angered By Unauthorized Biopic
Madonna voiced anger Tuesday over news that a Hollywood studio plans an unauthorized biopic of her early years in New...
Scolari’s Evergrande Squash Historic ‘Beef Ball’ Bid
Luiz Felipe Scolari's Guangzhou Evergrande crushed Hong Kong's Eastern 6-0 on Tuesday as they ruthlessly ousted the...
Uber Wants To Launch ‘flying Cars’ By 2020
Uber said Tuesday it wants to launch a system of flying cars to move people around cities, with a goal of putting...
Google Tweak Aims To Curb Fake, Misleading Search Results
Google on Tuesday announced changes to how it delivers and ranks internet searches, the latest effort by the tech giant...
UN Says Corruption In Afghanistan A Challenge Despite Progress
Corruption remains a serious obstacle to peace in Afghanistan, the UN said in its first report on the issue released...
Saudi Wins Top Arab Fiction Award
A Saudi novelist has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, becoming the third author in 10 years from the...
Almost 30 Die In Senegal and Gambia Boat Accidents
Almost 30 people have died in two boat accidents in Senegal and The Gambia, neighbouring west African nations with poor...
Iraq Holding Qatar Hunting Party’s Ransom Money
Iraq is holding hundreds of millions of dollars Qatari negotiators had brought to Baghdad as ransom money for the...
NFL Star Peterson Set For Saints Switch
Former Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson could launch the next phase of his NFL career against his old team after...
Dragged United Passenger ‘aggressive’, Officers Say
Newly released reports from security officers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport paint an unflattering picture...
Church Bombings Aim At Egypt’s Unity
The two church bombings that killed dozens in Egypt this month targeted unity among Muslims and Christians in the most...
Investors Keep Wells Fargo Board At Contentious Meeting
The entire Wells Fargo board of directors was reelected Tuesday after a bruising, rowdy annual meeting where...
IS Terrorises Mosul Civilians As Iraq Forces Advance
Iraqi forces advanced in west Mosul Tuesday, closing in on the Old City where jihadists executed civilians in a...