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14 Apr 2017
Police captured a Wisconsin man early Friday, ending an intense manhunt launched after he allegedly robbed a gun shop and sent an anti-government manifesto to US President Donald Trump.
14 Apr 2017
A conflict over North Korea could break out "at any moment", China said Friday, warning there would be no winner in any war as tensions soar with the United States.
14 Apr 2017
President Donald Trump takes credit for revitalizing the US economy even though he has not yet been in office for 100 days.
14 Apr 2017
The new law goes towards a long-held goal of defunding abortion held by Republicans, who passed the bill two weeks ago with a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence.
13 Apr 2017
"North Korea is a problem, the problem will be taken care of," Trump said defiantly, amid reports of activity at a North Korean nuclear test site ahead of Saturday's 105th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder Kim Il-Sung.
13 Apr 2017
US President Donald Trump expressed confidence Thursday that US-Russian relations will "work out fine" after icy bilateral talks in Moscow, as he looked to China to "deal properly" with North Korea.
13 Apr 2017
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack was a "fabrication" to justify a US military strike, as Moscow digs in to defend its ally despite increasing strains with Washington.
12 Apr 2017
White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologized Tuesday for "insensitive" remarks in which he seemed to favorably compare Adolf Hitler's actions during the Holocaust to atrocities carried out now by strongman Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
12 Apr 2017
President Vladimir Putin said ties between Russia and the United States appear to have deteriorated under Donald Trump in an interview released Wednesday as the countries' top diplomats met in Moscow.
12 Apr 2017
US First Lady Melania Trump won an undisclosed payout and apology from a British tabloid that made allegations a modelling career that struck at the "heart" of her "personal integrity and dignity," her lawyer said. The August 2016 article entitled "Racy photos and troubling questions about his wife’s past that could derail Trump" contained untrue…
12 Apr 2017
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has urged Donald Trump to peacefully resolve tensions over North Korea’s nuclear programme, as the US president touted the power of a naval "armada" steaming towards the Korean peninsula.
12 Apr 2017
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov began tense talks in Moscow on Wednesday as the two sides locked horns over an alleged Syrian chemical attack and subsequent missile strike by Washington.
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