Asked if he would be willing to give his version of events under oath, Mr Trump replied: "100 percent". When Karl asked about the so-called "loyalty pledge" that Comey referred to, Trump denied that it ever occurred, saying "I hardly know the man, what kind of person would do that?" " I didn't say that ", Trump said at a joint press conference alongside the president of Romania.

On Thursday, Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavai , said the country was investigating whether Saudi Arabia had a role Wednesday's attacks. It was not clear when the five men returned to Iran ahead of Wednesday's attacks. But some young Sunnis seem to regard policies of Shi'ite-led Iran as oppressive at home or aggressive overseas, such as in Iraq and Syria, pushing more of them into the arms of jihadist groups.

Halbert said police haven't yet interviewed the bus driver. Officials say the bus overturned and landed on the auto, now the road is blocked. A prosecutor has told jurors in OH that the white former police officer who killed a black unarmed motorist should have followed his training, while the defense says the man who was killed should have followed orders.

He has done it on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on Friday. Security and stability are the basis of economic cooperation among SCO member states, Jiang noted, adding that SCO expansion would help the alignment of China's Belt and Road Initiative with the development strategies of other SCO member states.

It was just about the here-and-now". Points leader Sebastien Vettel in the other Ferrari was third in the afternoon, following a morning session in which his back end spun out in Turn 6. "Nevertheless I feel the auto is very good, I was really happy this morning, I was happy this afternoon and it should be very good in the race so I'm looking forward to tomorrow".

Since the attacks took place, Iran's intelligence and security forces have stepped up their activities, identifying and arresting a number of suspects and foiling potential terrorist threats. One senior Iranian official told Reuters that Daesh had established a network of support in the country, and suggested that members' motivation was as much political and economic as to do with Sunni radicals' belief that Shiites are infidels.

Two days later, Comey is questioned by a Republican-led House Committee about his recommendation. This was Comey's first appearance since his abrupt termination, and he clearly had a lot to get off his chest. officials regarded it as disingenuous in an investigation that was so widely known. Nor did his fellow senators necessarily follow along. Kasowitz labeled Comey "one of these leakers" who are "actively attempting to undermine this administration with selective and illegal ...

He said any use of chemical weapons in Syria - where Russian Federation is propping up the government of President Bashar Assad - is a "red line" for France and would be met by "reprisals" and an "immediate riposte" from France. Macron's government says it backs United Nations -mediated peace talks in Geneva. In response, Putin appeared to deny that Russian hackers targeted the French election ("that would have been impossible"), and he insisted that there was "nothing to discuss" ...

Those values could come up in any power-sharing talks with the Conservatives . She tried to appeal to those on modest incomes with an insultingly hardline approach on Brexit and immigration, and offered nothing substantial to improve their finances or public services in the manifesto .

May asked Britain's Queen Elizabeth for permission to form a new government on Friday after an election debacle that saw her Conservative Party lose its parliamentary majority days before talks on Britain's European Union departure are due to begin.

And yes, she was trying to become the first woman in almost four decades to make a Grand Slam title the first tour-level triumph of her career. Hurts a lot, and I need time just to - I don't know. What let the youngster down was her first serve, and she hit the target with just 48 per cent of them in the opening set, according to the tournament's official website .

Taylor initially was charged with possession of an unregistered firearm . The driver then proceeded down the street until his truck crashed into a parked sanitation vehicle. "I feel frightful. Thankfully nobody else was injured, but I have two of my officers in there, unnecessarily in the hospital". A D.C. Department Of Transportation worker was also hit and injured in the crash.

But she owes it to everybody who voted for Brexit to cling on, at least for the next few months, so that the talks with the rest of the European Union can get underway. Prime Minister Theresa May appears to have lost her gamble in calling a "snap" election to strengthen her grip on power. Their priority will be to get the best deal for Northern Ireland.

The United States, France and Russian Federation have called for dialogue while Turkey has defended Qatar and said it would further "develop" ties with Doha . With the modern glass and steel buildings of the skyline in Doha , Qatar, serving as the backdrop, a traditional wooden fishing dhow is seen in port in February.

Iran's intelligence ministry said on Thursday five of the attackers who died in the assault had been identified as Iranians who had joined the hardline Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State on its main battlegrounds in Iraq and Syria.

Authorities have raised the death toll in a pair of Islamic State group attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of its revolutionary leader to 17 people killed. Police officers stand guard as vehicles drive past Iran's parliament building in Tehran , Iran, Thursday, May 8, 2017. The relative told him the attackers appeared to be Arab, Algerian and Tunisian, not Iranian.

But the election result meant it was unclear whether her plan to take Britain out of the bloc's single market and customs union could still be pursued.British politicians, including within May's own party, differ widely on what they want from the Brexit negotiating process.If she is to succeed in delivering the end of Britain's EU membership which 52 percent of the British public demanded a year ago, she must find a way to recapture the full support of her party because she will need their ...

She said they spoke on the phone dozens of times afterward because they were discussing the women's basketball program at Temple University, where he was a powerful trustee and she served as director of team operations. Jurors are expected to get the case next week. All were made from Constand's Temple-issued cellphone. "I don't really remember how dim the lights were, but I did have to eat my dinner", she replied.

Buffett has held 18 annual auctions for Glide, raising about $26.3m. Buffett's first wife, Susan , volunteered for the organization and died in 2004. Back in 2006, Buffett vowed to give more than 99 percent of his state to philanthropic causes. He used stock picks and acquisitions to build Berkshire from a failing textiles maker into a $419 billion company with holdings in energy, insurance, retail and manufacturing.

Tillerson sat a few feet away from Trump in the Rose Garden as the president put the blame squarely on Qatar. "The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level". A separate SPA report on Saturday acknowledged Tillerson's call for Qatar to curtail support for terrorism, but did not mention his remarks that the crisis was hurting ordinary Qataris, impairing business dealings and harming the US fight against the Islamic State militant group.

Joint chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill formed part of May's small inner circle and were blamed by many Conservatives for the party's lacklustre campaign and unpopular election platform, which alienated older voters with its plan to make them pay more for long-term care.

Trump: Well, I didn't say that. He further denied ever asking Comey for his "loyalty", contradicting Comey's detailed allegations in his sworn testimony. Comey also bluntly accused the Trump White House of lying, asserted that Trump asked him to back off an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and contended that Trump fired him in an effort to change the course of the Russian Federation investigation.

After being denied entry into the curfew hit area on safety grounds, the delegation comprising Sanjay Singh, Bhagwant Mann, Somnath Bharti, Ashutosh and the party's Madhya Pradesh unit convener Alok Aggarwal staged a dharna in the Dhodhar area of Ratlam district.

An online petition in objection to the Tories and DUP forming a minority government has gathered more than 300,000 signatures. "She wanted a mandate", he said, "well the mandate she has got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence".

O'Neill is demanding that his players be on the front foot from the first whistle. "We beat Austria in the away game and if we get another 1-0 win now, we will be in great shape to qualify for the World Cup", Aldo tells us. We will reassess tomorrow but there is a long way to go to the World Cup". That is not certain, although he is pretty much a sure thing to start while the manager referred to Cyrus Christie deputising for Seamus Coleman when pointing out that the visitors are not ...

Iraqi forces seized the eastern portion of Mosul in January, but the western portion half has proven to be a much more hard fight, and one that does not appear to be coming to an end any time soon. All three neighbourhoods are located north of the Old City, a warren of closely spaced buildings and narrow streets that has posed significant challenges to Iraqi forces seeking to oust IS.

Many are already speculating that the decision by the government of President Moon Jae-in would severely undermine America's plans to launch the system in the country. Officials said they had detained 41 suspects in the capital and the country's western Kurdish provinces in raids on suspected safe houses . During the funeral, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called the USA the " international " version of the Islamic State group and said Washington had exchanged democracy for money, a ...

Mr Comey also claimed he took memos of his meetings with the president as he was concerned Mr Trump may lie about what was discussed. During his testimony Thursday, Comey told lawmakers that Trump was not a target in the bureau's investigation into Russian Federation.

He further denied ever asking Comey for his "loyalty", contradicting Comey's detailed sworn testimony about a private dinner the two men had in the White House. Comey delivered a scathing indictment of his former boss, accusing him of trying to block an investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and saying the White House defamed him and the FBI in trying to explain his dismissal.

It was the first live-fire test against an ICBM-class target for the United States ballistic missile defense system. "The intercept of a complex, threat-representative ICBM target is an incredible accomplishment for the GMD system and a critical milestone for this programme", Syring said.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement Friday that he expects the nations now involved in a blockade against Qatar to deescalate the situation. "We are not ready to surrender, and will never be ready to surrender, the independence of our foreign policy", Thani said, according to Al Jazeera .

Afghanistan has suffered a string of violent attacks in recent weeks after the Taliban launched their spring offensive, including attacks in the capital city of Kabul that killed and wounded hundreds. Approximately 8,000 USA troops are deployed to Afghanistan as part of two separate operations. In April, two Army Rangers were killed in the same district during a three-hour firefight with ISIS in the eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

United States intelligence agencies concluded in January that Moscow tried to tilt the election campaign in Trump's favour, including by hacking into the emails of senior Democrats, a charge the Kremlin denies. President Trump will apparently not try to cite executive privilege in an attempt to block the Russian Federation investigation-related testimony of fired FBI director James Comey, according to two senior Trump administration officials who spoke with the New York Times .

In a statement at Downing Street, after returning from Buckingham Palace, where she received the Queen's permission to form a government , May shrugged off a growing backlash in the Conservative party, and said she would provide the "certainty" the country needed, reports the Guardian .

This is arguably the most moonwalking-ass administration ever in the history of president-ing, so I don't believe anything that the president says. The House intelligence committee sent a letter Friday asking White House counsel Don McGahn whether any tape recordings or memos of Comey's conversations with the president exist now or had existed in the past.

Trump's comments came after his top diplomat Rex Tillerson appealed to Saudi Arabia and its regional allies to ease their blockade of Qatar, saying it is hindering U.S. The designations are a direct response to the Government of Qatar's consistent refusal to take meaningful steps to disrupt the activities of terrorist support networks operating within its borders.

Timothy announced his resignation through Conservative Home, a centre-right political blog in the United Kingdom, saying: "I take responsibility for my part in this election campaign, which was the oversight of our policy programme. Writing in the Times, she said: "What I could never work out was whether Mrs May condoned their behaviour and turned a blind eye or didn't understand how destructive they both were".

In offering condolences to the people of Iran after the attacks, Trump warned that "states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote ". "They are too small to affect the will of the Iranian nation and its officials", he said. The forces serving in the Intelligence Ministry and other Iranian security and military organizations would very soon teach an unforgettable lesson to the "mercenary terrorists and their sponsors", Alawi said in a message on Wednesday, after ...

Six people are now in police custody after Metropolitan Police confirmed arresting a 27-year-old man in Ilford, East London on Friday night.The man, whose name has not been released, was detained on suspicion of preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act.

The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. While the main agenda of Brexit is to stop free flow of Europeans through the border into United Kingdom and to prevent Brussels from taking shots in London , this soft sightedness of Brexit would now put India in a fix.

Peter Robinson himself came in for severe criticism for saying he "wouldn't trust Muslims devoted to Sharia Law, but I would trust them to go to the shops for me", and for backing a pastor who labelled Islam " satanic ". May's Conservatives failed to secure an absolute majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday and need the DUP's 10 seats to be sure of being able to form a government.

The strike occurred in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province early on Saturday. "The Afghan army soldier was killed in return fire". A spokesman for the US military command in Kabul said they were aware of the report but could not yet confirm any details.

The loss left the Conservatives eight MPs short of a majority in parliament, plunging negotiations into uncertainty. No, Dunt said , but May's vision of a so-called " hard Brexit " - in which the United Kingdom would most likely leave the single European Union market, take full control over its borders, strike new trade deals and apply laws within its own borders - has been rejected.

Recruitment of terrorists and even financing of terrorist groups is a major issue which needs to be tackled, said Modi. Top leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries said Friday that political and diplomatic means are the "only choice" to settle regional conflicts.

Several MPs have said they were against several key points in the Conservatives' manifesto, the document that outlined the party's agenda. Mr Timothy acknowledged that one of his regrets was the way Mrs May's social care policy - dubbed the "dementia tax" - by critics had been handled.

All three men were shot dead by officers responding to the scene. Police searching for a Frenchman missing since Saturday's attack on London Bridge say they have recovered a body from the River Thames, potentially taking the death toll to eight.

Qatar, which has developed an assertive foreign policy over the past decade, denies that it supports militants and says it is helping to reduce the threat of terrorism by backing groups that fight poverty and seek political reform. Qatar, a major player in the global gas industry and host to the biggest US military base in the Middle East, has crafted an independently-minded foreign policy, attracting criticism for engaging with groups from Hezbollah to Hamas .

The defense spent much of its cross-examination Wednesday morning trying to sow doubt about Constand's account of the attack she claimed took place and her relationship with Cosby. Defense attorney Brian McMonagle said during opening statements that Constand had a romantic encounter with Cosby at his Foxwoods Resort Casino hotel room in CT before the alleged assault.

With 649 of 650 seats declared, the Conservatives had won 318 seats and Labour 261. A resurgent Labour party defied expectations, increasing the party's number of seats. Several of May's party colleagues also suggested May consider stepping down. "This is a very bad moment for the Conservative Party, and we need to take stock", Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry said.

With complex talks on Britain's divorce from the European Union due to start in 10 days, it was unclear what the direction of Brexit would be. During the Northern Irish peace process, they stood their ground against British prime ministers, Irish taoisigh (prime ministers) and USA presidents.