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Arkansas inmate has last meal as courts decide fate
Bruce Ward and Don Davis's executions were scheduled to begin Monday at 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. respectively, but that plan has been put into question as the Arkansas Attorney General's office fights multiple legal challenges - including a judge staying Ward's execution after his lawyer said he was not mentally competent to face capital punishment. [Full Article...]
Trump congratulates Turkey's Erdogan on disputed referendum win
Allegations of vote rigging are uncommon in Turkey, Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy tells NPR. Turkey's referendum, like the Brexit vote and the United States presidential elections, reflects a deep urban-rural divide: three major cities - Ankara , Izmir and Istanbul - voted "no". [Full Article...]
Amid widening White House divides, Trump reportedly considers major staff shakeup
After managing to demote a powerful Trump ally, the president's national security adviser appeared on " Fox News Sunday" to downplay the move. Reporting from multiple unnamed sources who work in official capacities such as White House aides and advisors, Axios reporter Mike Allen claims he was told President Trump is considering a broad shakeup including two his closest staff members. [Full Article...]
North Korea vows further missile tests
Mr Trump himself appeared to reinforce the message at the White House, replying " Gotta behave " when a reporter asked what message he had for North Korean leader Kin Jong Un. The North Korean officials' comments came hours after U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said that the "era of strategic patience" with the North Korean government was over. [Full Article...]
United Airlines CEO won't resign
That is not who our family at United is, and he saw us at a bad moment. The United Airlines passenger who was videotaped being bloodied and dragged off an overbooked plane by airport police signaled Wednesday he would fight back in court. [Full Article...]
South Korea: North's missile test ends in failure
Speaking on Sunday before a handful of the 28,500 United States military personnel stationed in South Korea, Pence denounced the latest North Korea test as a "provocation". "We will see what happens!" Trump said on Twitter. He also said the government was considering measures to respond to contingencies stemming from a potential crisis on the Korean peninsula, including floods of refugees and ho... [Full Article...]
Finals-bound City eyeing A-League derby
But jostling among third to six extended until the end of an exciting final regular-season round. "I didn't think it would be that open with that many goals, but I guess people will have been entertained definitely", Lowe said. "It's a unique, one off game, your not that open, you won't play like that the next game". Goals from Roy Krishna, Gui Finkler and Michael McGlinchey had Phoenix in c... [Full Article...]
Massive US hunt for suspect in video murder on Facebook
Police have offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to Stephens' capture. " She's the reason that this is about to happen to you ", Stephens told Godwin before pointing a gun at him. and possibly other homicides as well, but those haven't been confirmed yet. The shooter says a woman's name and asks Godwin to repeat it. "Obviously this individual is armed and risky and, quite fran... [Full Article...]
Iraqi Forces Making New Push Towards Old City in Mosul
Most of the civilians injured in Daesh attacks in Mosul are sent to the Western Hospital in Erbil due to the ongoing operations in the region. Scores of civilians were killed this week in suspected US -led coalition airstrikes in western Mosul , now the subject of a major offensive to oust IS militants from the area, according to a local Iraqi NGO. [Full Article...]
Snap-on says Trump visit will highlight manufacturing
Wisconsin's unemployment is at a 17-year low, but neighboring states have been adding jobs at a higher rate. Regardless of political partisanship, the Snap-on website said "it's always an honor when our contributions to society are recognized - especially by the President of the United States". [Full Article...]
Hotel fraternity not to move SC over liquor ban
Besides liquor vends, a large number of liquor bars in restaurants and hotels along the national and state highways are also in troubled waters and as such stakes are high for contractors, hotels, liquor contractors and the state government. [Full Article...]
United States and Russian Federation struggle to overcome rifts in Moscow
Russia's alleged meddling in the USA presidential election also hovered over the first face-to-face encounter between Mr Putin and a Trump administration Cabinet member. This team has already found Syrian government forces were responsible for three chlorine gas attacks in 2014 and 2015 and that Daesh militants used mustard gas. [Full Article...]
Russia-US relations 'deteriorated' because of strikes - Putin
Washington blames Russia's ally Assad for that attack, while Moscow says Syrian rebels are responsible. Lavrov also said Moscow was ready to revive an air safety agreement in Syria. Leaving traveling US reporters across town, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Putin in the Kremlin for nearly two hours following fraught discussions with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov . [Full Article...]
Vice President visits border between North & South Korea
Mike Pence's statement on the U.S. running out of " strategic patience " towards Pyongyang does not contribute to resolving the crisis, Sergey Lavrov said, voicing hopes there will be no repeat of the United States strike on Syria in North Korea. [Full Article...]
Assad allies say U.S. attack on Syria air base crosses 'red lines'
Dozens of cruise missiles were fired from two American warships stationed in the Mediterranean Sea in the early hours of Friday morning. If you go to war with Assad then you have to be prepared to go to war with Russian Federation, because Russia has strategic interest in keeping Assad in power; they aren't going to just let us waltz right in and impose regime change. [Full Article...]
European Union opens investigation into Hungary education law
The Central European University has urged the government to drop the legislation from the beginning, claiming that it is aimed specifically at the university, while the government has insisted the aim is to ensure greater transparency in the legal environment in which institutions of higher education operate, as well as to close "loopholes" which it claims CEU has exploited. [Full Article...]
Pence warns North Korea not to test Trump, US military
However, as Ambassador Jeffrey pointed out, the problem for the Trump administration will likely be motivating the Chinese to put pressure on North Korea . White House officials said the economic meetings in Tokyo, with Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso and other officials, are meant to forge a framework for future discussions after the USA withdrew from a Pacific Rim trade pact. [Full Article...]
Mike Pence Says 'All Options Are On The Table' With North Korea
US and South Korean reports have suggested that allied war plans include the possibility of "decapitation strikes" created to eliminate the North Korean leadership. Tokyo, with its 22 million people, is about 800 miles away - well within the range of conventional weapons. Hwang said he spoke with Pence about "the gravity and urgency of North Korea's nuclear and missile threat and agreed to dou... [Full Article...]
United CEO Says Airline Won't Use Law Enforcement Officers To Remove Passengers
The airline operates four non-stop flights from O'Hare to Louisville each Sunday, and there was still one flight remaining that the crew members could have gotten on. The CDA said it was continuing to review the incident that left a Kentucky doctor in the hopsital and United Airlines at the center of a public relations firestorm this week. [Full Article...]
PM, COAS say won't come under any pressure in Kulbhushan matter
MEA stated that Indian government had provided all the facts relating to Kulbhushan Jadhav nearly a year ago adding that Pakistan had denied consular access for 13 times. In the Rajya Sabha, Leader of the Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad, while expressing outrage over the development, said the Indian government should provide Jadhav the best of the lawyers to ensure that the truth prevails. [Full Article...]