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Iran is to tell the United Nations it will begin increasing its uranium enrichment capacity in case the multinational nuclear deal severely weakened by the U.S. withdrawal last month collapses. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told the ISNA news agency that the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday its policy of tough sanctions on North Korea has not changed, days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he no longer wanted to use the phrase “maximum pressure” to describe the campaign to press North Korea to give up its … Read more...

When Melissa Ohden was 14 she learned a shocking secret her mother had tried to abort her. She was saved by a nurse who heard her crying as she lay among … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2sGfVYQ Get more World News

A former US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer has been arrested for attempting to spy on the US for China. Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, was arrested by the FBI on his way to a Seattle airport to catch a flight to China. The justice department says Mr Hansen … Read more via BBC News –...

Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems. "We're shutting that down," declared Apple's software chief Craig Federighi, at the firm's developers conference..... Read more via BBC News...

(CNN)Saudi Arabia has issued its first driver's licenses to 10 women ahead of June 24, when the Kingdom's due to end the world's only ban on women drivers. Officials expect another 2,000 women to seek licenses in the coming week, according to a news release from the country's Ministry of...

A teenager has been found guilty of plotting a terrorist attack in London, making her one of the youngest females to be charged and convicted of terrorism offences in the UK. Safaa Boular, 18, was accused of discussing a grenade and gun attack on the British Museum in … Read more via the...

Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki on Monday stepped down following a series of protests in the country’s capital, and other cities in the country. The Prime Minister’s resignation is coming after he was summoned by King Abdullah II over growing protests against his government’s austerity...

Former U.S. President, George H.W. Bush, 93, was discharged from a Maine hospital on Monday after a week’s treatment for low blood pressure, a family spokesman said on Twitter. Mr Bush, the oldest living former U.S. president, had been taken to Southern Maine Health Care … Read more via...

President Donald Trump boasted about his “absolute right” to pardon himself in the Russia probe on Monday one day after Rudy Giuliani, one of his lawyers, raised the prospect. “Numerous legal scholars” have pointed out that Trump holds the constitutional authority to a self-pardon, … Read...