President Trump's decision to fire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday had members of Maine's congressional delegation focusing on his replacement, CIA Director Mike Pompeo , and the challenges he will face from Russian Federation and North Korea if he is confirmed by the Senate .

Among the seven nominations accepted was BJP's dummy candidate Rajnikant Patel. The BJP has fielded Union ministers Purshottam Rupala, Mansukh Mandavia, and former MLA Kiritsinh Rana, while the Congress nominated Amiben Yagnik and Naran Rathwa.

This drew the ire of the opposition, with Anakpawis Party-list Rep. Ariel Casilao saying that this order only confirmed the human rights violations being done by authorities. "Why? Because you are insulting me. Why?" MALACAÑANG on Monday, March 12, believed President Rodrigo Duterte is not likely to fulfill his threat to feed United Nations (UN) experts to crocodiles as "there will be no occasion to push them".

If President Trump's Section 232 tariffs follow the same path that President Bush's Section 201 tariffs did, the new tariffs regime could end up gutted, and reduced to "a watered-down talking point" - useful on campaign stumps, but of little use in boosting US steelmakers' profits.

The Lok Sabha has been witnessing similar scenes since March 5 with opposition parties besides the TDP, which remains a member of the ruling NDA though it has pulled out of the central government, raising a host of issues such as special status for Andhra Pradesh, enhanced reservation in Telangana and constitution of the Cauvery river board to settle Tamil Nadu's water dispute with neighbours.

In a later tweet , he added: "Everyone is welcome to come to our wedding". "[Grandchild] Chandler will be my ring bearer ". Jackson picked out a pretty sparkler for his fiancée and shared a picture of the engagement ring on Twitter .

Ten people, who were part of a trekking expedition, have been killed in a forest fire in the Western Ghats, the Tamil Nadu government said. Das said that he found it "surprising" that a group of women trekkers went into a forest with little knowledge and no permission from the authorities.

The Trump presidency has given us all a crash course in many legal topics, and his alleged affair with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels is no different. The White House referred the matter to Trump's personal attorney for comment. There have been all sorts of complications surrounding this incident-like whether the 2016 payment from Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, could have violated election law-but Daniels, meanwhile, has been in the spotlight for weeks.

The witness jumps back as Angilau falls over the front of the witness stand. The U.S. marshal who fired the shots was cleared of any wrongdoing. "Don't f--ing move!" someone shouts. Angilau's lawyer, Robert Sykes , urged the judge to release the video so that the jury could see and decide if excessive force was used in the shooting.

March 13, 2018 . A stark reminder and memorial to the children's lives lost to gun violence was spread out on the U.S. Capitol lawn on Tuesday, a sight that prompted passersby and tourists to take photos of an unsettling scene. Civic organization Avaaz, the National School Walkout, and other gun control activists chose to represent this issue in plain sight, in a way lawmakers couldn't avoid.

A statement by his office said Abadi signed a decree to lift the ban after receiving positive response from the Kurdish local authorities "to restore the federal authority in the two airports in accordance with the Constitution of Iraq". The Iraqi parliament recently approved the 2018 budget in the absence of Kurdish MPs, who boycotted the meeting in protest at the cut in finances allocated to the region.

In a notice filed Tuesday in circuit court, Michael J. Satz, the Broward state attorney, said the state meant to seek the death penalty for Cruz and would prove that the crime "was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel". Broward Health spokeswoman Jennifer Smith said Tuesday that Anthony Borges' condition has now been upgraded to fair. The commission has the power to ask voters to approve changes to the state's constitution.

She said they would go there, sit, listen and talk to one another about managing situations as traumatized parents whose daughters were still in Boko Haram's hands. On preparations for the 2019 general elections, the president pledged that there will be free and fair polls come next year. "In my discussion with President Idris Deby in Chad earlier today, we spoke about the threat of Boko Haram and how to deal with the sect's menace".

Pakistan all-rounder Imad Wasim has been declared "stable" after the left-hander injued himself while playing for Karachi Kings against Lahore Qalandars during a Pakistan Super League match. "That is how we intend to put Karachi back on cricket map once again". "Good news is that West Indies will play three games, on [April, 1, 2 and 4], but these matches will be played in Karachi".

Friday went poorly for a select group of Twitter users that have earned a reputation for their expertise at gaming the system. These accounts, and others like them, are known as " tweetdeckers " due to their practice of getting together in exclusive groups and mass-retweeting each other's tweets .

Reacting to Trump's urge, Trudeau told CNN that Canada is glad to see the U.S. is eager to seal the deal. It was their first conversation since Trump last week imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, raising trade tensions. "On the national security side, we have always been incredibly integrated". There is no better security partner in the world. The prime minister is on a cross-country tour of aluminum and steel factories to demonstrate his government's support for workers in ...

While Pence's announcement echoed President Trump's declaration that he had re-certified the deal in January "for the last time", the president later set a deadline of May 12 for negotiations between the U.S. "Freedom, innovation, informality", Netanyahu said. Then on Monday , a junior coalition partner, Yisrael Beitenu, said it would not support the compromise.

Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - the U.S., UK, France, Russia, and China - Germany and the European Union struck the nuclear deal on July 14, 2015. The report also comes just days before the third round of negotiations to retool the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the official name of Obama's Iran deal) are set to begin in Berlin.

Blizzard conditions are possible and power outages are a threat for parts of Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire and ME, which are under the Winter Storm Watch from Monday evening to Tuesday afternoon, he said. Coastal towns in MA are also recovering from devastating flooding from the first nor'easter on March 2, when at least nine people died . Travel conditions are expected to be hard Tuesday morning, as almost 44 million people are under winter weather advisory or ...

OMV, an Austrian energy company nearly 25 percent owned by Mubadala, is also poised to win a stake in the offshore concessions, people with knowledge of the matter said in February. Paolo Gentiloni, Prime Minister of Italy (back center L). The field is located approximately 190 km north of Port Said in waters approximately 1,500 m deep.

The survey by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is for businesses that offer their financial services under European Union "passporting" rules to customers in Britain from a base in another member state. European Council president Donald Tusk has threatened to freeze Brexit talks, insisting that the sequence of negotiations must be " Ireland first".

Several Republicans, including Flake, have openly called the President's views on trade misinformed and misguided . But on Friday, he will be in Manchester, N.H., to deliver remarks on "Country Over Party" at a "Politics and Eggs" event.

Dhaka - The UN's top official on preventing genocide said Tuesday efforts were made to "cleanse" the Rohingya and that returning the persecuted Muslim minority to Myanmar risked further atrocities against them. The U.N. adviser on preventing genocide says all information he has received indicates the Myanmar government meant to cleanse Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine state and possibly even destroy them "which, if proven, would constitute the crime of genocide".

Six CRPF personnel have also been injured in the Naxal attack , out of which four are in critical condition, reported news agency ANI. Earlier on the day, Maoists had staged a similar attack but they fled after the CRPF personnel retaliated the fire.

Berezovsky, a powerful oligarch and one-time supporter of Putin who turned against his former protege, was found hanged in a bathroom at his home outside London in 2013. In 2000, he was arrested in connection with the embezzlement of Aeroflot's funds, and later charged with fraud and money laundering. Glushkov, who has been an executive at state airline Aeroflot and also worked for Berezovsky's vehicle company LogoVAZ, followed and was granted asylum in 2010.