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Pyongyang is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the USA mainland with a nuclear warhead, and has so far staged five nuclear tests, two of them previous year. The Carl Vinson Strike Group, which includes an aircraft carrier and several destroyers, has been deployed to the region since the beginning of the year.

The motion had cited Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recent directive to top deputies within the department to review a range of law enforcement efforts in the country - including consent decrees - to see whether they are in line with President Donald Trump's renewed focus on crime reduction.

Trump made a phone call to May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and they discussed America's response to the suspected chemical attack by Syrian regime in which 87 people, including 31 children, were killed. Russia was kicked out of the club of industrialized nations, formerly the G-8, after its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and assistance for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

After a long, drawn out legal battle with state legislators and the Alabama Ethics Commission, sources have confirmed with the Tribune that Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has resigned following an emergency cabinet meeting called for 3:30 p.m.

There is precisely zero evidence that Rice used this information - assuming the reports are true - for anything other than her own official purposes or did anything unholy. When asked if he thought Obama's former adviser had committed a crime by seeking the identities of his affiliates, Trump responded, "Do I think?" Trump said in an interview with The New York Times this week.

Tillerson and Lavrov may wish to put a fine gloss on their meeting, emerging with talk of cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Few Americans desire US military involvement in Syria beyond airstrikes, however, with 18 percent supporting the use of ground troops.

Though FIFA will not be making a decision on the host for the 2026 World Cup until May of 2020, there are several factors that point to a successful outcome for the joint bid. According to Fifa's new World Cup bidding process, announced as part of a wider package of reforms past year, countries interested in staging 2026 have until December 2018 to prepare their bids.

Four members of the Philippine security forces and five of the militans were killed in the fighting. The US Embassy in Manila this week had advised Americans living in the Philippines to refrain from travelling to Bohol, a popular tourist destination, where no terrorist activities had been reported so far.

The Iraqi military statement also located the crash on the eastern side, which was recaptured from the militants in January, after 100 days of fighting. Meanwhile, a US-backed offensive is underway to dislodge ISIS from the remaining districts under its control in Mosul, 225 km away, the country's last city in which the jihadists hold significant ground.

The future of the rocky British enclave on the southern tip of Spain became the first big point of controversy in Brexit negotiations after the EU draft position said the application of any EU-UK trade deal to Gibraltar had be agreed between Spain and Britain.

Even before Trump ordered last week's strike on the air base in retaliation for a nerve gas attack, Tillerson's visit was certain to be dominated by thorny issues, including Russian interference in the 2016 USA election, an apparent violation of an important arms control treaty, and seeing what cooperation, if any, is possible in the fight against Islamic State.