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Iraqi forces have launched a new push in their battle to capture western Mosul from so-called Islamic State.

More than 175,000 have been displaced from Mosul since the offensive began in October, according to the United Nations.

Iraqi forces first retook Mosul airport and the sprawling Ghazlani military base next to it, but are still struggling to secure a strip of the city’s southwestern neighborhoods where dense clusters of houses and thousands of civilians are frustrating the fight.

Hunger now costs OH almost $7 billion in direct costs related to health care, lost educational attainment and diminished productivity. The same goes with practically any piece of health care-related policy that changes how health providers and health insurers do business and...

And the candidate most likely to benefit from all of this – the centrist Emmanuel Macron – has also courted controversy.

Remember how good Trump read that teleprompter? “Attorney General Sessions should resign immediately, and there is no longer any question that we need a truly independent commission to investigate this issue”. And remember that President Obama and members of his...

Underlining the possibility of even wider Chinese retaliation, Beijing travel agencies said Friday they could no longer arrange trips to South Korea after Yonhap news agency reported the order was handed down by Chinese authorities.

Currently, citizens from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Croatia are required to obtain a visa before traveling to the us, although the nation does not require travelers from the rest of the 28-nation bloc to get one.

Last year, with China’s economy slowing, the defense budget recorded its lowest increase in six years, 7.6 percent, the first single-digit rise since 2010, following a almost unbroken two-decade run of double-digit increases.

It came just days after President Donald Trump pitched a 10 percent surge in USA military spending.

As calls for an investigation into the Obama campaign’s connections to Russia grew louder, news broke that Obama’s new attorney general had been less than honest during his confirmation hearing when asked if he had contact with the Russians.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, elected leader in 2014 after an unsuccessful referendum to break away from the United Kingdom, has long said she will seek to give Scots a second vote if they are forced into a “hard Brexit” that would end their preferential access to...

“I have made a decision to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States”, Sessions said Thursday in a written statement as he opened a press conference in Washington.

Vargas’ is now in immigration detention in Jackson, and her lawyer expects that she will soon be transferred to an ICE facility in Louisiana where her father and brother are now awaiting deportation. When ICE agents left her home, Vargas locked the doors and hid in the...

Their beliefs and values don’t always line up with ours, but their need for safety is more than real. Matthew 4:7: “It is also written; Do not put the Lord your God to the test”.