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Boeing splits CEO, chairman role to get back 737 MAX safely to service

Dennis Muilenburg, Chairman and CEO of Boeing, will step down as Chairman and continue as the CEO to focus full time on running the company

Acting US homeland security chief McAleenan has resigned: President Trump

"Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked well together with Border Crossings being way down," Trump said in a tweet

Former envoy testifies defying Trump, says he pushed for her ouster

Marie Yovanovitch, former US Ambassador, told House impeachment investigators that Trump himself had pressured the State Department to oust her from her post and get her out of the country

US troops in Syria came under fire from Turkish incursion: Pentagon

The explosion occurred within a few hundred metres of a location outside the security mechanism zone and in an area known by the Turks to have US forces present," Navy captain Brook DeWalt said

US to bolster military presence in Saudi Arabia; to send 3,000 more troops

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, the additional troop to Saudi Arabia is to enhance its defensive capabilities and to help restore deterrence against Iranian aggression

The new Museum of Modern Art ditches chronology for a mixture of ideas

This sounds fairly simple to achieve: Don't put galleries in a one-directional loop, yet it eluded architect Yoshio Taniguchi in the 2004 extension of MoMA

Peter Handke gets 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk for 2018

The Swedish Academy is at pains to repair its reputation after a devastating scandal that saw Frenchman Jean-Claude Arnault, who has close ties to the Academy, jailed for rape in 2018

China shelves NBA exhibition game after a tweet ignites tensions with US

The crisis erupted Friday when Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for protesters in the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city of Hong Kong who are demanding greater freedoms

UK says Brexit deal unlikely as both sides still unwilling to shift stance

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office gave a gloomy assessment after a call between Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday morning

Taliban free 3 Indians after 11 supporters are released from Afghan prisons

Two Taliban officials told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Sunday that the swap took place earlier in the day, but they did not disclose the location

'Multiple' whistle blowers set to emerge in Trump's Ukraine controversy

The lawyer, Andrew Bakaj, represents the anonymous intelligence official who accused Trump of using the powers of his office to pressure Ukraine's president to investigate political rival Joe Biden

Taliban meet US peace envoy for first time in Pakistan since 'dead' deal

US officials however have been keen to say there is no resumption of peace talks, at least not now in Islamabad

USFDA warning letter for Glenmark's Baddi unit, reason classified

The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) had inspected the facility between April 15 and April 20 and earlier classified the inspection as an official action indicated

N Korea, US resume nuclear talks after Pyongyang's latest missile test

North Korea's Kim Myong Gil and Stephen Biegun, the special envoy of US President Donald Trump, are part of the teams at the talks

Facebook to block offensive content globally if asked by EU courts

In a closely watched judgment, the European Court of Justice said EU law "does not preclude" courts from ordering "the removal of information or to block access worldwide," a statement said

Pompeo confirms he was on call that triggered Trump impeachment drive

"I was on the call," Pompeo told a news conference in Rome

Bengaluru's licence rules are shutting down many iconic live music venues

Two iconic venues will shut shop by next week. Another 100-odd are at risk

Why Sri Lanka is a perennially irresistible destination for the visitor

Rahul Jacob visits Sri Lanka once more. Why he can't get enough of the warmly welcoming country

Protesters in Hong Kong trample a Chinese flag, set street fires

Some put a Chinese flag on the floor and took turns running over it, before defacing it and putting it in a dumpster outside, which they then pushed into a nearby river

US may escalate trade war with China if no deal is agreed: Trump's advisor

The world's two largest economies have been locked in a bruising trade war since Trump in March last year imposed tariff hikes of up to 25 per cent on $250 billion of Chinese goods