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Police said most of the passengers were families returning from Easter festivities and students preparing for the reopening of schools after holidays.

In addition, the poll found that compared with Republicans, Democrats are more likely to name Russia as the country to pose the greatest danger to the US, with 39 per cent Democrats holding this view, nearly twice as many as Republicans who think alike.

Eight days after the U.S. military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.

The survey released on Sunday revealed that 53 per cent of Americans disapprove of Trump's leadership during his first 100 days in office. Just 42 per cent of Americans approve of the way the mogul is doing his job as President so far.

The French vote on Sunday was being closely watched as a bellwether for populist sentiment following the election of Donald Trump as US President and Britain's vote to leave the EU.

For nearly 100 days, President Donald Trump has rattled Washington and been chastened by its institutions.

Reuters was unable to independently verify if the police are behind vigilante killings.

The petitioners claim that the prime minister lied about the investments made by his children in offshore companies, which led to the acquisition of four apartments in Londons upscale Park Lane neighbourhood.

he order he will sign on Tuesday will call for "the strict enforcement of all laws governing entry into the United States of labor from abroad for the stated purpose of creating higher wages and higher employment rates for workers in the United States," o...

Violet Brown spent much of her life cutting sugarcane in the fields around her home in western Jamaica. She attended church regularly, avoids pork and chicken, and celebrated her 117th birthday last month.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that the US is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb "an immense atrocity against the Afghan people."

Egyptian security officials say three people have been injured in clashes between militants and local tribes in the Sinai peninsula.

The completion of the transfer signals the Tianzhou-1 mission has entered its launching stage," state-run Xinhua quoted the statement as saying.

Ostensibly yesterday's event was to mark the 105th anniversary of the North's founder Kim Il-Sung's birth. But it was also intended to send an unmistakable message to Washington about the isolated country's military might.

There were no immediate reports on social media of damage or casualties.

Four companies have publicly voiced concerns about how the Arkansas Department of Correction came to stockpile the drugs for its lethal injection cocktail - midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride - but only the McKesson Corporation made an e...