
He's also refused to explicitly back the mutual defense agreement that has been activated only once, during the darkest hours of September 2001. The summit marks Trump's final stop on his first worldwide trip as president, which began in Saudi Arabia and Israel, where he was warmly greeted by the countries' leaders.

The Korean Sharing Movement (KSM) will be allowed to make contact with the North Korean side to discuss a project aimed at preventing malaria outbreak in the inter-Korean border region. But they're dwarfed by the number of Chinese visitors to North Korea . South Korea's Gyeonggi Provincial Government - which has worked with KSM - announced on Friday that it had invested 2.1 billion South Korean Won (USD$1,876,675) for four years from 2008 to 2011 in equipment to control the disease-carrying ...

The PM also chose to name the bridge after the late Bhupen Hazarika, singer and filmmaker from Assam. The Modi government through its decision of insurance has collected Rs 17,000 crore by collecting two percent premium from farmers while only Rs 6,000 has been disbursed as compensation.

Trump (above in photo taken during meeting with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, considered a top Russian spy by USA intelligence), reiterated his claim that he is not under investigation. The White House initially attributed the firing to Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server, while Democrats and the press suspected an effort to disrupt the FBI's Russian Federation investigation.

Jones was convicted of murder in 1984 in the death of a 15-month-old who was given a fatal injection. However, she's due for release next March under a mandatory release law in effect at the time of her convictions, and the parents of as many as 60 infants Jones is suspected of killing want to keep her in prison.

The revelation that Kushner is being looked at as part of the Russian Federation investigation comes little more than two weeks after Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey , who was charged with overseeing the probe, at the time.
President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shared an intense handshake at their first meeting on May 25. Macron strides along the blue carpet to the wall of world leaders walking toward him. He shakes hands with Merkel and another world leader before shaking hands with Trump, which nearly seemed like a postscript to their aggressive handshake May 25.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not refute the Times story but said it was Comey's "grandstanding and politicizing" of the Russian Federation investigation that put pressure on the administration's ability to engage Moscow. "As the President has stated before - a thorough investigation will confirm that there was no collusion between the campaign and any foreign entity", said Spicer.
The final unofficial tally in Thursday's election showed wealthy Republican businessman Greg Gianforte with 50.2 percent of the vote, compared to Democratic musician Rob Quist with 44.1 percent. These details come from Fox News reporters at the scene, who were so shocked at the scene unfolding before them that they assumed it was some kind of deeply unfunny gag.

Trump's request to Rogers is not the first time he has made such an appeal to a top intelligence official. The requests, which were denied by both men, happened during two separate meetings that could be used to help build the case that Trump was obstructing justice.

Police believe the man picked the girl up not far from where she was seen walking. She was wearing a white jacket with fur and pink trousers. She went missing in the area of East Main Street near the Easton line around 12:15 p.m. Clark said it was not immediately known what the man and the girl did or where they went before the man's vehicle was stopped by police . WCVB will have more information when it becomes available.

According to Copts United news portal, only three children survived the attack. It was not immediately known if most or all of the victims were children. That October, nearly 30 people - mostly Copts - were killed after the army charged at a protest in Cairo to denounce the torching of a church in southern Egypt.
Anakpawis Representative Ariel Casilao pointed out that Armed Forces chief Gen. Eduardo Ano, the implementer of martial law, previously faced charges of human rights violations. He said Hapilon suffered a stroke after a government airstrike wounded him in January. In mid-2014 Hapilon, an engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines, showed up in a YouTube video as one of the first Islamist militant leaders in the Philippines to pledge allegiance to IS.

The president's address was the centerpiece of his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia , his first overseas trip since his January swearing-in. On Monday in Jerusalem, he will pray at the Western Wall and visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

USA Today reported that "When Notre Dame announced that Pence would be the 2017 graduation speaker in March, the student organization WeStaNDFor began brainstorming ways to take a stand". Graduating seniors at the University of Notre Dame , including some sporting rainbow flags draped around them or on their caps, walked out of their own commencement to protest the discriminatory views guest speaker Mike Pence has espoused, according to ABC News .
John McCain (R - AZ) is demanding the U.S. throw Turkey's Ambassador " the hell out of the United States of America " after security working for Turkey's president attacked American protesters. But due to their diplomatic immunity, they were released on the scene. Republicans are calling on the Trump administration to investigate whether criminal charges are warranted against any of the bodyguards.
Not many believed that the Celtics would reach the heights that they did because the team, in large part, was constructed of a bunch of players who have been overlooked for their entire lives. The Celtics played admirably, but their playmaking and overall ball movement was not up to the standard they had shown in their last few games, only resulting in 20 assists and overall mediocre slow movement, leaving the team forced to take imperfect shots, disappointing the home fans and aggravating ...

A photo of a grim looking Melania and Ivanka Trump standing next to an equally straight-faced Pope and an extremely excited POTUS is now fodder for hilarious memes on the Internet. SHAPIRO: There's always a certain amount of ceremony when a head of state is received by the pope. Maybe after reading the Pope's letter, Trump's stance softens further.
Milan Knezevic, leader of Montenegro's opposition and anti-NATO Democratic People's Party, said by phone that Trump's behavior "is clear proof that there's no such thing as equality in NATO ", showing that the country is just a "smudge" on the alliance's map.
He said helping people find goal does not just involve creating jobs at a time when many are going to be destroyed by technology like self-driving cars, but giving people a sense that they are connected to something larger and more important than themselves.
The G7 Summit will be held from May 26 t. In a private meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Trump also denounced the German trade surplus as "very bad" and complained about the large number of German cars being sold in the United States , officials said .

To protect our country from a nuclear attack, we must take unilateral action and stop North Korea before they improve their technology and capability any further. And the idea of eliminating a single, consolidated threat from North Korea simply is a dream. One reason the USA can't make this trade is global law.
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian over the weekend congratulated President Rouhani on his victory in the presidential election, emphasizing the friendly nature of Yerevan's relations with Tehran . Rouhani said that Iranians are "waiting for this government to become stable intellectually" and that "hopefully, things will settle down.so we could pass more accurate judgments".
FBI agents investigating ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia reportedly are focused on meetings Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had with Russian figures. Other people are also being investigated but their identities have not been revealed yet. Investigators are looking into possible financial crimes in addition to possible collusion between the campaign and Russian officials, the paper reported on Thursday.
Hashem had been "under surveillance for a month and a half" and "investigation teams supplied intelligence that he was planning a terrorist attack in the capital Tripoli ", the Deterrence Force said on its Facebook page. Many European cities, including Paris, Berlin and Brussels, have suffered attacks in the past two years, underlining the importance of confidential intelligence cooperation.
We ask all of you to hold the victims, their families, and all those affected in your hearts and prayers". "We mourn the lives of children and loved ones taken by this cowardly act". He died during the attack. Rudd said that Abedi had been known to intelligence forces "up to a point", noting authorities are now investigating his recent trips to Libya , where his parents are from.

The suspected bomber has been identified as Salman Abedi, 22, a UK-born student of Libyan extraction, and police say it's clear he was linked to an IS network . TRT World's Sarah Morice talks to Furquan Naeem, who went to the same school as Abedi. The Associated Press confirmed his name shortly before 4:30 p.m.

The appeals court questioned a government argument that the president has wide authority to halt the entry of people to the United States. And one of the dissenting judges asks, well, how far back should the courts go when deciding whether an order is constitutional? The high court , now at full strength with the addition of Trump's nominee, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, has divided in the past on immigration issues.

The head of the Coptic church, Pope Tawadros II , has vocally supported el-Sisi's government for its promise of security and stability. Eyewitnesses said masked men opened fire after stopping the Christians, who were in a bus and other vehicles.
Many experts have maintained those laws resulted in offenders receiving very lengthy prison sentences when shorter terms would have been sufficient. Sessions, who is also threatening to unwind police reform and recently said marijuana is "nearly as risky as heroin" (it is not), is certainly not going to let extremely clear facts and figures get in the way of his obsession with stuffing as many black and brown people into prisons and detention centers as he possibly can.
Video shows a quarter of a mile of hillside give way, unleashing one million tons of rock and dirt - most of it dropping 250 feet into the ocean. The highway has been closed, and officials are not sure when it will reopen. "It came as a surprise that this is as far as we can go right now", says disappointed visitor Dawn Ritz who is among those who came to the Big Sur area for the long holiday weekend", "this is a very pure part of California that is an opportunity to really get in touch with ...
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "deeply troubling" leaks to U.S. media about the Manchester suicide bombing would be investigated, after irate British police stopped sharing in-formation with United States agencies. His father lives in Tripoli. "I haven't seen police come to his house". Abedi's place of worship, Didsbury Mosque, did not respond to request for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.
He is likely to be received warily, but the White House says the president has made personal breakthroughs with his peers. He didn't candy coat the message with smiles, glad handing, or talk of global responsibility, in fact, one critic described him as serious and stern.

The real effect was to strip Democratic voters from adjacent districts, leaving them more likely to elect Republicans . The justices split 5-3 on the other district, District 12 in the southwestern part of the state. The justices ruled that Republicans who controlled the state legislature and governor's office in 2011 placed too many African-Americans in the two districts.

Sinn Féin's leader in the north, Michelle O'Neill, said the attack was horrific. "It is an attempt to destroy our way of life and will not succeed". "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims and those injured in the attack at the Manchester Arena last night". "We are heartbroken for all".