International

Iraq’s Kurdish Parliament to Redistribute Powers From Barzani

The Iraqi Kurdish parliament will meet Sunday to redistribute powers away from President Massoud Barzani, who is under pressure to step down following an independence referendum last month. The parliament had already decided to halt Barzani’s governmental activities and, on Saturday, said it would read out a statement from Barzani during the upcoming meeting. Despite

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Middle East

Saudi FM Says Iran Major Obstacle to Peace Efforts in Yemen

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says Iran’s hostile policy is the major obstacle to solving the crisis in Yemen, where Riyadh is leading a military alliance against Iran-aligned Houthi militant forces. Adel al-Jubeir accused Iran of interfering in Yemen and providing arms to the Shi’ite Houthi rebels. “Iran provides weapons to Houthi and [supporters of former

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Middle East

Iran says to continue developing ballistic missiles

Iran’s president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including developing missiles as the United States prepares new sanctions over its ballistic missile programme. “To defend our nation and territorial integrity, we will build all the weapons we will need,” Hassan Rouhani told parliament in statements broadcast on state television. Recent Iranian missile

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International, Middle East, USA

Trump’s Pardon Powers Have Limits When Indictment Comes

With the first indictment looming from the federal Trump-Russia investigation, President Donald Trump is getting a reminder: His pardoning pardons can’t fix everything. “I don’t think the president’s power is all that absolute, as people have been suggesting,” California Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC News’ “This Week”

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USA

Barack Obama will fulfill his civic responsibilities again — this time in a Chicago courthouse

Barack Obama Former President Barack Obama is going to fulfill his civic duties next month in a Chicago area courthouse when he reportedly plans to show up for his scheduled jury duty. “He made it crystal clear to me through his representative that he would carry out his public duty as a citizen and resident

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USA

Indictment expected from Mueller’s probe into Trump campaign aides

WASHINGTON — One of two former top strategists for the Trump campaign is “likely” to face indictment as early as Monday, a senior Democrat said Sunday, previewing what would be the first criminal charges in the intensifying probe led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into current and former members of President Donald Trump’s

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USA

Trump drops “total bomb” on Michael Moore’s dreams in “not at all presidential” tweet

moore President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday evening that although what he was about to say was “not at all presidential,” he was compelled to say that “Sloppy Michael Moore” had failed on Broadway. RELATED: Don Trump Jr. critiques Michael Moore’s praise of Harvey Weinstein Trump was referring to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore’s one-man play,

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Susan Collins: John Podesta, Debbie Wasserman Schultz need to be recalled by Senate intel panel

Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday that Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz “absolutely” need to be interviewed again by the Senate Intelligence Committee to talk about payments to a political firm that dug up dirt on President Trump last year. “They absolutely need to be recalled,” Mrs. Collins said

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USA

Thousands in Barcelona rally against independence for Catalonia

BARCELONA, Spain — Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who want Catalonia to remain part of Spain poured into the streets of Barcelona Sunday, a sharp rebuke to secessionists who two days earlier declared independence. Spain’s central government, calling the independence drive illegal and unconstitutional, has fired Catalonia’s secessionist leaders, dissolved its Parliament and called new

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International

Liberman calls for razing homes of terrorists who wound Israelis

By Alexander Fulbright Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman called Sunday for extending Israel’s policy of demolishing terrorist murderers’ homes to Palestinian assailants who badly wound Israelis in terror attacks, saying such a policy would deter potential terrorists. Liberman said he recently instructed the Israel Defense Forces and the Defense Ministry’s legal adviser to weigh the possibility

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Middle East