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    A homemade bomb hidden in a trashcan has exploded in New York injuring at least 29 people. A second suspected bomb in a pressure cooker with wires attached to it and connected to what resembled a mobile phone was found blocks away. CCTV caught the moment the explosive device detonated blasting out windows, damaging cars and sending dozens of terrified people running for their lives just days after the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The blast occurred at 8.30pm on 23rd Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in the fashionable downtown neighborhood of Chelsea as people enjoyed the New York city nightlife. Eye-witnesses described the moment the device went off as NY city mayor Bill de Blasio said it was an "intentional act." At least 29 people have reportedly be...

    Donald Trump yesterday called for disarming the bodyguards who protect his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and mused about the consequences of such a move by saying Let's see what happens to her. The Republican presidential nominee was speaking at a rally in Miami, where he contrasted his supporters, who he said back police and want crime reduced, to Clinton, who he derided as someone who lives behind walls and raises money from hedge funds. I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. I think they should disarm immediately, what do you think, yes?, he said. Take their guns away, she doesn't want guns. Take them, let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay. It will be very dangerous. Both candidates have been protected by the Se...

    Democratic presidental nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives with an unidentified woman at the September 11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, on Sept. 11, 2016, in New York City. After three days resting at home, Hillary Clinton is set to return to the campaign trail for her first public appearance since her pneumonia diagnosis. Today, the Democratic presidential nominee -– who released additional medical information from her doctor Wednesday saying a recent physical “was normal and she is in excellent mental condition” –- will hold a campaign event in Greensboro, N.C. and then attend the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute dinner in Washington, D.C. Clinton’s return to the trail is sure to come with addition...

    Florida police have arrested a man who allegedly set fire to the mosque there and officials say the suspect had a number of anti-Islamic social media posts. The St. Lucie Sheriff's Office arrested 32-year-old Port St. Lucie resident Joseph Michael Schreiber Wednesday afternoon after multiple tips pointed to him, Maj. Dave Thompson said. According to police, just past midnight on Monday, emergency responders received a call reporting a fire at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, attended by Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen's family. The fire was immediately believed by authorities to have been set deliberately. That day, the St. Lucie Sheriff's Office released surveillance video showing a possible suspect. The video showed a man arriving at the Islamic Center of Fort Pi...

    According to the weekly, several Indian political leaders and major political parties have established close relationship with the Trump family as a result of its real estate investments in Pune and Gurgaon. Donald Trump’s overseas investments in real estate including in Pune and Gurgaon could have implications on the US foreign policy if the Republican presidential nominee wins the November general elections, a major US weekly said on September 14. In its cover story on Trump’s investments in properties overseas, the popular Newsweek said as the Republican National Convention was about to get underway in July, the Trump Organisation declared it was planning a massive expansion in India. That is a chilling example of the many looming conflicts of interest in a Trump presid...

    Ivanka Trump took aim at Hillary Clinton today in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America for, in her view, taking no action on paid family leave to help parents during her decades-long political career. Discussing her father's recently unveiled proposals on child care and maternity leave, Ivanka Trump called it a very comprehensive plan that's long overdue. Respectfully, Hillary Clinton has been around for decades and there's no policy benefiting either mothers or fathers in terms of paid leave, she said this morning. We have not been in public office for the last several decades and she has. So she could have instituted some of those policies in that role and has not done so. Donald Trump's eldest daughter stood by his side as he formally rolled out his child care and...

    Obama's campaign appearance was his first as a solo act on behalf of Clinton as he tries to ensure Democrats retain control of the White House once his eight years are over in January. With Hillary Clinton sidelined by pneumonia, President Barack Obama took up the Democrats fight against Donald Trump on Tuesday, trying to quash the Republican presidential candidate’s bid to appeal to working-class voters. Obama, whose 50 percent job approval rating could help improve the climate for the Democratic ticket in the Nov. 8 election, rallied party faithful against Trump, the 70-year-old New York real estate developer, at an outdoor event in Philadelphia. This is a guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern for working people. He spent most of his life trying to stay...

    In a statement, Clinton's doctor said the former secretary of state had become overheated and dehydrated at the 9 11 memorial in lower Manhattan. An ill Hillary Clinton abruptly left a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday and needed to be held up by three people before she appeared to stumble off a curb and was helped into a van. Several hours later, her campaign revealed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday and advised to rest. Less than two months from Election Day, it was an unwanted visual for Clinton as she tries to project the strength and vigor needed for one of the world’s most demanding jobs. Republican rival Donald Trump has spent months questioning Clinton’s health, saying she lacks the stamina to be president. In a statement, Clinton’s doctor said the fo...

    With headline-hunting brutality, Islamic State may have captured global attention but it’s al-Qaeda that’s quietly rebuilding its infrastructure, adding to its ranks from Afghanistan to Libya The day that would change the world was drawing inexorably closer. And as it did, explosives expert Muhammad Salah al-Din al-Zaidan sent furious messages from his home in Kabul’s Kart-i Parwan to Osama Bin Laden, calling the 9/11 plot a rash act that would endanger al-Qaeda’s infrastructure inside Afghanistan, and choke Islamist groups worldwide. The head of al-Qaeda’s shari’a committee, Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, joined this dissent. The US would level the Taliban’s Emirate, and the loss of the world’s one Islamic state would cripple jihadist movements everywhere, he argued. 9/11 proved ...

    The attacks that were claimed by the Islamic radical organisation Al-Qaeda would change the global order of things forever. It was just another regular working day in New York City, when an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre, soon followed by a United Airlines flight crashing into the south tower. The devastation was not just limited to New York. A third plane flew into a wing of the Pentagon, right outside Washington DC, while another crashed at a field in Pennsylvania. America was witnessing its most dreadful attack. The death of more than 3000 people had left the country scarred for years to come. September 11, 2001 was a defining moment, not just for America but for the world at large. The attacks that were claimed by th...