Global News - All News

But the president insisted on Twitter that he still supported the wall and that it would be built. "Building that wall and having it funded remains an important priority to him". "In case anyone has any questions, the wall's going to get built, and it's going to stop drugs and a lot of people from coming in that shouldn't be here".

There is speculation that North Korea may carry out another nuclear or missile test to mark the anniversary of its armed forces Tuesday. North Korea conducted a large-scale, live-fire military drill on Tuesday morning in yet another show of force.

Almost three years have passed since former Braves manager Bobby Cox, 75, took his rightful place among baseball's all-time greats at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Jaime Garcia takes the ball for the Braves in this spot and he will be looking to build on what has been a rocky start. He got two victories for the USA team that won the 1996 Olympic bronze medal at Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium but was 0-3 against the Braves at Turner Field in six starts and three ...

French presidential contender Marine Le Pen said she is leaving her post as president of the far-right National Front Party to be a candidate for "all the French" ahead of a runoff election. Le Pen won 21.4 percent of the vote on Sunday to 23.9 percent for Macron, who is now projected to defeat her by a margin of about 20 points in the runoff.

He referred some of the requests for documents to the Defense Department and said other documents were likely to contain classified or confidential information. But that response has raised more questions. This announcement from the Oversight Committee is new, but the revelation of Flynn's legal troubles isn't.

The Emoluments Clause has been interpreted as also applying to retired military personnel; Michael Flynn is a retired Army lieutenant. He said that, though a final determination hasn't been made, there would be "repercussions" for any violation of the law.

The victory for pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron, who is now expected to beat right-wing rival Marine Le Pen in a deciding vote next month, sent the pan-European STOXX 50 index up 3 percent, France's CAC40 nearly 4 percent and bank stocks more than 6 percent.

North Korea marked Tuesday's anniversary of the founding of its military with artillery drills, celebrations that took place as a U.S. guided missile submarine docked in South Korea and U.S. The North is also believed to be preparing for a sixth nuclear weapons test. The nuclear-powered USS Michigan submarine arrived at Busan in what was described as a routine port visit to rest the crew and load supplies.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani (R) arrives to visit the victims of April 21's attack on an army headquarters, in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan April 22, 2017. Habibi had come under intense pressure from Afghan lawmakers following an Islamic State attack on a Kabul military hospital in March. The attack comes just days after a group of U.S.

The move comes ahead of expected talks to renegotiate the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump has called the move "a disgrace" that's hurting US producers in dairy states like Wisconsin. The allegations are the same made in previous softwood trade battles which were rejected and overturned by independent Nafta panels, she said. The industry group represents companies such as Canfor, West Fraser and Interfor.

Six others were critically injured and evacuated by helicopter to Raipur , where Home Minister Rajnath Singh visited them in hospital today. The CRPF personnel were guarding a group of construction workers building a road in the area when the ambush took place.