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The man who opened fire on Congress members as they practiced for a charity baseball game was an ardent supporter of liberal Senator Bernie Sanders - who said he was "sickened" by the "despicable act."

The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign is now examining whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, The Washington Post reported late on June 14.

Accusations of obstruction arose last month when Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

Two men have been detained over a brawl in Washington between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's security personnel and protesters, with charges planned against a dozen guards, police and a media report said June 14.

A gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington early on June 14, wounding several people including House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise before being taken into custody, police and media reports said.
   

University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier has been medically evacuated from North Korea in a coma after being detained for 17 months, his parents confrmed on Tuesday.

Mr Warmbier, 22, is due to arrive home in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening, after a stop at a US military facility near Sapporo, Japan.

He is known as the Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike, nicknames he earned as the Central Intelligence Agency officer who oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the American drone strike campaign that killed thousands of Islamist militants and hundreds of civilians.

Many of the world's most powerful people are gathering for the annual meeting of the mysterious Bilderberg Group this week. Russia, the Trump administration and 'The war on information' are among key topics up for discussion.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic theorist who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia. He was 89.

A report from Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) recently suggested that the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) earned half-a-billion U.S. dollars from its 312 education institutions across the U.S., describing the country as the main center of activities of the group.

There are many mysteries in our world. Some eventually get solved, but many continue to stump experts and amateurs alike.

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