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UNITED STATES:  U.S. President Donald Trump will host a dinner in the coming week in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, restoring a White House tradition that he had abandoned during his first year in office, a West Wing official said on Saturday. The dinner is expected to...

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump, in a complete reversal, said on Friday he would hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12 in Singapore in the latest twist in the high-stakes diplomacy over eliminating Pyongyang’s nuclear arms program. Eight days after canceling the unprecedented summit,...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said the summit talks with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un in Singapore will not take place as planned. Calling it a “missed opportunity” and “truly a sad moment in history”, Trump, in his letter to Kim, said it was inappropriate for the talks to take...

Florida police have released dramatic bodycam footage of their gun battle with a suspect at the Trump National Doral Golf Club Friday. Suspect Jonathan Oddi, 42, reportedly entered the lobby of the hotel and began shouting anti-Trump remarks before opening fire. Terrified patrons and employees of the hotel fled immediately....

MAKKAH: Part of a mobile crane being used for construction work at the Grand Mosque in Makkah toppled to the ground on Sunday. The driver of the crane was slightly injured in the incident, but no one else was hurt. The Makkah Governorate said the area of the Grand Mosque...

BEIJING: Washington and Beijing have agreed to abandon any trade war and back off from imposing tariffs on each other, Chinese state media reported Sunday. The announcement came after high-level talks in the US capital and followed months of tensions over what President Donald Trump has blasted as an unfair...

Makkah: For the first time ever, drones will be used to manage the crowd in Ramazan in Al-Haram Mosque, Saudi media reported. Saudi Gazette quoted Major General Mohammed Al-Ahmadi, the deputy commander of the Umrah forces, saying, this year's crowd management plan for Umrah involves security, organisational, and humanitarian aspects....

WINDSOR, England (Reuters) - Cheering and waving British flags for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, crowds gathered outside the ancient walls of Windsor Castle on Saturday for a royal wedding that supporters hope will help recast the 1,000-year-old monarchy for the 21st century. Hours before the ceremony, Queen Elizabeth bestowed...

JALALABAD: Eight people were killed and 45 wounded in a series of explosions targeting a cricket match in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said Saturday, the first attack since the holy month of Ramazan began. The blasts exploded among spectators crowded into the stadium at around 11pm (1830...

HAVANA - A Boeing 737 plane crashed on Friday shortly after taking off from Havana’s main airport, carrying 104 passengers plus crew on a domestic flight, Cuban state-run media reported. The number of casualties was not immediately known, but Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, visiting the site of the crash, told...

NEW YORK: Police rushed to a high school in Santa Fe, Texas on Friday after an assailant with a gun wounded people in the latest shooting to rock a country still shaken by the massacre at a Florida high school in February. The school district in Santa Fe, about 30...

Thirty-eight Palestinian protesters have been killed by Israeli fire during demonstrations ahead of the US embassy inauguration in Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry said Monday. Israelis kill 38 Gaza protesters ahead of US embassy opening in Jerusalem More than 1,600 protesters have been injured in Gaza so far on what...