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In this May 19, 2016 file photo, an EgyptAir Airbus A330-300 takes off for Cairo from Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris.

US Electronics Ban On EgyptAir Flights Will Be Lifted Wednesday

Reuters is reporting the ban on electronics in aircraft cabins on U.S.-bound flights will be lifted Wednesday, according to EgyptAir Chairman Safwat Musallam. On March 25, the U.S. launched a ban prohibiting electronic devices larger than mobile phones on aircrafts traveling to the U.S. from 10 airports in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, the report said. "The ban on

Israeli soldiers stand with Palestinians and foreign activists who damaged a part of the Israeli security barrier near the West Bank town of Qalqiliya, Monday, July 11, 2011

Expansion Plan Highlights Crowded Palestinian West Bank City's Plight

Last year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government quietly passed one of its most significant concessions to the Palestinians: a plan to alter the West Bank map and turn over a small chunk of Israeli-controlled territory to allow the overcrowded city of Qalqiliya to expand, The Associated Press reports. But after an uproar by Israeli settler leaders, the government

File - The Right Honourable Conservative MP David Davis.

Brexit Secretary David Davis Says Other Countries Are Not Likely To Leave EU

According to Brexit Secretary David Davis other countries are not likely to follow Britain in leaving the European Union, The Independent reported. Davis said concerns from the European Commission that Brexit could cause a domino effect were “without foundation.” He argued the U.K. is “a very different country” from the rest of the EU and suggested their reason for leaving is

Workers continue work raising a taller fence in the Mexico-US border separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017.

House Panel Puts Out $1.6 Billion Spending Plan For Building US-Mexico Wall

A House panel moved forward with legislation on Tuesday that would begin construction for President Donald Trump's campaign promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico Border, according to The Associated Press. However, the new legislation means that Mexico won't be footing the bill.The move from the House Appropriations Committee puts the Trump administration and GOP

White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, right, talks to U.S. President Donald Trump, left, prior to a working session at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, northern Germany, Saturday, July 8, 2017.

Trump Likely To Replace Janet Yellen At Fed With Gary Cohn, Sources Say

President Donald Trump is increasingly unlikely to nominate Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen next year for a second term, four people close to the process said, Politico reported. National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn is now the leading candidate to succeed Yellen as the world’s most important central banker, these people said. Yellen begins two days of congressional

Tomato Plants Can Protect Themselves By Turning Caterpillars Into Cannibals

We might often think of plants as peace-loving things that passively sit around waiting to get eaten by a caterpillar, but some plants have developed an ingenious and devilish way to deal with their herbivorous enemies by making them turn on each other, IFL Science reports. New research has demonstrated how some plants avoid getting eaten by pesky herbivores – they force them

Did Trump Jr. Actually Break The Law By Meeting With Russians For Clinton Dirt?

The emails that Donald Trump Jr. released on Tuesday offered some of the most intense and clearest evidence yet of the possible criminal violations during the trump campaign during Russia's meddling of the 2016 election, according to The Los Angeles Times. Campaign funding experts suggested the emails could show Donald Trump Jr. violating federal election laws by arranging a

After meeting in the Planalto Palace, President Michel Temer dines in a churrascaria with ministers and ambassadors

Brazil's Senate Passes Controversial Labor Overhaul Amid Temer Corruption Scandal

The Senate passed a deeply unpopular review of Brazil's labor laws on Tuesday night after opposition senators tried to block the vote by staging a sit-in at the president's rostrum for a six-hour delay before the vote passed 50-26, according to ABC News. The bill is part of a program that's being pushed by the deeply unpopular President Michel Temer who is trying to bolster a

In this file photo dated early morning Saturday, July 16, 2016, a tank moves into position as Turkish people clamber onto it, attempting to stop the military coup, in Ankara, Turkey. Turkish President Recep Erdogan has called on the United States not to delay the extradition of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of orchestrating last month's coup attempt.

Gulen Denies Allegations of Coup, Wouldn't Flee U.S. Over Turkey Extradition Demands

The U.S.-based Muslim Cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey believes is behind last year's attempted coup, said he has no plans to flee the United States and would accept extradition if Washington authorities believed Ankara, according to Reuters. Gulen delivered an interview in his gated compound in the remote Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, where he denied the accusations

Search For 4 Young Men Who Mysteriously Disappeared Continues in Pennsylvania

A person of interest was released on bail on Tuesday while authorities continued their search to find four young men who went missing last week in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, according to CBS News. Investigators believe that foul play was involved and are focusing on a property in Solesbury Township to search for clues, which is owned by the DiNardo family whose 20-year-old son

A group of civilians pass close to the body of an Islamic State militant, while fleeing from Mosul due to ISIS heavy shelling in several areas under control of the Iraqi Army, Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016.

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ISIS Capture Town Near Mosul; 14 Killed in Iraq

> U.S. troop levels are expected to remain at current levels despite the recapture of Mosul, according to Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend who commands the U.S.-led Coalition against the Islamic State militants. Furthermore, both the United States and Iraq are considering retaining U.S. forces in

File - Saudi Shiite protesters wearing masks chant slogans during a protest in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, March 10, 2011. Saudi police have opened fire at a rally in the kingdom's east in an apparent escalation of efforts to stop planned protests.

Saudi Arabia executes four terrorists for attacks in Qatif

Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday the execution of four local extremists convicted in numerous terror attacks in Qatif in the

Donald Trump, Jr. speaking with supporters of his father, Donald Trump, at a campaign rally at the Sun Devil Fitness Center at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, 27 October 2016

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Donald Trump lauds son's ‘transparency’ on release of emails

U.S. President Donald Trump has lauded his son’s “transparency” who is in the eye of the storm after releasing emails of his communications with a Russian source who wanted to pass on ‘damaging information’ about election rival Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump, had on July 11, 2017, released a chain of emails showing a Russian

File - Emergency workers walk on the roof of the fire-gutted Grenfell Tower in London, Friday, June 16, 2017, after a fire engulfed the 24-storey building on Wednesday morning.

At London's fire brigade, we're doing all we can to provide facts about Grenfell Tower

Four weeks on from the fire, my communications team continues to face huge demand for answers about the tragedy

Chinese Navy helicopters and 528 warship attend an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of China's People's Liberation Army Navy Thursday, April 23, 2009 off Qingdao, China's Shandong Province.

China warships conduct live fire drills in Mediterranean

China says its latest-generation warships have conducted live-firing drills in the Mediterranean Sea while en route to joint exercises with the Russian navy. The defense ministry says the destroyer Hefei, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office. Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu should be upbeat these days: The economy is growing, his opposition is weak and the incoming Trump Administration seems friendly, even to the much-maligned Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Instead, the long-serving leader is mired in a series of eye-popping corruption investigations in a country that has already jailed a prime minister and president.

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Israeli premier slams Ireland’s pro-Palestine stance

Enraged by Dublin’s financial aid to anti-Israel Palestinian rights groups, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at visiting Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney over his country’s pro-Palestine policy. Netanyahu’s office made the criticism in a statement issued on Tuesday after the premier’s meeting with Coveney in Jerusalem al-Quds. The

File - Refugees sleep outside a tent at a beach near the Souda refugee camp of Chios island, Greece, on Friday, June 9, 2017.

EU-Turkey deal 'driving suicide and self-harm' among refugees trapped in Greek camps

A deal struck by the European Union to slow refugee boat crossings to Greece is driving rising rates of suicide and

An LGM-30 Minuteman I Intercontinental ballistic Missile (ICBM) is launched from Launch Facility 6.

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Japanese, US, S Korean Military Hold Talks on North's Nuclear, Missile Programs

High-ranking Japanese, US and South Korean military officials held a teleconference on Wednesday on the growing threat emanating from North Korea in connection with the development of its nuclear and missile programs, local media reported. ...

Indian security force personnel stand guard at the site of a militant attack in Batengo village, around 40 kilometers south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 11 July 2017. According to reports, seven Amarnath pilgrims were killed and 19 injured in a suspected militant attack in Batengo area of Anantnag. The pilgrims were returning from the Hindu pilgrimage cave shrine of Amarnath in the Himalayas on 10 July 2017 evening.

Curfew, clashes after Indian troops kill 3 Kashmiri rebels

Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday after three men police identified as

File - In late August 2016, sunlight returned to the Antarctic Peninsula and unveiled a rift across the Larsen C Ice Shelf that had grown longer and deeper over the austral winter.

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Giant iceberg splits from Antarctic

One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from Antarctica. The

Kenya: 6 police officers killed by herders in land invasions

California Congressman Files First Articles Of Impeachment Against President Trump

Person Of Interest In Missing Pennsylvania Men Case Re-Arrested Wednesday Afternoon