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Congressmen to Obama: Don’t bolster Iran

Senior Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to avoid bolstering Iran, but Obama has made clear he plans to facilitate further business investment in the Islamic Republic and has threatened to veto any bill demanding otherwise.
November 23, 2016
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WATCH: Trump calls journalists liars

US President-elect Donald Trump vilified the media in a face-to-face confrontation in Trump Tower, calling out some of those present for being liars.
November 22, 2016
New Zealand Earthquake

New Zealand hit by 2 strong quakes

New Zealand on Tuesday experienced two strong earthquakes, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.
November 22, 2016
Neo Nazis

US votes against anti-Nazi resolution at UN

The US on Thursday voted against a UN resolution condemning the veneration of Nazism saying it hindered freedom of speech, while raising concerns that Russia, the country that sponsored the resolution, was using it to carry out political attacks against its neighbors.
November 21, 2016
Aleppo attack

At least 20 killed in bombing by Assad in Aleppo

The strikes, including hundreds of artillery shells and dozens of airstrikes, hit four hospitals in east Aleppo, a rebel-held enclave of 275,000 people, and now all hospitals in the area are out of service.
November 20, 2016
Mohamed Merah

French parents name newborn after Muslim terrorist

After parents in Nice, France named their child after Mohamed Merah, an Islamist terrorist who killed seven people in terror attacks on a Jewish school and French paratroopers in the southwestern Toulouse region in 2012, a judge will rule on whether they must change the name.
November 20, 2016
Donald Trump

Trump appoints fierce critics of Obama for top positions

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo as the next head of the CIA and former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.
November 20, 2016
Heat dry land

2016 is hottest year in recorded history

Concentrations of major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to increase to new limits and Arctic sea ice remains at a very low level, even though gas emissions are dropping, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization announced.
November 15, 2016