Germany: Angela Merkel rejects snap elections after failed talks
Schulz told reporters Friday that they'd agreed to keep their discussions confidential, but that he was now prepared to discuss with his party's leadership on Monday all options, including re-forming a grand coalition. "We need big ideas for our country", said Manuela Schwesig, the state premier of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and a former family minister. We should talk about each of these options.
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North Korea: Trump is 'begging for nuclear war'
McMaster said the possibility of war with the North was "increasing every day". "We are in a race to be able to solve this problem", Mr McMaster said. U.S. Air Force aircraft arrived in South Korea on Saturday to participate in a joint aerial drill just a week after North Korea launched a ballistic missile.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation official removed from probe for anti-Trump remarks
It quoted people familiar with the issue. Page reportedly left Mueller's team in July and no longer works with McCabe, while Strzok was removed from Mueller's team in August and subsequently reassigned to the FBI's HR department in an apparent demotion.
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Former Yemen rebel ally Saleh calls for talks with Saudi Arabia
The United Nations released a stern warning on Friday to the Saudi-led coalition of the catastrophic consequences associated with not fully lifting the blockade on Yemen , and UN leaders on Saturday issued a joint statement calling for the full lifting of the blockade.
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Supermoon to light up the sky this weekend
During a supermoon, the full moon comes to fruition at the same time as a close pass. "The Supermoon does help us create awareness in the public about astronomy", he adds. NASA calls it the supermoon trilogy , with the next two occurring on January 1 and January 31. There is an option offered by the Italian-based Virtual Telescope Project , which consists of several robotic telescopes remotely accessible in real-time over the Internet.
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Nine dead, 37 injured in Taliban attack on Peshawar agriculture college
Photo The police and army responded to a terrorist attack on Friday at the Agriculture Training Institute on the University of Peshawar campus. The attackers were wearing a full-face burqa (veil) and came in a rickshaw, said IG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Salahuddin Mehsud while speaking to ARY News.
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Key players in the Michael Flynn investigation | Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Mueller III's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was removed this summer after his bosses discovered texts shared with another official attacking President Donald Trump . At a news conference just days after Flynn was let go, Trump said he ousted him because of "what he said to Mike Pence ". The key question now is what Flynn knows that could incriminate others and what he might have offered in exchange for such a lenient plea deal.
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Democrats could come up losers in government shutdown fight
Schumer and Pelosi announced earlier Tuesday that they were not attending the meeting after Trump criticized them on Twitter and said he did not "see" the possibility of a bipartisan deal to pass a bill that would prevent a shutdown early in December.
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Michael Flynn pleads guilty for lying to Federal Bureau of Investigation
How will he co-operate with the investigation? The charges [information, PDF], brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller [official website], are related to two specific statements that Flynn made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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German Christmas market evacuated after explosives found
It contained suspicious wires and electronics, according to a local newspaper. Germany is on high alert for potential terrorist attacks almost a year after a Tunisian Islamist hijacked a truck, killed its driver, and rammed the vehicle into a Christmas market in nearby Berlin, killing 11 more people there.
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NCAA hits Ole Miss with bowl ban, reduction of scholarships
Probation running concurrently with current probation for a total of four years. Specifically, the assistant athletics director acted unethically when he arranged for boosters to provide prospects between $13,000 and $15,600 in cash payments, including $10,000 to one prospect, as well as lodging, meals and transportation.
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Senate Republicans are confident they have the votes to pass tax bill
The Senate Majority whip, John Cornyn , says he has the votes to pass the bill. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told reporters in the Capitol that it had not been easy to accommodate Corker, Sen. Bob Corker , R-Tennessee and Jeff Flake , R-Arizona, was found to have violated Senate budget rules. At stake is a top priority for Trump and a Republican Party that considers passage of the measure the best way to preserve the GOP's congressional majorities in next ...








