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Saudi Arabia has been heavily critical of the bill, unanimously passed by the US Senate, which would allow the US to sue nation-states for terrorist attacks on its soil; the threats of Riyadh to sell up to $750 billion in US treasury securities and other assets is nothing but a ‘consciousness of guilt’, attorney Andrew Maloney told Radio Sputnik.

Zo'n 739.000 mensen zagen woensdagavond de eerste liveshow van RTL5-talentenjacht Idols, die volgens talloze twitteraars meer leek op een 'playbackshow'. Niet alleen vanwege de verkleedpartijtjes van de kandidaten, maar vooral door problemen met het geluid. En er gebeurde meer dat de tongen losmaakte op sociale media.

The Herald's state political editor Sean Nicholls has told a defamation trial he did not intend readers to think that Nick Di Girolamo was appointed to a government board because his company donated $10,000 to a Nationals MP.

Examinations after a failed drugs test revealed the 30-year-old is suffering from a severe tumour disease, but the defender is adamant he wants to play on

There are two things Camilla Franks can do better than all others: kaftans and swinging, early morning soirees.

Identified only in court as PJS, his name cannot be published in England and Wales.

WIERDEN - SVZW speelt de eerste wedstrijd in de nacompetitie voor lijfsbehoud in de hoofdklasse thuis tegen Berkum. De ploeg uit Zwolle verloor woensdagavond het beslissingsduel om de titel in de eerste klasse van SDV Barneveld en gaat daardoor de nacompetitie in.

U.K. retail sales surge 4.3% in April on year, beating 2.4% forecast

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) cannot provide a comment on the disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804 en route from Paris to Cairo as it as does not have enough information, IATA Corporate Communications Assistant Miriam Ashong told Sputnik on Thursday.

Pound rises after U.K. April retail sales beat forecast with 1.3% monthly jump

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California - "Google Home," a wireless speaker with a built-in artificial intelligence system, is unveiled at Goo...

Vietnamese soldiers in September during a parade observing the 70th National Day in Hanoi. President Obama will visit Vietnam on Sunday.

Backed by venture capital, Hax brings groups of startups to Shenzhen and introduces them to the countless component suppliers and factories in and around the city to speed up prototype development. Hax's latest class unveiled their prototypes this week to investors in Silicon Valley and online through Kickstarter campaigns to seek funding for manufacturing. Users download a template onto a tablet device, load an image for a pattern and fit spools of yarn. Roveo weighs 300 kilograms (660 pounds) and is up to 2 meters (6 feet) long... Читать дальше...

John Terry has timed this one beautifully. Like his tackle on Tottenham's Son Heung-min in the first minute of the Battle of the Bridge, there was only going to be one winner.

A man who raped a pregnant woman in her own home then snatched a sleeping toddler and indecently assaulted him could serve as little as three years in prison for the 1987 crimes.

After asking State Bank of India (SBI) to merge its 5 associate banks, the government may ask three other public lenders namely UCO Bank, Bank of India and Indian Overseas Bank with financially sound bank

Topshelf heeft de voormalige V&D-panden in Groningen en Nijmegen gehuurd. Eerder opende de sportkleding- en modewinkelketen al een nieuwe megastore met een ruimer assortiment in het oude V&D-pand in Arnhem. Het bedrijf heeft nog vier V&D-panden op het oog. Dat zegt een woordvoerster van Topshelf.

An area's biggest town centre development, set to add a cinema and restaurants, will have £53.25m injected into it by an outside firm.

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez says he has vacated the WBC middleweight title and is now making plans to fight Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin “as quickly as possible”.

US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland presented a number of interesting ideas on the implementation of the Minsk accords on Ukraine during a meeting with Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov in Moscow, a Russian political scientist familiar with the meeting's details said.

A commander of the Taliban group Hafiz Saadullah was among ten militants killed after blown up by own explosives in southeastern Ghazni and western Herat provinces. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the militants were killed in three separate incidents in Ab Band and Khogyani districts of Gahzni and Shindand district of Herat. MoD did Read the full article...