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WASHINGTON The U.S. military received a record number of sexual assault reports in 2016, the Pentagon said on Monday, calling it a sign of service members' trust in the system.Sexual assault and harassment in the U.S

By Ayesha Rascoe and Soyoung Kim | WASHINGTON/SEOUL WASHINGTON/SEOUL U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday opened the door to meeting North Korea's Kim Jong Un, saying he would be honoured to meet the young leader under the right circumstances, even as Pyongyang suggested it will continue its nuclear weapons tests.“If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honoured to do it,” Trump told Bloomberg News in an interview

By Richard Cowan | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Republicans control the U.S.

The post U.S. spending deal shows Democrats still wield clout in Congress
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By Richard Cowan | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Republicans control the U.S. Congress and the White House but a bipartisan deal on nearly $1.2 trillion in federal spending that would avert a government shutdown had the fingerprints of Democrats all over it. U.S

SAO PAULO More than a dozen members of an indigenous tribe were injured in a dispute over land in northern Brazil, including at least one whose hands were hacked off, according to reports from indigenous rights groups on Monday.The Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) said members of the Gamela tribe were leaving land recently reclaimed from cattle ranchers in Maranhao state when they were attacked on Sunday afternoon by dozens of men armed with guns, knives and clubs. No deaths were reported. Читать дальше...

Hockey India (HI) on Monday recommended senior player and former captain Sardar Singh for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour

By Andrew Cawthorne and Alexandra Ulmer | CARACAS CARACAS Security forces fired tear gas at youths throwing stones and petrol bombs on Monday as Venezuela's opposition began a second month of protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

By Andrew Cawthorne and Alexandra Ulmer | CARACAS CARACAS Security forces fired tear gas at youths throwing stones and petrol bombs on Monday as Venezuela's opposition began a second month of protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro. With hundreds of thousands on the streets of Caracas for rival May Day marches, red-shirted supporters of Maduro also gathered downtown vowing to defend the socialists' 18-year rule of the South American oil producer.Twenty nine people have been killed... Читать дальше...

Ben Stokes hammered an unbeaten 103 under pressure to lead Rising Pune Supergiant to a five-wicket win over Gujarat Lions that consolidated their fourth position in IPL in Pune on Monday

Leg-spinner Karn Sharma on Monday said Mumbai Indians should not take the remaining four round-robin games lightly and carry the momentum into the knockout stage of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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Union ministries have held a meeting with Jammu and Kashmir government to find a solution to issues, including whether the 68 percent Muslims in the state can be regarded as minority and can avail benefits under that category, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to keep the communal pot boiling in the country through its remarks on triple talaq.

We had a dilemma in my house (or rather in my mind) when I first built it: to allow or not to allow spiders.

Last week, two separate cases of molestations by Ola cab drivers have emerged, one in Bengaluru and the other in Mumbai, each raising questions about the safety of women and taxi-aggregator apps

Uttar Pradesh will soon have a new excise policy under which liquor shops will not be allowed along highways, near educational institutions, religious places and in densely populated areas.

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Davao: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday he may turn down an invitation by Donald Trump to visit the United States, as he welcomed three
Chinese warships to his home town.

The mutilation of the bodies of two Indian soldiers by Pakistan is an act of barbarism and the armed forces will react to it appropriately, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday.

Islamabad: Pakistan Army on Monday denied mutilating the bodies of two Indian security personnel, which has evoked a sharp reaction in India.

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Haridwar: Farmers are a priority for the Yogi Adityanath government while butchers were a priority for his predecessor Akhilesh Yadav, an Uttar Pradesh Minister has said.

In the new scheme of real estate, builders can charge you more for landscaping, or a swimming pool or doing the maintenance work of a gated community

The BJP which came to power on the pretext of nationalism and often dissed Congress for its vote bank politics unfortunately also lacks the courage to upset the rich farmers who control the vote bank

The CBI on Monday told a court here that it has got sanction to try three former Isro officials including ex-chairman G Madhavan Nair in the Devas-Antrix deal case.