WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – The United States on Friday rejected a formal request from Britain for the extradition of a U.S. diplomat's wife who left the country last year after a road collision that killed 19-year-old Briton Harry Dunn. British prosecutors are seeking the extradition of Anne Sacoolas over the crash last August in which Dunn […]

(Bloomberg) — The Trump administration on Thursday set relatively flat quotas for plant-based fuels in 2020, rebuffing ethanol and biodiesel allies who said the targets don’t do enough to support the industry.The Environmental Protection Agency will require refiners to use 20.09 billion gallons of renewable fuel in 2020, a 0.85% increase over the 2019 requirement […]

There’s a new B &B in Pittsburgh, a house with a notoriously haunted past, although the situation has been relatively quiet for more than a decade. The owners of the house want to keep it that way, so anyone with visions of going all Scooby-Gang will have to make reservations elsewhere. Perhaps the town of […]

PM dares Corbyn to table real no-confidence vote, denouncing Labour ‘games’, as government refuses to allow Parliamentary time to non-binding Labour motion.

European leaders rebuffed calls from Ukraine for greater support against Russia on Thursday, after Kiev urged NATO to send ships into waters disputed with Moscow. German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked Kiev to be “sensible” following the request from President Petro Poroshenko, just hours after the European Union failed to agree to threaten new sanctions against […]

China rebuffed U.S. concerns about its ties with Venezuela on Tuesday after Washington imposed new sanctions on the crisis-stricken oil-producing country following the re-election of its socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro, the 55-year-old successor to late leftist leader Hugo Chavez, hailed his win in Sunday’s election as a victory against “imperialism”. In response to the […]

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Tuesday his coalition would not participate in the re-run of a presidential election proposed for Oct. 17 unless it is given “legal and constitutional” guarantees. Incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta responded by saying there was nowhere in law that required the electoral body to consult Odinga. Odinga’s conditions for […]

The attorney general took a decidedly different tack than the FBI chief after she was called to testify.

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The museum's official Facebook posted its response as a comment on a Times of Israel report to the effect that recent visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp were alarmed to see “showers” installed at the entrance of the site, where over a million Jews …