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Things to Know About the Chelsea Manning Release

More Chibok girls to return in swap deal, says minister

Lib Dems pledge to ban diesel sales
Mrs May's decision to pull Britain out of the single market was not on the ballot paper previous year and any final Brexit deal should be subject to a second referendum, he said. A new Air Quality Plan would include a diesel scrappage scheme , a plan for all private hire vehicles and buses in urban areas to run on ultra-low emission or zero-emission fuels within five years, and a ban on the sa... [Full Article...]
United States detained, released 2 Turkish security officers involved in massive fight

Venezuela leader: Officials treated like Jews under Nazis

Boko Haram traps starving people in Nigeria, UN warns

Ruth Davidson seeks support of Labour voters to defeat SNP

Comey prepped responses ahead of Trump discussions
Rosenstein, the No. 2 Justice Department official, named Mueller amid mounting pressure in Congress for an independent investigation beyond existing FBI and congressional probes into the Russian Federation issue. "He did acknowledge that he learned Comey would be removed prior to him writing his memo", Sen. "I'd think he'd be a good choice", Graham said. But he tells senators: "I can't consider fo... [Full Article...]
Enforcement Directorate Also Registers Police Case, To Question Karti Chidambaram

Notorious Moors Murderer Ian Brady dies in United Kingdom hospital

United States extends Iran nuclear sanctions relief but introduces new sanctions
The Treasury Department will sanction Iranian defense officials because of the country's ballistic missile program. The Iranian officials coordinated the sale and delivery of explosives, along with other materiel to a Syrian government agency. [Full Article...]
Trump says he's 'very close' to naming a new Federal Bureau of Investigation director
Lieberman traveled to the White House on Wednesday on short notice for an interview and afterward said it was a "good meeting". The White House says President Donald Trump will be interviewing four potential candidates. He has previously said that he would support an independent commission to investigate ties between Trump's administration and Russian Federation. "Those will all happen upon return... [Full Article...]
US court jails 2 for hate crime against Sikh man

Trump's visit to reinforce historic partnership between KSA, US: Jubeir
The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of President Donald Trump's planned visit to Riyadh . Al-Jubair affirmed that history will remember that the summit is a turning point from a strained relationship to a strategic partnership between the Islamic world, th... [Full Article...]
Portugal wins Eurovision 2017, Belarus 17th

1 firefighter killed, 2 seriously hurt in San Antonio fire

Trump denies asking Comey to stop Flynn probe
President Donald Trump was about to get the question - the one he'd avoided for almost 48 hours but could no longer. Comey associates this week revealed the existence of a memo Comey wrote after his February 14 meeting with Trump in which he says the president asked him to shut down the FBI investigation into ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn . [Full Article...]
Trump pulls trigger on NAFTA negotiations
Many still worry that Trump's planned overhaul of American trade policy is built to revive manufacturing and that farming remains an afterthought. During the 90-day countdown, USTR will consult with "Congress and American stakeholders to create an agreement that advances the interests of America´s workers, farmers, ranchers, and businesses", he said . [Full Article...]
Pentagon: Islamic State's Afghan leader killed in April raid
General John W. Nicholson, commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Afghanistan, told reporters last month that US and Afghan forces have been attacking Islamic State positions since early a year ago and had reduced its size by two-thirds. [Full Article...]
Donald Trump says he fired James Comey because he was 'unpopular'
Sen. Dick Durbin of IL, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, said Tuesday Trump's alleged request the FBI quit investigating the former national security adviser "appears to cross the line into the obstruction of justice". Questions have been raised as to whether Trump secretly records conversations with visitors in the White House following his tweet Friday: "James Comey better ho... [Full Article...]