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India Eases Rules To Boost World's Fastest-Growing Airline Market

After more than a decade of deliberations, on Wednesday India unveiled an aviation policy to open up the world’s fastest growing major air-travel market, Bloomberg News reports. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government decided to permit domestic airlines to fly overseas provided they deploy 20 planes or 20 percent of capacity, whichever is higher, on local routes. Earlier,

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, center, attends the 7th Summit of Heads of State for the Association of Caribbean States at the revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, June 4, 2016. (Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate via AP)

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Venezuela, U.S. Plan to Hold Talks in Bid to Improve Relations

Venezuela and the U.S. will begin talks to normalize relations as President Nicolas Maduro said he’s ready to exchange ambassadors. Venezuela Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for 40 minutes in the Dominican Republic Tuesday, Maduro said on state television. The U.S. requested the meeting, he added. “They proposed that we start a new

FILE - This Feb. 1, 2011 file photo shows medical marijuana clone plants at a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland

Long Term Marijuana Use Disrupts Natural Reward System

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have found years of marijuana use alters the brain's reward system according to CBS News. Users of the drug over an average of 12 years had greater activity in the brain when they were shown pictures of objects used for smoking marijuana versus when they looked at pictures of a natural reward such

In this Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, former Minnesota Gov. Jessie Ventura speaks at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., in support of Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson

Court Reverses $1.35 Million Award To Jesse Ventura In 'American Sniper' Suit

A Minnesota federal appeals court has reversed an earlier ruling that awarded $1.35 million to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura from the estate of Chris Kyle, the deceased former Navy SEAL, over a defamation lawsuit, CNN reports. Ventura had filed the suit after Kyle, the author of "American Sniper," claimed in his best-selling autobiography that the two were involved in a

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking with supporters at a "Get Out the Caucus" rally at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, 24 January 2016

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Report: Saudi Arabia Major Donor To Clinton Campaign

The Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton is under fire this election cycle for a litany of scandals that involve illegal fundraising practices. However, a recently recovered report that Saudi Arabia allegedly provided 20 percent of Hillary’s campaign total funding could be the final scandal that brings down the Clinton political machine and halt her march to the

Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte answers questions from reporters during a press conference at the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Davao City, Philippines.

Ghost Of Marcos Hangs Over Philippines' Duterte

Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidency in a blaze of hard-line rhetoric – an outsider who will stamp out crime and corruption. But his power base is tied to the nation’s oldest political camps, including that of ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Bloomberg News reports. Duterte’s PDP-Laban party won only three of the 297 seats in the House of Representatives, while party

A visitor conducts 300 characters on tablets and smartphones using Google's Android software at a shopping mall in Tokyo, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. The characters, sensing the visitor’s body movements, perform a song in chorus with five other songs in the 20 minute program. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Social Media Now Main News Source For Youth

Many young and female consumers are turning to social media platforms for their main source of news according to BBC News. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism reported that of the 18-24 year olds surveyed it's now up to 28% citing social media platforms as their main source of news, as overall 51% of those surveyed use social media as a news source.The report

Hillary Clinton speaking at the Brown & Black Presidential Forum at Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa

Hillary Clinton wins DC primary, as she meets with Sanders

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton brought a close to the presidential primary season with a win Tuesday in the nation's capital and a meeting with dispatched rival Bernie Sanders, hoping to set a tone of Democratic unity heading into next month's party convention in Philadelphia. Clinton's win in the District of Columbia, the final primary of 2016, had no

Security Council meeting: Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan and South Sudan- Report of the Secretary-General on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (S/2015/1027)- Hervé Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, briefs the Security Council on the situation in Sudan, South Sudan & Darfur

80,000 Seek Refuge From Darfur's Jebel Marra Region

The United Nations reported that it has verified 80,000 people have fled since a conflict began in January within Darfur's Jebel Marra region according to ABC News. The region is a stronghold of a faction of the Sudan Liberation Army which is battling against Sudanese security forces. Herve Ladsous, U.N. peacekeeping chief cited reports of as many as 127,000 people who have

This Nov. 2, 2007, image shows the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Wintersburg, Ariz.

U.S. Plans $82 Million Investment for Nuclear Energy Research

According to The Associated Press, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a new government plan to help reduce carbon emissions by funding new nuclear energy projects in 28 states to the tune of $82 million. Moniz said that 93 research projects are underway to help scientists refine nuclear technologies as he was visiting the Department of Energy's Idaho National

A watchtower at the famous Guantanamo Bay prison camp, at dusk, 7 January 2011

CIA documents detail torture tactics after Sept. 11

WASHINGTON — Nearly 900 pages of previously classified CIA emails, interrogation reports and internal investigations revealed disturbing new details about the CIA’s use of torture after the Sept. 11 attacks. They include an internal CIA memo dated June 7, 2006, that says President George W. Bush expressed unease to Porter J. Goss, then the CIA director, about mistreatment of

Australian Federal Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan, right, announces that a teenager has been arrested amid allegations he had been planning to launch a terrorist attack in Sydney, Tuesday, May 17, 2016, while New South Wales Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn listens. The Australian Federal Police say that the 18-year-old would be charged with planning a terrorist attack and preparing to enter a foreign country to engage in hostile activities.

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Australian Police Charge Young Man With Terrorism Over Social Media Posts

Australian police filed charges against a 17-year-old young man in the crime of terrorism over his social media publications and activity, local media reported Wednesday. ...

United States President Barack Obama meeting with the Dalai Lama

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Obama to meet Dalai Lama despite China's warnings

--> US President Barack Obama is all set to meet the Dalai Lama at the White House today. US President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama at the White House today, a move likely to infuriate China which considers the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader as a separatist. "In the morning, the President will meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the White House," said

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Orlando shooting: Omar Mateen's wife could be charged

Fast Facts Wife of Orlando shooting gunman Omar Mateen could be charged in connection with the attack Reports say Noor Salman had some knowledge of husband's plans to carry out massacre Salman, Mateen's second wife, is a "person of interest", says a Senator Investigators believe Mateen was "self-radicalised" The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay

Alligator Drags Child Into Water at Disney Resort

Barbara Liston/Reuters Police in Florida are searching for a two-year-old child who was dragged into the

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EU referendum: Osborne warns of Brexit budget cuts

George Osborne says he will have to slash public spending and increase taxes in an emergency Budget to tackle a £30bn "black hole" if the UK votes to leave the European Union. The chancellor will say this could include raising income and inheritance taxes and cutting the NHS budget. But a leading Brexit-backing Tory said he was "shocked" the government was threatening to break

Soldiers patrol in front of the England soccer team hotel in Chantilly, France, Monday, June 13, 2016. England will face Wales in a Euro 2016 Group B soccer match in Lens on Thursday, June 16.

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Euro 2016: Can French town Lens cope with influx of 50,000 fans?

(CNN)It has its own Louvre museum, but the 50,000 people expected to descend on the small northern French town of Lens this week will be coming for a very different type of show. They will be there to watch England play British rival Wales in Euro 2016 -- a game that will attract worldwide scrutiny, for what happens both on and off the pitch. Follow @cnnsport In truth, mainly

Obama more angry at me than Orlando shooter: Trump

Washington: Hours after President Barack Obama blasted him for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, Donald Trump today hit back calling him a "lousy" president who he said is "more angry" at the Republican presidential nominee than the Orlando shooter. "He (Obama) was more angry at me than he was at the shooter, and many people said that. One of the folks on

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Tokyo's Yoichi Masuzoe resigns over 'misuse of funds'

Fast Facts Governor of Japanese capital resigns amid allegations of misuse of funds Yoichi Masuzoe faced a vote of no-confidence from lawmakers later on Wednesday He's accused of using public money for family trips and artwork The governor of Tokyo has submitted

File - Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, gestures while Hillary Clinton speaks during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Thursday, April 14, 2016, New York.

Clinton and Sanders discuss possible alliance against Trump

Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met for the first time since the former US secretary of state became her party’s apparent presidential nominee as she won the final contest in the party’s primary election. Mrs Clinton met her dogged competitor at a hotel in Washington last night as she was declared the winner of the Democratic primary ballot in the District

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Police fail to arrest popular Thai monk after tense showdown

Why our nuclear deal with Iran is turning to dust

UAE says 'war is over' for Emirati troops in Yemen

NATO approves keeping expanded Afghan basing, in nod to long fight

ISIS working to send operatives to the West: CIA chief

With Sadness, But No Regrets, South Africa Remembers Soweto Uprising

JP Morgan and Bank of America in cluster bomb investors 'Hall of Shame'