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McConnell silence 'speaks volumes'
US Senate minority leader Harry Reid says the Republican leader’s silence on his party’s presumed nominee, Donald Trump, “speaks volumes.”

US Senate minority leader Harry Reid says the Republican leader’s silence on his party’s presumed nominee, Donald Trump, “speaks volumes.”

A parrot may be used as key evidence in the murder trial of a Michigan woman accused of killing her husband.

At least 14 people are killed and 32 more injured in a bombing attack at a mosque in western Baghdad.

A new series of bombing attacks hits an eastern Lebanese village located close to the border with Syria.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel vows "a new impulse" for the European Union following Brexit.

Ireland has seen a marked increase in the number of British nationals seeking to gain an Irish passport.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is seeking pardon from President Obama over leaking classified information that embarrassed the state both at home and abroad.

The EU was a CIA project whose purpose was to make it easy for the United States to exercise political control over Europe, an American author and radio host says.

David Cameron says the UK should not turn its back on Europe despite leaving the EU.

A Tory politician says a new party leader and prime minister of Britain will be elected by September 2.

At least 19 people are killed and 15 others sustain injuries after multiple bombings hit southeastern Yemeni port of Mukalla.

Hezbollah resistance movement condemns terrorist attacks in eastern Lebanon, raps countries which harbor terrorists.

Turkey approves a visit by German defense minister after an uproar over Ankara's refusal to allow a trip by a German delegation.

Bahrain jails five Muslim Shias and strips them of their citizenship on alleged charges of terrorism.

Turkey's president apologizes to his Russian counterpart over the downing of a Russian jet last year.

Nearly two dozen people are killed in a new US drone strike in northern Afghanistan.

Eleven more Labour MPs resign to pile pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to quit as the party leader.

Politicians in France call for the removal of English from EU’s list of working languages.