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The Palestinian Authority told Israel on Thursday it will no longer pay for the electricity Israel supplies to Gaza, Israeli officials said, a move that could lead to a complete power shutdown in the territory whose two million people already endure blackouts for much of the day.

The new carrier is slightly larger than the Liaoning, China’s first aircraft carrier, constructed by the Soviet Union as a Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier and refitted by the Chinese.

However, such fast action on the part of House Republicans looked more improbable by the hour Thursday as GOP leaders failed to pick up new votes from moderates.

The Council of State, Turkey’s high judicial body handling complaints and appeals against state and public institutions, said it had no jurisdiction in the case, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday.

The Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs meet Wednesday in game four of the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs at the Air Canada Centre.

They said Luis Enrique had lost the dressing room.

GOP leaders and the White House are discussing a potential vote on the revised bill Friday, according to Axios, and the House whip team is counting votes.

The US has said it plans to activate a missile defence system in South Korea “within days” and tighten economic sanctions against North Korea amid rising fears about Pyongyang’s military advances.

The United States now relies on ground-based ballistic missile interceptors deployed in California and Alaska to protect Hawaii, but regional experts say these defenses would do little to guard USA territory in the Pacific against a North Korean ICBM, which officials believe is...

Some believe another wave of bad news could come in the form of a separate anti-dumping duty on softwood, the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement or a proposed border tax on all imported goods.

The White House will release a formal proposal tomorrow to cut the tax rate from 35% to 15%, part of the Trump agenda to boost the economy and create jobs in the US.

Jones Sr., 52, was executed shortly after 7 p.m.as scheduled, for raping and murdering Mary Phillips and brutally beating her daughter in 1995.

In addition, a demonstration took place at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington. He didn’t provide any evidence to back up the claim, and the opposition rejected it as an attempt to intimidate Venezuelans from exercising their constitutional right to protest. Not so, Mr....

“It’s probably been created to just get China in the aircraft carrier game, and while this design was just an incremental advance (on the country’s first carrier), with the next carrier, which could already be under construction, it will be much closer to a USA...