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As President Donald Trump announced his plans for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, Border Patrol agents in San Diego on the lookout for drugs and smugglers drove all-terrain vehicles along a barrier that reaches 18 feet, topped by razor wire and rei...

Consequently, he did not rule out using techniques deemed to be torture and halted by former President Barack Obama when he took office in 2009.

Acting on his campaign promises, US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders for construction of a wall along the Mexican border

Kuwait hanged seven prisoners in a mass execution on Wednesday, including a royal family member and a woman convicted of killing 58 women and children when she set fire to a wedding tent, the first death sentences carried out in several years in the oil-r...

China has ordered its tour agencies and nationals to boycott a Japanese hotel chain which came under fire for stocking books that deny the 1937 massacre by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing during World War II.

They spent seven years locked up under George W. Bush, then eight more under Barack Obama -- yet the five alleged terrorist plotters were convicted of nothing.

"So any change in the law to give effect to the referendum must be made in the only way permitted by the UK constitution, namely by an Act of Parliament."

The army on Sunday entered Rashidiya, the last district under the control of the militants on the east bank of the Tigris, said military spokesman Brigadier-General Yahya Rasool.

Most of the attacks have taken place in the north of the Sinai Peninsula but assaults have also occurred in other parts of the country, including the capital Cairo.

Former US President George HW Bush has been hospitalised in Houston, CBS Houston affiliate KHOU television reported on Wednesday, citing his office chief of staff.

WikiLeaks says President Barack Obama may have saved Chelsea Manning's life by granting the former Army intelligence analyst clemency, but adds that the decision doesn't make up for the harm she has suffered.

China will launch a satellite this year to gather electromagnetic data that may be used in monitoring and forecasting earthquakes, the country's first space-based platform for monitoring tremors.

A provisional ruling from Europe's human rights court has ordered Russia to pay damages and legal costs to Americans who were barred from adopting Russian children.

"Celebrate Martin Luther King Day and all of the many wonderful things that he stood for," Trump tweeted prior to the meeting. "Honor him for being the great man that he was!"

The 751 members of the parliament will cast secret ballots in Strasbourg, France. The vote can go to a maximum of four rounds.

US President-elect Donald Trump has hailed Brexit as a "great thing", saying the UK was "smart" to have voted to leave the European Union and forecast that other countries would follow Britain's lead to leave the bloc.