[ad_1] The lira weakened by three percent against the dollar this morning after the week-long Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. It weakened as far as 6.19 at the close of the business on Friday and this morning it stood at 6.135. An analyst at brokerage Integral Seda Yalcinkaya Ozer said: “The exchange rate sensitivity created…
[ad_1] Born in 1908, in Cootamundra, Australia, Sir Donald George Bradman was an international cricketer. Often referred to as “The Don” he is acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all times. With a Test batting average of 99.94 he had one of Cricket’s most iconic statistic. It is especially impressive as no other player who…
[ad_1] Mr Robertson, who’s username is Spotmeplzzz, had won 13 out of his last 18 matches in Madden NFL tournaments. The 27-year-old from West Virginia was a father and husband and his EA Sports player profile describes him as “one of the toughest opponents in competitive Madden”. Mr Clayton, 21 from California, has been described…
[ad_1] Investigators working for the UN’s top human rights body said Monday that top Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims. The call, accompanying a first report by the investigators, amounts to some of the strongest language yet from UN officials who have denounced alleged human rights violations in Myanmar since a…
[ad_1] Police searched on Monday for a motive in the third mass shooting in Florida in two years, which left two people dead and 11 wounded in Jacksonville, before the gunman killed himself at a video game tournament. Witnesses told local media that the gunman, identified by police as David Katz, 24, of Baltimore, was…
[ad_1] Mr Johnson delivered the powerful anti-Brussels broadside in his weekly newspaper column in The Telegraph. He argued that accepting the Chequers proposals, the Prime Ministers suggested Brexit deal, would be a “historic mistake and turn this country into a rule-taker from Brussels, but with no say on those rules.” He added: “Look at the…
[ad_1] A litany of sex crimes committed by Catholic clerics has cast a shadow over the first papal visit to the island since 1979. Speaking at a shrine in Knock, Co Mayo, he said: “None of us can fail to be moved by the stories of young people who suffered abuse, were robbed of their…
[ad_1] He told ABC News that they have insufficient evidence to start the impeachment process at this time. He said: “We don’t want to be as reckless with the facts as he is. “I think having thorough investigations, putting forth an impenetrable case, doing it in a bipartisan way is the proper way to do…
[ad_1] She added that she and other women who have accused the Hollywood producer have paid a heavy price for being seen as part of his “harem”. She defended actress Asia Argento, 42, who claims Weinstein raped her when she was 21, saying she was being “hurled under a bus”. Last week it emerged Argento…
[ad_1] The policy was put forward by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, secretary-general of Merkel’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She suggested: “One year of service for men and women. “The service would not only apply to German citizens but to refugees and asylum seekers of legal age who are living in Germany.” However when asked Merkel told…
[ad_1] The official newspaper of the ruling party in North Korea, Rodong Sinmun, said that US was staging military drills that were trying to achieve “infiltration into Pyongyang.” It made these claims after reports from an unnamed South Korean media outlet. The paper said: “The US is busy staging secret drills involving man-killing special units…
[ad_1] The claims were made by retired Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, formerly the Vatican’s ambassador to the US, via an 11-page testimony. He claims that following abuse allegations in the late 2000s Pope Benedict XVI: “Imposed on Cardinal McCarrmick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis.” These allegedly included not being…
[ad_1] A total of one third of his presidency – or 193 days – has been spent on Trump property, rather than in the White House. The figures come from NBC News who have been monitoring his visits since the start of his term in 2017. The Washington Post has also reported the president has…
[ad_1] Francis was speaking to reporters aboard the papal plane as he made the journey from Dublin back to the Vatican. He said he would “not say one word” on the 11-page document, in which a former Vatican official, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, says Francis should resign. The pontiff said journalists should read the document…
[ad_1] Speaking to reporters at a press conference, the Jacksonville Sheriff confirmed the white male suspect died at the scene. Three people have been killed in the incident, including the shooter. The home of Katz in Baltimore, Maryland, is currently being searched as part of the investigation. More to follow…. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] A mass shooting at a video game tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday has resulted in multiple fatalities, according to the local sheriff’s office. Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said one white male suspect was dead at the scene. He declined to clarify how many people were…
[ad_1] Genoa soccer fans remained silent on Sunday for an entire 43 minutes of their club’s Serie A opener — one minute for each of the 43 victims of the Morandi Bridge collapse earlier this month. In the 43rd minute, spectators began applauding respectfully as the names of those who died in the tragedy 12 days earlier were listed on a…
[ad_1] Mount Etna in Sicily was spitting out lava and columns of ash on Saturday after the volcano initially reawoke in late July. The highest volcano in Italy and largest in Europe produced a breathtaking show with its latest eruption on Thursday 23 August. The stunning phenomenon was confined to the summit of the volcano’s…
[ad_1] Russia said the RAF intercepted its aircraft over the Black Sea and scrambled to intercept two suspected Russian fighter aircraft on Wednesday. The Russian embassy said in a statement: “What kind of threat to Britain or even its allies does a Russian patrol aircraft hypothetically pose while conducting flights near Russia’s own coastline, more…
[ad_1] Eight people, including six children, were killed when a fire broke out before dawn Sunday at a Chicago apartment in one of the city’s deadliest in years, officials say. Two other people were hospitalized in very critical condition, Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Merritt said. Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago told reporters that one of the…
[ad_1] The shocking video shows gameplay from a Madden 19 tournament with inset footage of the two gamers going head-to-head. A few seconds into the video the sound of shooting begins. At least 11 shots are fired. The inset image of the gamers, who have not been identified, disappears from screen before a notice appears…
[ad_1] Former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are expected to speak at U.S. Sen. John McCain’s funeral service and he will lie in state in both the nation’s capital and Arizona, according to plans taking shape Sunday. A day after McCain died of brain cancer at 81, his family, friends, and congressional and state leaders were working…
[ad_1] Gibraltar is the only British outpost on the European mainland (Image: GETTY) Gibraltar is the only British outpost on the European mainland and voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU referendum. But there are growing fears that if the UK crashes out of the EU without a deal, then Gibraltar may be unable to…
[ad_1] Witnesses report several people wounded at a restaurant hosting a Madden Video Game Tournament. Local media are reporting several fatalities. Vic Micolucci of WJXT said on Twitter: “My sources: 4 dead at Jacksonville Landing. 10 victims. Madden Tournament. All hands on deck. Patients to multiple hospitals.” It is also believed the gunman is still…
[ad_1] Negotiations between the U.S President and the North Korean leader, however, have since stalled as the two sides struggle to narrow differences over the North’s nuclear weapons programme. The Trump administration have blamed China for the lack of progress with North Korea and suggested talks could be put on hold until Washington resolves its…
[ad_1] WARNING: This column contains disturbing details Imagine for a moment that a big, admired multinational corporation, one selling a beloved product, was employing large numbers of male pedophiles and rapists, operating in rings all over the world, and that their crimes had been uncovered in Australia, Ireland, Canada, the Philippines, Belgium, France, Austria, New Zealand,…
[ad_1] Pope Francis issued a sweeping apology Sunday for the “crimes” of the Catholic Church in Ireland, saying church officials regularly didn’t respond with compassion to the many abuses children and women suffered over the years. Francis was interrupted by applause as he read the apology out loud at the start of Mass in Dublin’s…
[ad_1] The playwright behind such comedic hits such as The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues and Plaza Suite has died. Neil Simon was 91. According to Bill Evans, Simon’s longtime friend and spokesperson for the Shubert Organization, which produces theatrical productions and manages many theatres, the playwright died early Sunday in a Manhattan hospital of complications from pneumonia.…
[ad_1] A former top Vatican official has accused Pope Francis of having known of allegations of sex abuse by a prominent U.S. cardinal for years and called on him to resign, in an unprecedented broadside against the pope by a church insider. In a detailed 11-page bombshell statement given to conservative Roman Catholic media outlets…
[ad_1] President Trump called off his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday, citing a lack of progress. In response, North Korea’s main government newspaper has alleged that the US has been carrying out top-secret military drills geared towards an invasion. Rodong Sinmun, the official paper of the Workers’…
[ad_1] The Italian Interior Minister thanked the Albanian Government as the non-European Union country agreed to accept 20 of the 190 migrants who docked in Catania, Sicily, last week. Speaking at a League party reception in the Italian northern town of Pinzolo, Mr Salvini argued the Albanian Government demonstrated to be “better” than the French…
[ad_1] Tropical Storm Lane is continuing to track west and was around 225 miles southwest of Honolulu at 8.55pm HST. Lane is expected to keep weakening as it travels along this track, but there will still be heavy rainfall throughout the rest of the weekend. The wet weather is likely to last until Tuesday, as…
[ad_1] Hawaii’s Hurricane Lane was downgraded to a tropical storm south of Oahu on Friday but 70mph winds are still being recorded. Flash floods reached “catastrophic” levels on Big Island, the National Weather Service said, as deserted roads were turned into eerie rivers. NWS Honolulu tweeted: “Preliminary rain totals on Big Island show 4 stations…
[ad_1] In a family familiar with scandal and episodes to rival any good soap opera, the Thomas Markle saga stands apart. Sure, there has been tabloid tawdriness swirling around the Royal Family every now and then for decades. But the negative attention focused on the father of Prince Harry’s new wife Meghan has little precedent among…
[ad_1] Ten days after they were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, Italy has allowed all the migrants stuck on an Italian coast guard ship to disembark. Early Sunday, 137 migrants left the Diciotti, stepping onto the dock at Catania, Sicily, where police photographed them for ID checks, a requirement for asylum-seekers. Italy’s populist government had…
[ad_1] Speaking from Pinzolo, Trento, the die-hard eurosceptic leader sent a stern warning to Brussels claiming Italy should start making cuts to annual funds sent to the European Union. Mr Salvini criticised the Brussels bloc for its lack of support over the latest migrant rescue boat docking in the Sicilian port of Catania last week. …
[ad_1] Thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in Italy on Saturday as 190 migrants were refused to disembark in the port of Catania, Sicily. The migrants were rescued from an overcrowded boat off the coast of Lampedusa last week. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to give an authorisation for most of the migrant…
[ad_1] Papua New Guinea has deployed armed forces to help emergency evacuations, after the Maman Island volcano erupted on Saturday. The massive eruption sent a plume of ash nine miles into the sky, blocking out the sun for several hours and triggering panic among villagers. Around 2,000 villagers from three seperate villages have fled so…
[ad_1] Police said the bus was taking tourists on a weekend trip to a resort when the bus overturned at 5.10pm local time yesterday. The bus was reported to have collided with three oncoming cars before veering off the road, the Sofia Globe reported. The major of Bozhurishte, a town that is around a 30-minute…
[ad_1] The rematch could take place in New York City in February after the pair touched gloves at the Manchester Arena on Saturday night. A venue is yet to be confirmed, although it has been reported either fighter can pull out of the US planned bout if they choose. Watford’s own KSI, 25, and US…
[ad_1] According to the hit list, a welder from Hull and an enemy of the Third Reich known only as “Kenny” would have been lined up for the firing squad. The Fuhrer’s notorious book had 2,820 names. Some were leading British public figures but new research has revealed many were ordinary people, included for ludicrous…
[ad_1] The ruling African National Congress (ANC) party wants to make changes to the constitution providing a legal basis for the planned land grabs. Its proposed amendments to Section 25 of the constitution would clear the way for white farmers’ land to be sized without compensation. The issue of land ownership is a hugely controversial…
[ad_1] The UK’s “altruistic” system means surrogates cannot advertise and may receive only “reasonable expenses”. Experts say this should cost no more than £12,000. In Ukraine and Georgia surrogacy costs between £30,000 and £50,000 through official clinics. In Canada it varies from £70,000 to £80,000. It can be cheaper in unregulated countries such as Kenya,…
[ad_1] Last night chemical warfare expert Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said the decision to mount the exercise was “recognition that the 100-year taboo on states using chemical weapons, broken in Syria and followed on in Salisbury, is now truly and finally broken.” Nato has been taking more precautions against the possibility of chemical attack in…
[ad_1] The legendary Senator was famous for being a Vietnam war veteran, a Presidential candidate in 2008 and an outspoken critic of Donald Trump. His death at 4.28pm on August 25 came after a fight with brain cancer for more than a year. Just days before his death it was announced he had decided to…
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama were among the first ones to react to the US veteran’s passing. Trump offered Senator McCain’s family his blessing on Twitter writing: “My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain.” The office of Barack and Michelle Obama released a…
[ad_1] Canadian politicians are expressing their sympathies to the family of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has died of brain cancer at the age of 81. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter that McCain was an American patriot and hero whose sacrifices for his country, and lifetime of public service, were an inspiration to…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump, followed by former US President Barack Obama, have shared their tributes and condolences for the Senator’s death. Donald Trump offered Senator McCain’s family his blessing to the politician’s family on Twitter. The President wrote: “My deepest sympathies and respect go out to the family of Senator John McCain. “Our hearts and…
[ad_1] My father, United States Senator John Sidney McCain III, departed this life today. On Friday his family said in an announcement that Mr McCain had decided to stop treatment for the brain cancer he had been battling for over a year. A statement from the Senator’s office reads: “Senator John Sidney McCain III died…
[ad_1] John McCain, the U.S. senator whose determination lifted him from the torture suffered as a Vietnam prisoner of war to the heights of Capitol Hill and the brink of the White House, has died at age 81. McCain had been diagnosed with a brain tumour in July 2017 after surgery to remove a blood…
[ad_1] A U.S. federal judge dealt a blow Saturday to President Donald Trump’s efforts to “promote more efficient” government, ruling that key provisions of three recent executive orders “undermine federal employees’ right to bargain collectively” under federal law. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Trump had “exceeded his authority” in issuing the orders. The…
[ad_1] Bulgarian authorities say a tourist bus has flipped over on a highway near Sofia, the capital, killing at least 16 people and leaving 26 others injured. Police said a bus carrying tourists on a weekend trip to a nearby resort overturned and then fell down a side road 20 metres below the highway. The accident…
[ad_1] USGS reports the epicentre is 31 km (19 miles) west of the city of Javanrud. The event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist. Reports confirm the shake was also felt in Kurdistan. A magnitude 6 quake is categorised as a “strong” earthquake. According to the Richter scale, the effects may include damage…
[ad_1] On July 31, On July 31, President Cyril Ramaphosa, who had only been elected into office in February, confirmed his African National Congress (ANC) party would pass an amendment to the country’s constitution. Mr Ramaphosa claimed the new amendment was designed to “outline more clearly the conditions under which expropriation of land without compensation…
[ad_1] Pope Francis faced a lukewarm reception and scattered protests Saturday on his trip to Ireland, with even his vow to rid the church of the “scourge” of sexual abuse and his outrage at those “repugnant crimes” dismissed as an insult by Ireland’s wounded victims. But others who met with him in private left heartened…
[ad_1] Leo Varadkar used his speech to discuss the relationship between church and state, abuse perpetrators, as well as same-sex families. The Pope travelled to Ireland on Saturday for a two-day trip, which will see him speak to thousands of people at mass on Sunday. In his Dublin Castle speech, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said:…
[ad_1] Italian deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio pledged to hold back money from the EU if other countries refuse to take in migrants from the coastguard ship docked in Sicily. The Diciotti is stranded off the Italian coast with more than 150 people on board, some of whom are said to have gone on…
[ad_1] This evening’s earthquake has registered 5.7 magnitude, striking at a depth of 28 miles. According to the Paris based European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), it is the third earthquake felt in the Lombok region in the last 49 hours. They also said the estimated population in the felt area is around 5.2 million. Witnesses…
[ad_1] Vladimir Gutenev, first deputy head of the economic policy committee of the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, said it is time for Russia to draw its own red lines. Among such measures, the official said the deployment of Russian tactical nukes in countries such as Syria, the use of gold-linked…
[ad_1] Congo’s health ministry says two of the first 10 people to receive an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus in the latest outbreak have recovered, and monitoring could show what role the treatment played. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday congratulated Congo’s government for making several experimental treatments available in…
[ad_1] Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has criticised the “hypocrisy” at the centre of the European Union after crisis talks between the two sides failed. Senior officials from 12 member states met yesterday in Brussels to try and thrash out a deal over the migrant boat Diciotti, which the Italian government refuses to accept. However, the emergency…
[ad_1] Concerns mounted Saturday about the medical and psychological health of 150 migrants who were spending their 10th day stuck aboard an Italian coast guard ship while the government insists that other European Union nations must take them. After an onboard visit to the Diciotti coast guard ship, which is docked in Catania, Sicily, 16…
[ad_1] Lane has submerged parts of Big Island and Hawaii with record-breaking levels of rainfall. Accuweather said 44.88 inches fell at Waiakea Uka on Big Island, beating the previous total of 38.76 inches dumped by Paul in November 2000. In Piihonua, 42.69 inches of rain fell while in Saddle Quarry it was 38.77 inches. Earlier,…
[ad_1] To be fair, fall classes hadn’t yet begun at St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth, home to Ireland’s national seminary — the very last Catholic seminary on the Emerald Isle. And it didn’t help that the grey slate walls of the college about an hour outside of Dublin were matched by the grey skies above that would crack open…
[ad_1] China’s Commerce Ministry confirmed the good news today after talks with British trade minister Liam Fox. It has been heavily supported by Eurosceptic MPs that Britain will benefit from securing trade deals in a post-Brexit world. Britain has pushed a strong message to Chinese companies that it will be open for business after leaving…
[ad_1] Russian Vera Petrova, 63, was admitted to a cancer ward in Krasnoyarsk and treated for two months for cancer during which she “feared she was dying”. Only then did the hospital finally realise their blunder after Vera was given a CT scan in which the pincers were clearly visible inside her body. A criminal…
[ad_1] Mr Navalny’s spokesowman Kira Warmish tweeted: “Navalny was detained two hours ago outside his home. He is now in the (Moscow) Danilovsky police station. “They did not say why he is being detained. They took his phone away.” She then tweeted that police are refusing to grant Navalny access to a lawyer. In a…
[ad_1] A fire tore through a hot springs hotel in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin before dawn on Saturday, killing 19 people and causing 23 others to be taken to hospital, city officials said. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze at the four-storey Bailong Hot Springs Leisure Hotel, an inexpensive spa resort…
[ad_1] It’s been tough for Sara Cress since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Houston, Texas, last August. The 41-year-old writer, whose home flooded during the deluge, left her job from the stress of the Category 4 hurricane and her mental health has suffered. “I don’t feel as happy as I used to … I don’t…
[ad_1] President Nicolas Maduro brought in the Petro as Venezuela’s second unit of currency this week in a bid to curb crippling hyperinflation and skirt US sanctions. But the cryptocurrency is nothing more than a “smoke and mirrors” scheme by the debt-ridden government and its introduction has already failed in its main aims, Lianna Brinded…
[ad_1] A powerful hurricane that threatened Hawaii for a week rapidly disintegrated to become a tropical storm south of Honolulu. But meteorologists warned heavy rains could still wallop the islands with flash flooding and punishing winds. Lane dumped nearly one metre of rain on parts of the Big Island of Hawaii over the past two…
[ad_1] The papal plane from Rome landed in Dublin around 10.30am on Saturday for the whirlwind trip ahead of Sunday’s mass in Phoenix Park, which is due to attract 500,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to welcome Francis during his whistle-stop tour of the capital city and Co Mayo over the weekend.…
[ad_1] Severe flooding is occuring across parts of the Hawaiian Islands due as Lane currently moves slowly towards the northwest. The tropical storm will keep heading in this direction through Saturday morning, but is expected to then turn west on Saturday afternoon and pick up more speed. Lane will keep moving west on Sunday after…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane has been barrelling across the Pacific Ocean packing strong winds and heading towards Hawaii. The powerful storm system, which is located about 170 miles (274km) south of Honolulu and 140 miles (225km) south-west of Kailua-Kona, has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. But a shocking video has shown how much devastation…
[ad_1] A poll in July showed that eurosceptic parties could expand their power in the EU Parliament by over 60 per cent next year, sparking fears populism could spread across the bloc. “The upcoming European elections are probably the most important yet,” Mr Moscovici told France Info radio. “The question we must ask ourselves is,…
[ad_1] Daria Kozlova, a Russia 24 correspondent, collapsed on live TV while she was interviewing Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. In the video, the reporter’s eyes appear to glaze over at first. She is seen to be losing her balance as Mr Manturov helps her steady her. The Russian Minister then steps…
[ad_1] A geological fault is being blamed for the sinkholes in the 25 hectare lake which left fish stranded in the mud. Local residents tried to help crocodiles, lizards and turtles which were spotted trying to escape the lake. But they were forced to leave the protected area by police over fears that it is…
[ad_1] Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Mr Becchi claimed the eurozone is on the verge of collapsing and that Italy would only benefit from leaving the shared currency. The Italian philosophy of law professor at the University of Genoa argued the European Union economic project will fail as soon as President of the European Central Bank Mario…
[ad_1] The weather phenomenon has caused chaos, with residents forced to evacuate as the storm wreaks their communities. Home insurance for most US states includes cover for any hurricane damage, however, because of the frequency of hurricanes that hit Hawaii, insurance policies for the island often fail to cover storm protection. Lynne McChristian, a consultant…
[ad_1] Kristin Nicole, from Chicago, and her significant other have locked themselves into their hotel room, hoping for the storm to pass, but have described their anxiety and concern if they are unable to get food and water. Ms Nicole told ABC7: “I’m keeping calm. “We are prepared as we can be. “We’re on the…
[ad_1] The Republican politician served in the Vietnam war and survived a prisoner of war camp during the conflict. Mr McCain, 81, who represented Arizona in the Senate and House of Representatives for 35 years, has said the cancer was discovered in July 2017. The McCain family said the disease’s progression and Mr McCain’s age…
[ad_1] On Friday, Mr Trump partly blamed China for his insufficient progress with North Korea and suggested that talks with Pyongyang, led so far by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, could be on hold until after Washington resolved its bitter trade dispute with Beijing. Mr Trump’s tone has changed since he hailed the June 12…
[ad_1] Meanwhile, Dr Bleddynn Bowen, a lecturer in international relations at the University of Leicester, has said Britain should avoid copying US President Donald Trump, who earlier this year unveiled plans for a dedicated Space Force for the United States. In an article entitled The RAF and Space Doctrine: A Second Century and a Second…
[ad_1] Mrs Merkel predicts the elections will be between pro-European and Eurosceptic ideologies, warning European integration is at stake. She said during a discussion with students in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi that integration was no longer a given and that there are “very dangerous” tendencies of parties leaning towards isolation. Mrs Merkel told students how the…
[ad_1] State health officials are telling residents to avoid floodwaters amid fears of infections from bacterial, chemical, animal and human waste carried through the water. Director of the State Department of Health Bruce Anderson said: “Health risks include leptospirosis, a bacteria shared by animals, that sits in the mud and then gets washed into the…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he has directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to delay a planned trip to North Korea, citing insufficient progress on denuclearization. Trump put some blame on Beijing, saying on Twitter he does not believe China is helping “because of our much tougher Trading stance.” The surprise announcement appeared…
[ad_1] Although the president was making the case for land-reform, many commentators are insistent that this is a land grab which may further inflame racial tensions. White farmers in South Africa have said they have been targeted in ‘horrific’ attacks this year, which were ignored by police and encouraged by the government. In an article…
[ad_1] Both airlines reinstated the route in the wake of the Obama-era nuclear deal, which lifted economic sanctions on Tehran in return for curbs on its nuclear programme. Air France will halt flights from Paris to Tehran from September 18 because of “the line’s weak performance,” a spokesman for the airline said. “As the number…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe’s constitutional court confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed July 30 election victory on Friday, dismissing an opposition challenge that had held up his inauguration, which will now be held on Sunday. Before the vote, Mnangagwa had said a credible election could pull Zimbabwe out of its diplomatic isolation under former president Robert Mugabe, ending international sanctions and prompting an economic recovery.…
[ad_1] Many of the 150 migrants stranded aboard a coast guard ship for a ninth day began a hunger strike Friday out of frustration that Italy won’t let them disembark in Sicily unless fellow European Union nations first pledge to take them, authorities said, in the latest standoff provoked by Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister. “They…
[ad_1] Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer in an investigation involving U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The CFO, Allen Weisselberg, was called to testify before a federal grand jury earlier this year, the newspaper reported. A co-operation deal…
[ad_1] Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at what’s happening around some of the day’s most notable stories. Sign up here and it will be delivered directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gave the clearest indication yet that the Trump administration intends to follow through on…
[ad_1] Former U.S president Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cicely Tyson will be among the speakers at Aretha Franklin’s funeral next week. Franklin’s rep, Gwendolyn Quinn, says other speakers will include former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, music mogul Clive Davis, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Bishop…
[ad_1] Thomas Frieden, a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was arrested in New York City on Friday on allegations of sexual abuse and harassment of a woman last year, the New York Police Department said. Frieden, who also once served as New York City’s health commissioner, turned himself…
[ad_1] Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, his family said in a statement on Friday, a year after the Vietnam War hero announced his prognosis. “John has surpassed expectations for his survival,” the family said, adding that the disease’s progression and McCain’s age, 81, had led him to…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane has already triggered landslides and flooding on the Hawaii Islands, unleashing a barrage of rain on Maui County and the Big Island. Authorities have warned residents to seek shelter before it is too late and to store two weeks worth of food and water. But some worry even the shelters may not be…
[ad_1] An all-star lineup that includes Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill, Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Shirley Caesar and many more will perform at Aretha Franklin’s funeral next week. The Queen of Soul’s service will be held in Detroit on Aug. 31. Also slated to perform are Ron Isley, Chaka Khan, Yolanda Adams, Jennifer Holliday and Aretha Franklin’s…
[ad_1] Spain’s government passed a decree on Friday to smooth the way for the relocation of the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco with the aim of turning his mausoleum into a memorial for the victims of the Spanish Civil War. Critics call the Valley of the Fallen site, marked by a 152-metre-high cross on a mountainside near Madrid, the only…
[ad_1] Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland, has promised to take legal action over the way the government handled sexual harassment allegations against him. Salmond described the allegations dating backing to 2013 over his conduct toward two staff members as “patently ridiculous.” The Daily Record newspaper reported the case has been handed to police.…
[ad_1] Russian scientists have found the carcass of an ancient foal perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. The fossil discovered in the region of Yakutia has its skin, hair, hooves and tail preserved. Yakutia is also famous having wooly mammoth fossils found in the permafrost. Scientists from Russia’s Northeast Federal University who presented the discovery…
[ad_1] A complaint filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday alleges many parents were coerced into signing paperwork they didn’t understand, and that they were verbally and emotionally abused while detained and away from their children. In some of the cases, parents gave away rights to be reunited with their children when…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump is escalating his feud with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling on him to investigate a litany of grievances he has long held against those investigating his administration and Democrats. Trump tweeted Friday that he wants Sessions to “look into all of the corruption on the ‘other side.’” “Department of Justice…
[ad_1] In the largest Druze village in Israel, the multi-coloured flag representing the Druze people flies proudly next to the Israeli Star of David, symbolizing a decades-old bond between the two groups. But Israel’s relationship with the small, Arabic-speaking minority has frayed since Israel’s government passed a controversial law last month that the Druze say…
[ad_1] Donald Trump now owns up to knowing about multiple large-sum payouts in 2016 that went toward silencing two women who say they had extra-marital affairs with him. The political fallout could be significant. But perhaps more concerning to the U.S. president is his risk of breaking campaign finance laws if a charging document filed in…
[ad_1] The massive quake struck 248km north-west of Puerto Maldonado, a city in south-eastern Peru, at 4:04am local time (10am BST). Its epicentre was at a depth of 610km (379 miles), according to the USGS, with the city of Pucallpa hit by two violent shakes. The quake was also felt in northern Chile and the Colombian city of Medellin,…
[ad_1] Outdoor sirens sounded at 4 pm and rang for three minutes, while emergency alerts were also sent to residents mobile phones. The dangerous Category 3 hurricane is moving north towards the main Hawaiian islands, bringing with it life-threatening flash floods and landslides. The storm hit the Big Island as a Category 4 storm, and…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane, currently a Category 3 storm, has sparked major flooding and landslides across Hawaii, with the Big Island worst affected. The storm is spinning in the Pacific Ocean about 170 miles (280 km) southwest of Kailua-Kona, according to the National Weather Service. Roads and schools across Hawaii have been closed by local authorities,…
[ad_1] Severe weather is already hitting the island, with conditions to worsen when the peak of the storm hits early tomorrow. Hurricane Lane yesterday ravaged the Big Island, and is now making its way north towards Maui and Oahu. Whipping up hurricane speeds as it advances, Lane is set to impact Oahu on Saturday. Emergency…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane has been feeding large amounts of moisture into a thunderous weather front heading straight for the Hawaii Islands. Latest graphics have shown the massive thunderstorm blooming behind the category 3 hurricane threatening Honolulu and Maui with a direct hit. Hawaii News Now forecaster Guy Hagi said: “The bad news is that in…
[ad_1] Turkey’s lira meltdown is causing an economic crisis in other corners across the world, including London, where thousands of Turkish business people rely on the crippled currency for importing products into Britain. The crisis, sparked by a diplomatic row with Donald Trump, has forced many to renegotiate import contracts with Turkish exporters, with many…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane unleashed torrents of rain and landslides that blocked roads on Hawaii’s mostly rural Big Island on Thursday as residents and tourists in the state’s biggest city braced for the dangerous storm to come their way. Emergency workers rescued five people from a flooded house in Hilo after a nearby gulch overflowed, said…
[ad_1] The Honolulu Department of Emergency Management gave the warnings in a tweet today. Governor David Ige declared a state of emergency yesterday as conditions continued to worsen. He tweeted: “If you haven’t done so, I urge you to prepare and plan now”. The Maui County Emergency Management Agency stated “sirens will only sound in…
[ad_1] The category three storm is currently sweeping towards Hawaii and it is expected to move very close to or over the main islands today until Saturday. The heavy downpours and rising sea levels have submerged roads as officials warn the conditions will lead to “significant and life-threatening flash flooding and landslides”. As a result,…
[ad_1] Ahmed Abdelaziz Alzahrani, 24, and Abdulmajeed Abdelaziz Alzahrani, 19, are thought to be in custody in Dhahban prison. Their brother, Omar Abdulaziz, is a Saudi dissident who now lives in Canada after being granted political asylum. He has been outspoken about the political situation in Saudi Arabia, writing online commentary in Canada. Mr Abdulaziz…
[ad_1] The US has installed advanced anti-missile systems across Europe as part of its NATO commitments; the organisation contends it is acting within its international commitments. The Western military alliance’s Cold War-era stalemate with Russia has reignited as world leaders jostle for prime position on the world stage. Following talks with Finish President Sauli Niinisto,…
[ad_1] The latest bulletin from the NOAA says that “at 500 PM HST (0300 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Lane was located by radar and satellite imagery near latitude 17.8 North, longitude 157.9 West.” The storm is south of the main Hawaiian islands and moving towards the northwest. The storm is currently 180 miles (290km) south…
[ad_1] BREAKING: Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull faces second NO CONFIDENCE vote in a week AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced his resignation, and been replaced by Scott Morrison MP. Mr Turnbull resigned and called an immediate leadership election for the Liberal Party. Julie Bishop MP was first eliminated from the ballot, after receiving the…
[ad_1] Australia appears set to get its sixth change of prime minister in 11 years, in a ballot of government lawmakers which would continue an era of extraordinary political instability. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is among the favourites and would be Australia’s second female prime minister. Other favourites include Treasurer Scott Morrison and the only declared…
[ad_1] Governor David Ige declared the counties of “Hawai’i, Maui, Kalawao, Kuaa’i and the City and County of Honolulu disaster areas for the purpose of implementing emergency management functions.” Honolulu has just been placed under an alert as warning systems will sound at 3am BST (4pm HST). The Mayor of Honolulu, Kirk Caldwell, told people…
[ad_1] The latest bulletin from the NOAA says that Lane “has weakened slightly with max sustained winds of 125mph, making it a category 3.” The storm is south of the main Hawaiian islands and moving towards the northwest. The storm is currently 190 miles (305km) south of Kailua-Kona and 260 miles (420km) south of Honolulu. Maximum sustained…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane is threatening a potentially deadly direct hit on Hawaii in the regions worst storm in a quarter century. The barreling storm churned toward the main island of Oahu on Thursday as schools, government offices and business closed while residents stocked up on supplies and boarded up homes. Hurricane Lane, classified as a powerful…
[ad_1] Alarmed by as much as $20 million US in lost tourism revenue in July due to visitors’ fear of wildfires, California’s state tourism agency says it is teaming up with Oregon and Washington state to reassure tourists it’s safe to visit. The states formed the West Coast Tourism Recovery Coalition to remind tourists that…
[ad_1] The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush-money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement told The Associated Press. The detail came as several media outlets reported Thursday that federal prosecutors had…
[ad_1] The U.S. Education Department said Thursday that it is weighing whether to allow states to use federal funds to purchase guns for schools, prompting a storm of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and educators. If approved, the plan would likely generate heaps of controversy at a time when a string of especially deadly school shootings earlier…
[ad_1] German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives faced accusations on Thursday of ignoring the rise of far-right groups in the eastern German state of Saxony after an incident there involving an off-duty police employee at an anti-Islam rally. Saxony’s interior ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the police employee had attended a march by anti-Islam group PEGIDA (Patriotic…
[ad_1] The Ugandan government has filed a charge of treason against a pop star-turned-lawmaker who has emerged as a major critic of the long-serving president and whose jailing drew outrage from top musicians around the world. Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, was visibly weak and struggled to walk into court from what his…
[ad_1] In a tweet containing inaccurate comments, U.S. President Donald Trump said late Wednesday night he had instructed his secretary of state to “closely study” alleged land seizures from white farmers in South Africa. I have asked Secretary of State <a href=”https://twitter.com/SecPompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@SecPompeo</a> to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the…
[ad_1] Video of a young black girl walking dejectedly out of a New Orleans area Catholic school in tears after being told her hair extensions violated school policy prompted thousands of social media comments Tuesday— many expressing puzzlement or outrage. Some accused Christ the King Middle School of racism, including social activist Shaun King on…
[ad_1] The city’s elite team of five are each paid up to $185k in pay and benefits to pick up human faeces after a shocking 16,000 complaints were made in just one week in July. The SF Chronicle revealed the team and their supervisor are paid mega money to wear protective gear and pick up…
[ad_1] U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife Margaret pleaded not guilty in San Diego on Thursday in Federal Court to charges they illegally used his campaign account for personal expenses. Bail was set at $15,000 US for the congressman and at $10,000 for his wife. Prosecutors said bond could be set low because the…
[ad_1] Mr Trump is under pressure following the revelation that ex-lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels , who claims she slept with Mr Trump in 2006, $130,000 allegedly under his instructions just a few days before the 2016 presidential election. And almost simultaneously, former campaign manager Paul Manafort was been convicted of five…
[ad_1] The American tourist, 68, was dipping her feet into the fountain in Piazza Venezia, when police charged her for the crime of “vilification of tombs”. This comes as two English-speaking tourists are being hunted by police for stripping off in the Altare della Patria fountain in Piazza Venezia, which is Rome’s central hub, on…
[ad_1] The United Nations warned on Thursday of what it described as a lost generation of Muslim Rohingya children, with half a million in refugee camps in Bangladesh facing dangers including disease and floods and those still in Myanmar lacking access to proper education. One year since 700,000 Rohingyas fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar security forces in Rakhine state,…
[ad_1] Seven Spanish police officers suffered burns after the migrants threw quicklime and battery acid at them as they scrambled over the fence. Five migrants were injured after using wire cutters to get through a weak point in the barrier, the police official added. Television images showed some of the migrants – mostly young men…
[ad_1] What the Democratic Party first thought was a malicious attempt to hack the party’s massive American voter information file turned out to be just a security test. Bob Lord, the Democratic National Committee’s chief security officer, said Thursday the attempted hack was “built by a third party as part of a simulated phishing test.”…
[ad_1] A Georgia woman who pleaded guilty to leaking a secret U.S. report has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars. Reality Winner was sentenced Thursday by a federal judge in Augusta, Ga. The 63-month sentence was in line with what was recommended by prosecutors, who said that would be one of the…
[ad_1] New aerial images give a rare glimpse of an isolated tribe in Brazil’s Amazon, showing 16 people walking through jungle as well as a deforested area with a crop. In a clip released Tuesday night, one of the tribespeople appears to be carrying a bow and arrow. Brazil’s agency for Indigenous affairs, Funai, said…
[ad_1] Bali was hit by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake this morning, following a spate of major tremors in the region. The quake was felt in the holiday region of Uluwatu, which is filled with ancient temples, giant statues of Hindu gods and an array of beaches. The epicentre was in the sea and was recorded…
[ad_1] The jury in the trial of Paul Manafort would have convicted the former Trump campaign chairman on all 18 criminal charges if not for one juror who had questions about the reasonable doubt standard of guilt, a juror who wasn’t the one who posed the questions told Fox News on Wednesday. “There was one…
[ad_1] In his first purported speech in nearly a year, the leader of ISIS has called on followers to fight on despite recent defeats, according to an audio recording posted on the militant group’s media outlet. In the 55-minute statement, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi congratulated the “striking lions” behind recent attacks in Canada and Europe, and called…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump dug in to his denials of wrongdoing as the White House struggled to manage the fallout from allegations that he orchestrated a campaign coverup to buy the silence of two women who have claimed they had affairs with him. Before dawn Thursday, Trump again tweeted there had been no collusion…
[ad_1] British firms trading with the European Union will face a tangle of red tape, possible delays at the border and cashflow disruption if the government is unable to negotiate an exit deal with Brussels before Britain leaves the bloc next March. The government published a series of notes advising people and businesses how to…
[ad_1] Hawaii will soon be at the mercy of dangerous storm system Hurricane Lane, which is now powering towards the Pacific Island chain with full force. Bouncing between a category four and category five vortex, the threat from Hurricane Lane is increasing as the barrelling storm edges ever closer. Hawaiian authorities have laid down a…
[ad_1] Terry Lathan, a former public school teacher in Alabama, doesn’t give a hoot about what mainstream U.S. newspapers are reporting these days. “Definitely not the New York Times,” she scoffs. So it was no big shocker the Trump supporter missed the extraordinary splash on its front page on Wednesday, the morning after Donald Trump’s former…
[ad_1] Russia’s state media was silent this week as the 100th day of Oleg Sentsov’s hunger strike in a Russian Arctic penal colony came and went. The fate of Sentsov, arguably Russia’s most prominent political prisoner, has turned into a test of wills between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who so far has stared down intense…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane is currently sweeping across the Pacific Ocean with forecasters predicting the category 4 storm will pass “very close” to the islands on Thursday and Friday. In a shocking video, the “early impacts” of Hurricane Lane are seen hitting the “Big Island”. The footage from Hawaii News Now shows the heavy rain crash…
[ad_1] Germany‘s Chancellor was left furious after Heiko Maas called for the EU to be more forceful in rejecting Mr Trump’s policies. Writing in a German newspaper, Mr Maas said Europe should stop depending on the US and instead pursue a “new world order”. He said: “The overlapping of values and interests that shaped our…
[ad_1] Ms Merkel is said to be gunning to ensure a German takes over as the EU’s most senior official when the current Commission’s five-year mandate draws to a close next year. According to reports in Berlin’s diplomatic circles, her ambitious vision goes further than previous suggestions she was happy to have a german takeover…
[ad_1] The economic dispute escalated today as the US and China imposed 25 percent tariffs on £12bn ($16bn) worth of each other’s goods. The world’s two largest economies have slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on a combined £77bn ($100bn) of products since July. Washington appears to believe it is winning the trade war as China’s economy slows…
[ad_1] John Bolton said: “Regime change in Iran is not American policy, but what we want is massive change in the regime’s behaviour.” Mr Bolton made his comments on a visit to Israel, one of the US’s key allies in the region and a vocal critic of Iranian foreign policy. He also said: “Trump has…
[ad_1] The Hawaii hurricane is threatening to unleash strong winds, rain and pounding surf on the islands by the end of the week. CBS News weather forecaster David Parkinson warned the “big concern” is the slow speed of the hurricane, which could unleash devastating flooding on the islands. He said: “It’s not moving very quickly…
[ad_1] The students will be expected to continue working in Canadian hospitals, unless they have already made arrangements to leave. An agreement allowing the delay was brokered between the governments of Saudi Arabia and Canada. The delay will help Canadian hospitals deal with the sudden loss of medical staff. David Pichora, CEO of Kingston Health…
[ad_1] “Dangerous” Hurricane Lane is tracking north-west and is on course to pass “very close” to the islands on Thursday and Friday, the latest update reports. The storm is currently 260 miles (415km) south of Kailua-Kona, and 385 miles (620km) south-southeast of Honolulu. Maximum sustained winds are 145mph (230km/h) with higher gusts as the storm moves…
[ad_1] Hawaii residents emptied store shelves Wednesday, claimed the last sheets of plywood to board up windows and drained gas pumps as Hurricane Lane churned toward the state. The category 4 storm could slam into the islands Thursday with winds exceeding 161 km/h, making it the most powerful storm to hit Hawaii since Hurricane Iniki…
[ad_1] The Australian Parliament was shut down Thursday as pressure mounts on the prime minister to allow his ruling party to elect a new leader and end a leadership crisis that’s the latest in more than a decade of political instability. Senior ministers Mathias Cormann, Michaelia Cash and Mitch Fifield had earlier told Prime Minister…
[ad_1] A series of ministers who supported Mr Turnbull in the first leadership contest for the ruling Liberal Party on Tuesday against former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, declared on Thursday they now supported Mr Dutton. Mr Turnbull only won the leadership election on Tuesday by seven votes, and Mr Dutton publicly called for a…
[ad_1] Three senior cabinet ministers have told Australia’s prime minister he has lost his government’s support and must hold an internal ballot to elect a new leader quickly, in a major blow to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s chances of surviving his current political crisis. The trio of Mathias Cormann, Michaelia Cash and Mitch Fifield made…
[ad_1] Mr Bolton was speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem when he sent the stark message to Syria ahead of its imminent offensive. The National Security Adviser revealed US officials were aware of plans in which the Syrian government was considering to “resume offensive military activities”. He said: “We are obviously concerned about the…
[ad_1] The latest bulletin shows little change since 10am local time, with the Hawaiian islands vulnerable as Hurricane Lane approaches. The storm is currently 275 miles (445km) south of Kailua-Kona, and 400 miles (645km) south-southeast of Honolulu. Maximum sustained winds are 150mph (240km/h) with higher gusts as the storm moves west-northwest at 8mph (13 km/h). The track…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane strengthened to a powerful Category 4 storm with fierce wind speeds of up to 157mph. The hurricane is currently located in the Pacific Ocean and is set to make landfall in the coming days, with a direct hit anticipated towards the weekend. Mr Ige’s request to President Trump stated: “The State of…
[ad_1] The head of one of the largest environmental non-profits in the U.S. says he was stunned Wednesday to see thousands of dead fish and devastation to other marine life from a red tide off hugging southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast. Collin O’Mara, the president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, went onto the waters in the Sanibel…
[ad_1] Mystery surrounds the 49-year-old German’s condition, with very little information made public since the 2013 accident, which occurred in the French Alps. Willi Weber shaped Schumacher’s career after spotting his prodigious talent as a young man, and managed him until 2010. He told German magazine Bunte: “I have closed the chapter on Michael after…
[ad_1] As of 11am PDT (7pm BST), the air quality index (AQI) in Seattle measured 185, a rating classified as “unhealthy”. The level means “everyone may begin to experience health effects, members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects”. In fact, the dismal air quality is so bad it is like smoking seven…
[ad_1] A bill requiring California prosecutors to erase or reduce tens of thousands of marijuana criminal convictions was approved by the state legislature on Wednesday and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. When voters passed Proposition 64 in 2016 to allow adult use of recreational marijuana, they also eliminated several pot-related crimes. The proposition also…
[ad_1] The commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said Wednesday that he’s cautiously optimistic nuclear diplomacy will work out with North Korea. But he also said Seoul and Washington must continue to apply pressure so that “there’s not a reason or even an ability” for the North to back out. Gen. Vincent Brooks told…
[ad_1] A man who was dubbed the most wanted deadbeat dad in the U.S. has been sentenced to two years in jail months after he was arrested near Calgary with the help of a restaurateur who acted on a hunch. Joseph Stroup, who had been living under the name Joop Cousteau, was detained by the Canada Border…
[ad_1] The people of the flood-battered Indian state of Kerala are “in a great struggle to rebuild their lives,” the state’s top official said Wednesday, as aid workers warned it could take days before the full scope of the destruction is clear. Though rains have stopped over the past three days and floodwaters are receding,…
[ad_1] The Democratic National Committee says it has thwarted an attempt to hack its database that houses information on tens of millions of voters across the United States. A party official said DNC contractors notified the party Tuesday of an apparent hacking attempt. The committee notified law enforcement. The official said no information was compromised…
[ad_1] Investigators in New York state have issued a subpoena to Michael Cohen as part of their criminal probe into the Trump Foundation. A spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s tax department confirmed the subpoena to The Associated Press on Wednesday. The subpoena was issued after Cohen’s attorney said the longtime lawyer for U.S. President…
[ad_1] Canadian helicopters in Mali have conducted two support operations for the Dutch peacekeeping contingent in the war-torn country, a senior commander said Wednesday. The flights involved ferrying members of a reconnaissance team to remote villages 100 kilometres northeast of Gao, the main United Nations operating base, said the task force commander, Col. Chris McKenna.…
[ad_1] Congo has approved the use of four more experimental treatments in the Ebola virus outbreak in its northeast, as health officials try to contain the spread amid the threat from armed groups in the region. The treatments ZMapp, Remdesivir, Favipiravir and Regn3450 – 3471 – 3479 can now can be used on those suffering…
[ad_1] Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at what’s happening around some of the day’s most notable stories. Sign up here and it will be delivered directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: Why the legal problems of Donald Trump insiders Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort are unlikely to shake his supporters Hawaii…
[ad_1] It rained like heck on Tuesday in Washington. But boy, did it ever pour on Donald Trump’s 577-day-old presidency. Courtrooms in two states dropped a torrent of legal trouble on Trump, courtesy of two former aides with inside information that could potentially be offered to prosecutors to save themselves from harsher jail time. Trump’s bad…
[ad_1] Austria is firmly rooted in the European Union and fully shares its stance towards Russia, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Wednesday, aiming to reassure critics after Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the Austrian foreign minister’s wedding. Karin Kneissl danced with Putin at her wedding last weekend and then made a deep curtsy to him,…
[ad_1] Hawaii residents rushed to stores to stock up on bottled water, ramen, toilet paper and other supplies as they faced the threat of heavy rain, flash flooding and high surf as a strengthening hurricane churned toward the state. On Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service said that Hurricane Lane had been downgraded to a Category…
[ad_1] China and the U.S. are sparring over El Salvador’s decision to drop Taiwan in favour of diplomatic relations with Beijing, with a Chinese spokesperson on Wednesday accusing Washington of trying to deter other nations from making a similar switch. Speaking at a daily briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said El Salvador had “made…
[ad_1] Tied to a tree with a rope around his neck, the young chimpanzee climbs down and hops into Spencer Sekyer’s arms. Tze is known as a brat and a bully at the hotel in Guinea-Bissau where he’s kept as an attraction. But the video of his first meeting with Sekyer shows a different side.…
[ad_1] Michael Cohen is now dedicated to telling the truth and will not accept a pardon from President Trump, Cohen’s lawyer said early Wednesday in a series of interviews with U.S. media outlets. Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday in New York to campaign finance violations. Most damaging to Trump were statements by Cohen indicating he and…
[ad_1] Singapore’s government says the author of the book that inspired the hit film Crazy Rich Asians failed to register for national service as required. According to his bio, writer Kevin Kwan was born in Singapore and left when he was 11, living in the U.S. since then. There was no immediate response Wednesday from his…
[ad_1] Barbara Harris, the Tony Award-winning actress whose comic-neurotic charms lit up the Broadway stage and helped her steal films including Nashville, Freaky Friday and A Thousand Clowns, has died at 83. Harris died early Tuesday of lung cancer in Scottsdale, Ariz., said close friend Charna Halpern, who co-founded the iO Theater in Chicago and had…
[ad_1] Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against five human rights activists from the kingdom’s Eastern Province currently on trial in a secretive terrorism court, groups including Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. Among the detainees is Israa al-Ghomgham. Saudi activists said she’s the first woman to possibly face the death penalty for rights-related work. Charges against her…
[ad_1] The French premier taunted his critics before he left for holiday. It came after it was revealed he did not fire his bodyguard, Alexandre Benalla, when the aide was caught on camera manhandling protesters at a Paris rally. But a month later, no one has come after Macron and according to expert in constitutional…
[ad_1] He lashed out the Asian superpower’s trade policy ahead of high-level negotiations between American and Chinese officials. The US president claimed the talks would make no real progress because of Beijing’s protectionist economic policies. He said: “I don’t anticipate much. It will take time because China‘s done too well for too long, and they’ve…
[ad_1] Muslims across the world are now preparing for the festival of Eid al Adha, which sees four days of celebration centred around sacrificing animals. From August 21 to August 25, Muslims celebrate their most holy occasion with sacrifice and celebration. Dressing in their finest clothes, Islam dictates that animal meat is to be shared…
[ad_1] They were sent out after the Russian aircraft, suspected to be Su-30 Flankers, were seen operating near NATO airspace over the stretch of sea. They were monitored by two RAF Typhoon jets from 135 Expeditionary Air Wing (EAW). One of the Typhoon pilots from 1 Squadron, attached to 135 EAW, said in a statement:…
[ad_1] Eid al Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice or Big Eid, commenced last night and will last until Saturday, August 25. The date marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. The festival also honours the story of Ibrahim’s sacrifice when Allah asked him…
[ad_1] The Liberal government is reviving long-delayed plans to move into a new embassy building in Moscow, after more than 10 years and $26 million spent on the empty structure. But the renewed effort comes at a troubled time in Canada-Russia relations, which may further complicate the move. Both sides expelled four of each other’s diplomats earlier this…
[ad_1] Mr Maas claimed European independence from the US would allow firms to make new investments in Iran after the US President reimposed sanctions on the Middle Eastern state, which discouraged allied states to halt business with Tehran. Washington pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which saw the US, UK, France, China, Russia…
[ad_1] The massive tremor – one of the country’s strongest ever – hit at 5.31pm (10.31pm BST) at a depth of 123.2km. Officials said there were no immediate reports of injuries and damage in the capital Caracas is limited. Venezuela is not in a good shape to deal with a natural disaster, as the embattled…
[ad_1] The South Korean defence ministry announced the plans to reduce the number of border posts, claiming it will reduce tensions. US General Vincent Brooks, who commands 28,500 American troops in South Korea, welcomed the decision describing the risk as “a reasonable degree”. However he added: “I have some concerns about what that means militarily…
[ad_1] Speaking on BBC’s Newsnight programme, Sebastian Gorka, who served as deputy assistant to Donald Trump in 2017, defended his former boss and dismissed any claims of Trump’s collusion with Russia. Presenter Evan Davis asked Mr Gorka if it was a coincidence that such close associates of Tump were both pleading guilty to committing crimes…
[ad_1] Mr Davis told MSNBC News: “I can’t tell you the answer about contacts between Michael and the Special Counsel. “But I can tell you that Mr Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the Special Counsel and is more than happy to tell all that he knows. “Not just…
[ad_1] El Salvador is the third Latin American nation that has decided to break ties with Taiwan in just over a year. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and is ramping up a campaign to diplomatically isolate the self-governing island rival. Even though the US formally recognises only China, it maintains a de facto…
[ad_1] Those who offered their resignations had all backed former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton in the leadership challenge, which was narrowly defeated. The challenge was for the leadership of the centre-right Liberal Party, the dominant partner in the coalition government. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told ABC: “A number of people who voted for Peter…
[ad_1] A man from Mexico living in the U.S. illegally has confessed to kidnapping college student Mollie Tibbetts while she was running in her small Iowa hometown, killing her and dumping her body in a cornfield, authorities said Tuesday. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of the…
[ad_1] Customs and Border Protection officials said: “Although medical and recreational marijuana may be legal in some US States and Canada, the sale, possession, production and distribution of marijuana all remain illegal under US federal law.” They also noted that anyone who attempts to enter the US in possession of cannabis may have their drugs…
[ad_1] The heads of the American Turkish Council and Turkey-US Business Council, which represent 250 companies, explained that the ongoing political dispute between the two nations was heavily affecting investor confidence. Mehmet Ali Yalçindağ, chairman of the Turkey-US Business Council, said: “Only the two presidents can put this relationship back on track. “We need to…
[ad_1] Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Tuesday they both removed about 300 accounts, mostly originating in Iran. The social media companies responded to a tip-off from cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc, which claimed on Tuesday the accounts were promoting Iranian propaganda, including discussion of “anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian themes”. Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, which is…
[ad_1] The talks are due to take place in the Russian capital starting on September 4. A number of regional powers will attend, including China, Pakistan and Iran. However, neither the US nor the UK, who have been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan since the US invasion of 2001, will have a presence at the…
[ad_1] Berlin has been assessing its options for modernising the German military, and in particular the F-35 as a replacement for its Tornado fighter jets. But their final decision may not come down to the military capabilities of the aircraft, as political pressure mounts from the US. Christian Mölling, deputy director at the German Council…
[ad_1] Michael Cohen confessed he flouted campaign finance laws “in coordination with” Mr Trump (Image: GETTY) In an extraordinary account, Michael Cohen confessed he flouted campaign finance laws “in coordination with and at the direction of” President Trump. The 51-year-old lawyer admitted his part in attempting to influence the outcome of the presidential election. Mr…
[ad_1] The US President, who was on his way to a rally in West Virginia for candidate Patrick Morrisey, said he “feels sad” for Mr Manafort, who he described as a “good man”. He told reporters: “He was with Ronald Reagan, he was with a lot of different people over the years, and I feel…
[ad_1] He is due to face a parole board this week for the 10th time, almost four decades after he gunned down the rock legend outside the star’s home in New York’s Manhattan in 1980. Chapman has been eligible for parole since 2000. The board will have up to two weeks to make its decision…
[ad_1] A powerful earthquake has shaken eastern Venezuela, causing buildings to be evacuated in the capital of Caracas. The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude of Tuesday’s quake at 7.0 and said it had a depth of 87 kilometres. Its centre was roughly 22 kilometres southwest of Irapa, Venezuela. The quake was felt as far…
[ad_1] A POWERFUL 7.0-magnitude earthquake has sent tremors the Northern Venezuelan coast. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] There is a mystery lighting up the northern hemisphere — thin ribbons of glowing purple and green that have come to be known to photographers and scientists as “Steve.” At first glance, an amateur might look up at the night sky and mistake the dancing lights for an aurora, which is caused by particles that…
[ad_1] The number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018, and at least 37 people have died, the World Health Organization says. The UN agency’s European office said Monday more than 41,000 measles cases were reported in the region during the first half of the year — more…
[ad_1] What happens when a vocal activist railing against abuse of power faces those same allegations herself? That’s the situation facing the #MeToo movement this week after the New York Times reported that Asia Argento — among the first and most outspoken women who accused film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault — settled a sex…
[ad_1] A Winnipeg church says a former pastor has been arrested by California police and charged with allegedly trying to set up a meeting to have sex with a minor. Arrest records of the Arroyo Grande Police Department say Nathan George Rieger, 53, was arrested on Aug. 10. He was charged with arranging to meet…
[ad_1] Lawyers for Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, were pursuing negotiations with prosecutors that could result in a plea deal, and a court hearing was set for Tuesday afternoon, according to two people familiar with the financial fraud investigation. If a deal is struck, Cohen would plead guilty in Federal Court in Manhattan…
[ad_1] The hip-hop artist, from Grapevine, Texas, is about to land in an unknown location in Massachusetts after his private jet came into trouble. The 23-year-old travelled from Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, and is coming to the UK to perform at Reading Festival this weekend. According to TMZ, the rapper’s Gulfstream IV aircraft’s tyres blew…
[ad_1] Villeneuve looked back on their world-famous rivalry and lavished praised on Schumacher’s astonishing 91 Formula 1 victories, calling him “the best driver”. He told podcast Beyond The Grid: “Michael was the best driver, also because of his antics, and something could happen to him in every race. “You cannot easily forget any race against…
[ad_1] The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will send two people to oversee the vote, The Local reported. The observers will focus on issues such as how the parties’ election campaigns have been financed and whether the secret ballot is guaranteed by making sure the papers are hidden from public view. They…
[ad_1] Jurors in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort asked the judge Tuesday how to fill out a verdict form if they were unable to reach a consensus on one of the 18 counts faced by the former campaign chair for Donald Trump. “If we cannot come to a consensus on a single count, how…
[ad_1] The Trump administration on Tuesday came out with new rules scaling back Obama-era constraints on coal-fired power plants, striking at one of the former administration’s legacy programs to rein in climate-changing fossil-fuel emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency called the Obama-era regulations on coal power plants “overly prescriptive and burdensome.” The Trump administration plan broadly…
[ad_1] A Confederate statue in the heart of North Carolina’s flagship university was toppled Monday night during a rally by hundreds of protesters who decried the memorial known as Silent Sam as a symbol of racist heritage. The statue erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913 had been under constant police surveillance,…
[ad_1] A group that represents U.K. hospitals and ambulance services has warned that its members may run out of drugs if Britain leaves the European Union without an agreement on future relations. In a letter published Tuesday, NHS Providers said a lack of “visible and appropriate communication” from the government is hampering preparations for a…
[ad_1] Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull survived a leadership challenge by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton on Tuesday, government officials said, but the narrow margin of his win did little to dampen speculation about his future. Turnbull defeated Dutton 48-35 in the party-room vote for the leadership of the Liberal Party, the senior party in…
[ad_1] Indonesia’s disaster agency says earthquakes that killed more than 500 people on the island of Lombok in the past month and caused half a billion dollars in damage don’t rise to the level of a national emergency. The agency’s response to criticism, released Monday evening, strikes a nationalistic tone, noting that declaring a national…
[ad_1] The number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply during the first six months of 2018 and at least 37 people have died, says the World Health Organization. The UN agency’s European office said Monday more than 41,000 measles cases were reported in the region during the first half of the year — more…
[ad_1] Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed the end of a “modern-day Odyssey” on Tuesday after Greece emerged from nine years of bailouts, saying it should never forget the harsh lessons learned under tight financial supervision by its creditors. “This is a day of liberation,” Tsipras declared, standing on a hilltop overlooking a bay on the…
[ad_1] Eid takes place twice a year and is a time for Muslims to feast, exchange gifts and thank Allah for their blessings. This year, Eid al Adha will begin on Tuesday, August 21 and last until Saturday, August 25. The festival, which is also known as the Festival of Sacrifice or Big Eid, follows…
[ad_1] The last Nazi war crimes suspect facing deportation from the U.S. was taken from his New York City home and spirited early Tuesday morning to Germany, the White House said. The deportation of Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old former concentration camp guard, came 25 years after investigators first confronted him about his World War II past and…
[ad_1] The woman, believed to be in her 50s, was arrested at the scene of the crash on Dublin’s Merrion Street at 10.05am. It is understood there was an attempt to drive the gold Nissan Micra through the building’s gates. The suspect, who has not been named, is being questioned at Pearse Street Garda station on suspicion of…
[ad_1] Hackers linked to Russia’s government tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks, suggesting they were broadening their attacks in the build-up to November elections, Microsoft said. The software giant said it had thwarted the attempts last week by taking control of sites that hackers had designed to mimic the pages of The International Republican Institute…
[ad_1] Local fire chief Mario Batista later told local press the missing man was on the inflatable with three other Britons who were being towed by a vessel thought to be a speedboat carrying another six Britons. A search by specialist fire service divers at the large Santa Clara Dam near the city of Ourique,…
[ad_1] Typhoon Soulik is threatening to make a landfall on Japan and the Korean Peninsula starting on Tuesday into the early morning of Wednesday. Alarming footage from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Soulik’s enormous eye of the storm rushing towards Japan. The NOAA said in a Tweet: “The mega eye of Typhoon…
[ad_1] Eid al-Adha, the second and most important of the two Eid festivals, is taking off this evening. The holiest Muslim festival, Eid al Adha is a celebration of obeying the word of God and is prefaced with the Hajj pilgrimage. Hajj is the period in which Muslims will make pilgrimage to the holy city…
[ad_1] The civil protection department said 23 people were rescued, including a 10-year-old boy, after surviving the flash rush of water in the narrow gorge in Italy‘s Calabria region, near Civita. Six people have been taken to hospital. Officials said at least five people ar missing but the total could be more because not all had…
[ad_1] Italy’s civil protection agency says the death toll in a flash flood that swept away hikers in a narrow gorge in the southern region of Calabria has risen to 10. At least three others are missing, too. Authorities on Tuesday said 23 people have been saved from flooding in the Raganello Gorge, a popular…
[ad_1] Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans wept and hugged their long-lost relatives as they were allowed to cross the heavily armed border for a three-day reunion with family members in the North. The two countries – which are technically still at war – have organised reunion events before, but this is the first…
[ad_1] In the Liberal Party leadership challenge, Mr Turnbull won 48 votes to Mr Dutton’s 35. Following the result, the Australian Prime Minister appealed for the government to unite. He told his peers: “It’s really important that we put our differences behind us and get on with the job of looking after Australians.” The move…
[ad_1] In an interview on Monday, President Trump said he believed he had an agreement for the pastor to be freed. This was after the US leader arranged a deal with Israel to free a Turkish citizen being detained in the country. President Trump thought this would be sufficient to ensure the release of Andrew…
[ad_1] The announcement comes only a few months after the US President said the US was swamped with immigrants from “s***hole countries” in Africa. The first lady is planning to make stops in a series of African countries, which will be announced in the next couple of weeks. She said in a statement: “This will…
[ad_1] China claims Taiwan as its territory and is ramping up a campaign to diplomatically isolate the self-governing island rival. El Salvador’s move signals a further legitimisation of China’s efforts to assert Chinese sovereignty over the island. El Salvador is the third Latin American nation that has decided to break ties with Taiwan in just…
[ad_1] Nsawya FM, or Feminist FM in English, comprises a team of 11 women, who broadcast programmes through a live audio streaming website, Mixlr. The women broadcast using just a laptop with editing software and a microphone. Ashtar, one of the presenters, told the BBC: “We started this project to archive this phase for history…
[ad_1] However, they will be doing so without the help of China after the Asian superpower denied reports they intended to send troops to support the effort. Chinese special envoy to Syria, Xie Xiaoyan, said: “Recently, some media speculations that China is going to get involved in the Syrian conflict emerged. That is a false…
[ad_1] At about 7pm more than 300 protesters gathered in the Peace and Justice Plaza and then marched to the statue, asking for it to be removed. “Silent Sam” was toppled at around 9.30pm, which was followed by big cheers from the crowd. People were chanting “stand up, fight back” and “hey, hey, ho, ho,…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out agreeing to any demands from Turkey to gain the release of a detained American pastor, and said he was not concerned that his tough stance could end up hurting European and emerging market economies. In a wide-ranging Oval Office interview with Reuters, Trump complained about interest rate hikes by…
[ad_1] The President has faced continued speculation surrounding possible collusion with Russia as the probe into Russia’s electoral interference in the US’s 2016 presidential election continues. Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, also said that any interview with Mr Mueller could be a “perjury trap”. President Trump’s team are consequently seeking to restrict the topics discussed during…
[ad_1] The US President stated “a lot of good things are happening” in North Korea, despite critics claiming there is no indication that Pyongyang has taken the promised steps towards the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula. The American firebrand said he had only been working on the North Korean issue for three months, whereas his…
[ad_1] Watts was arrested on suspicion of murdering his family just one day after he begged for them to return home. The Colorado resident claimed he committed the grievous act after his wife strangled the young daughters, Bella, four, and Celeste, three, after he sought separation from her. The bodies of two little girls and…
[ad_1] More than 80 cars were torched or vandalised in Gothenburg and other major cities west and south in Sweden on Monday, August 13. Fires were reported in Malmö, Gothenburg and Helsingborg and shocking footage showed youths destroying vehicles in a shopping centre and hospital car park in Frölunda Torg in the west of the…
[ad_1] The Brazilian government plans to send members of a military-style police unit to the border town of Pacaraima after residents there attacked Venezuelan migrants. Government-run news agency Agencia Brasil said Sunday that the Public Security Ministry plans to send at least 60 members of the elite, military-style National Force to Pacaraima. Calls to the ministry for…
[ad_1] Heavy rain flooded a gorge filled with hikers in the southern region of Calabria, killing at least eight people, Italy’s civil protection agency said. It said the dead included four men and four women. On Monday, the head of civil protection in Calabria, Carlo Tansi, told Sky TG24 that 12 other people, including a…
[ad_1] Venezuela devaluation: The right is a new five Bolivar note and its equivalent in old Bolivar bills (Image: Getty ) Part of a broad economic plan to get a handle on hyperinflation, Mr Maduro hopes this phase will show “fiscal discipline” and end the excessive money printing that has been a regular feature of…
[ad_1] Jury deliberations have resumed in the financial fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Monday marks the third day that jurors in Alexandria, Va., ponder the 18-count indictment. Federal prosecutors in the trial allege that Manafort hid tens of millions of dollars in foreign income. They also say he lied on loan…
[ad_1] Michigan’s health director will stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of two men linked to an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in the Flint area. Nick Lyon is accused of failing to issue a timely alert to the public about the outbreak. Judge David Goggins said deaths likely could have been prevented…
[ad_1] The shallow 6.9 quake hit just after 10pm local time was just one of 15 with a magnitude of 4.5 or higher which have struck the area in the past 24 hours. The latest deadly tremor came just hours after another magnitude 6.3 quake, which is confirmed to have killed at least one person.…
[ad_1] Shots were fired from a moving car at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey before dawn Monday, an attack that came during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies. Officials said two people with criminal records were detained. There were no casualties in the fleeting attack, in which three of the six bullets fired hit…
[ad_1] Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at what’s happening around some of the day’s most notable stories. Sign up here and it will be delivered directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: Pope Francis has written to all of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics to condemn sex abuse by priests. Venezuelan…
[ad_1] The public holiday, which marks North Korea’s formation on September 9 1948, is known as the Day of the Foundation of the Republic, which takes place annually. But sources have claimed youth groups from the ruling Workers’ Party of North Korea (WPK) are being deployed throughout the hermit state to warn or detain citizens…
[ad_1] When the blades of its 800-kilowatt wind turbine start turning, the small Greek island of Tilos will become the first in the Mediterranean to run exclusively on wind and solar power. The sea horse-shaped Greek island between Rhodes and Kos has a winter population of 400. But that swells to as many as 3,000…
[ad_1] Thousands of Brazilian soldiers swept into slums in northern Rio de Janeiro on Monday, the army said, targeting drug gangs in violent shootouts that killed at least eight people and trapped terrified local residents in their homes. The early-morning raids took place in Alemao, Penha and Mare, the army said, some of Rio’s most…
[ad_1] The Russian leader said “everything must be done” to help displaced Syrians come home after more than seven years of brutal conflict. “We must reinforce the humanitarian dimension of the Syrian conflict, and by that I mean boost humanitarian assistance to the Syrian population, and help the regions where refugees living abroad can return…
[ad_1] Diver Octavio del Rio found the remains of the woman, dubbed Eve, in a flooded cave in the Naharon sinkhole as part of an investigation in the Quintana Roo state of south-eastern Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula back in 2001. Brazilian designer Cicero Moraes has now used 3D technology to enable the world to see what…
[ad_1] Italian actress Asia Argento — one of the most prominent activists of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment — recently settled a complaint filed against her by a young actor and musician who said she sexually assaulted him when he was 17, the New York Times has reported. Argento, 42, settled the notice of…
[ad_1] Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s strength by 20 per cent — a finding that came months before it collapsed last week, an Italian newsmagazine reported Monday. Despite the findings, Espresso wrote that “neither the ministry, nor the highway company,…
[ad_1] A man pleaded to be let into a locked police station in Barcelona before dawn Monday, then lunged with a knife at officers inside. Police shot him dead, and the attack is being investigated for any links to terror, authorities said. Commissioner Rafel Comes, the second-in-command of the Catalan regional police, told reporters that…
[ad_1] She told the Edinburgh International Book Festival that while she “abhorred” Donald Trump’s presidency, she has no current plans to follow in her parents’ footsteps. She strongly criticised the US leader on issues such as the separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border, branding the policy “the greatest sin of the…
[ad_1] The early morning attack, which resulted in no casualties, saw an unidentified assailant or assailants fire six bullets at the embassy’s security gates at around 5.30am local time (2.30am GMT). The Ankara govenor’s office said in a statement that three bullets hit an iron door and a window. Video footage from broadcaster Haberturk showed…
[ad_1] Hurricane Lane is a major hurricane which is moving across the Pacific Ocean towards Hawaii. Forecasters had believed the storm would track south of the Hawaiian Islands, based on initial projections. But forecasters have now said a “direct impact” should not be ruled out. Lane is a category three hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane…
[ad_1] Pope Francis, facing simultaneous clergy sexual abuse crises in several countries, on Monday wrote an unprecedented letter to the world’s Catholics that asks them to help uproot “this culture of death.” In the letter, addressed to “the people of God,” he also promised that no effort will be spared to prevent abuse and coverups. “We have realized that these wounds…
[ad_1] Dozens of elderly South Koreans crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea on Monday for heart-wrenching meetings with relatives most haven’t seen since they were separated by the turmoil of the Korean War. The week-long event at North Korea’s Diamond Mountain resort comes as the rival Koreas boost reconciliation efforts amid a diplomatic…
[ad_1] Nearly 500 people have died in quakes and aftershocks since July 29 across the northern coast of the island, which lies just east of Indonesia’s top tourist destination, Bali. And on Sunday, another magnitude 6.9 tremor struck the region – killing at least 10 people. More than 100 aftershocks have been recorded since Sunday night’s…
[ad_1] Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis suggested the European Union “foisted the so-called bailout” on Greece to save German and French banks at risk of collapse after the 2008 economic crisis. Greece successfully emerged from a three-year bailout programme with the EU after borrowing an emergency £55 billion loan to tackle its debt crisis.…
[ad_1] Johannesburg-based newspaper City Press reported owners Akkerland Boerdery wanted 200 million rand (£16.7m) for the land, but that the country’s government were willing to offer them just a tenth of that at 20 million rand (£1.67m). A letter sent to the owners earlier this year had said: “Notice is hereby given that a terrain…
[ad_1] At least 10 people have died from the latest earthquakes which rocked Lombok island on Sunday, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said on Twitter. A magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck the island on Sunday night at around 10pm local time and sent panicked residents into the streets and cut power…
[ad_1] Despite the financial turbulence which has rocked Turkey and ongoing criticism of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian reign, officials in Brussels have highlighted an improving relationship with Ankara. This includes the Government’s decision last week to two Greek soldiers from prison who were suspected of espionage. One EU official told the Financial Times that…
[ad_1] The left-wing economist and former finance minister said plans for bringing back drachma should be prepared by the Greek government after emerging from the multibillion-bailout. Since the 2009 economic meltdown, a number of Greek governments have battled to fight of economic collapse and being kicked out of the Eurozone. Instability has been a hallmark…
[ad_1] Talking to CNN, He said: “I believe there is a disease in the United States and that is the addiction to sanctions. “Even during the Obama administration the United States put more emphasis on keeping the sanctions it had not lifted rather than implementing its obligation on the sanctions it lifted.” The US reimposed…
[ad_1] Afghan officials say the Taliban have taken more than 100 people, including women and children, hostage in an ambush in the country’s north. This comes despite President Ashraf Ghani’s call for a ceasefire with the Taliban during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, the head of the provincial council in Kunduz…
[ad_1] Multiple strong earthquakes killed at least 12 people on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Sumbawa as the region was trying to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people. A shallow magnitude 6.9 quake that hit about 10 p.m. local time was one of several powerful earthquakes Sunday in the…
[ad_1] Last week, Mr Erdogan branded President Donald Trump’s decision to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Turkey an “economic coup”. The lira subsequently lost 16 percent against the dollar as the sanctions began to take effect. President Erdogan responded to the sanctions, stating: “They have iPhones but on the other hand…
[ad_1] Greece was given £55 billion over the period by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The ESM was set up by countries that use the euro as their currency and was aimed at creating a fund to deal with the financial crisis. This meant the Greek government could begin to implement its plan to transform…
[ad_1] The inquiry is seeking to determine whether Mr Cohen misrepresented the value of his assets in order to obtain the loans from two financial institutions, Sterling National Bank and the Melrose Credit Union. The investigators are scrutinising whether he did not report his income from taxi medallions, the permits allowing taxi drivers to operate,…
[ad_1] The Palestinian official explained the reason for the closure was a demonstration organised by Palestinians on Saturday near Gaza’s northern border, as well as the continuing Great March of Return, the Palestinian protest campaign against the state of Israel. According to the Ma’an news agency, Mohammed Maqadma said: “Israeli authorities informed the commission regarding…
[ad_1] A British woman was rescued Sunday after falling from a cruise ship and spending 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea at night, Croatia’s coast guard said. The woman was taken to a hospital in the town of Pula and is out of danger. She fell from the Norwegian Star cruise ship, about 95 kilometres…
[ad_1] The warming of relations follows a standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes. The reunions, the first in three years, will involve some 180 families and take place in North Korea’s tourist resort on Mount Kumgang, as agreed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in during their first summit…
[ad_1] The agreement was signed in Qatar on Friday by the Governor of Qatar’s Central Bank (QCB), H.E Sheikh Abdullah bin Saoud Al Thani, and the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Murat Cetinkaya. The move paves the way for greater bilateral cooperation between the two nations, along with increased trade…
[ad_1] At least 19 people were killed in an Islamist militant attack on a village in northeast Nigeria in the early hours of Sunday, a survivor of the attack said. The strike is the latest blow to Nigeria’s efforts to defeat insurgencies by the Nigerian Islamist Boko Haram group and Islamic State in West Africa…
[ad_1] The radical Five Star Movement-Lega coalition are aiming to boost the country’s economy by increasing investment in infrastructure. The Daily Telegraph has revealed that Italian officials intend to use the ‘Golden Rule’, which was supported by Gordon Brown, in order to use money taken from the headline budget deficit. However, this is regarded as…
[ad_1] The mysterious project is set to carry out “extreme experiments” with the aim of enginering a generation of terrifying super-soldiers. US military will pour £12m into the tests as they seek to create human soldiers with “enhanced senses” and the ability to skip sleep. The funding documents from the United States Special Operations Command reveal…
[ad_1] One of President Emmanuel Macron’s MPs, Alexandre Holyroyd, told Politico that he was calm with regards to a no-deal Brexit as a degree of agreement is “inevitable” and the most concerning issue for him is the government’s in-fighting. Mr Holyroyd, who represents UK people living in France, said: “Frankly I don’t think that there’s…
[ad_1] The United States Geological Survey reported that the latest quake hit north-north-west of the battered Indonesian island, at a depth of just one mile. The USGS initially said the quake measured 7.2, but subsequently revised this to 6.9. There was no immediate tsunami alert from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. In a tweet shortly…
[ad_1] The latest magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Lombok Island at a depth of 20 kilometres (12 miles), the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports. The tremor comes just hours after a magnitude 6.3 tremor which hit earlier on Sunday and left people fleeing from their homes in panic. There was no immediate tsunami alert from…
[ad_1] Shocking footage from the Indonesian Red Cross shows the chaotic aftermath after a huge 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Lombok island on Sunday. In the video, children can be heard crying as the Red Cross workers rush to evacuate residents in the village of Belanting. The village sits just 4km from the epicentre of the…
[ad_1] The Brazilian government plans to send troops to the border town of Pacaraima after residents there attacked Venezuelan migrants. Government-run news agency Agencia Brasil said Sunday that the Public Security Ministry plans to send at least 60 soldiers of the elite National Force to Pacaraima. Calls to the ministry for details went unanswered. Pacaraima…
[ad_1] Former CIA director John Brennan said Sunday that he is considering taking legal action to try to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from stripping other current and former officials’ security clearances. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, Brennan said he’s been contacted by a number of lawyers about the possibility of an injunction in the…
[ad_1] Residents and tourists on the island of Lombok have dealt with two major tremors in a matter of hours on Sunday and several aftershocks, leaving people “traumatised”. The magnitude 6.9 tremor struck in the evening at 9.56pm WIB (3.56pm BST). Shocks were felt the strongest in East Lombok, North Lombok, West Sumbawa, Sumbawa Besar,…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that White House lawyer Don McGahn isn’t “a John Dean type ‘RAT,”‘ making reference to the Watergate-era White House attorney who turned on Richard Nixon. Trump, in a series of angry tweets, blasted a New York Times story reporting that McGahn has been co-operating extensively with the special…
[ad_1] A huge magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Lombok on Sunday, less than 11 hours after a 6.4 tremor. The quake struck at 9.56pm WIB (3.56pm BST), 2km south of Belanting in the north-east of the island. The tremor was felt as far away as the neighbouring island of Bali and…
[ad_1] Italian Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli accused Malta of shirking its responsibility by not rescuing stricken vessels making the dangerous journey from North Africa. His comments come as an argument over which of the two European countries should take in 190 migrants rescued this week enters its fourth day. Malta refused to come to the…
[ad_1] Earthquakes are common in Indonesia due to its location on a series of tectonic plates, meaning Bali International Airport and Lombok International Airport often remain open and fully operational during an earthquake. But with many Brits having booked flights in advance to popular holiday hotspot Bali, the recent cluster of horror quakes have left…
[ad_1] Emmanuel Macron has been condemned by his government after a terrifying report in the aftermath of Tuesday’s catastrophe which saw a section of the main road linking Italy’s A10 motorway to France fall 45ft – bringing with it dozens of vehicles. Now four days later, an audit carried out by the French government warns…
[ad_1] One hundred years after a wooden ship set sail from Norway with the hopes of reaching the North Pole, the vessel has finally returned to its country of origin. The Maud, a historic vessel named for Queen Maud of Norway, crossed into Norwegian waters earlier this month, marking the beginning of the end of a…
[ad_1] Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, officials said Sunday, as rescuers searched for people stranded in the worst-affected areas. The downpours that started Aug. 8 have triggered floods and landslides and caused homes and bridges to collapse…
[ad_1] The unnamed woman, aged 46, tumbled from the Norwegian Star, which was sailing from the port of Vargarola near Pula, Croatia. The incident was reported just after midnight, at which point a search was launched involving the Croatian Coast Guard and a PC-9 search plane. They found her more than ten hours later and…
[ad_1] Ms Kneissi has been heavily criticised for inviting Putin, accused of undermining EU foreign policy. However, Putin ignored the controversy and even danced with the bride at the reception. He arrived with a bunch of flowers and was accompanied by a troupe of Cossack singers who performed for the guests. Putin then headed over…
[ad_1] A strong earthquake jolted the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, causing landslides and damaging buildings, as the island tries to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the latest quake, centred in Lombok’s northeast, at magnitude 6.3 with a depth of seven kilometres.…
[ad_1] Space exploration may not quite be the final frontier of co-operation between Canada and Russia — but it’s close. In spite of successive rounds of economic and diplomatic sanctions — as a result of issues such as Russia’s role in Ukraine and Syria — the job of blasting people into orbit has remained remarkably…
[ad_1] More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam’s faithful face five times each day during their prayers. The five-day hajj pilgrimage represents one of the world’s biggest gatherings every year, and is required of all able-bodied…
[ad_1] But there are fears that while tourists are reaping the benefits, the crash could plunge the country into crippling recession which could have serious knock-on effects across the global economy. Stan Wallace from Ashington, Northumberland, who is on a two week holiday Hisaronu on Turkey’s popular southwestern coast, said: “The other day we paid…
[ad_1] The US Geological Survey reported the quake on Sunday, August 19, just after midnight UTC (1am BST). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reported “small tsunami waves have been observed”. Luckily, the mammoth quake occurred about 350 miles beneath the ocean, and while it was still felt at the surface, it’s not expected to cause…
[ad_1] At least 14 people have been injured and transported to hospitals after trusses holding up the entrance to a resort where the Backstreet Boys were set to begin a concert in Oklahoma collapsed. WinStar World Casino and Resort says in a statement posted on Twitter Saturday that the resort began an evacuation at about…
[ad_1] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Sunday that a new Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aimed to overthrow the Islamic Republic, but would fail. He was speaking on the 65th anniversary of a U.S.-backed coup that overthrew a democratically elected Iranian prime minister, an occasion when anti-American sentiment runs particularly high in the Islamic Republic.…
[ad_1] Residents were seen running into the street in terror after the quake hit the west-southwest of Belanting Town in East Lombok at a depth of just 7km. East Lombok resident Agus Salim said: “I was driving to deliver aid to evacuees when suddenly the electricity pole was swaying. I realised it was an earthquake.…
[ad_1] US military analysts are increasingly concerned about the abnormal and unprecedented behaviour of Russian military satellites. The US State Department claimed the Russian satellite was exhibiting technological powers that had “never been seen before”. This included the satellite “birthing” smaller satellites, which then produced even smaller satellites. A source from the US government told…
[ad_1] Mr Macron is supporting a plan led by the Tory MP George Freeman to create a new cross-party coalition of MPs who are opposed to a no-deal Brexit. Mr Freeman has claimed that there will be an economic meltdown if the UK withdraws from the EU without an agreement in March. The French leader…
[ad_1] The Ghana-born diplomat passed away peacefully after a short illness in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of yesterday. His wife Nane and their children Ama, Kojo and Nine were by his side during his last days, the foundation that bears his name said. Mr Annan was the seventh person to head…
[ad_1] Autostrade chief executive Giovanni Castellucci said the company would pay for the new bridge to be built in the next eight months if it can get authorities to agree the plan. He said experts had come up with a “serious, solid, do-able project” to build the bridge differently and to “try to get Genoa…
[ad_1] The service came as rescuers found a car containing a family of three among the concrete debris. Officials have announced four more fatalities, bringing the death toll to 42. Some families stayed away from the service, opting for private ones out of anger at the government. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini…
[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met outside Berlin on Saturday for talks ranging from the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, to Iran and a gas pipeline project that has drawn U.S. ire. Standing beside Putin, Merkel said both countries — but especially Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security…
[ad_1] Germany will send shockwaves to the rest of the Europe by proposing fellow EU powerhouse France with border controls, according to reports. An interior minister official in Germany has told national media that they are considering reintroducing border controls on their shared frontiers with both Switzerland and France. The official blamed the unprecedented measure…
[ad_1] Sudanese-born British national Salih Khater was charged with two counts of attempted murder on Saturday and will appear in court on Monday after a car careened into people and a barrier at Britain’s Houses of Parliament earlier this week, police said. Khater will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with the attempted murders of members of the public and of…
[ad_1] Tensions among the country’s white farming community have been rising since the election of Cyril Ramaphosa assumed office earlier this year and committed his African National Congress (ANC) to land expropriation. And ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe sparked panic last week when he said: “You shouldn’t own more than 25,000 acres of land. “Therefore if…
[ad_1] Christopher Watts, 33, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his family just one day after he begged for them to return home. Shannann Watts, 34, and daughters Bella, four, and Celeste, three, vanished on Monday. It has been reported the family had tens of thousands of dollars of credit-card debt and that Mrs…
[ad_1] Muslim families across the world will come together to pray, feast, exchange gifts and celebrate with loved ones. This Eid is said to be the holier of the two, and the most important festival in the Islamic calendar. The first Eid, Eid al-Fitr, occurred in June and is a celebration after Ramadan, the month…
[ad_1] Italy’s president demanded guarantees Saturday that all the nation’s roads are safe following the Genoa highway bridge collapse, after he hugged and comforted mourners at a state funeral for many of the dead in the grieving port city. Hours earlier, the toll from Tuesday’s bridge collapse unofficially surpassed 40 after the discovery of four more bodies. …
[ad_1] Speaking ahead of bilateral talks with his German counterpart, Mr Putin insisted the Nord Stream 2 project is “purely economic”. The multi-billion pound Nord Stream 2 will run through the Baltic Sea and supply gas to Germany and the EU. Its construction is being funded by Russian state-owned giant Gazprom and a group of…
[ad_1] Swiss authorities revealed their decision on Friday, adding that the couple had also failed to integrate and respect gender equality. They confirmed the decision on Friday, further citing the couple’s failure to integrate and respect gender equality. The couple were interviewed several months ago, during which they apparently struggled to answer questions posed by…
[ad_1] Hajj begins on Sunday, August 19 and ends in the evening of Friday, August 24. The pilgrimage is mandatory for all Muslims to complete at least once in their life if they can afford to go and are able bodied. The Hajj pilgrimage is performed in the last month of the Islamic calendar –…
[ad_1] More than 300,000 people have been displaced since August 8 when the Kerala rains began and a record amount of rain fell in the southern Indian state. Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala’s chief minister tweeted on Friday that 314,391 people were staying in relief camps across the state. They are taking shelter in more than 2,000…
[ad_1] The South Asian nation is currently enjoying economic growth of some six percent each year but urgently needs international help to service its debts. Pakistan’s outgoing government ran through around half of the country’s foreign currency reserves to pay back loans, and now a £9.4billion ($12bn) bailout is required to avoid a default. Imran…
[ad_1] Angela Merkel is hosting Vladimir Putin at the German government’s castle in Schloss Meseberg, just outside Berlin. Talks are set to begin at 6pm local time (5pm BST). Putin will arrive in Germany after first attending a wedding in Austria of the Austrian foreign minister, Karin Kneissl, who is marrying businessman Wolfgang Meilinger at…
[ad_1] The death toll from the Kerala floods has risen to at leat 324, as all three services – Navy, Air Force and Army have been deployed in Kerala for the rescue operations along with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). A red alert has been issued in 12 out of the 14 districts in…
[ad_1] His Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the most seats in the July elections. Mr Khan was elected prime minister in a vote at the country’s National Assembly on Friday. Assisted by small parties, he achieved 176 of the votes, while his opponent, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif, received 96. He was tearful…
[ad_1] The fissure 8 lava channel remains inactive and continues to cool (Image: USGS) And one Big Island resident has cautiously welcomed the news – while pointing to the devastation Kilauea has caused over the course of the last three months, with damage to a national park on the Island such that he suggested it…
[ad_1] Imran Khan was voted in during last month’s election and his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, won the most seats. They hold 151 of the 342 seats in the national assembly and a vote was held at the country’s National Assembly on Friday to decide who would be asked to form a government.…
[ad_1] The flooding has killed 324 at least, with that figure expected to rise as rescue efforts continue. Some 220,000 people have been displaced, with more than 1,500 temporary shelters set up to house them. India’s army has rushed in to assist rescue crews, assisted by helicopters and boats to pluck people from trees and…
[ad_1] The Mendocino Complex Fire is the largest fire to burn in the state of California in its history. Firefighters have managed to get a higher percentage of containment over the huge inferno which is comprised of two fires – the River fire and Ranch fire. Crews have 76 percent containment of the Ranch Fire…
[ad_1] Thousands of stranded people were waiting for rescue Saturday and officials pleaded for more help as relentless monsoon floods battered the south Indian state of Kerala, where more than 190 have died in a little over a week and much of the state is partially submerged. Heavy rains began hitting parts of the state…
[ad_1] Kofi Annan, one of the world’s most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary general, has died. He was 80. His foundation announced his death in a tweet on Saturday, saying that he died after a short unspecified illness.…
[ad_1] The Ghanaian national died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of this morning, according to the Kofi Annan Foundation. Mr Annan was the first black African to becone UN secretary-general and served two terms from 1997 to 2006. His tenure coincided with the Iraq War and the HIV/Aids pandemic. He later…
[ad_1] Military Mi-26 helicopters also swooped in to land on the highway, and an An-26 was seen touching down on the two-lane road. Halted motorists filmed the amazing scenes as they got a grandstand view for the military exercise close to the Chinese border in the Russian Far East. Large traffic jams of cars and lorries…
[ad_1] The identity of Phillip’s father had always remained a secret (Image: NC) When Phillip Witcomb met his father “for a chat” in Madrid in 1989, he had no idea just how much his world was about to be turned upside down. Phillip, then 24, had always known the couple he called mum and dad…
[ad_1] After seemingly ignoring repeated orders to put the blade down, she was held at gunpoint before collapsing to the floor when one officer fired his Taser at her chest. She was then dragged to her feet, handcuffed and charged with criminal trespass and obstructing an officer last Friday. Relatives of the pensioner, who comes…
[ad_1] The war of words between former U.S. security officials and President Donald Trump showed no sign of abating Friday, as Trump promised he would move “very quickly” to revoke the clearance for a Justice Department official whose wife worked for the firm involved in producing a dossier on Trump’s ties to Russia. Signaling that his efforts to…
[ad_1] Special counsel Robert Mueller recommended in a court filing on Friday that a judge sentence former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos to up to six months in prison for lying to federal agents investigating whether Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents and is scheduled to be sentenced on…
[ad_1] Mr Trump posted the threat on Twitter as the relationship between the two countries collapses amid the row over the release of America pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been charged with terrorism offences in Turkey. Mr Trump said on Twitter: “Turkey has taken advantage of the United States for many years. “They are now…
[ad_1] Sweltering Spanish temperatures were pushed aside by monstrous thunderstorms that, when mixed with the Mediterranean’s uncharacteristically humid air, caused carnage for unexpectent sun-seekers. Yellow weather warnings were forecast hour before police were forced to redirect traffic after heavy rain flooded a tunnel in the town of Altea, located just north of holiday hotspot Benidorm.…
[ad_1] The municipality of Cabras has enrolled eight young volunteers to guard its precious shores, in response to fears that Sardinia’s beaches could disappear if sand continues to be stolen. The volunteers patrol almost four miles of coastline and beaches, including beautiful tourist hotspots Is Arutas and Mari Ermi. One helper, Silvia, said: “We try…
[ad_1] The event, called El Pilon de Falces by Spaniards, is held every year in the town of Falces in the northern Spanish region of Navarre. The dangerous run covers 800m along a narrow dirt track that features steep slopes and which was completed by the majestic animals in a total time of just 58…
[ad_1] Muslim worshippers in the UK and abroad are expected to gather for Eid al Adha and Hajj soon, as the holiest Muslim festival approaches. The two Islamic holidays of significant importance are Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha, the former of which was celebrated in May. August sees the celebration of Eid al…
[ad_1] Shoppers are panicking in response to hyperinflation that is making cash increasingly worthless, ensuring their homes are stocked with food before the measure decreed by President Nicolas Maduro takes effect on Monday. This will see a new set of bank notes introduced with lower denominations and internet banking operations suspended for several hours from…
[ad_1] The Ebola virus dominated the west of Africa in 2013, killing over 11,000 people and managing to spread over country borders. Ebola wasn’t the most virulent it could be due to the method of spreading, unlike diseases such as the flu, it didn’t spread via sneezing or quick exposure. Instead, the only way to…
[ad_1] Hajj takes place from August 19 to 24, the pilgrimage begins on the 8th day of the month of Dhul-Hijjah – the 12th month in the Islamic calendar. The dates are continent on the sighting of the moon in Dhul Hijah, according to the Islamic calendar, which is based on the lunar cycle, and…
[ad_1] There will be no global reconstruction funding for Syria until a “credible and irreversible” political process led by the United Nations is underway, a U.S. State Department official said Friday as the United States announced plans to redirect $230 million US in frozen funding away from the civil war-torn country. U.S. officials said they were able to make the $230 million…
[ad_1] The annual pilgrimage is expected to draw more than two million pilgrims this year. An estimated one million Muslims have already arrived in the holy city. The pictures show different aspects of the pilgrimage which involves circling Kaaba, Islam’s holiest and most sacred site. Each person must walk counter-clockwise seven times around the Ka’ba…
[ad_1] New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday that he was “inartful” when he said earlier in the week that America “was never that great,” a comment that was widely condemned and mocked by critics on the right and left. “I want to be very clear. Of course America is great and of course America…
[ad_1] Eid al-Adha is set to see one of the largest gatherings of Muslim worshippers in the UK and abroad this year, as celebrations of the holiest Muslim festival take place. Every year there are two Eid’s; Eid al Fitr and Eid al Adha, one celebrating fasting and the other feasting. The former took place…
[ad_1] Fox News mistook singer Patti LaBelle for Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin in a tribute following Franklin’s death on Thursday. In a video package highlighting the star’s most memorable moments, there is a picture of Franklin on the left and the dates of her life with an image of Patti LaBelle in the top…
[ad_1] Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at some of the day’s most notable stories. Sign up here and we’ll deliver it directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to be a surprise guest at the wedding of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl on Saturday. Indian flood…
[ad_1] The source said: “The two leaders underlined the importance of further strengthening economic and trade relations and boosting mutual investments between France and Turkey.” The unnamed source added that they had agreed that their finance ministers – Berat Albayrak and Bruno Le Maire – would meet “as soon as possible,” and that Mr Macron…
[ad_1] Pakistani lawmakers on Friday elected former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country’s next prime minister, in a step toward the country’s third civilian transfer of power. In the vote at the National Assembly in Islamabad, Khan secured 176 votes, defeating the opposition’s candidate, Shahbaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League…
[ad_1] Brazilian prosecutors have filed a murder charge against celebrity plastic surgeon Denis Cesar Barros Furtado over the death of a patient who was given injections to enlarge her buttocks. Furtado, 45, was widely known in Brazil as “Dr. Bumbum” for his plastic surgery on backsides. He was arrested last month in Rio de Janeiro.…
[ad_1] Rescue operations are underway in the south Indian state of Kerala after devastating flooding left thousands of people homeless. The Kerala floods have so far killed at least 164 people and the heavy monsoon waters battering down on the country has so far displaced 85,000 people. Footage shows an Indian Navy diver swoop in…
[ad_1] The scenes were recorded by a security camera in the city of Johannesburg, in South Africa’s Gauteng. In the video, a Mercedes-Benz GLA can be seen entering a car park when an Audi A4 following it stops in the entrance to the car park. Two apparent hijackers armed with pistols then get out of…
[ad_1] The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has begun deliberations for a second day on Friday in Virginia after asking questions that prompted speculation that a verdict may not be imminent. Before wrapping up their first day of deliberations on Thursday in Alexandria, the jury sent the…
[ad_1] Tamsin Parker told Express.co.uk boats were cancelled for weeks before the 7.0 earthquake, adding to the chaos when visitors and locals tried to flee the island after the quake. Ms Parker, 34, also witnessed confused authorities and over-stretched rescue resources becoming swamped as a series of largely unreported subsequent earthquakes struck the tourist haven,…
[ad_1] India has been hit by the worst monsoon in nearly a century triggering flash floods in Kerala, a state on the tropical Malabar Coast. Government officials estimate the death toll has risen to 164 people. Thousands of homes have been destroyed by the floods and the subsequent landslides leaving some 100,000 people homeless so…
[ad_1] Former U.S. security officials issued scathing rebukes to President Donald Trump on Thursday, admonishing him for yanking a top former spy chief’s security clearance in what they cast as an act of political vengeance. Trump said he had to do “something” about the “rigged” federal probe of Russian election interference. His admission that he acted out…
[ad_1] In 1984, shortly after admitting to sexually molesting a 14-year-old child, Rev. John Connor of Pennsylvania was sent to a Toronto-area facility that helps clergy deal with addictions, mental-health issues and sexual disorders. After eight months of treatment at the Southdown Institute, officials there warned the church that Connor should not be put in a…
[ad_1] Rescue workers use helicopters and boats to evacuate hundreds of people stranded on rooftops following unprecedented flooding that has led to the deaths of over 160 people in the southern Indian state of Kerala. With torrential rains stopping on Friday, thousands of rescuers worked quickly to shift the marooned people to 1,200 state-run camps…
[ad_1] The U.S. Defence Department says the Veterans Day military parade ordered by President Donald Trump, and that reportedly would cost tens of millions of dollars, won’t happen in 2018. Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Thursday the military and the White House “have now agreed to explore opportunities in 2019.” The announcement came several hours…
[ad_1] The Pentagon report warns Beijing has boosted its ability to send bombers further afield and highlights the country’s beefed up military capability and its £150bn defence budget. And there also fears the Asian superpower’s rocket programme could be a cover for some kind of futuristic “star wars” military project in space. The US report…
[ad_1] Hundreds of army troops have been working an operation to rescue families trapped by mounting floodwaters in the Indian state of Kerala on Thursday, with all three sections of the national army and further aid workers battling against the mounting rainwaters. All 14 of the state’s internal districts are on “red alert” as the…
[ad_1] Former Italian EU Minister Sandro Gozi branded eurosceptic Interior Minister Matteo Salvini “ridiculous” over attempts to blame the European Union for the Genoa bridge collapse. Mr Salvini suggested that EU budget-spending limitations had stopped the Italian Government from investing in the restructuration of the Ponte Morandi, leading to its deadly breakdown. Asked whether he…
[ad_1] Excavators have begun clearing large sections of the collapsed highway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa in the search for people still missing three days after the deadly accident. The search entered a new phase Friday as heavy equipment removed a large vertical section, clearing a new area to probe. Rescuers have been…
[ad_1] Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt claimed the “great” USA has defeated “communist Japan” and “radical Islamists” as she commended American soldiers fighting for their country. She said: “We defeated communist Japan, radical Islamists, we ask our men and our women to go overseas and fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this…
[ad_1] Kerala spiralled into chaos on Thursday after heavy monsoon rain hit the Indian region killing at least 164 people and forcing more than 85,000 people to evacuate. Shocking footage captured in Kerala’s Kannur District shows a massive landslide rolling down a hillside violently ripping out trees. A second landslide can be seen slipping down…
[ad_1] Mr Akesson told Sveriges Radio: “The EU is not the way to cooperate in Europe. “My position is that we should renegotiate the terms of our EU membership and then the people should have the final say.” This echoes the position of two prominent Swedish Democrat MEPs, Kristina Winberg and Peter Lundgren, who published…
[ad_1] A video posted on social media shows the moment the 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit Italy‘s central region of Molise. The quake’s epicentre was in the eastern-coastal Italian city Montecilfone. The quake was also felt in the closest towns of Rieti and Alto Velino, still recovering from a powerful earthquake in 2016. The shock sparked fears over…
[ad_1] Mark Warner, who represents Virginia for the Democrats, tweeted: “This might be a convenient way to distract attention, say from a damaging news story or two. “But politicising the way we guard our nation’s secrets just to punish the President’s critics is a dangerous precedent.” Mr Warner’s intervention came after it was pointed out…
[ad_1] The overdoses on suspected synthetic cannabinoids started on Tuesday at about 8pm at New Haven Green, a park which sits by the Yale University Visitor Centre. They continued through Wednesday when 18 people collapsed in the city centre over just three and a half hours. In total 50 overdoses were reported in New Haven…
[ad_1] Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in turn blamed the EU for strangling his country’s economy, saying: “Spending that saves lives, jobs and the right to health must not be part of rigid calculations and of rules imposed by Europe.” Yesterday he stepped up his attack, saying Italy needed to be free to spend…
[ad_1] The spat between the US and Turkey has resulted in a plummeting lira (Image: GETTY) The spat between the US and Turkey has resulted in a plummeting lira and a souring of relations between the NATO allies. But both President Donald Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are adversaries of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,…
[ad_1] Three-year-old Alan Kurdi was found on a beach in Turkey. His limp body had washed up in September 2015 after the boat carrying him and his family, including brother Ghalib, five, to Greece capsized. Ghalib and the boys’ mother Rehanna also drowned. Ms Kurdi, who is based in Canada, said: “The number of refugees…
[ad_1] The German Defence Ministry, led by Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, called on Lockheed Martin Corp and Europe’s MBDA to develop final proposals for the next generation of missile defence systems in order to replace the country’s current MIM-104 Patriot models. The move was hailed as a vital step towards the official signing…
[ad_1] Mr Brennan, who was the US’s top intelligence officer under Barack Obama, claimed the unconventional move from Mr Trump was evidence he was being castigated for openly critiquing the White House. Responding to the measure, Mr Brennan labelled Mr Trump as possessing tyrannical traits and said the move comprised part of the president’s broader…
[ad_1] The US President has been embroiled in an ongoing row with his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over the imprisonment of American evangelical pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been accused of helping to plot the 2016 coup attempt against President Erdogan. Writing on Twitter, President Trump said: “Turkey has taken advantage of the…
[ad_1] Tributes are pouring in for Aretha Franklin who passed away Thursday morning of advanced pancreatic cancer in her Detroit home. She was 76. Fans paid their respects to the Queen of Soul in front of the city’s New Bethel Baptist Church — where her father, C. L. Franklin, was once a pastor. Many are remembering her not…
[ad_1] While the disaster in Genoa was the deadliest in recent years, Italy has seen other bridge and highway collapses that have raised alarm about the state of its aging transportation infrastructure. The 51-year-old Morandi Bridge was a key artery that linked highways to Milan and France, a vital lifeline for both commercial traffic as…
[ad_1] Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in Kerala has killed at least 97 people, shut down an airport and displaced more than 85,000 people, according to officials in the region in southern India. Many of those who died are believed to have been crushed under debris caused by landslides. In dramatic footage coming out…
[ad_1] Aretha Franklin, who was born and rose to fame during the segregation era and went on to sing at the inauguration of the first black U.S. president, often used her talent, fortune and platform to inspire millions of black Americans and support the fight for racial equality. “She not only provided the soundtrack for…
[ad_1] India’s monsoon season has hit Kerala with enough force to trigger landslides and rushing waters so strong that people are being swept to their deaths. So far, more than 80 people have died due to the severe weather, and there are still weeks of monsoon season to go. Monsoon season in India is often…
[ad_1] Omarosa Manigault Newman on Thursday released another secret audio recording that she says proves U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to silence her after firing her from the White House. In the recording played on MSNBC, Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump offers Manigault Newman a job earning $15,000 a month. The job wouldn’t require her to…
[ad_1] The Vatican has called the sex abuse described in a grand jury report in Pennsylvania “criminal and morally reprehensible.” The grand jury on Tuesday released the findings of the largest-ever investigation of sex abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church, finding that 301 priests in the state had sexually abused minors over the past 70…
[ad_1] A video posted on Twitter by British radio presenter John Myers shows the moment an emergency services helicopter in Spain collected water from a water hazard of a golf club to tackle a fire nearby. The blaze started on the Costa del Sol after an apartment in a highrise residential block caught fire. Several people were…
[ad_1] The magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit near Italy’s eastern coastline, close to the city of Montecilfone in the Molise region. People ran from their homes after the shaking began, but early reports indicate there was only minor damage. The tremor could be felt as far away as Rome and Naples, according to data from the…
[ad_1] Michael Schumacher was one of the most successful Formula One race car driver and holds the record for the most Grand Prix victories and won the Formula One driver’s championship seven times. His career spanned from 1991 to 2006 with Jordan Benetton and Ferrari and in 2010 he announced he was coming out of…
[ad_1] Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at some of the day’s most notable stories. Sign up here and we’ll deliver it directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: More than 350 U.S. newspapers stood up collectively today to denounce Donald Trump’s characterization of the media as the ‘enemy of the people.’ Their…
[ad_1] Former CIA Director John Brennan said Thursday that President Donald Trump yanked his security clearance because his campaign colluded with the Russians to sway the 2016 election and is now “desperate” to end the special counsel’s investigation. In an opinion piece in The New York Times, Brennan cites press reports and Trump’s own goading…
[ad_1] F1 legend Michael Schumacher is rumoured to be moving into an expensive new Majorca mansion according to a local official. Schumacher’s health has been closely guarded following a devastating injury in 2013 which left him in a medically indued coma with little chance of survival. Recent developments saw the F1 star make some improvement…
[ad_1] Pictures show terrified residents wading through flooded waters, submerged vehicles on a flooded street and panicked residents being evacuated as water levels rise. One shocking image shows a family in the flood-ravaged Indian state of Kerala narrowly escaped death after their pet dog woke them up minutes before a landslide destroyed their home. The…
[ad_1] Armed police will be deployed at the Bentegodi Stadium in Verona, northern Italy for Juventus’ away match against Chievo on Saturday. Local police said the heavy security measures would be “necessary” because the upcoming game has “assumed global visibility”. Cristiano Ronaldo, 33, is set to make his league debut for the Italian champions following…
[ad_1] Rains continue to batter Kerala in southern India, as further rain is expected throughout the week. The Indian Meteorological Department has forecast heavy to very heavy rain in the state until Saturday. Red weather alerts have been issued in 12 of the 14 Kerala districts, including Idukki, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Malappuram, Pathanamthitta, Kannur and Ernakulam,…
[ad_1] Hundreds of U.S. newspapers devoted print space on Thursday to a co-ordinated defence of media freedom and a rebuke of President Donald Trump for saying some media organizations are enemies of the American people. The Boston Globe and the New York Times took part in the push along with more than 350 other newspapers of…
[ad_1] Former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to begin a groundbreaking peace process, died on Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 93. His death was announced by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,…
[ad_1] Aretha Franklin, the Memphis-born singer known as the Queen of Soul, died Thursday of advanced pancreatic cancer at age 76, said her representative, Gwendolyn Quinn. Franklin’s hits, such as Respect, I Say A Little Prayer and Chain Of Fools, are still associated with her powerful gospel voice, more than 40 years after their release.…
[ad_1] There could still be as many as 20 people under the rubble of the collapsed highway bridge in Genoa, in addition to the 39 already confirmed dead, the chief prosecutor of the northern Italian city said Thursday. Searchers have been combing through tonnes of concrete and other debris since the bridge collapsed in a…
[ad_1] America “was never that great” and won’t be great until all Americans share true equality, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday in a speech blasting Republican President Donald Trump and his slogan “Make America Great Again.” Cuomo, considered a potential White House contender in 2020, made the remarks at a bill-signing event in…
[ad_1] Malaysia’s new government on Thursday repealed a widely criticized law prohibiting “fake news,” in a move hailed as a landmark moment for human rights by a group of Southeast Asian lawmakers. The bill was passed in April under then Prime Minister Najib Razak, despite concerns it would be used to silence dissent ahead of a…
[ad_1] Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won a second five-year term in the turbulent West African nation with more than 67 per cent of the vote in a run-off election, the Ministry of Territorial Administration said Thursday. Opposition leader Soumaila Cisse received over 32 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s run-off that had an…
[ad_1] Forty-six people overdosed at or near a Connecticut park from a suspected bad batch of “K2” synthetic marijuana, requiring paramedics to be stationed there to provide treatment, authorities said. No deaths were reported, but officials said two people suffered life-threatening symptoms. Most of the overdoses were on the New Haven Green, a popular, historic…
[ad_1] A health worker in North Kivu, the centre of the latest Ebola outbreak (Image: GETTY) A total of 57 cases – 30 confirmed at 27 suspected – have been reported in North Kivu in the east of the country, with 41 people having died so far. Dr Ghebreyesus voiced his concern after a visit…
[ad_1] For the most part, the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was a dry-as-dust bank fraud and tax-evasion case built on a paper trail littered with complicated financial particulars. But the jury’s verdict, which could come as early as Thursday, could have major political consequences for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether Donald Trump’s…
[ad_1] At least 39 people died after the 50-year-old Morandi bridge, part of a toll motorway linking the port city of Genoa with southern France, collapsed during torrential rain on Tuesday. There are 15 people being treated in hospital, nine of them in a serious condition, according to local officials. Dozens of vehicles on the…
[ad_1] BBC host Mishal Husain got into a heated row with Five Star Movement (M5S) MP Michele Sodano after she confronted him over the role his party played in the Genoa bridge collapse. The Morandi Bridge suddenly collapsed during a storm on Monday morning flinging at least 35 cars 300 metres unto the ground, leaving…
[ad_1] Ebenezer was born on August 16, 1831, in Hull, England. At 27 he moved to Barnes, London, where he worked as a solicitor and rowed along the Thames in his free time. Ebenezer made his first stamp on the sporting world when he founded the Barnes and Mortlake Regatta in 1862 and competed in…
[ad_1] Saverio Ferrari blamed the Genoa bridge collapse on the decision of the original building team not to build the supporting piles with anti-seismic materials. Mr Ferrari, who worked as an engineer for the company that built the Morandi bridge, argued the flaw in the structure and the failure of authorities to redirect heavy traffic…
[ad_1] At least 30 people were killed on August 14, when the giant motorway bridge collapsed in Genoa in no (Image: AFP/Getty Images) As the death toll grew to 39, more than 300 rescue workers were last night searching through the wreckage of the Ponte Morandi in Genoa in a search for survivors. Only seven…
[ad_1] Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday, and declared Qatar was standing by its “brothers in Turkey” after announcing the significant investment in Turkey’s banks and financial markets. Sheikh Tamim commented on the meeting, stating: “We stand by our brothers in Turkey…
[ad_1] Martha al-Bishara was charged with criminal trespass and obstructing an officer on Friday following a 911 call from Chatsworth, Georgia, to report a woman who was refusing to leave while walking with a knife outside. The unidentified employee said in the 911 recording: “She’s old, so she can’t get around too well. “Looks like…
[ad_1] Although the UK is due to leave the EU next year, British drivers could still be affected by the change – expected in 2020 – because Brussels regulations may remain in force after Brexit. Campaigners from Get Britain Out claimed the move could add up to £15 to the price of a tyre for…
[ad_1] In his typically unconventional style, Mr Musk tweeted earlier this month on August 7 that he was “considering taking Tesla private at $420 (£330). Funding secured.” However, Mr Musk’s public statement, saying he had “funding secured”, may have violated a Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule stipulating public statements made by company executives must…
[ad_1] One, allegedly taken just weeks ago, appears to show cables hanging from the bridge’s sides. Another reportedly taken in the past few days shows concrete crumbling from its pylons. Government ministers have expressed outrage over the catastrophe, which is being blamed on poor maintenance by Autostrade Per Italia, the private company operating the stretch.…
[ad_1] Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, he said: “Our steel industry is one of the talks of the world. “It’s booming.” Trump went on to argue that conserving the US steel industry is vital to national security. He nevertheless admitted the tariffs might make steel “a little more expensive” in the short-term, but insisted…
[ad_1] Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte vowed to strip Autostrade of the licence it holds to run Italy’s toll motorways. He said: “We can’t wait for justice to take its course. “We must let people travel in safety. “There is no doubt that it fell to Autostrade to perform maintenance on that viaduct.” These comments…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, who regularly appears at White House press conferences, argued on Tuesday that the current administration had done more for African-Americans than its predecessor. She claimed 700,000 new jobs were created for African-Americans under Trump, compared with only 195,000 in the eight years under Mr Obama. Ms Sanders initially contended this…
[ad_1] The 2016 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Act (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal, allowed sanctions against Iran to be lifted in return for Tehran to curb its nuclear program. The US administration nevertheless decided to withdraw from the international accord in May, and reimposed its first wave of sanctions against Iran earlier…
[ad_1] US Vice President Mike Pence (right) announced plans to build a new, separate Space Force (Image: GETTY) The news comes after Donald Trump proposed to build an American “Space Force” earlier this month. A US official contended the Russian satellite orbiting the earth was acting suspiciously, labelling its recent launch as “a very troubling…
[ad_1] One of the letterbox-red “urinoirs” installed on the Ile Saint-Louis, one of the French capital’s most prestigious postcodes, has caused a particular uproar. Ile Saint-Louis residents and shopkeepers have demanded its removal and have even threatened to launch a petition. “There’s no need to put something so immodest and ugly in such an historic…
[ad_1] South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently unveiled plans to allow white people’s land to be taken without compensation. Now a lobby group claims to obtained a list of 195 farms “identified for this purpose”, reigniting the controversy over the proposals. The AfriForum group said the document was being circulated by ministers as the government…
[ad_1] Brazil’s Workers’ Party registered jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its candidate for president Wednesday, attempting to muscle him into the race to lead Latin America’s largest country and forcing a showdown with electoral authorities. More than 10,000 of da Silva’s supporters flooded the area around the Supreme Electoral Court in…
[ad_1] A lightning storm could spark even more wildfires with lightning strikes. The storm cloud gathered over northern California early on Wednesday local time, where several deadly blazes are raging on, including the enormous Mendocino Complex Fire. The clouds carried little rain and offered little chance of a break from the bone-dry condition plaguing the…
[ad_1] Torrential monsoon rains have disrupted air and train services in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where flooding, landslides and bridge collapses have killed at least 67 people in the past week, officials said Wednesday. The international airport at Kochi, a major port city, suspended flight operations until Saturday after rains flooded the runway.…
[ad_1] Venezuela’s attorney general said 27 arrest warrants had been issued with red alert notifications sent to Interpol, as police continue to investigate the incident that shook Carcacas, Venezuela’s capital last week. Tarek Saab told a press conference: “Up to this moment in which we are holding this press conference on Tuesday, there are 14…
[ad_1] Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heat waves. Off the San Diego coast, scientists earlier this month recorded all-time high seawater temperatures since daily measurements began in 1916. “Just like we have heat waves on land, we also have heat waves in the ocean,” said Art Miller of the…
[ad_1] Israel will not conduct a criminal investigation into a deadly raid in Rafah during the 2014 Gaza war, the military’s judicial arm said on Wednesday after a “comprehensive examination” of events, prompting condemnation from the Palestinian group Hamas. Israel launched its raid after Hamas militants, emerging from a tunnel inside Gaza, ambushed three Israeli…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump is revoking the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan, who served in the Obama administration. White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the decision at a White House briefing Wednesday, following through on the president’s recent threat. Sanders cited Brennan’s “erratic conduct and behaviour” and accused him of “lying” and…
[ad_1] Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk Wednesday to fling tiny satellites into orbit and install an antenna on the International Space Station for tracking birds on Earth. Soon after leaving the space station, Sergey Prokopyev released all four research satellites by hand. “I’m ready for the launch,” Prokopyev told Russian flight controllers near Moscow. The first…
[ad_1] Daryl Weathers remembers trying to pull men from the sea off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands after a U.S. Navy destroyer hit a mine left by the Japanese following the only World War II battle fought on North American soil. The explosion, which ripped the stern off the USS Abner Read, also covered many of the men…
[ad_1] His green truck was pictured abandoned next to the precipice created when a 650ft-long section of the Morandi bridge crumbled into a heap of twisted steel and concrete yesterday. The 37-year-old father, identified only by the initials FL, was returning from delivering groceries for Basko supermarket. He slammed on his breaks, bringing his truck…
[ad_1] “I can confirm officially that Michael Schumacher will come to settle in our town and that everything is being prepared here to receive it,” village mayor Katia Rouarch told Swiss magazine L’Illustre. It was reported last month Corinna had bought Real Madrid president Florentino Perez’s Majorcan mansion for nearly £27 million (€30 million). German…
[ad_1] Up to 39 people are reported to be dead after a large section of a road bridge collapsed in the northern Italian city of Genoa. The bridge in Italy collapsed on Tuesday morning, leaving vehicles crushed by tons of concrete and steel. The shocking video from the Italian fire brigade pans over the destruction…
[ad_1] A boat sank on Wednesday while crossing the Nile River in Sudan and at least 22 people drowned, including 21 students and a woman, the country’s state news agency reported. The boat was carrying more than 40 students on their way to school in the northern River Nile state, SUNA said. The report did…
[ad_1] Paul Manafort lied to keep himself flush with cash and to maintain his luxurious lifestyle when his income dropped off, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday during closing arguments in the former Trump campaign chairman’s financial fraud trial. The government’s case boils down to “Mr. Manafort and his lies,” prosecutor Greg Andres said in court in Alexandria,…
[ad_1] The largest of the ten fires burning across the state is the Mendocino Complex fire, spanning more than 350,000 acres. Hot on its heels is the Carr fire, raging across more than 200,000 acres. The fires have claimed at least eight lives so far, injured dozens and forced tens of thousands from their homes…
[ad_1] Across Europe there are fears the Turkish crisis may endanger the controversial EU refugee agreement signed between Brussels and Ankara in March 2016. Under the arrangement, Brussels promised to handover €6 billion in financial aid, to be used by the Turkish government to finance projects for Syrian refugees. Turkish lira has lost almost a…
[ad_1] Evangelical pastor Andrew Craig Brunson has found himself at the centre of a war of word between USA President Donald Trump and Turkey President Recep Erdogan. Last month Mr Trump threatened his fellow NATO ally with “large sanctions” over his detainment, after Brunson was arrested during the 2016 coup that left 179 civilians dead.…
[ad_1] A judge’s decision to allow the release of an extended family member accused of child abuse at a ramshackle desert compound in New Mexico prompted a political uproar Tuesday by prominent Republican lawmakers and members of the public. The controversy was stoked even further when court officials condemned threats of violence made against the…
[ad_1] Turkey is boosting tariffs on imports of certain U.S. products, including rice, cars, alcohol, coal and cosmetics — escalating a feud with the United States that has helped trigger a currency crisis. Tariffs are more than doubling for American cars and alcohol, for instance, to 120 per cent and 140 per cent, respectively. “Turkey does not…
[ad_1] A man detained on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist attack outside Britain’s Parliament is Salih Khater, a British citizen of Sudanese origin, a European security source told Reuters on Wednesday. Other British media also identified the suspect as Khater, 29, although authorities have not formally released his name. Police believe a car was deliberately driven into pedestrians and…
[ad_1] A Taliban assault on two adjacent checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed at least 30 soldiers and police, officials said Wednesday, as life gradually returned to normal in parts of the eastern city of Ghazni after a massive insurgent attack last week. Mohammad Safdar Mohseni, head of the provincial council in the northern Baghlan province,…
[ad_1] The comments come after a peaceful protest by Romanian expat workers demonstrating against corruption and the ruled Social Democrat Party (PSD) turned ugly on the weekend. The protests in Bucharest, which saw thousands line the streets against corruption, low wages and judicial interference, turned violent as authorities moved in to curb the protestors Police…
[ad_1] EU budget commissioner Gunther Oettinger called for Berlin to increase its already improved offer for the bloc’s first post-Brexit budget. The Commission’s German representative accused Berlin’s finance minister Olaf Scholz’s recent offer of being in “contradiction to the coalition agreement”. Mr Oettinger is planning on reminding Mr Scholz and Chancellor Angela Merkel “of the…
[ad_1] The crash sparked global fears of an international financial crisis and prompted Mr Erdogan to rage against an “economic war” against his country and its currency but Turks appeared to take the latest blow in their stride. There has been no run on Turkish banks despite the dramatic fall in the value of the…
[ad_1] Rescue workers combed through the rubble of Italy’s bridge collapse on Wednesday as the death toll climbed to 37 and the government blamed the bridge’s private owner, demanding resignations and moving to strip its toll concession. The 50-year-old bridge, part of a toll motorway linking the port city of Genoa with southern France, collapsed…
[ad_1] A populist takeover in Parliament would enable anti-EU politicians to dictate the bloc’s powerful executive body, the European Commission, killing off the EU as we know it. Anti-EU movements are gearing up in their preparations for May 2019’s European parliamentary elections, which will decide the future make-up of the Brussels leadership. High-profile right-wing figures…
[ad_1] The eurosceptic leader of right-wing Lega party lashed out at Brussels just hours after the tragedy. Speaking to reporters, he said: “If external constraints prevent us from spending to have safe roads and schools, then it really calls into question whether it makes sense to follow these rules. “There can be no trade-off between…
[ad_1] The new law lowers the retirement age of Supreme Court judges from 70 to 65, which forces 27 of 74 sitting judges to retire and critics have claimed that this will weaken the independence of the country’s judicial system. On Tuesday, the Commission announced that Poland has one month to amend its controversial law…
[ad_1] Whitehall officials insisted the responsibility “for organising the landing, in the nearest safe harbour” must be “assumed by the maritime competent authorities in accordance with the wishes of the master of the ship”. The comments come after Italy’s transport minister, Danilo Toninelli – member of populist Five Star movement – urged Mrs May to…
[ad_1] Canada and Saudi Arabia are currently embroiled in a major diplomatic spat which has seen Saudi Arabia withdraw its Ambassador, freeze all new trade, and suspend the scholarships of some 16,000 Saudi students studying in Canada. It is estimated that as many as 1,000 Saudi medics will have to leave the country by August…
[ad_1] Turkey’s Official Gazette declared on Wednesday morning that the government had raised tariffs on US imports, including passenger cars, tobacco and alcohol. The decree, which was signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, raised tariffs on alcoholic beverages by 140 percent, on tobacco by 60 percent, and on passenger cars by 120 percent. Tariffs were also…
[ad_1] In North Africa, Libya is believed to be home to between 3,000 and 4,000 ISIS militants and is believed to be experiencing a revival in al-Qaeda presence. Al-Qaeda’s leaders in Iran “have grown more prominent” and have been working with the extremist group’s top leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, “projecting his authority more effectively than he…
[ad_1] President Trump’s campaign claim the former White House employee broke a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) signed in 2016, barring Ms Manigault-Newman from revealing details from private discussions held with the President. An official confirmed the action to Newsweek, stating: “Donald J Trump for President, Inc. has filed an arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman, with the American…
[ad_1] Ms Manigault-Newman, the former director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, claimed in her newly published book, Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House, that President Trump had used racial slurs during her time in the US administration. Ms Sanders nevertheless refused to vouch for the President on Tuesday when…
[ad_1] Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has conceded in the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary, saying he will endorse Secretary of State Kris Kobach a week after their neck-and-neck finish threatened to send the race to a recount. Colyer accepted defeat Tuesday evening after a review of some provisional ballots from most Kansas counties failed to find…
[ad_1] The measure was included in a $717 billion defence policy bill which Trump signed on Monday. It ended US funding for the Treaty of Open Skies, an agreement between 34 states which will allow them to fly unarmed observation aircraft over each others territories. The intention of the programme, which the UK has signed…
[ad_1] Up to 40 vehicles were travelling on the stretch at 11.30am when it was reportedly struck by lightning during torrential rain, causing lorries and cars to plummet 150ft as the concrete crumbled. Photographs showed traffic still travelling along the A10 toll highway, with drivers unaware of the disaster ahead – and one lorry perched…
[ad_1] Turkey, one of NATO’s most significant military powers, has provided Washington with logistical support for its military actions in the Middle East for years. But Ankara maintains close ties with Russia, a nation with interests in undermining NATO’s cohesion. Although relations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan have stabilised since they spiralled…
[ad_1] At least 26 people were killed in the incident according to Reuters news agency, and 15 have been admitted to hospital, with nine in a critical condition. The ANSA news agency reported that the death toll could reach 35 citing fire brigade sources, and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte declared that the number would likely…
[ad_1] A bridge on a major thoroughfare collapsed Tuesday in the northern Italian city of Genoa during a violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 45 metres into a heap of rubble and causing 26 deaths and injuring 15. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte called it “an immense tragedy… inconceivable in a modern system like ours, a modern country.” The disaster has…
[ad_1] Quebec’s leading trade negotiator on the NAFTA file says he’s not remotely worried by the fact that the U.S. and Mexico are talking trade without Canada. Raymond Bachand, a former Quebec provincial finance minister and the province’s NAFTA negotiator, made the comments in an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics on Tuesday. “I’m…
[ad_1] A state judge on Monday cleared the way for five defendants who were arrested on child abuse charges at a remote New Mexico compound to be released pending trial despite authorities’ suspicions that the group was training children to use firearms for an anti-government mission. Judge Sarah Backus set a $20,000 bond for each…
[ad_1] Malta on Tuesday agreed to let a private rescue ship dock on the island, with the 141 migrants it is carrying to be distributed among five European Union nations in what was described as a “responsibility-sharing exercise.” The migrants were plucked to safety by the aid boat Aquarius in two separate operations in the…
[ad_1] NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine expressed full support Monday for President Donald Trump’s proposed military “Space Force” but added that it will have a role separate from NASA. Bridenstine said in New Orleans that NASA’s responsibilities involve science, space exploration and technology development. As for defence and national security, he told reporters in New Orleans:…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his messy clash with former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Tuesday, referring to the longtime colleague, who had been the top African-American in his White House, as “that dog!” The pressure on Manigault Newman increased, as the Trump presidential campaign filed arbitration action against her, alleging a breach of…
[ad_1] The investigation into an assassination attempt on Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro using drones has widened to include the arrest of two high-ranking military officers, the nation’s top prosecutor said Tuesday. The list of suspects — including an exiled opposition lawmaker — has now risen to 34 and officials are seeking arrests in Colombia, Peru and the United…
[ad_1] The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has up to 30,000 members roughly equally distributed between Syria and Iraq, and its global network poses a rising threat — as does al-Qaeda, which is much stronger in places, a United Nations report says. The report by UN experts that was circulated Monday said despite the defeat…
[ad_1] The defence in Paul Manafort’s bank fraud trial rested its case Tuesday in Virginia without calling him to testify or requesting other witnesses. The judge, T.S. Ellis III, rejected a bid by the defence to dismiss the 18 charges Manafort faces in Federal Court. Kevin Downing unsuccessfully argued the prosecution hadn’t met its burden of…
[ad_1] Two 11-year-olds managed to hack into a replica of Florida’s election results website in under 15 minutes and change names and tallies during a convention of hackers, organizers said, stoking concerns about security ahead of nationwide votes. The boy and girl were the quickest of 35 children, ages 6 to 17, who all eventually hacked into copies of the websites of…
[ad_1] Nebraska used a lethal injection of four drugs in a never-before-tried combination, including the powerful opioid fentanyl, on Tuesday to carry out its first execution in more than two decades. Carey Dean Moore, 60, was pronounced dead at 10:47 a.m. CT. Moore, who had been sentenced to death for killing two cab drivers in…
[ad_1] A pair of Canadian student travellers bemoaning what appeared to be a routine delay aboard their train through Italy instead learned they were just minutes from a disastrous bridge collapse that killed at least 20 people on Tuesday. Speaking from the train shortly after the tragedy, Tamar Bresge, 23, said she and her friend…
[ad_1] A German tourist who was shot in the head near Calgary is showing signs of severe and life-changing injuries, according to the honorary German consul in Calgary. Hubertus Liebrecht provided the update on the GoFundMe page he started for the victim and his family — which closed last week shortly after surpassing its $8,500 goal by nearly…
[ad_1] A state review into the treatment of immigrant teens at a Virginia detention centre has confirmed the facility uses restraint techniques that can include strapping children to chairs and placing mesh bags over their heads, but concluded these actions don’t amount to abuse or neglect. Investigators looked at the treatment of detainees at the Shenandoah Valley…
[ad_1] At least 24 people were killed and another 19 injured when a bus careened into another vehicle at high speed and overturned on a highway near Ecuador’s capital Tuesday, local officials reported. The Colombian-registered bus was travelling to Quito and hit a smaller vehicle in an area known as dead man’s curve at about…
[ad_1] Queen Bey dedicated her performance with husband, Jay Z, to the Queen of Soul drawing a thunderous roar from Aretha Franklin’s hometown of Detroit. The Detroit Free Press reports the moment came early in the show Monday night at Ford Field with Beyoncé saying, “We love you” and thanking the ailing 76-year-old for her “beautiful…
[ad_1] The leader of Bosnia’s Serbs called on Tuesday for a government report that acknowledged the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995 to be revoked, triggering possible new tensions in the war-scarred Balkan state. Milorad Dodik spoke at a parliamentary session of the autonomous Bosnian Serb republic,…
[ad_1] Time is ticking down to a court-ordered deadline this afternoon to decide what information to black out in a forthcoming grand jury report investigating child sexual abuse in six of Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses. A state Supreme Court order issued last month set a timetable to publicly release a redacted version of the grand…
[ad_1] A bridge over an industrial area in the Italian city of Genoa partially collapsed during a sudden and violent storm on Tuesday, leaving vehicles crushed in the rubble below. Private broadcaster Sky TG24 said a 200-metre section of the Morandi Bridge collapsed Tuesday, and firefighters told The Associated Press there are concerns about gas…
[ad_1] Swedish politicians were quick to react after at least 80 vehicles were torched in the greater Gothenburg region. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven blasted the acts in an interview with Swedish radio, saying: “I get p****d off for real. “Society will come back hard on this.” The Social Democrat leader added that he wanted to…
[ad_1] A BRIDGE on one of Italy’s busiest Italian motorway has collapsed, causing dozen of cars to fall hundreds of metres above the ground. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The women were charged under the Islamic sharia law known as musahaqah – which bans lesbian sex – and sentenced to six strokes of the cane and a fine of 3,300 Malaysian ringgit (£630.61) each this week after pleading guilty, the prosecutor said. The conviction comes amid concerns around growing intolerance toward the lesbian,…
[ad_1] Mr Erdoğan blames the catastrophic 40 collapse in the Turkish lira on the US and has accused it of committing an act of “economic terrorism”. And in a defiant speech to supporters in Ankara the president warned there would be a price to pay. He said: “There is a price we’re paying for the…
[ad_1] Fireworks and celebrations started as the clock struck midnight all across Pakistan, as the nation celebrates its independence following the end of the British Raj in 1947. The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. In 1946, the British Labour government led by Clement…
[ad_1] Also being called the Cloverdale fire, the latest blaze broke out near San Pasqual Road on Monday. Investigators with the local arson team are saying the fire was deliberately set, as the blaze sprung to 100 acres in minutes. By last night, fire crews had managed to prevent the fire from getting too out…
[ad_1] Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former Apprentice contestant who then joined the Trump administration when the former businessman won the US elections in 2016, made the comments. Ms Manigault-Newman, who is known to the US public as Omarosa, was renowned for her ruthless tactics and outspoken attitude on the show. She claims first lady Melania…
[ad_1] A man was arrested after a car collided with security barriers outside London’s Parliament building and a number of pedestrians were injured, police said on Tuesday. “The male driver of the car was detained by officers at the scene. A number of pedestrians have been injured. Officers remain at the scene. We will issue…
[ad_1] A popular Tex-Mex restaurant in Houston, USA, served dinner to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling it an “honour” on Facebook. In response, left-leaning Houstonians called for a boycott, and the restaurant received so much criticism on social media that it deleted all its accounts. Governor Mike Huckabee branded the incident “outrageous” as he accused…
[ad_1] Experts have now managed to uncover large parts of the crashed American C-53 Skytrooper, after sweltering temperatures caused the Gauli glacier in the Bernese Alps to melt, exposing wings, propellers and several other parts of the plane. The crash site is now a sea of debris, according to aviation experts, who say that hangers,…
[ad_1] The figures come from the World Trade Centre Health Programme, a US government scheme which helps victims of 9/11 with medical care. In total 9,795 people, including many heroic first respondents, have cancer which is deemed to be 9/11 related. Of these 420 have died. John Feal, from the Feal Good Foundation which campaigns…
[ad_1] Berlin is hoping to seize a piece of the lucrative cake that is the global dispute industry, which Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels and Dublin is also hoping to secure its chance to be a part of. English is extremely rare in German courts, with judges opting to speak an often incomprehensible legal version of their…
[ad_1] Speaking at a news conference in Baghdad, Mr al-Abadi said: “I did not say we would abide by the sanctions. “I said we abide by not using dollars in transactions. “We have no other choice.” Asked whether Iraq will halt imports of equipment and commodities from Iranian state-owned companies, he said: “We honestly have…
[ad_1] Cal Fire issued a statement on the fatality, saying: “The Mendocino Complex Unified Incident Commanders for Cal Fire, and the United States Forest Service are deeply saddened to report the death of a firefighter on the Mendocino Complex.” They noted that a fact finding investigation is currently underway to determine the exact circumstances of…
[ad_1] Mr Trudeau’s comments come days after the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia suspended diplomatic relations with Canada and expelled the Canadian Ambassador following a series of tweets from the Canadian government, which criticised the arrest of certain social activists in the Gulf kingdom. The tweets have instigated a diplomatic spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada,…
[ad_1] According to Russian General Alexei Tsygankov, the hostile drones were shot down close to the Khmeimim Air Base in Western Syria. He added that there had been no injuries or damage to the base. The drones reportedly headed towards the Russian base from rebel controlled areas of Idlib province, the last major bastion of…
[ad_1] The two world leaders, who have a chequered history, will meet at the German government’s 18th century palace 50 miles north of Berlin. Steffen Seibert, a German government spokesman said: “Chancellor Angela Merkel will host Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 18, 2018 at federal government’s Schloss Meseberg.” He failed to clarify the exact details…
[ad_1] The audio tapes, which were released on NBC’s Today show on Monday, include an alleged phone call between herself and President Trump directly following her December 2017 sacking, in which the President expressed surprise that she had been fired. The US leader fired back at his former employee on Monday, and accused her of…
[ad_1] British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is facing allegations of enabling anti-Semitism, acknowledged Monday that he was present at a wreath-laying for Palestinians allegedly linked to the killing of 11 Israelis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. But the Labour Party leader said “I don’t think I was actually involved,” in laying the wreath. The left-wing…
[ad_1] Prosecutors on Monday rested their tax evasion and bank fraud case in the trial of Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for U.S. President Donald Trump. After two weeks of testimony that depicted Manafort using millions of dollars hidden in offshore accounts to fund a luxurious lifestyle — and later obtaining millions more in bank loans…
[ad_1] The wife and mother of a Manitoba man who went missing last week while hiking in the Alps have flown to Germany to be closer to the exhaustive search. German police officers and search and rescue crews spent the weekend scouring a roughly five-kilometre wide ridge of rugged hiking trail located just north of the Austrian…
[ad_1] Prosecutors charged a white man with manslaughter Monday in the death of an unarmed black man whose video-recorded shooting in a store parking lot has revived debate over Florida’s “stand your ground” law. Michael Drejka, 47, has been charged with the July 19 death of Markeis McGlockton outside a Clearwater, Fla., convenience store, Pinellas…
[ad_1] A Utah man flew a small plane into his own house early Monday just hours after he had been arrested for assaulting his wife in a nearby canyon where the couple went to talk over their problems, authorities said. The pilot, Duane Youd, died. His wife and a child, who were in the home,…
[ad_1] Prosecutors added another murder charge Monday against a California serial killing suspect, boosting the number of victims to 13 in the Golden State Killer case. Former police officer Joseph DeAngelo, 72, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Claude Snelling, who was shot while stopping the kidnapping of his 16-year-old in Visalia,…
[ad_1] Swedish election polls are pointing towards a victory for anti-immigration supporters as the country starts to decide who will next lead. The Sweden Democrats have been garnering particular support recently, but have found difficulty gaining traction due to neo-nazi roots. This year’s parliamentary elections could see a new prime minister, replacing incumbent Stefan Löfven.…
[ad_1] Iran’s supreme leader said Monday that his country will neither go to war nor enter into negotiations with the United States as the Trump administration restores sanctions lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. In remarks carried by state television, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said “along with sanctions, Americans have recently raised two more options, war…
[ad_1] Speaking to Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the Italian eurosceptic claimed Angela Merkel’s party in the European Parliament will be “brushed aside” by new anti-establishment parties around the Brussels bloc. Italy‘s Deputy Prime Minister argued the future of eurosceptic governments in Strasbourg will rule for the next seven years to reverse the European People’s Party…
[ad_1] The coastal city and popular seaside resort was emptied after active explosives weighing more than 500lbs each were found over the weekend according to Polish authorities. Bomb experts from the Polish Army swarmed to the scene to undertake a controlled detonation while locals and holiday-makers from adjacent properties and hotels flocked to shelters and…
[ad_1] EU members could end up shelling out over £500billion as they prepare for trade tariffs and extra costs associated with Britain leaving the bloc without a withdrawal agreement, according to a bombshell report. According to work carried out by Professor Patrick Minford, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher and chairman of Economists for Free…
[ad_1] The former film icon, who has a rocky relationship with the current government, urged in May 2017 those who “love and respect animals” to vote for far-right leader Marine Le Pen. In an interview with the French daily Var Matin on Saturday, the 83-year-old activist slammed the centrist government’s animal rights record and labelled…
[ad_1] Peter Strzok, a longtime agent who once worked on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, was fired by the FBI after he sent text messages criticizing President Donald Trump to a colleague. Strzok was removed from Mueller’s team a year ago after the texts were discovered. Strzok’s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, said his client was fired late Friday…
[ad_1] He was one half of The Hart Foundation team alongside Bret Hart in regular appearances in the ring during the 1980s and 1990s. Former WWF wrestler B.Brian Blair, one half of the Killer Bees team, announced the news today. He said: “So sad to announce the passing of my friend and longtime colleague, Jim…
[ad_1] Our understanding of climate change across the Arctic — and its implications for the rest of the world — may have troubling blind spots. That’s according to Daniel Metcalfe, a researcher at Lund University in Sweden. He examined a database of scientific articles on the Arctic. His findings, published in the most recent Nature…
[ad_1] After a short gondola ride together through thick fog and rain clouds up Mount Mansfield on Sunday, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and Vermont Gov. Phil Scott spoke warmly about the importance of trade between their two countries. But despite the beautiful landscape at the Stowe Mountain Resort and the smiles and handshakes, United States…
[ad_1] Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is seriously ill, according to a person close to the singer. The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not allowed to comment publicly, told The Associated Press on Monday that Franklin is seriously ill. No more details were provided. The Queen of Soul cancelled…
[ad_1] The battle with the Taliban in the eastern city of Ghazni has killed about 100 police officers and soldiers as well as at least 20 civilians, Afghanistan’s defence minister says. Gen. Tareq Shah Bahrami gave the toll at a news conference on Monday, the fourth day of fighting in Ghazni, the provincial capital of the province with…
[ad_1] Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman has released a new audio recording of a conversation she says she had with U.S. President Donald Trump after she was fired from the White House. In an excerpt of the recording that was aired on NBC’s Today Show on Monday, Trump expresses surprise that she had been asked…
[ad_1] China insists there is no “arbitrary detention” and are no “re-education centres” in the Xinjiang region after a UN human rights committee raised concern over reported mass detentions of ethnic Uighurs. Beijing responded Monday to questions by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which said Friday that it had received many credible reports that one million…
[ad_1] The death toll from the earthquake that rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok a week ago has risen to over 430 and the government estimates economic losses will exceed several hundred million dollars. The national disaster agency said Monday that the Aug. 5 quake killed 436 people. Most of them died in collapsing buildings. It…
[ad_1] An oceanside boardwalk collapsed during a nighttime concert in the Spanish city of Vigo, injuring 313 people, five of them seriously, authorities said Monday. Many young people were on the port’s wooden boardwalk when it gave way around midnight Sunday at the closing event of a three-day festival, officials in the northwestern port city…
[ad_1] The rival Koreas announced Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet in Pyongyang sometime in September, while their envoys also discussed Pyongyang’s nuclear disarmament efforts and international sanctions. The push for what would be the leaders’ third summit since April comes amid renewed worries surrounding a…
[ad_1] Newsites owned by Tronc, Lee Enterprises and GateHouse Media are still inaccessible in Europe and some have no plans to comply. Company spokesman Charles Arms has said that Lee Enterprises has no plans to comply. He said: “Internet traffic on our local news sites originating from the EU and EEA is de minimis, and…
[ad_1] More than 350,000 people fled their homes after the 6.9-magnitude quake to shelter in government-provided tents or makeshift structures in open fields. Authorities say aid is slow in getting to some of the hardest-hit areas as they are remote. “The damage and losses are huge,” Sutopo Nugroho, the spokesman of Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation…
[ad_1] The ministry said 346 social media accounts that posted comments about the weakening of the currency have been identified since August 7 and legal action has been launched. Turkey said it was targeted by an economic attack, Istanbul prosecutor office said. It said all legal action will be taken against all written news, visual…
[ad_1] Maps provided by CalFire show general locations of major fires burning in the USA state. The fire locations are approximates – but the shocking maps clearly show the spread of the raging blazes. Cal Fire Battalion Chief, Jonathan Cox stated on Saturday they are “making good strides on a lot of those large fires.…
[ad_1] “The RBI was there to curtail the volatility in early trade, but not in a big way,” said a senior dealer at a foreign bank. The rupee reversed marginally from its record lows to trade at 69.53 to the dollar. It had ended at 68.84 to the dollar on Friday. The 10-year benchmark bond…
[ad_1] At least five are said to be in a serious condition following the freak accident at midnight in Vigo although none are in danger, according to the local government. They suffered broken arms or legs and head injuries. The structure collapsed during the “O Marisquiño” festival virtually as the clock struck 12am last night.…
[ad_1] Nigel Farage ripped into the “Remainer Prime Minister and Remainer cabinet” for blindly following the EU in its foreign policy decision-making. In a scathing rant on his LBC show, the former Ukip leader blasted the Government’s decision to side with the EU over the US on the Iranian nuclear deal crisis. He hit out…
[ad_1] Six new blazes erupted on Saturday, pushing the total past the 100 mark. The fires are currently being battled by 30,000 emergency workers, including 140 expert firefighters from Australia and New Zealand. So far the infernos have overrun more than 1.6 million acres, according to the US National Interagency Coordination Centre. There are concerns…
[ad_1] The body was found after the store owner, noticing the smell, called a plumber to investigate. The plumber removed some bricks and found a leg and shoe inside. Authorities believe it may be the body of a man the police were chasing last Monday. The suspect ran away from police after crashing a vehicle…
[ad_1] Demonstrators took to the streets of Tehran last week to express their anger at the Iranian administration, criticising the government over “widespread corruption, crippling inflation, and injustice”. Murad, an electrician from Tehran, told the Daily Telegraph: “Iran is trying to say Trump is behind all our miseries, but it is only the House of…
[ad_1] Syrian troops, including the elite Tiger Force, are reported to be gathering on the outskirts of the province. Shelling has been reported to the South, East and West of Idlib. Syrian regime helicopters have been dropping leaflets over towns urging locals not to resist, and claiming that the war is “close to an end”.…
[ad_1] The sniper – a sergeant veteran of the fighting in Iraq and Syria – was on a secret patrol in an ISIS-controlled area of northern Afghanistan in June. The bullet – from a huge .50 Calibre machine gun – struck the commander in the chest with such velocity that it ripped his arm and…
[ad_1] Special Islamic revolutionary courts were being set up to try suspects quickly after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for “swift and just” legal action to confront an “economic war” by foreign enemies. Iranian authorities have arrested 67 people in a drive against financial crime, as the country faces renewed US sanctions and a…
[ad_1] A Chinese tourist was attacked and killed by a hippo while taking pictures on the edge of Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley just hours after a local fisherman was mauled to death in the same area, authorities said Sunday. Another Chinese tourist was injured in the incident Saturday night and received treatment in the…
[ad_1] One investor said: “When you are investing on a 10-year timeline you can’t put a single value on something. “If Tesla does become dominant in autonomous driving or electric vehicles, the value could be three or four times $420.” Another source with knowledge of several investors’ thinking said: “They are extremely angry at $420. They’re frustrated…
[ad_1] Eurosceptic leader Matteo Salvini insisted Italy‘s coalition Government would put the needs of Italians before the commitments made to the European Union. The Lega leader told Il Sole 24 Ore he would make sure to deliver on the pledges of his manifesto “whether the European Union likes it or not”. Mr Salvini said: “We…
[ad_1] Several fires across California have caused devastation to the landscape and structures alike. Strong winds, hot temperatures and hard to reach terrain have caused havoc for the firefighters tackling the blazes. Bone-dry brush and undergrowth have meant that the fires have spread quickly, growing rapidly and dangerously close to residences in some areas. Maps…
[ad_1] The blaze took hold in a dry pine forest in the Dirfyon municipal region at 3.20pm (local time) and isheading towards the evacuated villages, close to Athens. Shocking video footage shows how forest fires have turned the city skyline orange. The fires prompted the mass evacuation of Kontodespoti and Stavros village in central Evia,…
[ad_1] Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman said Sunday she secretly recorded conversations she had in the White House, including her firing by chief of staff John Kelly in the high-security Situation Room. It was a highly unusual admission, which immediately drew fire from allies of the U.S. president. Parts of her conversation with Kelly…
[ad_1] Nine holidaymakers were struck down on the island of Zante after downing the moonshine in what one victim said could have cost him his life. The cocktails are thought to contain methanol, a cheap, toxic solvent added to make alcohol go further. Victims reported losing their vision, liver damage, seizures and severe vomiting which…
[ad_1] The US President has triggered a bitter trade war with the likes of Europe, China and Canada by imposing huge import tariffs on a number of goods, including steel and aluminium. He has accused them of unfair trade practices and insists the tariffs are aimed at protecting American jobs. Speaking to German newspaper Bild…
[ad_1] Moscow declared it will decrease its holdings of US assets in retaliation against crippling tariffs imposed by US President Mr Trump on Russia and Turkey. However, Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov said on state television today that they have no plans to shut down IS companies within the country. Chillingly, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev…
[ad_1] An explosion in northern Syria killed at least 36 people Sunday and wounded many others, but the cause of the blast wasn’t immediately known, opposition activists said. The opposition-run Syria Civil Defence, first responders also known as the White Helmets, said the blast occurred in the town of Sarmada near the Turkish border. The explosion collapsed…
[ad_1] The minute-long clip video, shared on social media by Russia‘s Ministry of Defence, shows off Moscow’s fearsome defence capabilities. Accompanied by dramatic music, the video features an array of Russian military aircraft including fighter jets and helicopters. Air Force Day has been held annually in Russia since 1997 to celebrate Moscow’s air force. Russian…
[ad_1] The Caspian Sea area is the the world’s biggest enclosed body of water and the five nations, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, have argued over its divide for almost 30 years. Some of the dispute, on the delimitation of the seabed, will require further negotiating. The timely deal follows a vow made by…
[ad_1] More than 22,000 acres of Californian forest and rural areas have been destroyed since the Holy Fire broke out on Monday, with flames still ravaging land across Orange County. A state of emergency has been declared by governor Jerry Brown, while over 1,000 firefighters and volunteers tried to contain the blaze. The fire has…
[ad_1] Nearly 400 people were killed when a number of earthquakes hit the area, with the biggest, on Sunday August 5, measuring 6.9 magnitude. It hit Lombok but was felt in neighbouring Bali with buildings destroyed and a number of people also dying as a result of the tremor. Scientists from NASA and the California…
[ad_1] Police in Manchester, England say 10 people have been hospitalized as the result of a shooting after a Caribbean carnival in the city. Greater Manchester police say the injuries range from “minor to major” but most don’t appear to be life-threatening. The shooting was reported about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. Detective Superintendent Debbie Dooley says…
[ad_1] Turkey’s president on Saturday blamed the country’s economic downturn on the United States and other nations that he claims are waging “war” against his country. Speaking in the northeastern province of Rize, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that dollars, euros and gold were now “the bullets, cannonballs and missiles of the economic war being…
[ad_1] Washington was bracing for a white nationalist rally on Sunday organized to coincide with the anniversary of last year’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The “Unite the Right 2” event was scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. ET in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House. Several counterprotests have also received permission to gather nearby. Authorities…
[ad_1] Firefighters have managed to increase containment of the Holy Fire to 36 percent in the Cleveland National Forest area of Southern California’s Orange County as it reached its fifth day, officials said. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Orange and Riverside counties as the fire raged on, however some evacuations have been…
[ad_1] The economic spat between the US and Turkey has continued to escalate today, as the struggling lira currency plunges in value. Turkey’s currency has recently plummeted to record lows against the US dollar, after US President Donald Trump hit his Turkish counterpart with devastating sanctions. The Turkish economic woes and the US sanctions were sparked by a diplomatic…
[ad_1] Helpless skiers could do nothing but was the volcanic eruption unfold as they sat stuck on a ski lift at a popular resort in Chile. The volatile Nevados de Chillán erupted and spewed a 5,000ft plume of smoke, dust and ash into the sky. Chile’s national emergency office, ONEMI, immediately issued a yellow alert — the second…
[ad_1] The US/Iran nuclear agreement was hailed as one of Barack Obama’s biggest successes leading to an improved relationship between the two countries. However in recent months relations have deteriorated as Trump has become increasingly critical of Iran. In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, Robert Wood Johnson said the Iranian regime is “squandering its…
[ad_1] Images shared on social media appear to show the train partially submerged in water. The incident is thought to have occurred early on Sunday. The four car train was travelling between the cities of Sainshand and Ulaanbaatar after heavy rains. More to follow… [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The family Richard Russell, 29, a ground service agent, otherwise known as Beebo, delivered a statement to the media on Saturday evening, via their friend Mike Matthews. They said of Richard: “He was a faithful husband, loving son and a good friend. “A childhood friend remarked that Beebo was loved by everyone because he…
[ad_1] The rogue pilot, 29, said to be a mechanic and who has not yet been named, performed acrobatics before crashing in a fireball on the island off the US coast. Horrified witnesses on the ground in Seattle said they saw two F-15 fighters attempt to intercept the 76-seater Horizon Air Q400 and “steer” it…
[ad_1] In July alone, the deficit was an eye-watering $76.9 billion according to the Federal Government, due to high military spending. This is not unusual for the time of year as there have only been two years out of the last 64 where there wasn’t a deficit in July. Trump’s tax cuts to the wealthy…
[ad_1] Former White House staff Omarosa Manigault Newman said she walked in on the incident following one of Donald Trump’s meeting with his lawyer. She makes the claims in her new book Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House. According to a section of the book seen by the Washington Post, Ms Newman…
[ad_1] Reports suggest a person opened fire near a Target store on Blue Diamond Road, Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed they were investigating and officer-involved shooting in the area in a statement on Twitter. The Blue Diamond Cross Shopping Centre contains a number of stores including Ross Dress for Less, Target…
[ad_1] Trinidad-born U.K. author V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001, has died at his home in London. He was 85. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, who began writing in the 1950s, won numerous coveted literary awards throughout his career, during which he wrote critically acclaimed novels such as A House for Mr Biswas,…
[ad_1] The Chinese military warned off a Philippines military aircraft with a vociferous message demanding the plane “immediately” leave the aerospace over the South China Sea. Bejing has long locked horns with Manila over access to the common sea strip, with China advancing militarisation efforts in the area despite a case from the international tribunal in…
[ad_1] Firefighters have made significant progress trying to tamp down a wildfire that threatened homes and has been raging for days south of Los Angeles, officials said Saturday. Aircraft have been making flight after flight, dumping water and bright pink retardant to protect Lake Elsinore and other foothill communities as the fire sweeps through the…
[ad_1] Civil Protection workers said yesterday the seven-day blaze, which began near the village of Monchique a half-hour drive north of the coast, had been stabilised. More than 20 firefighters were among 42 people injured and around 300 people were evacuated from their homes. The flames came close to a house ex-PM David Cameron…
[ad_1] According to an unsourced report in Italy’s la Republic newspaper on Saturday, Brussels is finally prepared to give the Italian Government some financial leeway in the escalating row. In return, the EU wants a commitment from Italy to reduce its structural deficit, which is adjusted for economic growth fluctuations. Italy’s populist coalition wants enough…
[ad_1] The country’s president told a crowd of supporters in a Turkish town on the Black Sea coast: “You can never bring this nation in line with the language of threats. “I am once again calling on those in America: It is a pity that you choose a pastor over your strategic partner in NATO.…
[ad_1] The European Union has asked Saudi Arabia to shed light on the arrests and charges facing women human rights activists, saying that the detainees should be granted due process to defend themselves. Saudi Arabia has in recent months detained several women’s rights activists, some of whom had campaigned for the right to drive and…
[ad_1] Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ruled out talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Mr Trump slapped tough sanctions on Iran earlier this month despite pleas from the international community. The US President claimed they were “the most biting sanctions ever imposed” with Iran shooting down suggestions of negotiations at the United Nations General…
[ad_1] In their Saturday morning update, California National Forest stated that Holy Fire had grown to a staggering 21,473 acres and was 29 percent contained. The blaze is affecting two of the state’s counties – Orange and Riverside. The spread of the blaze and threat to properties as well as air quality concerns has led…
[ad_1] Mr Erdogan has spoken out after US President Trump doubled punishing tariffs on the nation adding that those responsible “think they can destroy Turkey”. Donald Trump took to Twitter yesterday to boast about the value of the dollar against the lira. He told his 57million followers: “I have just authorised a doubling of Tariffs…
[ad_1] Dewayne Johnson, 46, from the US, was awarded $289million (£226million) after a jury found that Monsanto – the makers of Roundup – did not “adequately warn” of the risks of using the product. The jury found that Monsanto officials acted with “malice and oppression” in their selling of the product despite its risks being…
[ad_1] In Charlottesville, Va., the scars are still fresh. There’s a small stretch of street in the centre of town where bouquets of flowers line the sidewalk. On the brick wall they lean against, messages of love have been written in chalk. “Hate has no home here,” reads one ribbon tied to a street sign.…
[ad_1] Donald Trump launched a fresh auto tariff threat against Canada late Friday at a time when Ottawa finds itself in a holding pattern on NAFTA negotiations as it awaits the completion of one-on-one talks between the United States and Mexico. In a tweet that appeared to reference NAFTA’s renegotiation, the U.S. president said the…
[ad_1] Russia typically brushes off new U.S. sanctions. Not this time. The Trump administration announcement of export restrictions in response to accusations Moscow used a nerve agent to poison a former Russian spy in Britain sent the ruble tumbling to a two-year low and drew a stern warning from its prime minister. While the initial…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be leading by example with his aggressive habit of imposing economic sanctions abroad when he’s aggrieved, but his reliance on a blunt tool could set a dangerous geopolitical trend. So say international trade lawyers and former diplomats, who point to what they view as an uptick in world leaders…
[ad_1] High winds, dry hot weather and difficult terrain are making the fires difficult to contain, with the latest, the southern Holy Fire, being only about five percent contained. Mandatory evacuations and states of emergency have been imposed. Weather conditions and locations of the fires have made it difficult for those battling the flames –…
[ad_1] Cars were pictured several feet below cracked and collapsed tarmac outside the retail giant’s superstore in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where emergency services have warned customers at retail park chain Tanger Outlets not to approach the unstable crater. Measuring half of the width of the H&M shop, the sinkhole trapped the cars that inside it that…
[ad_1] After tech billionaire PayPal founder and Facebook investor Peter Thiel and disgraced former NBC host Matt Lauer bought property, the New Zealand government is going to put an end to the trend. The interest in buying property in New Zealand to ride out the apocalypse had such an allure to the mega-rich that it…
[ad_1] Police quizzed the 56-year-old on suspicion of manslaughter – but released him without charges pending an ongoing court probe after he told officers he forgot she was with him when he parked up at 7am to go for a coffee and only discovered his fatal mistake when he returned at 3pm. A passing doctor…
[ad_1] Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli took to Twitter in an act that mirrors President Trump’s style and urged Turkey not to release the detained American pastor that sparked levies on Turkish steel and aluminium. He also accused Mr Trump of enforcing “economic terror” on the troubled nation. Mr Bahçeli said: “Economic terror…
[ad_1] Romanian police on Saturday defended their use of force after an anti-government protest turned violent leaving 455 people, including three dozen riot police, needing medical treatment. Marius Militaru, spokesman for Romania’s riot police, said 70 people, including 11 riot police, were taken to hospitals the previous night, and police are pursuing charges against eight…
[ad_1] Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif warned Mr Trump that the “entire world would unite” and use “force” the US to scrap fresh sanctions imposed as a result of a spat over a detained American pastor and Turkey’s defiance to buy oil from Iran. Mr Zarif – in true Trump fashion – took to Twitter…
[ad_1] A “suicidal” airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said. Preliminary information suggests the crash occurred because the 29-year-old man was “doing stunts in air or…
[ad_1] An off-duty police officer who was going surfing with a friend stopped the sex attack after rushing to the woman’s aid when he heard her screaming for help. The drama happened in the popular resort of Playa de Las Americas in the south of the island. Local reports say the holidaymaker agreed to go…
[ad_1] Beijing has said it is necessary for the Asian powerhouse to keep growing its military presence in the South China Sea in order to protect its sovereignty. The US Navy was warned five or six times by the Chinese military and the crew responded. The response was: “I am a sovereign immune United States…
[ad_1] Speaking to Aljazeera, the eurosceptic Interior Minister pledged to “convince” Brussels to cave into his demands on immigration, economic sanctions on Russia and future trade agreements. Mr Salvini warned Italy will be prepared to veto any future decisions that will not be taken in the interests of its economic future. He said: “We have put…
[ad_1] Pierre Achkar, the Mayor of the Lebanese city of Broumana, bet on the good looks of his new traffic cops to boost tourism. He hopes to change perceptions of Westerners who avoid the Mediterranean country because of its reputation for violence, terror attacks and political instability. And its vicinity to war-torn Syria raised fears…
[ad_1] Oleg Vornik, CEO of DroneShield, said we are living in “truly terrifying” times after the assassination attempt on Mr Maduro on Sunday as he delivered a speech at a military event in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The attack was apparently foiled by radio operators “jamming” the drone’s signal, the New Scientist subsequently suggested –…
[ad_1] SeaTac airport confirmed an airline member of staff took the plane. In a statement, the airport said: “An airline employee conducted an unauthorized takeoff without passengers at Sea-Tac; aircraft has crashed in south Puget Sound” The local Sherriff’s office have suggested the pilot of the stolen plane was a mechanic or other person with…
[ad_1] The US Navy P-8A Poseidon jet was flying at 16,500 feet to get a view of low-lying coral reefs that have been turned into garrisons with five-storey buildings, large radar installations, power plants and runways sturdy enough to carry large military aircraft. During the flight that was giving journalists from CNN a rare look…
[ad_1] The two leaders spoke by phone earlier today to discuss economic ties amid the deepening crisis. A Kremlin source said they talked about projects such as energy, just hours after Donald Trump weighed in on the economic crisis by declaring more Turkish sanctions via Twitter. Donald Trump tweeted: “I have just authorised a doubling…
[ad_1] TURKS have been hitting bureau de changes, after being ordered to sell their gold and dollars to support the crumbling Lira. Turkey’s economic woes worsened after US President Donald Trump escalated a feud with Turkey by doubling tariffs on metals imports. Photos show locals obediently visiting exchange offices in a collective bid to save…
[ad_1] EU leaders have repeatedly called for the Ukrainian’s release since he was sentenced by a Russian court to 20 years in a high-security prison for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea. Mr Sentsov began his hunger strike in May ahead of the World Cup in an effort to highlight Russia’s dismal human rights record, calling on…
[ad_1] A US official did not suggest that missile tests such as this were unusual during naval exercises, Reuters reports. The missile was fired in an area which could be described as Iranian territorial waters in the Strait, the official noted. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Sunday it had held war games in the Gulf…
[ad_1] The officers were attacked in the eastern city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the latest eruption of gun violence that has led to renewed calls for weapons bans in Canadian cities. Police in Fredericton, a city of about 56,000, said a suspect was in custody and being treated for serious injuries. It comes just…
[ad_1] The Holy Fire is currently on five percent contained in the Cleveland National Forest area of Southern California’s Orange County as it reached its fourth day, officials said. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Orange and Riverside counties as the fire raged on. In their morning update Cleveland National Forest declared Holy…
[ad_1] A Chicago bank chief pushed for $16 million US in loans to Paul Manafort in return for help landing a post in the incoming Trump administration, a witness in the former Trump campaign chairman’s federal fraud trial testified on Friday. Dennis Raico, a former Federal Savings Bank executive testifying under immunity, said the bank’s…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Friday filed a legal challenge to the results of the country’s first election without former president Robert Mugabe on the ballot, alleging “gross mathematical errors” and calling for a fresh vote or a declaration that their candidate Nelson Chamisa was the winner. The filing brings more uncertainty to a…
[ad_1] The White House has lambasted a new book by ex-staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman, calling her “a disgruntled” former employee who’s making “false accusations” against U.S. President Donald Trump. The Guardian newspaper reports that in her forthcoming memoir, Unhinged, Manigault-Newman labels Trump a “racist” and claims she’s been told there are tapes of him using the N-word repeatedly…
[ad_1] The UN Security Council is calling for “a credible and transparent investigation” into an attack in northern Yemen that killed a large number of civilians, including children. A statement from the UN’s most powerful body was issued by a senior UN official on Friday after a closed briefing and expressed “grave concern” at the latest attacks…
[ad_1] Armed groups, dense populations and mass displacement make Congo’s latest deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus more challenging than ever to contain, the World Health Organization’s chief said Friday. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke after vaccinations began this week, with support from a UN peacekeeping mission, in Congo’s restive northeast where multiple rebel groups pose…
[ad_1] Forrest Gordon Clark, 51, has been charged with felony arson for allegedly starting the Holy Fire that has been ripping through the Orange and Riverside counties. The blaze started in Cleveland National Forest’s Holy Jim Canyon and has so far destroyed a dozen structures, according to fire authorities. Holy Jim volunteer fire department chief…
[ad_1] The southern California fires have doubled in size since Wednesday night and fire crews have relentlessly battled to get control of the blaze. Video footage shows the flames work their way down a hillside and towards a group of homes. The shocking footage then shows the true extent of the blaze as flames light…
[ad_1] This was a weakening further from Thursday’s 5.55. The decline comes amid Turkey’s rift with the US. They have been at loggerheads over the detention of US evangelic pastor Andrew Brunson on terrorism charges. Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak has defended Turkey’s situation in a speech in which he promised to “transform” Turkey’s economy.…
[ad_1] Pumping carbon dioxide into the air makes the planet greener; the United Nations puts out fake science about climate change to control the global energy market; and wind and solar energy are simply “dumb.” These are among the messages that flowed from the America First Energy Conference in New Orleans this week, hosted by some of the country’s most…
[ad_1] A red-hot voyage to the sun is going to bring us closer to our star than ever before. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and come within just six million kilometres of the sun’s surface. It’s designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that’s capable of…
[ad_1] The UN General Assembly has approved Chile’s former president Michelle Bachelet as the next UN human rights chief by consensus. With a bang of his gavel, Miroslav Lajcak, assembly president, on Friday gave official approval to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s selection of Bachelet. The UN’s 193 member states applauded. UN chief says Chile’s Michelle Bachelet takes on…
[ad_1] Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government’s efforts to rewrite how religion is practised in the country. A large crowd of Hui people, a Muslim ethnic minority, gathered outside the towering Grand Mosque in the town of…
[ad_1] A political argument on Facebook led to a 44-year-old Florida man driving to the home of a stranger he had been arguing with and shooting him, according to a report. Brian Sebring now faces felony charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed gun. Sebring told the Tampa Bay Times he…
[ad_1] Aircraft turned hillsides red with retardant as homeowners wet their houses with garden hoses in a battle to contain an arson wildfire, which prompted evacuation orders for more than 20,000 people south of Los Angeles. Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency Thursday night for Orange and Riverside counties as a four-day-old fire…
[ad_1] Torrential rains and landslides killed at least 24 people in southern India on Thursday, with the authorities opening the shutters of 24 water reservoirs in an unprecedented move to prevent potentially disastrous breaches, officials said. The June-September rains in Kerala state have cost 175 lives and damaged crops worth 3.42 billion rupees ($63 million) across 268 square kilometres since their onset…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had authorized higher tariffs on imports from Turkey, imposing a 20 percent duty on aluminum and 50 percent one on steel, as tensions mount between the two NATO allies over Ankara’s imprisonment of an evangelical pastor and other diplomatic issues. “I have just authorized a doubling…
[ad_1] A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, “with potentially catastrophic effects,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday. The world’s largest disaster relief network warned of a risk of a “full-blown food security crisis” in the isolated country, saying the worrying situation had been…
[ad_1] The Taliban tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets in the night to attack security forces, and killing at least 14 policemen before being pushed back, officials say. The overnight attack in the southeastern city of Ghazni, the capital of a province with the same…
[ad_1] Myanmar on Thursday sharply rejected an attempt by the International Criminal Court to consider the country’s culpability for activities that caused about 700,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh for safety. The office of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s leader, said in a statement posted online that the court in…
[ad_1] A U.S. federal judge on Thursday halted a deportation in progress and threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt if the mother and daughter weren’t returned to the country. The woman — identified in court as Carmen — is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed this week against the administration by the…
[ad_1] The foreign exchange reserves are at four-year lows triggering fears that Islamabad will not be able to finance its monthly import bills. The country only completed its last IMF bailout two years ago when it received £823million ($1billion) in 2014, but now it needs another injection of cash from the fund, or China. The…
[ad_1] The Cleveland National Forest was only 5 percent contained as of Thursday evening local time. The brush fire is now entering its fifth day as it moves dangerously close to homes in Riverside County’s Lake Elsinore-Corona area. By 8pm on Thursday evening, the fire had grown from 9,600 acres to 10,236 acres. The blaze…
[ad_1] Hundreds of helicopters and 400 firefighters were deployed to the south of France on Thursday as torrential rain caused heavy flash floods. The worst-hit areas are Gard, Ardèche and Drôme. Top Gard official Thierry Dousset told BFM-TV that about 750 people were evacuated from five campsites. The local Gard government also said four German…
[ad_1] One US dollar bought 5.57 lira during evening trading yesterday with the troubled currency plummeting five percent in one day. Investors questioned the ability of newly elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s to prevent the nation’s deepening financial turmoil spiralling further out of control. The slump of the lira, which has lost a dangerous 30…
[ad_1] Rachel Buchanan, of Oxford, was one of thousands of holidaymakers who had headed for camp sites in Gard, Ardeche and Drome when heavy rain destroyed tents as the heatwave broke with a vengeance. She woke up to discover her camper van was one foot deep in water and had to race to escape waters…
[ad_1] The euro has dropped today after the Turkish lira ad Russian rouble plummeted (Image: getty) The euro fell to its lowest level since July 2017 and the dollar rallied as Washington piled pressure on Ankara and Moscow. The lira went into free-fall, sinking more than 10 percent to all-time lows. European stocks looked set…
[ad_1] The brutal attack hit the bus in the city of Saada, whilst it was visiting a market. Most of those onboard the bus were reportedly children on a school trip. According to Yemen’s Health Ministry, which is controlled by the Houthi faction in Yemen’s civil war, 50 were killed and 77 injured. The International…
[ad_1] In the recording Devin Nunes, a Republican Congressman and chair of the House Intelligence Committee, admitted that: “We have to keep the majority. “If Jeff Sessions won’t un-recuse and Mueller won’t clear the President, we’re the only ones, which is really the danger. “We have to keep all those seats.” The audio was aired…
[ad_1] Hundreds of rescuers backed by helicopters moved out about 1,600 people, most of them campers, in three regions of southern France where heavy rain caused flash flooding and transformed rivers and streams into torrents, the interior minister said Thursday. Hardest hit was the Gard region, where 119 children, many of them from Germany, were evacuated…
[ad_1] The secretive state has accused US government staff of attempting to sabotage Donald Trump’s work on the relationship between the two nations. However, there was noticeably no explicit criticism of the President himself. A statement from the North Korean government, broadcast via the Korea Central News Agency, accused US figures of spouting “falsehoods” about…
[ad_1] Iraq’s Independent High Election Commission (IHEC) published the results of the recount on its website in the early hours of Friday morning, which indicated that populist Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had retained his lead from May’s elections. The IHEC indicated that the results of the recount mirrored the initial figures from 13 of Iraq’s…
[ad_1] TENNESSEE carried out its first execution in nearly a decade on Thursday, administering a lethal injection to a man convicted of the rape and murder of a child in 1985. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Viktor and Amalija Knavs, First Lady Melania Trump’s parents, 73 and 71 years old respectively, were sworn in as US citizens in a private service on Thursday, their immigration attorney Michael Wildes announced. The ceremony has prompted questions about Donald Trump’s flagrant disregard for practising what he preaches, as the First Lady’s parents obtained citizenship through…
[ad_1] Michael Moore implied the President is desperate to hold on to his job for as long as possible. Speaking to the Huffington Post, the 64-year old said: “Donald Trump is an even genius; he has no intention of leaving the White House. “Whenever he hears that another country has a President for life he…
[ad_1] Speaking at the Pentagon, Mr Pence said he hoped to secure the new service by 2020. The 59-year-old US Vice President claimed a space force was required to ensure America’s “dominance” in space, amid growing antagonism and threats from China and Russia. He said: “The United States Space Force will strengthen our security and…
[ad_1] The US leader has vowed to implement sanctions against Iran’s energy industry on November 4 in a bid to completely restrict Iran’s trade of oil. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani consequently threatened to disrupt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway for the export of oil from the Middle East, if the…
[ad_1] The surprise sanctions, in line with US law that obliges action if chemical or biological weapons have been used, saw the value of Russia’s rouble plunge to a two-year low. The US government has concluded that Moscow was behind the attack in March which targeted former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.…
[ad_1] A severely disabled Georgia boy who authorities say was kidnapped by his father and marked for an exorcism was found buried at the ramshackle compound in the New Mexico desert that has been the focus of investigators for the past week, the toddler’s grandfather said Thursday. New Mexico authorities, however, said they had yet…
[ad_1] Japan’s heatwave last month was declared a natural disaster last month, as at least 65 people died after temperatures reached more than 40C. The deadly temperatures were among a number of other natural disasters to hit the country this year. On June 18, an earthquake measuring 5.5 in magnitude struck in the northern Osaka…
[ad_1] A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping the widely used pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies’ brains. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to remove…
[ad_1] Melania Trump’s parents were sworn in as U.S. citizens Thursday. Viktor and Amalija Knavs, both in their 70s, took the citizenship oath at a special, private ceremony in New York City. The Slovenian immigrants, a former car dealer and textile factory worker, had been living in the U.S. as permanent residents. The Knavses slipped…
[ad_1] After three days of dramatic and even salacious testimony in the trial of Paul Manafort, prosecutors on Thursday returned to the nuts and bolts of their case against the former Trump campaign chairman as they sought to show he obtained millions of dollars in bank loans under false pretences. Attorneys for special counsel Robert…
[ad_1] A Tokyo medical school apologized Tuesday after an internal investigation confirmed that it altered entrance exam scores for years to limit the number of female students and ensure more men became doctors. Tokyo Medical University manipulated all entrance exam results starting in 2006 or even earlier, according to findings released by lawyers involved in…
[ad_1] Top Gard official Thierry Dousset told BFM-TV that about 750 people were evacuated from five campsites. The Gard government also said four German children were hospitalised for hypothermia in Bagnols-sur-Ceze. BFM-TV reported that the missing person was a 70-year-old German man. As much as four inches of rain fell in less than three hours…
[ad_1] California fire officials say the largest blaze ever recorded in the state is now more than half contained. But the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said Thursday it will still take several weeks to fully surround the massive wildfire in Northern California because it’s burning in steep terrain that’s hard to reach. Cal…
[ad_1] The results offer physicians a new way to detect those at higher risk of the degenerative disorder which causes memory loss and other symptoms of cognitive decline. The new study, conducted by the Washington School of Medicine and published in the Alzheimer’s and Dementia journal says that degenerative eye diseases are linked to the…
[ad_1] The Syrian army dropped leaflets over Idlib province on Thursday, urging people in part of the last big swathe of territory still held by rebels to agree to a return of state rule, telling them the seven-year war was nearing its end. Northwestern Syria, where Idlib is located, is the last big area still…
[ad_1] Faced with growing competition and threats from Russia and China, the White House on Thursday said it will create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth, separate military service by 2020. Vice-President Mike Pence told a Pentagon audience that the plan fulfils President Donald Trump’s vow to ensure America’s dominance in space — a domain that…
[ad_1] North Carolina authorities on Wednesday arrested a juvenile they say robbed a 9-year-old lemonade vendor of $17 at gunpoint, a stickup that prompted an outpouring of sympathy and donations for the young entrepreneur. Tony Underwood, a spokesperson for the Union County Sheriff’s Office, said detectives had obtained security camera footage of a person who…
[ad_1] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in Ecuador’s London Embassy for six years, is considering an offer to appear before a U.S. Senate committee to discuss alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, his lawyer said on Thursday. WikiLeaks published a letter from the U.S. intelligence committee on Wednesday that…
[ad_1] Ebola vaccinations are underway for Congo’s latest outbreak of the deadly virus that has already claimed at least nine lives. Health officials have warned that containing the outbreak in North Kivu province is complicated by the presence of multiple armed groups vying for mineral-rich land in the northeastern region that borders Uganda and Rwanda.…
[ad_1] Puerto Rico is now estimating that Hurricane Maria killed more than 1,400 people, far more than the official death toll of 64, in a report to the U.S. Congress seeking billions to help the island recover from the devastating storm. The government, relying on updated statistics it first reported in June, said there were…
[ad_1] Archeologists in Mexico have discovered sets of human remains from the early ancestors of the Mayan civilization that could be as much as 7,000 years old, officials reported on Tuesday. According to archaeologists at a Mexico City news conference, three sets of human remains were unearthed at the Puyil cave in the Tacotalpa municipality…
[ad_1] Russia condemned a new round of U.S. sanctions as illegal on Thursday after news of the measures sent the rouble tumbling to two-year lows and sparked a wider asset sell-off over fears that Moscow was locked in a spiral of never-ending curbs by the West. Moscow has been trying with mixed success to improve battered U.S.-Russia ties since Donald…
[ad_1] Israeli warplanes struck dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip and three people were reportedly killed there, while Palestinian militants from the territory fired scores of rockets into Israel in a fierce burst of violence overnight and into Thursday morning. The flare-up comes as Egypt is trying to broker a long-term ceasefire between the…
[ad_1] Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children travelling on a bus, in Yemen’s Saada province, Yemeni medical sources and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The Western-backed alliance fighting the Iranian-aligned Houthi group in Yemen said the airstrikes targeted missile launchers used to attack the southern Saudi…
[ad_1] Argentine senators rejected a bill to legalize abortion after an impassioned debate ran into the early hours of Thursday, pushing back against a groundswell of support from a surging abortion rights movement. The Senate voted 38-31 against the proposed measure, which would have legalized a woman’s right to seek an abortion into the 14th week of pregnancy. The bill…
[ad_1] Engineers came to a halt after stumbling upon the a large statue, which they described as having a “lion’s body with a human head”. They soon realised they retrieved the world’s second Egyptian sphinx, which originated as far as 2500 BC during the reign of the Pharoah Kafre in Egypt. Mohamed Abel Aziz, the…
[ad_1] Speaking on Fox News The Five, the American TV presenter attacked Mr De Blasio as he blamed the popular news channel for “negativity and divisiveness” in the USA. In an interview with British newspaper The Guardian, the New York City Mayor said America would be “more unified” if media tycoon News Corp was removed from…
[ad_1] The unofficial EU capital is often thrown into chaos during the bloc’s large-scale summits where roads are closed at a moments notice to accommodate visiting heads of state. Despite bringing millions of euros in investment and jobs, the real Brussels has grown tired of the EU’s presencence in the Belgian capital. But there is…
[ad_1] Another major tremor rocked the island on Thursday and left frightened survivors of Sunday’s quake pouring onto the streets as buildings collapsed. The magnitude-5.9 earthquake struck close to the epicentre of Sundays 6.9 quake on Lombok, with a depth of 10km (6 miles). Today’s earthquake was the third big trmor to hit Lombok in…
[ad_1] Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island began a new eruptive phase on May 4 this year, coating the island in thick orange lava over the past three months as eruptions continue. A continuous stream of the viscous igneous flow had been pouring out of the volcano summit and associated fissures. The volcano was also…
[ad_1] The aftershock measured 5.9 on the Richter scale, and was felt strongly on the island. It sent people into the streets in panic and caused buildings to collapse. The quake hit at 12.25pm local time on Thursday (6.25am BST) at a shallow depth of 10km. According to Indonesia’s meteorology agency, the epicentre of the…
[ad_1] Buildings continue to collapse on the Indonesian island of Lombok as the earth shook for the third time on Thursday. It follows the latest 6.9 quake on Sunday that killed at least 131 people and damaged thousands of houses. BNPB’s official death toll from Sunday’s quake stood at 131 on Wednesday, although some Indonesian…
[ad_1] Plumes of dark smoke can be seen from a satellite in space after the blaze forced 2,500 people to evacuate the region. Portugal is entering the seventh day of wildfires scorching the popular tourist region, the Algarve. It began last Friday in Monchique, Faro District, and has since spread to neighbouring Silves and Portimão.…
[ad_1] A strong earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Lombok on Thursday, with witnesses reporting collapsed buildings, the latest in a series of tremors on the tropical tourist island that have killed more than 150 people in the past two weeks. Reuters witnesses reporting on the aftermath of last Sunday’s quake in the north of the island said people…
[ad_1] A California court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by a former Stanford University swimmer who was found guilty of sexual assault and served a sentence that many say was too lenient. Brock Turner, then 19, was arrested in 2015 after two fellow students at the Northern California university saw him outside a fraternity house…
[ad_1] The US blamed the attack on Vladimir Putin and said they would be issuing fresh sanctions in response to the deadly attack. The state department says Wednesday the sanctions will be imposed on Russia because it used a chemical weapon in violation of international law. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said: “The United States…
[ad_1] The Russian Embassy based in Washington DC accused Donald Trump’s government of “far-fetched accusations” after the US confirmed on Wednesday that Russia had used a chemical weapon in the UK in order to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The US State Department stated yesterday: “The United States determined under the Chemical and Biological Weapons…
[ad_1] In a statement posted on Twitter, the Syrian Presidency said: “Mrs Asma al-Assad begins the first stage of treatment for a malignant breast tumour that was discovered early. “The President and his team wish Mrs Asma a speedy recovery.” The statement concludes that the President has “strength, confidence and faith” as the treatment begins.…
[ad_1] China signalled its intention to continue trading with Iran despite warnings from President Trump, as it relies heavily on Iranian oil. The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday: “China has consistently opposed unilateral actions and long-armed jurisdiction. “China’s commercial cooperation with Iran is open and transparent, reasonable, fair and lawful, not violating any United…
[ad_1] Mr Khamenei’s words were published on his official website on Wednesday, the day after a round of US sanctions were reimposed on Iran. He said: “With regard to our situation do not be worried at all. “Nobody can do anything.” On Tuesday the US reimposed sanctions on Iran stopping it purchasing US dollars and…
[ad_1] The Indonesian state-run Antara news agency reported on Wednesday that the death toll currently stands at 347. However, the country’s national disaster agency maintains the figure is still 131 following the earthquakes in the Lombok region. Antara noted that most people died in Kayangan in the north of Lombok. Around 165,000 people have been…
[ad_1] The Saudi Press Agency reported that Khalid A. Al-Falih, the country’s oil minister, noted that oil supplies will not be subjected to political considerations. The Middle Eastern nation announced just yesterday that they intended to halt all medical treatment programs for Saudi citizens in Canada, and were coordinating the transfer of Saudi patients to…
[ad_1] FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was yesterday accused of a diplomatic faux pas after snubbing the Amiens ceremony. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] A U.S. Internal Revenue Service agent testified on Wednesday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is on trial on tax and bank fraud charges, had $16.5 million in unreported taxable business income between 2010 and 2014. IRS agent Michael Welch said the total includes foreign wire transfers to U.S. vendors like landscapers…
[ad_1] Health officials across Canada were trying to determine Wednesday the potential impact if about 800 medical residents and fellows from Saudi Arabia suddenly leave the country next month. The planned recall of that group comes after Saudi Arabia suspended diplomatic relations with Canada on Sunday in response to a tweet from Global Affairs Canada…
[ad_1] Venezuela’s top court is ordering the arrest of prominent opposition leader Julio Borges in connection with an alleged assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro. The court on Wednesday also called for the prosecution of a second congressman, Juan Requesense, who already had been detained. The actions follow what the government says is a thwarted…
[ad_1] Two men charged in the abuse of 11 children found malnourished at a ramshackle compound in New Mexico were training them with firearms to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents filed in the case on Wednesday. One of the suspects, identified as Huraj Wahhaj, is the father of a young boy whose…
[ad_1] Barcelona’s City Council announced that they will regulate the access of groups of tourists to prevent the area being overcome by them rather than the customers from the local neighbourhood. The councillor for the market, Agusti Colom, announced that the city council has approved a decree that announced that there will be no access…
[ad_1] U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader’s spokesman said Wednesday. Paul, who defended Trump in the wake of his summit with Putin last month in Helsinki, has been visiting Russia with a delegation for several days. I was honored to deliver…
[ad_1] The United States will impose sanctions on Russia for its use of a nerve agent in an attempt to kill a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. The State Department said Wednesday the sanctions will be imposed on Russia because it used a chemical weapon in violation of international law. Former Russian…
[ad_1] Popular tourist destinations Bali and Lombok were shaken by a huge magnitude-6.9 earthquake on Sunday, August 5, followed by hundreds of strong aftershocks. More than 130 aftershocks have been recorded since the quake hit on Sunday morning. Buildings crumbled, cracks emerged in the earth and thousands fled to safety as tsunami warnings were issued. …
[ad_1] Diplomats say secretary general Antonio Guterres has chosen Chile’s former president Michelle Bachelet to be the next UN human rights chief, a high-profile and often controversial job. UN deputy secretary general Amina Mohammed told a group of ambassadors Tuesday of Guterres’s decision, the diplomats said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because there has…
[ad_1] Star government witness Rick Gates ended three days of testimony on Wednesday after admitting he lied, stole money and cheated as lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort attacked his character. As Gates took the witness stand for the final time at the tax and bank fraud trial of his…
[ad_1] The University of Utah Seismograph Station, which is responsible for the operation and analysis of the Yellowstone Seismic Network, revealed 153 earthquakes hit the Yellowstone National Park region in July. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the largest quake had a magnitude of 2.5 and was part of a small sequence of…
[ad_1] A seven-term prosecutor in St. Louis County who gained national attention in his handling of the investigation of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson lost a primary challenge in Missouri on Tuesday to a black Ferguson councillor, according to unofficial results. With the vote counted from all precincts, the county reported Wesley Bell…
[ad_1] Three young soccer players who were trapped with other team members for almost three weeks in a cave in northern Thailand were granted Thai citizenship on Wednesday along with their 25-year-old coach. All four had been stateless, and their lack of citizenship deprived them of some basic benefits and rights, including the ability to…
[ad_1] Clues to the mystery of why Viking colonies in Greenland flourished and fell have been found in the DNA of medieval walrus bones housed in more than a dozen European museums. For almost 500 years, the Norse descendants of Erik the Red built churches and manor homes and expanded their settlements on the icy…
[ad_1] The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is reportedly selling off its assets in Canada and will stop buying Canadian wheat and barley, in the latest escalation in the sudden diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Saudi Arabia’s main state wheat buying agency has told grains exporters it will no longer buy Canadian wheat and barley.…
[ad_1] U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday said Chris Collins, a Republican congressman from Western New York, has been indicted for insider trading in connection with the securities of Australian biotechnology company Innate Immunotherapeutics Ltd. The indictment also charged Collins’s son, Cameron Collins, as well as Stephen Zarsky, the father of Cameron Collins’s fiancée. Collins, 68, has…
[ad_1] Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila will not stand in December’s presidential election, a spokesman said on Wednesday, announcing that former interior minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary would be the ruling coalition’s candidate. The announcement by spokesperson Lambert Mende at a news conference puts an end to years of speculation about whether Kabila would…
[ad_1] Former Michigan state Rep. Rashida Tlaib has won the Democratic nomination to run unopposed for the House seat long held by former Rep. John Conyers, setting her up to become the first Muslim woman elected to the U.S. Congress. No Republicans or third-party candidates ran in Tuesday’s District 13 primary race, meaning Tlaib is…
[ad_1] Firefighting crews in California took advantage of mild temperatures early on Wednesday to make progress in their battle to contain California’s largest-ever wildfire, which has swelled to almost the size of Los Angeles. Some 4,000 firefighters fought to prevent the Mendocino Complex from reaching communities like Nice, Lucerne and Clearlake Oaks at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest,…
[ad_1] The clan have close links to the Kremlin and have been given access to the site by Jozef Hambálek who is a friend of Slovakia’s Minister of the Interior Robert Kaliňák. They have also been granted access to an array of military equipment such a army tanks thanks to management at the Military History…
[ad_1] A win is a win is a win. Unless it’s the sort of win Republicans looked like they might eke out on Tuesday night in Ohio. The race remained too close to call early Wednesday morning, with 99.9 per cent of votes tallied. One way or another, political analysts say, the potentially devastating news…
[ad_1] Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after an earthquake killed at least 131 people as rescuers intensified efforts Wednesday to find those buried in the rubble. Volunteers and rescue personnel erected more temporary shelters for the tens of thousands left homeless on Lombok by the magnitude 6.9 quake on Sunday evening.…
[ad_1] Tensions have reached boiling point in the Middle East nation after US President Donald Trump slapped Iran with tough economic sanctions aimed at further undermining the Islamic fundamentalist republic Measures which target cars, gold and other metals trading, as well as the government’s ability to buy US dollars, came into force on Monday. The…
[ad_1] Speaking at a press conference in Foccia, Apulia, Italy‘s eurosceptic Interior Minister claimed the European Union has caused Italian farmers to be less transparent about their businesses to survive the unfair competition imposed on them by Brussels. Mr Salvini blamed EU’s trading agreements allowing for the free import of cheaper products produced outside of…
[ad_1] Golden glows can be seen where Ranch Fire, River Fire and Carr Fires are burning, in the images captured by satellites run by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The satellite images show the light that the fires are emitting and it is so strong that it shows as much light as big cities…
[ad_1] Topics the pair negotiated during their private summit in Helsinki, Finland on July 16 included the Russian president’s willingness to extend a series of landmark nuclear treaties and pursue new weapons limits, according to the leaked document. Such issues have been discussed between US and Russian leaders for decade, but they have since been…
[ad_1] The European Commission will crackdown on a number of European Union countries offering the opportunity to effectively purchase an EU passport to wealthy individuals and even criminals, who could become “Trojan horses” inside the bloc. Thanks to the bloc’s cherished freedom of movement policy, ownership of an EU passport allows you to live, work…
[ad_1] With prices spiralling and President Hassan Rouhani at loggerheads with US opposite number Donald Trump, things got even worse this week with the reimposition of tough economic sanctions aimed at further undermining the Islamic fundamentalist republic. Measures which target cars, gold and other metals trading, as well as the government’s ability to buy US…
[ad_1] Hassan Rouhani, who has been president since 2013, argued that Trump was trying to garner favour in the US and using his country to make a political statement. He said: “The first step would be for Trump to show he genuinely wants to engage in negotiations to solve a problem. “What is the meaning…
[ad_1] Tourists in Portugal have been evacuated as wildfires sweep the country, with authorities scrambling to get the blaze under control. More than 1,000 firefighters have been tackling the problem with video captures the moment a helicopter scooped up water from a swimming pool to put onto the blaze. Travellers staying in parts of the…
[ad_1] Speaking during a trip to New Zealand Ms Mogherini dramatically urged European companies to “increase business with and in Iran”. This ignores a warning from Trump that: “Anyone doing business with Iran will not be doing business with the United States.” A new set of US sanctions on Iran came into effect yesterday morning…
[ad_1] The infant, a baby girl named Refi, was found under a pile of broken concrete and rubble. She was later taken to hospital and given emergency aid by paramedics. At least 142 were killed in the disaster, but the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) stated they anticipated the death toll to rise after all…
[ad_1] Officials said on Tuesday that they expect the Mendocino Complex fire, the biggest blaze in California’s history, to carry on burning for the rest of the month. The fire, which has doubled in size in the past three days, has now burnt more than 290,000 acres. That’s nearly six times the size of the…
[ad_1] Yesterday, President Trump warned that any countries trading with Iran will “not be doing business with the United States” after trade sanctions against the Middle Eastern nation came into effect at midnight. However, one former congressman thinks Trump could be forced to reconsider if Europe “sticks to its guns”. Speaking to Russia Today, former…
[ad_1] The Saudi government is coordinating the transfer of Saudi citizens in Canadian hospitals to ones outside the country. The news agency cited Saudi Health Attaché in the US and Canada, Dr Fahd bin Ibrahim Al Tamimi. This comes after Saudi Arabia recalled its Ambassador to Canada, and expelled the Canadian Ambassador in Riyadh following…
[ad_1] Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi stated in a press conference on Tuesday that he was opposed to President Trump’s decision to impose his first wave of sanctions on Monday, which targets Iran’s trade in metals, acquisition of dollar bank notes, and transactions related to the Iranian rial currency. He said: “We are against international sanctions…
[ad_1] The Italian government is controversially looking to postpone a law, introduced by the previous centre-left government, which will make it compulsory for children to receive a programme of vaccinations if their parents want them to attend state school. The law should have come into effect this autumn for the start of the 2018-19 academic…
[ad_1] The ships were spotted at a time when relations between the UK and Russia have soared following the Novichok poisonings in Wiltshire. The stunt could be seen as a huge show of force from strongman Putin, who previously has sent warships through the channel in a warning move to the UK. The UK believes…
[ad_1] Two fires about 100 miles (161 kilometres) north of San Francisco are just 30 percent contained as of Tuesday, fire officials said. So far, the growing blazes have scorched 428 square miles (1,108 square kilometres) and have destroyed 75 homes. Another 9,000 buildings are threatened by the fires, which burn just 14 miles apart.…
[ad_1] The meeting in Geneva was attended by representatives from the EU, Canada, Japan, Mexico and South Korea, with a response to car tariffs high on the agenda and the prospect of launching a lawsuit against the US also raised. US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on cars manufactured…
[ad_1] A New Mexico sheriff says searchers have found the remains of a boy on a property where authorities raided a makeshift compound last week in search of a missing Georgia child. Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said Tuesday that the remains were found after a search in Amalia, New Mexico, near the Colorado border.…
[ad_1] One out of every seven babies born to U.S. mothers who were infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy developed some kind of health problem, according to the first long-term look at those children. Tuesday’s study focused on the children of women in Puerto Rico and other territories, where most of the U.S. cases…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump’s preferred congressional candidate — and his chief legislative achievement — are about to be tested in battleground Ohio in the season’s final high-stakes special election. The midsummer affair comes as Trump’s shadow looms over primary contests in four other states on Tuesday, none bigger than Kansas, where the Republican president…
[ad_1] Two fires merged together earlier to form the Mendocino Complex Fire, which is burning to the north of San Francisco. The fire has destroyed 283,800 acres of land, almost the size of the whole city of Los Angeles and more than ten times the size of Paris. President Donald Trump has declared a “major…
[ad_1] The Carr fire has been devastating the outskirts of Redding, a city in northern California. At least seven people have died and the fire is currently only 47 percent contained. Two firefighters were killed as they tackled the blaze. More than 38,000 people have been evacuated fro their homes as the fire is edging…
[ad_1] Photos Fire crews in California are battling a wildfire that has become the largest in the state’s recorded history. The Mendocino Fire Complex has been growing as crews struggle with hot and dry weather, as well as tough terrain. Hot, dry weather hampers efforts to beat back major fires Posted: Aug 07, 2018 2:12…
[ad_1] CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter he is considering taking Tesla Inc. private at $420 US per share as the electric car maker faces the challenges of fast growth and financial constraints, sending its shares up more than six per cent. At $420 per share, a deal would represent a 22.8 per cent premium to…
[ad_1] A Kansas man who opened fire in a suburban Kansas City bar, killing an immigrant from India and wounding two other men, was sentenced Tuesday in Federal Court to three consecutive life sentences for what federal prosecutors said was a hate crime. Adam Purinton, 53, of Olathe, did not speak in court as he…
[ad_1] The heat and the lack of rain have drastically lowered the water levels in northern Italy, home of the country’s biggest lakes and reservoirs. Among them, Italy’s second-largest lake Lago Maggiore is seeing its water levels dropping rapidly, on average about three centimetres a day, some 6billion litres lost every 24 hours. The ANBI,…
[ad_1] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday threatened to kill corrupt police, including those accused of involvement in illegal drugs and other crimes, in an expletives-laden encounter on live TV. More than 100 police officers, many of them facing administrative and criminal complaints including rape, kidnapping and robbery, were escorted to the presidential palace to…
[ad_1] A facial recognition system will be used across an Olympics for the first time as Tokyo organizers work to keep security tight and efficient at dozens of venues during the 2020 Games. The NeoFace technology developed by NEC Corp. will be customized to monitor every accredited person — including athletes, officials, staff and media — at more than…
[ad_1] Searchers on Monday found four people dead in a sightseeing airplane carrying Polish tourists in Alaska’s Denali National Park — a day and a half after thick clouds hampered the response to distress calls. Another person is missing and presumed dead after the crash Saturday evening on a mountain ridge about 23 kilometres southwest…
[ad_1] The chairman of Britain’s governing Conservative Party has asked former foreign secretary Boris Johnson to apologize for a newspaper column in which he wrote that burka-wearing women looked like “letter boxes” and bank robbers. Johnson, who quit the government last month in a dispute over Brexit, made the remarks in a Daily Telegraph article…
[ad_1] Rick Gates, a former business associate to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, continues to testify against his former boss and is expected to face a tough cross-examination on Tuesday. Gates, 46, testified on Monday in an Alexandria, Va., courtroom that he helped falsify Manafort’s tax returns and hide his foreign bank…
[ad_1] A wildfire in Ireland has uncovered a World War II-era landmark that was hidden for years by vegetation. An Irish police air unit spotted the word Eire, which means Ireland, while surveying the damage caused by a fire on Bray Head. More than 80 such signs were created during the war to alert pilots…
[ad_1] Thousands of tourists were caught up in the chaos after a 6.9 magnitude quake hit the resort islands of Lombok and Gili on Sunday. At least 98 people died, all Indonesians, and 209 were injured as buildings were reduced to rubble and bridges toppled. As many as 10,000 people have been evacuated since the…
[ad_1] A German mother and her partner have been convicted over the repeated rape of the woman’s young son and for going online to sell him for sex. They were sentenced to prison in a case that has horrified the country. News agency dpa reported that the Freiburg state court in southwestern Germany sentenced the…
[ad_1] Israeli tank fire killed two Hamas militants in Gaza on Tuesday in a strike that the Israeli military said was launched against a position from which its troops had come under fire. Hamas and Palestinian health officials in Gaza confirmed the deaths near Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, shortly before noon. A statement by…
[ad_1] New U.S. sanctions against Iran have taken effect, and President Donald Trump, who defied Washington’s allies to impose them, pledged that firms doing business with Tehran would be barred from doing business with the United States. Iran dismissed a last-minute offer from the Trump administration for talks, saying it could not negotiate while Washington had…
[ad_1] Turn on Paul Manafort. Continue on Paul Manafort. Cross Paul Manafort. If you think that sounds like courtroom strategy in the ongoing federal trial of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, try again. In the town of New Britain, Conn., those are driving directions. “We have to cross over Paul Manafort every day,” says Darlene Gable,…
[ad_1] A Japanese medical school deliberately cut women’s entrance test scores for at least a decade, an investigation panel said on Tuesday, calling it a “very serious” instance of discrimination, but school officials denied having known of the manipulations. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made a priority of creating a society “where women can shine,” but women in Japan still face an…
[ad_1] Every minute, one person arrives to live in Australia, the data shows, underpinning demand for everything from homes to cars, schools and hospitals, and boosting the country’s economic fortunes. The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates the country’s population will reach 26 million in three years’ time, based on current trends. The rapid increase in…
[ad_1] The second quake measured 5.4 on the Richter scale and hit near the epicentre of the previous tremor, in the north of Lombok at 2.21am on Tuesday morning local time (7.21pm BST Monday). The earthquake struck at a further distance from the surface of the island – 35km compared to the 10km of Sunday’s earthquake,…
[ad_1] The centre of the storm will pass about 150 miles south of Hawaii, but possibilities of tropical-storm-force winds (39mph or more) can still brush portions of the Big Island. A tropical storm watch means means tropical storm conditions are possible for the area within a 48 hour time period. An updated forecast projects a…
[ad_1] Former US ambassador John Limbert said that Iran would not surrender, despite trade sanctions imposed by the US. Mr Limbert, the former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran told BBC Radio 4 Today: “The President would like nothing more than to be involved in some grand gesture so he can claim ‘I…
[ad_1] The Mendocino Complex fire has become the largest wildfire in California history. The fire in Colusa, Lake and Mendocino counties has killed two people and burned almost 283,800 acres of of Monday. The Mendocino Complex, which has destroyed 75 homes and forced thousands to flee, is the largest of eight major wildfires burning out…
[ad_1] One of the blazes, known as the Mendocino Complex fire, has nearly doubled in size over the last three days making it the largest in California state history. Shocking footage showed homes covered in bright red flames as they were destroyed by two massive wildfires in the US state of California. The fire has…
[ad_1] Bologna was rocked by a gigantic explosion rocketing a huge fireball into the skyline on Monday afternoon. Two people were killed by the deadly blast and more than 80 people were injured with some suffering burns. The massive explosion took place near Bologna’s airport in northern Italy just after 2pm local time (1pm GMT).…
[ad_1] A woman was pulled alive from a collapsed building on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Tuesday, two days after a powerful earthquake that killed dozens, destroyed villages and left thousands of people homeless. Rescue workers were also digging under the rubble of a mosque in the north of the island shattered by Sunday’s…
[ad_1] Twin Northern California blazes fuelled by dry vegetation and hot, windy weather grew Monday to become the largest wildfire in state history, becoming the norm as climate change makes the fire season longer and more severe. The two fires burning a few kilometres apart and known as the Mendocino Complex are being treated as one…
[ad_1] Sian Davies from Cardiff filmed live dogs for sale at Moran Market in South Korea – revealing many are clubbed to death before being turned into dog soup. She said she rescued several puppies during her visit but faces an impossible task to save them all, with an estimated 80,000 slaughtered at the market…
[ad_1] The news comes amid heightened energy market fears of an impending supply shock and the Iranian president’s rebuke of Trump’s sanctions as “psychological warfare”. President Donald Trump is employing an increasingly bellicose stance towards the Iranian commander in chief Hassan Rouhani as he rejected an international agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear programme. The US…
[ad_1] The China Daily wrote in an editorial on Tuesday that Donald Trump has “an ability to elasticise the truth”. On Saturday, the President posted on Twitter claiming the Chinese markets had taken a phenomenal fall. Trump posted on the social media site: “Tariffs are working far better than anyone expected. “China market has dropped…
[ad_1] Federal Judge Helder Barreto ordered on Sunday for the border to closed in the state of Roraima until “humanitarian” conditions can be created in order to accommodate a large influx of Venezuelan immigrants. Judge Barreto commented on the order, stating: “There is no point in welcoming Venezuelan immigrants if they are going to be…
[ad_1] But US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo publicly warned Russia and China against softening sanctions during a trip to Singapore last week. In a high-profile meeting this year with Donald Trump, the North Korean leader promised to “complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, but in reality has shown little will to curb nuclear weapons…
[ad_1] Relations between the two countries have steadily worsened – compounded by differences on Syria policy and disagreements over the trial of US pastor Andrew Brunson in Turkey. Following the trial, US sanctions targeted two top officials in the Turkish administration. The sanctions, which were branded by Turkey as an “aggressive attitude that serves no…
[ad_1] The US president stated that California was diverting large amounts of water into the Pacific Ocean, while also failing to develop a sufficient number of firebreaks in dense vegetation. Writing on Twitter, he said: “California wildfires are being magnified and made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts…
[ad_1] A man accused of smashing U.S. President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been charged with one felony count of vandalism. Twenty-four-year-old Austin Clay of Glendale was charged Monday in Los Angeles. It’s unclear whether he has a lawyer. Prosecutors say Clay took a pickax to Trump’s star on Hollywood…
[ad_1] The magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit Lombok around 3pm this afternoon just off the coast. It follows tragic events yesterday as a 6.9 magnitude quake hit the island. At least 142 people were killed after the massive earthquake struck Lombok in Indonesia yesterday, sending people screaming into the streets as the powerful jolt destroyed hundreds…
[ad_1] Mr Khan, the former international cricketer, told the British ambassador he promised to take back funds that were embezzled by Pakistan officials and kept in Britain, in a bid to eradicate corruption in his government. He told Thomas Drew, the British ambassador for Pakistan that his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insad, was determined to bring…
[ad_1] Crews battling the second-largest wildfire ever recorded in California fought on Monday to keep flames from descending a ridge into foothill communities, as reinforcements arrived from as far away as Alaska. The Mendocino Complex Fire, made up of two separate conflagrations that merged at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest, had burned…
[ad_1] The second magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit Lombok at around 3pm this afternoon, just off the coast. Yesterday a 6.9 magnitude earthquake also hit the island, killing at least 142 people. The tremor was fairly shallow, as it struck just 18 miles underground, but caused catastrophic damage to thousands of buildings and triggered power cuts.…
[ad_1] Rick Gates, a longtime business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, on Monday testified at trial that he helped Manafort file false tax returns and did not disclose foreign bank accounts. Gates was expected to be a star witness in the government’s case against Manafort having pleaded guilty in…
[ad_1] The spacecraft will fly closer to the Sun than any man-made object has ever done so before. The project aims to gather new information on space weather conditions that impact the earth and what causes solar winds to heat and accelerate. It will do this by examining the solar winds accelerating from subsonic to…
[ad_1] Apple Inc, YouTube, Facebook Inc and Spotify all took down podcasts and channels from U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, saying on Monday that the Infowars author had broken community standards. The sweeping moves are the broadest actions yet by internet companies that have suspended or removed some of the conspiracy-driven content. Since founding Infowars…
[ad_1] NASCAR mogul Brian France was arrested in New York’s Hamptons under suspicions of driving while intoxicated and criminal possession of oxycodone after he was allegedly seen blowing through a stop sign, police said. France, the auto racing behemoth’s chairman and CEO since 2003, was arraigned Monday at Sag Harbor Village Justice Court after spending…
[ad_1] A magnitude-6.9 earthquake rocked the highly popular tourist island of Lombok early on Sunday evening local time. Shaking at a depth of 15 kilometres, the earthquake was large enough to destroy buildings on the nearby island of Bali. A brief tsunami warning was put in place, and thousands fled for open spaces, but waves…
[ad_1] The Category 4 storm is predicted to track steadily over the Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii, this week. According to Accuweather, Hurricanes that track in from the east tend to hit cooler waters near Hawaii. They then usually weaken before reaching the islands. More destructive hurricanes, such as Iniki in 1992, have approaches Hawaii…
[ad_1] In the video, customers can be seen standing near the tills at the supermarket when a 4WD comes crashing into the shop. At least two women are hit by the front of the car and pushed into a product stand along with a young boy while another woman is knocked to the floor. The…
[ad_1] Yesterday Lombok was hit by a 7.0 quake, leaving almost 100 dead and thousands displaced. Today a second strong quake, measuring 5.2, hit the island region, hampering rebuilding and evacuation efforts. Witnesses said the quake woke up residents and tourists, who ran out of their hotels. One witness said on earthquake tracking website EMSC-CSEM:…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday reimposing many sanctions on Iran, three months after pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, saying the U.S. policy is to levy “maximum economic pressure” on the country. In a statement, Trump said the 2015 international accord to freeze Iran’s nuclear program in return for…
[ad_1] More than 1,150 firefighters battled the blaze in the popular tourist region today. The fire has injured 25 people as temperatures have soared to 46C (115F) in places, close to Portugal’s national record of 47.4C (117.3F). Homes and hotels in the Algarve region have been evacuated as the fire, which began on Friday in…
[ad_1] North Korean state media on Monday urged the United States to drop sanctions as South Korea said it was investigating nine cases of coal shipments to the North that potentially violated UN resolutions. Pyongyang had demonstrated good faith by ending nuclear weapons testing and returning the remains of U.S. troops killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, and the resolutions had lost…
[ad_1] Police released a video that shows an eerily quiet motorway that has been absolutely gutted by the blast in Bologna. At least two people were killed and more than 60 injured, including 11 police officers, according to local media. Two trucks collided on a motorway near Bologna airport in northern Italy on Monday, sending…
[ad_1] The Indonesian Red Cross tweeted an adorable snap in the aftermath of the tragedy with new mother, Sri Handayani, holding her precious newborn Muhammad Gempa Rizki. The tot was named after the tremor, with Gempa meaning earthquake in Indonesian and Rizki meaning good fortune. The organisation, which swooped in to bring aid to thousands…
[ad_1] Human remains were discovered on the beach near Marsa Alam on Friday. City council chairman, General Atef Wagdy, said a 41-year-old man, from the Czech Republic, died as “a result of an attack by a shark”. He warned people swimming on the surface in deep waters beyond the coral are vulnerable to attack. The…
[ad_1] Hamza bin Laden, son of the dead terrorist, has exchanged vows with the daughter of Mohammed Atta, who fronted the attack 17 years ago that saw four hijacked planes fly into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Hamza’s brothers Ahmad and Hassan spoke of the union and said they believe he had taken…
[ad_1] A video was uploaded onto Twitter showing the airport in northern Italy going up in flames and plumes of smoke rising into the sky. Shocking photos followed at 12.52pm with social media users using the hashtag Bologna to spread the word on online. This is a breaking news story. More to follow. [ad_2] Source…
[ad_1] North Korean state media on Monday urged the United States to drop sanctions, as South Korea said it was investigating nine cases of coal shipments to the North that potentially violated UN resolutions. Pyongyang had demonstrated good faith by ending nuclear weapons testing and returning the remains of U.S. troops killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, and the resolutions had…
[ad_1] French chef Joel Robuchon, who owned and ran gourmet restaurants in three continents, died on Monday in Geneva at age 73. A spokesperson for Robuchon confirmed he died. French TV station BFM and newspaper Le Figaro reported he died from cancer, citing his entourage. Named the Chef of the Century by the Gault et Millau cooking guide in 1990, Robuchon was…
[ad_1] It’s a sunny summer morning in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Cicadas chirp in the trees. A lone plane flies high overhead. Then there’s a flash of light, followed by a loud blast. Buildings are flattened and smoke rises from crackling fires under a darkened sky. Over two years, a group of Japanese high…
[ad_1] However, Hawaii Volcano Observatory experts have warned it is too soon to draw any firm conclusions. Kilauea has been pumping out vast amounts of lava and noxious gases since May 3, and more than 700 homes have been destroyed as a result. But an HVO spokesman said: “This morning’s helicopter overflight confirmed a significant…
[ad_1] The Kilauea volcano has been erupting continuously since May 3, as lava continues to flow from fissure 8 on its eastern flank, which has covered 13.4 square miles of the island’s surface. More than 700 homes and properties have been destroyed with thousands of people being forced to leave the area. The current eruption…
[ad_1] The huge 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian resort island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 142 people and forcing the evacuation of thousands. Rescuers still have not reached some of the most hard-hit areas so the death toll could climb. The quake’s epicentre was on land 11 miles (18km) northwest of East Lombok,…
[ad_1] French ports were excluded from plans adopted by the European Commission to create shipping routes from Ireland to the rest of the Continent while avoiding Britain – which could cost Paris billions of euros in EU grants. The Commission, the EU’s powerful executive, decided to create a direct shipping route by connecting Dublin and…
[ad_1] The dead fish can be seen floating on the top of the water in a video from Corriere TV, as the river’s temperature rose to 27.5C. The heatwave hitting Europe has caused the temperature of the Alster river, a tributary of Hamburg’s the main river Elbe. The drastic temperatures had caused low levels of…
[ad_1] Speaking to ABC’s This Week, Jay Sekulo implied any battle could go all the way to the Supreme Court. It has long been assumed Special Counsel Robert Mueller will want the President to testify in the investigation, but he has not yet officially ben asked. Mr Sekulo told ABC the Trump team had not…
[ad_1] The US military’s Central Command reported on Wednesday they had noticed an increase in naval activity in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for the international shipment of oil from the Middle East, which Iran has threatened to block over the US’s renewed sanctions. General Ramazan Sharif, spokesman for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, confirmed…
[ad_1] He is expected to speak at 9:40pm local time (6:10pm BST). Iran is facing economic crisis, with the country having struggled in recent months. Tariffs imposed by the US threaten to strangle the main Iranian trade of oil. The Islamic Republic News Agency is reporting that the President will talk about “various issues” regarding…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to change his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel’s investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to collect information about his political opponent. “Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the…
[ad_1] Daybreak revealed chaos and destruction across the Indonesian resort island of Lombok on Monday after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least 82 people and prompted an exodus of tourists rattled by the second powerful quake in a week. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said the death toll was expected to rise with…
[ad_1] The Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper criticised the US leader for “starring in his own carefully orchestrated street fighter-style deceitful drama”. The editorial also accused the US of escalating trade tensions with China and turning international trade into a “zero-sum game”. Trump imposed 25 percent tariffs on $34billion (£26billion) of Chinese goods last month,…
[ad_1] With live television footage of his speech being broadcast, the 55-yearold president was suddenly seen looking upwards and was clearly startled after a number of explosions. His wife Cilia Flores, standing next to him, also cowered as the thud of exploding airborne drones was heard. The footage then cut to hundreds of soldiers lining…
[ad_1] Police confirmed 17 passengers and three crew members on the JU-Air flight were killed, with the dead aged between 42 and 84. The victims included 17 Swiss nationals and a family of three from Austria. Ju-52s were used as a Luftwaffe personnel carrier in the Second World War. But the aircraft was most notorious…
[ad_1] The statement, published by Canada’s Foreign Office, stated: “Canada is gravely concerned about additional arrests of civil society and women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia, including Samar Badawi. “We urge the Saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful human rights activists.” The Middle Eastern nation has also frozen all new trade…
[ad_1] Pop star Demi Lovato vows to “keep fighting” in an open letter posted on social media following a reported drug overdose last month. “What I’ve learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time,” she posted Sunday on Instagram to her 70 million followers. “It is something I must continue to…
[ad_1] Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is still spewing lava from its fiery depths as hot red rivers burn across Big Island. With a new eruption phase having set in during May, Kilauea continues to rage on and has formed an outcrop of new land one kilometre long. The Pacific islands are now under threat from…
[ad_1] An explosive terror attack using drones was only “a matter of time,” according to a leading drone researcher in the UK. The remarks from Dr Steve Wright come after a shock assassination plot against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro used two flying drones loaded with explosives. The explosive drones blew up as they headed towards the…
[ad_1] A shocking footage of terror-stricken tourists in Bali shows people trying to leave their hotel rooms as another massive earthquake hit the Indonesia island of Lombok on Sunday. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake is the second to hit Indonesia in just two weeks and it is even more powerful than the first one. The video,…
[ad_1] Three Austrians and 17 Swiss were on board the trimotor JU-52 aircraft, built in the late 1930’s as a military aircraft and later used to operate scenic and charter flights, when it crashed shortly before 5 pm (3pm GMT) on Saturday on the west side of the Piz Segnas mountain in the canton of…
[ad_1] South Sudan’s government reached a final peace deal and power-sharing agreement with the country’s main rebel group on Sunday, said the foreign minister of neighbouring Sudan, which has been helping to broker the agreement. “In initials, an agreement on outstanding issues has been signed and this agreement expresses the commitment of all parties to…
[ad_1] Venezuela’s government said on Sunday that six people had been detained over drone explosions at an event attended by President Nicolas Maduro, as his political opposition warned of a possible crackdown after he accused his adversaries of seeking to assassinate him. State television on Saturday evening showed the socialist leader appearing startled by what…
[ad_1] A seventh person died in a northern California wildfire on Saturday, as a couple of other fast-growing wildfires in the state expanded by more than 25 per cent overnight and continued to spread. Pacific Gas and Electric spokesperson Melissa Subbotin said the worker sustained fatal injuries in a vehicle-related accident Saturday on the western…
[ad_1] Nearly 39 days after pushing off the shore in St. John’s, adventurer Bryce Carlson has set a new world record for the quickest solo row across the North Atlantic. On Saturday, the American arrived on the Isles of Scilly, U.K., after 38 days, six hours and 49 minutes — shattering the previous record of 53 days, eight hours and 26 minutes.…
[ad_1] The executive producer of the CBS news show 60 Minutes is delaying his return from vacation until a probe into sexual misconduct claims wraps up. Allegations against Jeff Fager and CBS CEO Les Moonves appeared in a New Yorker article last month. CBS hired two outside law firms to investigate claims of sexual misconduct from…
[ad_1] A contingent of officers from the Sûreté du Québec could soon be heading to the West African country of Mali as part of Canada’s peacekeeping efforts. The provincial police officers would help train Malian police in specialized techniques such as crime scene or major crime investigations, including homicide, said SQ Lt. Sophie Gougeon. Gougeon…
[ad_1] Speaking on CNN News, the American economic policy analyst claimed the US economy was “radically” growing making him “proud” of being an American. On Friday, a jobs report for the month of July published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics stated US employers added 157,000 jobs last month, fewer than expected under the administration of…
[ad_1] A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia’s Lombok island sending people running from their homes and triggering a tsunami alert, just a week after a quake killed 17 people on the holiday island. Pictures show damage to buildings and vehicles, residents being evacuated and some people receiving medical treatment. The United States Geological Survey said the…
[ad_1] The 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the north coast of Indonesia’s Lombok island on Sunday, the Indonesian Meteorological Agency said. Shocking footage from CNN Indonesia shows injured people in hospital beds with others crowded around them. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported the islands had experienced more than 100 aftershocks in the four…
[ad_1] A British tourist has claimed that everyone on Bali and Lombok island is “nervous” as they wait to see the 7.0-magnitude earthquake’s afterschocks, amid fears of a deadly tsunami. A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck 10.5 kilometers off the north coast of Lombok at depth of 15km (9.3 miles) at 11.46pm local time (12.40pm UK time).…
[ad_1] Indonesia’s resort islands of Bali and Lombok were rocked by a powerful earthquake Sunday, prompting a tsunami warning and panic among tourists and residents. The the U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 7, which is classified as “major.” The quake, which struck at a depth of 15 km off the north…
[ad_1] The catastrophic tremor was even more powerful than the quake that hit a week ago, devastating the island and leaving 17 people dead. As a result, a tsunami warning has been issued for the earthquake that shook the island and surrounding nations at a depth of 6.2 miles. The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency BMKG…
[ad_1] A magnitude 7 earthquake has struck off the north coast of Indonesia’s island of Lombok on Sunday, the Indonesian Meteorological Agency said. A tsunami warning has been issued for the quake, which occurred at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the agency said. The latest quake follows a similar disaster exactly one week…
[ad_1] Scores of British tourists have been hit by the scorching heatwave in Portugal, after a wildfire began to rip through the Algarve. The popular holiday destination was in the path of a destructive wildfire that remains out of control this morning, according to the country’s rescue chief. Victoria Lee, a British tourist in Ferragudo,…
[ad_1] Up to 20 people are feared dead after a small plane crashed in the Swiss Alps. Authorities have provided few details about those on board JU-Air’s plane which crashed on the west side of the Piz Segnas mountain in the canton of Graubuenden on Saturday. Local media and aviation websites have reported that the…
[ad_1] Lisbon has broken a 37-year-old record to notch its hottest temperature ever as an unrelenting wave of heat bakes Portugal and neighbouring Spain. Portugal’s weather service said the capital reached 44 C on Saturday, surpassing the city’s previous record of 43 C set in 1981. The day’s hottest temperature of 46.8 C was recorded at Alvega…
[ad_1] The scorching levels of heat in Portugal has triggered an intense wildfire that is tearing through the Algarve. Mass evacuations are taking place across villages in the Portugese region that is popular among British tourists. More than 700 firefighters are still battling the inferno, as temperatures in Portugal rise to near-record highs of 46C.…
[ad_1] The Hawaii volcano‘s lava has now covered over 12 miles of land stranding residents who are now threatened by a new challenge. Hurricane Hector is fast approaching with winds at an incredible speed of 120mph. The major hurricane threatens to reach Big Island as soon as Wednesday as residents prepare to store personal possessions…
[ad_1] After Donald Trump’s attacked the NBA player’s intelligence the First Lady hit back with a statement saying the basketball star is “working to do good things on behalf of our next generation”. In a possible dig at her husband she noted the “importance of responsible online behaviour”. She cryptically added she and her husband…
[ad_1] The storm, which is approximately 1,490 miles east of Hilo, has been whipping up near 130mph winds. It is expected to intensify over the weekend as it heads towards the Big Island settlement of Hilo, where thousands of tourists flock each year. The National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned there was the potential for Hector…
[ad_1] Hawaiian residents of the Big Island settlement of Hilo are being warned to prepare for Hurricane Hector as it carves its way through the Pacific. According to recent reports, the storm is approximately 1,490 miles east of Hilo. Honolulu mayor Kirk Caldwell said: “Now is the time to make sure your 14-day hurricane kit…
[ad_1] Swimmers on beaches from the Spanish coast to Italy and in Corsica have reported seeing stingrays close to the shore. There have been at least twenty sightings so far, according to scientists who have been monitoring the movements of sharks and stingrays in regions where temperatures have soared to around 35C. A French scientist…
[ad_1] Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro abruptly cut short a televised speech and soldiers present broke ranks and scattered after hearing several explosions Saturday in what the government called an attempted attack on the socialist leader. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a live broadcast Saturday that several drone-like devices with explosives detonated near the president.…
[ad_1] Video footage shows soldier fleeing Avenida Bolivar, a main street in the capital, while screams can be heard in the background. President Maduro is believed to have been taken to safety. A broadcast of the speech was abruptly stopped following the suspected attack. The head of state was standing on a stage alongside his wife…
[ad_1] A 28-year-old woman wearing a face veil has become the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new law banning such garments in public places. Danish news agency Ritzau reported that police were called Friday to a shopping centre in Horsholm, a city of 46,000 close to Copenhagen, to confront a…
[ad_1] The latest outbreak of the highly-infections virus comes just days after the government announced a separate flare-up had been contained. Health officials said dozens of Ebola cases have been recorded in the north east of the country, where fighting between militia groups has already forced more than a million people to flee. A small…
[ad_1] An outbreak of the Ebola virus declared this week in eastern Congo is believed to have killed 33 people, the health ministry said on Saturday. Thirteen cases of the haemorrhagic fever have been confirmed, including three deaths, the ministry said in a statement, adding that suspected cases had been detected in both North Kivu…
[ad_1] The video shows two girls physically fighting, with a third girl seemingly attempting to chime in nearby. Chade Lockett, the mother of one of the two girls in the altercation, is seen drawing a handgun and pointing it at the girl, whom she appears to chase after. The two girls, 13 and 15 years…
[ad_1] Beijing yesterday revealed more than 5,200 American-made products would be slapped with new levies in response to a threat by Donald Trump’s administration to impose additional duties on $200bn of Chinese goods. China has now imposed or proposed tariffs on £85bn ($110bn) in US goods. Last year, China imported some £100bn ($130bn) in goods…
[ad_1] Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired tear gas and used batons on Saturday to disperse hundreds of protesting students angry over the traffic deaths of two fellow students, leaving many people injured. Dhaka remained largely cut off from the rest of Bangladesh as buses continued to stop travelling from other parts of the country. The…
[ad_1] Athletes from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Russia will be among the thousands of people convening in Paris on Saturday for the opening ceremonies of the 10th Gay Games, which aim to raise awareness about gay and transgender rights. Over 12,700 participants from 91 countries are expected during the one-week contest, which features a variety…
[ad_1] The video, posted by Virginia, USA, radio host Domenick Nati, shows his basement completely flooded following many days of relentless heavy rain. In the footage, Mr Nati’s steps to his basement can be seen engulfed by a “waterfall” quickly filling his basement with water. The American city of Lynchburg has been threatened by a…
[ad_1] Soldiers and tanks rolled into the capital Harare on Wednesday after protests erupted against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling ZANU-PF party’s landslide win in the House of Assembly vote. The army’s clampdown on civilians and the opposition’s allegations that the vote was rigged revealed the deep fissures in Zimbabwean society that developed during the four-decade…
[ad_1] Around a dozen planes have also been called in to extinguish the fire in Algarve, near the village of Monchique, where the former prime minister is staying. Sources told the Daily Mirror Mr Cameron, who is said to be with his family, was lunching in Monchique on Friday before the blaze started. It is…
[ad_1] Political scientist Christian Hacke, who is a key figure in German foreign policy, said Germany can “only rely on itself” as relations within the European union and the wider world intensify. Germany is an economic superpower with the means to create nuclear deterrent of its own but under international law, framed in the wake…
[ad_1] Portugal and Spain were sweltering Saturday under an intense heat wave that has produced near-record temperatures in the southern European countries and contributed to wildfires and drought from Greece to Sweden. Portugal has issued red alerts for extreme heat for more than half the country, with thermometers approaching 46 C. The country’s highest ever recorded…
[ad_1] Hawaii’s main islands are at risk from a surging Hurricane Hector, which is now barrelling towards the Pacific Ocean. The hurricane, which was upgraded to a category three last night, could grow in strength again due to conditions surrounding the area, but a firm outlook is yet to be decided. It is feared a…
[ad_1] The Thule air base houses the US Department of Defence’s early missile warning sensors, designed to detect incoming missiles. The system has poised nuclear missiles, set up and ready to launch in the event of nuclear war breaking out. The base is the military’s northernmost installation, located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle,…
[ad_1] Evacuations of the city of Lynchburg have continued throughout the night as experts continue to monitor the Lynchburg dam, which is at risk of crumbling. Incredible drone footage from WSLS News, a local broadcast network, shows the terrifying levels of high water after the region was hit by a deluge of rainfall. The College…
[ad_1] Hurricane Hector is moving across the Pacific Ocean, whipping up winds of up to 120mph as it careens towards the state of Hawaii and the besieged Big Island. The island has been been declared a sate of emergency since Mount Kilauea first erupted on May 3. On Friday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said…
[ad_1] Hawaii’s Oahu, Maui and Big Islands could be within the path of powerful Hurricane Hector as the storm makes its way towards the Pacific islands. At the moment, Hurricane Hector is whipping up a category three storm and forecasters warn the storm could intensify as it turns towards Hawaii. The path of Hector is…
[ad_1] Around 150 Islamic State fighters, including two senior commanders, gave themselves up after being driven from their strongholds in Jawzjan by the Taliban after weeks of fighting. Thousands of civilians fled the area in the districts of Darzab and Qush Tepa and many accused Islamic State fighters of multiple atrocities, giving detailed accounts of…
[ad_1] North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and is violating UN sanctions including by “a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products,” UN experts said in a new report. A summary of the report by experts monitoring UN sanctions against North Korea, which was sent to the Security Council…
[ad_1] Hurricane Hector was recently upgraded to a major hurricane, as its winds surged to an incredible 120mph. The deadly hurricane has alarmed metereologists who claim that Hawaii, already savaged by the Kilauea Volcano eruptions, is in its predicted path. A collision between the huge hurricane and the fragile volcano threatens Hawaii residents with flooding, mudslides…
[ad_1] A video posted on social media shows Zimbabwe’s anti-riot police trying to prevent a press conference from the opposition leader Nelson Chamisa from happening on Friday. The armed police officers appear to stop international journalist trying to film and participate to the press conference. One of the officers is seen pushing the person filming…
[ad_1] The helicopter was operated by the Utair airline, according to an emergency services source cited by TASS, a Russian news agency. It was carrying 15 passengers and three crew members, the emergencies ministry has estimated. The helicopter is thought to have been taking workers to an oil well. The crash occurred shortly after take-off,…
[ad_1] HURRICANE Hector has been upgraded to a major category three hurricane as it careers towards the Central Pacific, leaving destruction in its wake as it whips up winds of almost 120mph. At 5pm (4am BST) on Friday, the hurricane was churning near 120mph gusts and was rapidly gaining strength over the course of the…
[ad_1] BEIJING has announced plans to introduce import taxes on 5,207 US products worth $60billion in response to trade tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by Washington. The tariffs, which will come into force straight away if Washington goes ahead with its plans to levy taxes on Chinese imports, would range from 5 percent to 25…
[ad_1] The 38-year-old was acquitted of paying criminals to shoot his wife Anni dead during a botched Cape Town carjacking eight years ago. Mr Dewani married the 28-year-old despite being a bisexual who had secret sex sessions with male prostitutes. His sexuality only emerged as the trial four years ago was told he claimed to…
[ad_1] The 16-year-old American daughter of a U.S. marine held back tears as long as she could Friday before her family was split in two. Her mother, Alejandra Juarez, was finally leaving for Mexico, rather than be sent off in handcuffs, after exhausting all options to stop her deportation. “My mom is a good person.…
[ad_1] US officials are currently travelling the world in a dramatic effort to stop other countries from buying Iranian oil. However, two top US bureaucrats have told Bloomberg that China is provocatively refusing to comply. The snub could seriously undermine US efforts to isolate Iran over the country’s controversial nuclear programme. The Trump administration had…
[ad_1] The US President said he was 15 minutes early for his historic meeting at Windsor Castle and suggested that he was kept waiting by her. Millions watched live TV coverage as the 92-year-old Queen, wearing a hat and coat, stood in the summer heat for 15 minutes – twice appearing to check her watch…
[ad_1] South African President Cyril Ramaphosa recently announced plans to allow white people’s land to be taken without compensation, which will then be distributed to black people in a move that he believes will be good for the economy. The president made the announcement late on Tuesday in a televised address to the nation. The…
[ad_1] The man has been named as Raymond Reinke, 55, from Pendleton, Oregon. Rangers made the arrest at around 10.45pm local time. Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk said: “We appreciate the collaboration of our fellow rangers in Glacier and Grand Teton national parks on this arrest. “Harassing wildlife is illegal in any national park.”…
[ad_1] Canada’s ambassador to the United States says predictions that NAFTA talks can be settled by the end of month are “aspirational” — even if American and Mexican officials are close to resolving their differences on complex auto sector issues. But David MacNaughton supports the push toward the ambitious goal and says Canadian negotiators are…
[ad_1] Eight places in Portugal broke local temperature records Friday as a wave of heat from North Africa swept across the Iberian peninsula — and officials predicted the scorching temperatures could get even worse over the weekend. Temperatures built to around 45 C Friday in many inland areas of Portugal, and were expected to peak…
[ad_1] The footage, posted by Lynchburg resident Jessica Ward, shows the home quickly flooded as water comes out of her brick walls and sidebars. A flash flood warning is now in place and 80,000 people in Virginia, USA, have been ordered to move to higher ground immediately. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flood…
[ad_1] Prosecutors headed toward the heart of their financial fraud case against former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday, with jurors hearing testimony that he never told his tax accountants about offshore bank accounts containing millions of dollars. The testimony of longtime accountant Philip Ayliff builds on evidence presented by special counsel Robert Mueller’s…
[ad_1] A U.S. citizen has been detained in Russia’s far east after accidently sailing there from Alaska on a small boat, officials said Friday. John Martin had been travelling down the Yukon River across Alaska on a one-person boat when he ended up in the open Bering Sea, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.…
[ad_1] The International Army Games, which was set up by Russia’s ministry of defence, involves events such as a tank biathlon, an amphibious assault contest and a fighter jet manoeuvring tournament. Teams from 32 countries are said to be taking part in the two-week event, including troops from Myanmar, Algeria and Sudan. This year’s games…
[ad_1] Three Russian TV journalists killed in volatile Central African Republic spoke no French, had trouble communicating with their driver, and had inconsistent contact with their local fixer, according to two people who were in touch with the journalists. The three, working for a journalism project funded by anti-Kremlin campaigner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, went to Central…
[ad_1] More than 10 months after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, police say they are closing their investigation without answering the key question: What drove a gunman to unleash a hail of gunfire that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more? But authorities say after hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours…
[ad_1] Small and medium-sized firms based in southeastern state of Bavaria are being urged to “keep calm” as they begin to feel the impact of the split, despite the vast majority admitting they no idea how to plan for it. A survey of companies by the Bavarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BIHK) found just…
[ad_1] Residents of northeastern Congo braced Friday amid a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus as the World Health Organization said it hopes to know as early as Tuesday whether the strain is the one for which an experimental vaccine can be used. Health officials have blocked off the village of Mangina, where four cases have been confirmed.…
[ad_1] The Lynchburg dam has been threatening to burst its boundaries recently as severe weather grips Virginia, and evacuations are under way. The city of 80,000 people which sits near the dam could be at the mercy of waters as high as 17 feet. Flash flood warnings are also in place for the city, as…
[ad_1] Evacuations are underway for some of Lynchburg, Virginia’s 80,000 residents over fears the dam could breach soon. The dam infrastructure is in a critical state after heavy downpours boosted water levels. A flash flood warning is now in place and 80,000 people have been ordered to move to higher ground immediately. Flood watches and…
[ad_1] Yemeni medical officials said the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shia rebels conducted airstrikes in the rebel-held port city of Hodeida on Thursday, leaving at least 28 dead and 70 wounded, although the coalition has denied carrying out any attacks there. The airstrikes were close to the city’s main public hospital, al-Thawra, and near a popular fish…
[ad_1] Federal authorities allege that a former youth care worker at a Phoenix-area facility for immigrant youths sexually abused eight teenage boys, one of several cases brought to light in recent weeks as thousands of immigrant children remain detained around the country. Court documents show Levian Pacheco faces several charges stemming from incidents that allegedly…
[ad_1] A suicide bomber slipped undetected into a Shia Muslim mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Friday killing at least 25 people and wounding at least 23, a provincial government official said. The attacker blew himself up as worshippers gathered in the mosque for weekly prayers on Friday, the Muslim holy day, said Abdullah Asrat, spokesman…
[ad_1] Carol Smith and her family walked into their hillside neighbourhood Thursday to find her home reduced to mangled metal and piles of bricks after a massive Northern California wildfire levelled more than 1,000 homes. “I’m waiting to probably break down any minute here. Pretty overwhelming,” Smith said as the family stood on the sidewalk,…
[ad_1] Lynchburg dam infrastructure is in a critical state after heavy downpours boosted water levels. A flash flood warning is now in place and 80,000 people have been ordered to move to higher ground immediately. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flood warning for the Black Creek Trail Area, around a mile from the…
[ad_1] The European Medicines Agency, which employs around 900 staff members at its UK headquarters, has announced “30 percent” of its workforce could lose their jobs as a result of the post-Brexit move to the Continent. Providing a headache of bosses, the number is significantly larger than the 19 percent staff who told an initial…
[ad_1] U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says North Korea is far from living up to its pledge to denuclearize and remains in violation of numerous UN Security Council resolutions. Speaking Friday before he attends an Asian security forum with North Korea’s foreign minister, Pompeo told reporters in Singapore there was “still a ways to…
[ad_1] Heavy rains have prompted authorities to evacuate parts of a central Virginia city in case a dam fails and floods the area. A failure of the College Lake Dam near Lynchburg could flood the city with five metres of water in seven minutes, news outlets reported Thursday evening, citing statements from the National Weather Service (NSW).…
[ad_1] The tone was set in the parking lot when an SUV flying twin “I Heart Trump” flags rumbled past with a sign in the back window bearing the words, “CNN sucks.” Inside, as at any Donald Trump political rally, one could observe the combustible mix of adoration for the U.S. president and loathing for the media from the fenced-in…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe’s capital was calm on Friday hours after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner of the tight election, which began with Monday’s peaceful vote but turned deadly when the military fired on protesters 48 hours later. Six people were killed in the melee when the army rolled in tanks to disperse rock-throwing demonstrators…
[ad_1] The Lega-Five Star Movement (M5S) coalition has sparked fear among European investors and market analysts after pledging to “immediately” introduce the financial changes the parties campaigned for ahead of the March 4 election. These hefty reforms include the creation of a flat tax, which imposes the same tax percentage on all individuals regardless of…
[ad_1] He is set to become Zimbabwe’s second leader and third president since independence in 1980. The results had been delayed for several days following the election on Monday and supporters of the opposition party MDC Alliance had clashed with police on the streets over alleged vote-rigging. Six people died after the opposition protests in…
[ad_1] The Prime Minister has cut short her summer holiday in Italy so she can convince Macron that her Brexit plan will be “mutually beneficial” to Britain and France. She is hoping if she can win over Macron and that he will then influence other EU states to back her proposals. Mrs May will meet…
[ad_1] Schumacher’s health has been a closely guarded secret since he was seriously hurt in a skiing accident in 2013. His friend Jean Todt, who is president of the motor sport governing body FIA, is one of the few people who has visited the seven-time world champion at his home following the accident. He was…
[ad_1] German trawlermen fear Brexit could threaten the herring fishing in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a state in the north of the country. The German Agriculture Minister Till Backhaus appealed to Angela Merkel’s government on Wednesday over fears the industry will not be allowed access to the British North Sea waters after Brexit. The fishermen are also…
[ad_1] He posted the message early on Friday morning along with a graphic saying “thank you Zimbabwe”. The message claimed: “Though we may have been divided at the polls, we are united in our dreams.” It added: “This is a new beginning. “Let us join hands in peace, unity and love and together build a…
[ad_1] Evan Davis asked Ms Godwin if she believed the presidential election was a fair reflection of how people would have voted. Angry at the conduct of the poll, Ms Godwin replied to vehemently denounce the outcome. Speaking about whether the result was fair, she said: “Not in any way, shape or form. “I think…
[ad_1] The individual may have been seeking revenge for his mother, who died during an operation performed by the doctor over 20 years ago, authorities have said. Art Acevedo, Houston police chief, commented on the attack, stating: “There was a lot of planning that went into this. There was a lot of planning and, sadly,…
[ad_1] Pavel Alekseenko, the secretary of Russia’s embassy to Romania, lashed out on social media after Mr Mihai Fifor told broadcaster Antena 3 that a US Naval Support Facility had “ballistic missiles”. The claims reportedly enraged President Putin – largely because the base is home to NATO’s Aegis Ashore Missile Defence Facility in Deveselu, which…
[ad_1] The Turkish Good Party has implored President Erdoğan to compel the forfeiture of assets owned by President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet that exist within Turkey’s borders. The suggestion comes after US sanctions targeted two top officials in the Turkish administration. The sanctions, which have been branded by Turkey as an “aggressive…
[ad_1] The stunning claim was made during a White House briefing following a meeting between Trump and his National Security Council over Russian actions. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told reporters that: “The intelligence community continues to be concerned, both about the midterms and the 2020 presidential election. “We know the Russians have tried…
[ad_1] Severe weather in Lynchburg, Virginia, has caused the College Lake Dam to fill to near capacity. The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for the Blackwater Creek below the dam has been issued until 3:15 a.m. If a complete failure of the dam occurs, the water depth at Lynchburg could exceed…
[ad_1] Russia’s leading independent polling agency, the Levada Centre for Public Opinion, found that more Russians have a positive view of the US than those with a negative view for the first time since 2014. The results, which were published on Thursday, indicate that the number of people who regard the US positively rose considerably,…
[ad_1] Police were forced to remove the opposition officials from the electoral commission stage following the delayed results. Opposition parties rejected the results of the presidential and parliament elections as they were unable to verify the results, according to the Chairman of the opposition MDC Alliance party. Zanu-PF’s Emmerson Mnangagwa has beaten MDC leader Nelson…
[ad_1] In the latest opinion poll, the nationalist party yet again built on its meteoric rise, placing ahead of the conservative Moderate Party making it look increasingly likely they will become country’s second largest party. The Sweden Democrats has gained support in the polls as it focuses its campaign on refugees and migrants ahead of…
[ad_1] Emerson Mnangagwa has beaten MDC Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa, according to numbers from the provincial polls. According to the news service Reuters, Mnangagwa won 2.46 million votes, or 50.8 percent. Chamisa received 2.15 million. The MDC Alliance have already announced they will not accept the result as they did not have the opportunity to…
[ad_1] The first thing Alberto Herrera did after surviving a flaming plane crash in northern Mexico on Tuesday was go back to his hotel to have a nice, stiff drink. “I had a tequila and like a big, big, big burger,” the 35-year-old web developer told As It Happens guest host Piya Chattopadhyay. “I told [the bartender], ‘Make…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe’s electoral commission says President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Monday’s election as the ruling party maintains control of the government in the first vote after the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] One US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the exercises involved at least 100 vessels and possibly more, including small boats. A second official expected the drill could be wrapped up this week. Iran has been furious over US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of an international nuclear deal and…
[ad_1] Mediterranean countries issued severe weather warnings on Thursday, as a heatwave pushed temperatures above 40 Celsius in Europe. Portugal went on high alert today as temperatures in the coming days could beat records and warned of a high risk of forest fires. The highest temperature on record in Portugal was 47.3 C in 2003,…
[ad_1] The former Deputy Assistant to George W Bush joked about US Democrats feeling “angry” unless they are called Socialists claiming not too long ago they would feel defamed if associated with the leftie political movement. He said: “I remember a time, not too long ago when if you called a Democrat a Socialist you…
[ad_1] An Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is likely spread over tens of kilometres and poses a high regional risk given its proximity to borders, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Thursday. Four people have tested positive for Ebola in and around Mangina, a town of about 60,000 people in…
[ad_1] The Trump administration on Thursday proposed weakening Obama-era mileage standards designed to make cars more fuel efficient and less polluting, a major rollback already being challenged in the courts by California and other states. The administration also served notice that it wants to revoke states’ long-standing authority to set their own, stricter mileage standards.…
[ad_1] More than 260,000 people died from violence during six decades of guerrilla conflict in Colombia, researchers say in detailed findings released Thursday. Colombia’s National Centre for Historical Memory published what is considered the most comprehensive accounting of deaths directly connected to the conflict, including murders, massacres and terrorist attacks. Most of the dead were civilians,…
[ad_1] The man charged after a shark was stolen from a San Antonio-area aquarium says he was concerned about the sea creature’s well-being. Anthony Shannon, who was charged with felony theft following the incident last weekend, told San Antonio TV station KENS that he’s an “activist, not a criminal.” Police said Tuesday that two men had confessed to taking the…
[ad_1] Welcome to The National Today newsletter, which takes a closer look at some of the day’s most notable stories. Sign up here and we’ll deliver it directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been much anticipated, and a couple of days in, observers are relishing poring over…
[ad_1] The U.S. intelligence community remains concerned about election security, and Russia is still trying to interfere in American elections, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said on Thursday. The threat of election interference is “real” and continuing, he said. “We continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by Russia to try to weaken and divide…
[ad_1] Fuad el-Atrash says figuring out how to keep food on the table for his family and whether he can afford to send two of his children to university keeps him up at night, now that he has lost his job in the Gaza Strip. El-Atrash is one of 113 Gaza-based employees of UNRWA, the…
[ad_1] Ivanka Trump departed from the president on Thursday during an interview session, and called the separation of families crossing into the United States a low point for the administration. “I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children,” the mother-of-three said at an event hosted by the website Axios.…
[ad_1] Apple Inc. became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company on Thursday, crowning a decade-long rise fuelled by its ubiquitous iPhone that transformed it from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse spanning entertainment and communications. The tech company’s stock jumped 2.8 per cent on Nasdaq to as high as $207.05…
[ad_1] British police said Thursday they have completed the forensic examination of Grenfell Tower after a fire that killed 72 at the building last year, adding that it was no longer required as a crime scene by investigators. “We have carefully planned for this day and are satisfied that passing over control of the tower will…
[ad_1] More than 10,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Greece from Turkey through the northern Evros River crossing in the first half of 2018, a non-governmental organization said Thursday, a quicker pace of arrivals compared to 2017. The figure outstrips an estimated 7,500 arrivals from Evros in 2017 overall, an official from Greece’s Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe army soliders, backed by armoured vehicles, cleared the streets of Harare yesterday (Wednesday) as opposition supporters accused the ruling ZANU-PF party of attempting to rig Monday’s presidential election. At least three people were killed after troops armed with live ammunition attempted to quell the protests. The use of troops and their heavy-handed tactics have…
[ad_1] Just a month into the budget year, California has already spent at least $125 million US — more than a quarter of what it has pegged for fires, state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesperson Mike Mohler said Wednesday. Following years of drought and a summer of record-breaking heat, immense tracts of forest, shrub and…
[ad_1] Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church teaching about the death penalty, saying in a new policy published Thursday that it is always “inadmissible” because it “attacks” the inherent dignity of all humans. The Vatican said Francis had approved a change to the Catechism of the Catholic Church — the compilation of official Catholic teaching.…
[ad_1] Russia’s Defence Ministry says UN peacekeepers returned on Thursday to patrol the frontier between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the first time in years — Moscow’s latest achievement in efforts to negotiate a solution to the crisis along the volatile border. Col.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoy of the Russian General Staff told reporters at…
[ad_1] An Australian senator has sued a male counterpart for defamation for making sexually offensive remarks, in a landmark case that brings the spirit of the #MeToo movement to the heart of Australia’s democracy. During a debate a month ago in parliament over a ban on the use of pepper spray, Senator David Leyonhjelm had…
[ad_1] Donald Trump’s trade war with China in particular threatens to send oil prices down with Beijing threatening to fight fire with fire. Mr Trump has repeatedly slapped tariffs on Chinese goods, with fears growing China could hit back by targeting US crude oil. Suresh Sivanandam, Asia refining senior manager at Wood Mackenzie, also warned:…
[ad_1] Lord Ricketts also criticised Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s repeated warnings about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, saying it was obvious to continental leaders that the UK was not prepared for such a scenario. The Prime Minister will cut short her Italian holiday to hold talks with the French president at his country retreat.…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government has been in touch with the main opposition leader in an attempt to ease tensions after election-related violence in the country’s capital. Mnangagwa on Thursday also tweeted that he wants an “independent investigation” into the clashes in Harare, saying those responsible “should be identified and brought to…
[ad_1] The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said it would start announcing results for the presidential race from 11.30am BST but that was pushed back at least 24 hours until Thursday. Zanu-PF has won a two-third majority in the national assembly of parliament in the first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted from power, according to incomplete official…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe’s army took to the streets on Wednesday as violence reached a boiling point on the streets of the country’s capital, as oppositions supporters claimed the election had been rigged. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) reported Mr Mnangagwa’s ZANU-PF party has won a majority in parliament. Opposition leader Mr Chamisa has declared he won…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe’s army was deployed to patrol the streets as violence erupted on the streets of the country’s capital from opposition supporter’s claiming there had been rigging. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) reported Mr Mnangagwa’s ZANU-PF party has won a majority in parliament. Opposition leader Mr Chamisa declared he won the “popular vote” and alleges…
[ad_1] The Carr fire in California’s Shasta County has now spread to 121,049 acres and killed six people. Authorities have been tackling the blaze since Monday, July 23 after it began when a vehicle malfunctioned. The blaze is now at 35 percent containment and has destroyed 1,058 homes, 13 commercial structures and destroyed 475 other structures.…
[ad_1] Today marks the 87th anniversary of the first climbers to reach Mount Olympus’s highest peak, hence this morning’s Google doodle. Since that date, it is thought about 10,000 hikers visit the mountain each year but most of them don’t venture all the way to the summit. The 2,917 metre-high mountain is famed for its place…
[ad_1] It is believed the mammoth blazes raging across the western coast of the US are likely to get even worse, with more high winds forecast. The gale force winds whipped the fl ames into a fiery tornado which reduced the scenic Shasta-Trinity region to ashes, destroying homes and scorching more than 180 square miles.…
[ad_1] Presenter Emily Maitlis raised concerns surrounding corruption within the national elections, pointing to reports by the MDC Alliance, the country’s main opposition political party bloc, the EU, and Zimbabwe’s Elections Support Network (ZESN), which highlight significant electoral irregularities. Commenting on the elections, she said: “They were raising concerns even before polling day that your…
[ad_1] The Middle Eastern nation is set to move forward its annual military drills amid increased tensions with the US and fierce threats from President Donald Trump. Navy Captain Bill Urban, chief spokesman at Central Command, said: “We are aware of the increase in Iranian naval operations within the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and…
[ad_1] Footage of the Pakistani-born physicist’s attack went viral after it was filmed by another immigration officer. Taqaddas, from London, has been kept in a holding cell at Ngurah Rai International Airport since the incident on Saturday. An immigration source at the Indonesian island said: “She slapped the officer, who is a respected guard. “She…
[ad_1] Chloe Wright, 25, was arrested following an alleged hit-and-run in Hyannis on 30 June, the Cape Cod Times reported, citing a police report. Immediately after the incident, the man she collided with is thought to have contacted the Barnstable Police Department and recalled hearing a motorist behind him honking their car horn as he…
[ad_1] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevut Cavusoglu claimed on Wednesday the extraordinary use of financial sanctions against Ankara, which is a US allied government, would not be left without retaliation as it constitutes a “hostile stance”. Mr Cavusoglu said in a statement: “We call on the US administration to walk back from this wrong decision.” He…
[ad_1] Its left wing then touched the ground and its engines broke off, he said. Most passengers were able to walk away before the plane caught fire. The Aeromexico flight AM2431 had been flying from Guadalupe Victoria international airport to Mexico City when it crashed at about 4pm. Initial reports suggested that 97 passengers and…
[ad_1] The ISIS fighters were attacked by the Taliban in Jawzjan province in Northern Afghanistan. A two day battle followed during which 40 ISIS members were killed. Most of the ISIS fighters managed to escape their attackers and sought safety by surrendering to forces from the Afghan government. They reportedly include 25-30 foreigners, including two…
[ad_1] And the same goes for their weddings to Zack and Nick Lewan, also 24, this weekend in Michigan. Krissie and Zack will tie the knot on Friday and Kassie and Nick will walk down the aisle on Saturday. Krissie said it was important that she and her sister had their own wedding days as…
[ad_1] Saudi Arabia is set to take centre stage as Eid al-Adha – also know as the festival of sacrifice – approaches, being the setting for Islamic pilgrimage site Mecca. The country is hailed as the birthplace of Muhammad, the foremost Muslim prophet, and Mecca is the site of his first revelation. Before Eid al-Adha,…
[ad_1] The Carr fire has burned nearly 104,000 acres (42,000 hectares) since July 23, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). At least six people, including two firefighters have died. Thousands of people have also lost their homes. The Cal Fire website has said “mechanical failure of vehicle” is the…
[ad_1] Afghanistan elections will officially be held next year, the country’s Independent Election Commission has revealed. The war-torn country is set for its fourth presidential election following the end of Taliban rule in 2001. The Taliban was briefly in power of the country from 1996 until it was liberated in 2001, during a time that…
[ad_1] Mr Podesta, a former lobbyist, along with former Republican congressman from Minnesota Vin Weber, and Greg Craig, a former White House counsel in the Obama White House, are facing an investigation by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, according to sources. It was previously reported Mr Mueller was looking…
[ad_1] Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt have both spoken about the increasingly desperate need to get a post-Brexit deal and the Prime Minister will even cut short her summer break to Italy to visit French president Emmanuel Macron and continue talks. The declaration on future ties between the UK and Brexit will not be a…
[ad_1] The Basic Law, which was narrowly approved last week by the Israeli Parliament, or Knesset, seeks to define the identity and purpose of the State of Israel. It states that “the right to exercise national self-determination” in Israel is “unique to the Jewish people”, establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language which downgrading Arabic, a…
[ad_1] The UN children’s agency warned Wednesday of the potential for another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida. UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore said in a statement the airstrikes earlier this week damaged a sanitation facility and a station that supplies…
[ad_1] New research has discovered a subterranean ‘structure’ beneath the San Andreas fault line which could trigger a massive quake – dubbed the “big one”. The 800-mile long fault line is the meeting point of two huge tectonic plates: the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The boundary is a hotbed of earthquake activity…
[ad_1] (Linh Pham/AFP/Getty Images) In the mountains of central Vietnam, a colossal pair of hands lifts a golden thread of walkway high above the clifftops, as if the mountain itself has sprouted limbs. “I feel like I’m walking on clouds,” said Vuong Thuy Linh, a tourist from Hanoi, Vietnam. “It’s so unique.” Cau Vang or…
[ad_1] Protesters had to flee a mass demonstration in the heart of Zimbabwe capital Harare after Army officers began to shoot at the crowd. Horrifying footage shows hundreds running away from the soldiers as gunshots are heard while a cloud of black smoke can be seen billowing among the buildings in the background. Three people have…
[ad_1] The judge in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial warned prosecutors Wednesday against using the word “oligarchs” to describe wealthy Ukrainians, and admonished lawyers for spending so much time documenting the former Trump campaign chairman’s extravagant lifestyle. It’s not a crime to be wealthy, said U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III. And the pejorative term…
[ad_1] Opposition supporters in Zimbabwe have taken to the street to protest alleged rigging during the first election since dictator Robert Mugabe was outed in November. Distressing footage recorded by local broadcaster SABC News shows three soldiers pinning down a protester and violently kicking him as he lays on the ground. The Army men also…
[ad_1] Recent research undertaken by scientists Matteo Borrini, of John Moores University Liverpool and Luigi Garlaschelli, of the Italian Committee for the Control of Statements on Pseudosciences, was published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences earlier this month, concluded the shroud had actually been made in the Middle Ages. But the four experts, Barrie Schwortz,…
[ad_1] The FTSE 100 took the brunt of the trade war worries on european markets, dipping one percent, while Shanghai’s blue-chip index fell two percent overnight. Shares of “trade-sensitive companies”, such as Boeing and Caterpillar, both declined 0.6 percent in pre-market trading. Beijing urged the White House to stop “blackmailing and pressurising” China following the…
[ad_1] Some 1,000 journalists covering EU Council summits will have to pay for the security screening undertaken by Belgian authorities in order to receive their accreditation. The Belgian government has been accused of operating a media crackdown similar to the likes of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Journalists covering the EU and residing in Brussels will have…
[ad_1] One person has been shot dead as police in Harare, Zimbabwe, continue to clash with opposition protesters over alleged fraud in the country’s election. Thousands of supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) chanted anti-government slogans and destroyed benches, signs, traffic lights in Harare prompting police to fire warning shots, water cannon and…
[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether there was any co-operation by his campaign with Moscow. The Republican president, who has long complained about the criminal probe into his White House victory, said the…
[ad_1] China’s government warned Wednesday it will retaliate if Washington imposes new trade penalties, following a report the Trump administration will propose increasing the tariff rate on an additional $200 billion of Chinese imports. A foreign ministry spokesperson, Geng Shuang, said Beijing was ready for “dialogue and consultation” to defuse the escalating dispute. “If the…
[ad_1] The health ministry said four cases of the virus have been confirmed, while 20 deaths from hemorrhagic fever have also been recorded in the area. Julien Paluku wrote on Twitter: “Ebola virus conformed in North Kivu province. “The Minister of Health just announced it after confirmation of the analysis at the INRB (Institut National…
[ad_1] Crews are excavating the ground and digging sideways to save Sana, who fell in at 8am today. A rod has been inserted underneath to stop her slipping down further. She has been responding to calls from her mum, who is pictured sitting beside the hole. Food has been lowered in to stop Sana going…
[ad_1] Lawyers for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones were due to ask a Texas court today to dismiss a lawsuit filed by parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre who are accusing him of slander, according to court papers. The lawsuit is against Jones and his InfoWars website. Jones, who lives in…
[ad_1] Police in Democratic Republic of Congo fired tear gas at supporters of opposition figure and presidential hopeful Jean-Pierre Bemba as they hit the streets to welcome him home after years in prison in The Hague, witnesses said. A Reuters reporter saw police fire tear gas at opposition supporters in the streets of the neighbourhood…
[ad_1] Thieves took two crowns and an orb from the Swedish royal family’s collection, and then made off in a motorboat. The priceless artifacts were snatched from a cathedral in Strangnas, about an hour west of the capital of Stockholm, at lunchtime on Tuesday, police said. The robbers broke into a glass case that held…
[ad_1] Top U.S. immigration officials went before Congress Tuesday to defend their handling of President Donald Trump’s now-abandoned policy of separating migrant children from their families, saying they keep records of children in their custody. They also said they can document decisions by hundreds of detained parents to willingly leave the U.S. without their children,…
[ad_1] When North Korea handed over 55 boxes of bones that it said are remains of American war dead, it provided a single military dog tag but no other information that could help U.S. forensics experts determine their individual identities, a U.S. defence official said Tuesday. The official, who discussed previously undisclosed aspects of the…
[ad_1] The first parliamentary results trickled in this morning and put Emmerson Mnangagwa in the lead to win the landmark election in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) reported in its preliminary results that Mr Mnangagwa’s party has won the majority seats in parliament, showing he picked up 109 seats against 41 for the opposition…
[ad_1] The flight – which was headed for Mexico City – crashed right after takeoff at about 4pm local time, Secretary of Communications and Transportation Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said on Twitter. But authorities said most were not seriously hurt and there were no fatalities. The plane was carrying 97 passengers, including two infants, plus four…
[ad_1] Ellie’s father Tony Soutter said Ellie “wanted to be the best” and “not let anybody down”. The teenager was found dead on her birthday in a remote woodland near her home in the French Alps last week. The devastated father said his daughter’s history of mental health illness and the pressure she had of…
[ad_1] Shop keepers, stall vendors, farmers and even truck drivers are demonstrating today in the Amir-Kabir industrial complex of Isfahan, central Iran, protesting against high prices as the value of Tehran’s currency, the rial, plummets. Scores of demonstrators can be seen gathering in public squares and at the side of main roads, chanting “death to…
[ad_1] Gerda Taro was born Gerta Pohorylle on August 1, 1910, in Stuttgart, Germany. At 19, just before the beginning of Nazi Germany, Gerda and her family moved to Leipzig, a large German city. She was firmly opposed to the government’s increasingly radical politics and was arrested and detained in 1933 for distributing anti-national socialist propaganda. Eventually, her…
[ad_1] Mr Juncker made the promise after Madrid asked for help in dealing with an influx of migrants, with Spain recently seeing a string of arrivals to its shores. In a letter to Mr Sánchez, Mr Juncker promised: “The full support of the European Commission to develop the appropriate and effective response to address the…
[ad_1] Days after wildfires left a deadly swath of destruction in northern California rural counties, new blazes exploded into life and threatened more homes in what has become an endless summer of flame in the Golden State. North of San Francisco, a fire threatened homes in an old ranching and farming area near Covelo. About 60…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party won the majority of seats in Parliament after sweeping rural constituencies by huge margins, official results showed on Wednesday, setting the stage for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission results showed Mnangagwa’s ZANU-PF cruising to a big majority after picking up 109 seats against 41 for the opposition…
[ad_1] The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission reported in its preliminary results that Mr Mnangagwa’s party has won has won the majority seats in parliament, showing he picked up 109 seats against 41 for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Mr Mnangagwa is the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZAN-PF) and has…
[ad_1] Satellite images cast doubt on Mr Trump’s claims after his summit with dictator Kim Jong-un that the rogue state is “no longer a nuclear threat”. Photographs and infrared imaging show vehicles moving in and out of the facility at Sanumdong, but do not clearly show any advance on missile construction. One image showed a…
[ad_1] The dramatic announcement was made by Vice President Mike Pence speaking at a Department of Homeland Security conference yesterday in New York. Mr Pence said: “The American people demand and deserve the strongest possible defence and we will give it to them.” He attacked the record of the previous administration claiming Trump had “inherited”…
[ad_1] Speaking as he addressed Terra Scientia on Klyazma River National Educational Youth Forum, Russia’s top diplomat said that Russia is up-to-date on modern security challenges and possesses the information about military plans of the US and other countries against it. Mr Lavrov said: “Rest assured, we are aware of the schemes harboured by the…
[ad_1] There will be an agenda focusing on humanitarian issues, including returning Syrian refugees home. The Russian Foreign Ministry said: “The participants will exchange opinions on the process of facilitating inter-Syrian dialogue based on the Resolution 2254 of the UN Security Council and the decisions of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi. “They will…
[ad_1] President Trump suggested on Monday a meeting between the leaders could take place, just a week after threatening the Middle Eastern nation in a fiery tweet. The US leader’s proposition was rejected by a series of Iranian officials, including Ali Motahari, the deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament. Speaking to the Official Islamic Republic News…
[ad_1] The country’s currency hit a new low on July 29 as investors began to fear the potential impact of US sanctions on the Middle East county after Donald Trump chose to reimpose tariffs. Demonstrations have spread to the historic city of Isfahan as protestors demand an end to Iran’s intervention in neighbouring countries. Activists…
[ad_1] An announcement could come as early as today, a source familiar with the plan said on Tuesday. The Trump administration had initially announced a 10 percent tariff on the $200billion on imported Chinese goods. Washington has already imposed 25 percent tariffs on Chinese goods worth $34billion. China immediately responded with its own tariffs on…
[ad_1] A new report indicates the US is to deploy military personnel to the new American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Beijing has warned such a move would be a “subversion of the one-China policy” in an editorial in the Global Times. It also warned it was grounds for China to deploy “an increasing number of…
[ad_1] Mr Mueller is conducting a federal investigation into whether collusion took place between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign and Russian foreign agents. The official has already charged dozens of individuals with crimes ranging from fraud to election interference. Mr Mueller has referred various individuals to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District…
[ad_1] An Aeromexico airliner crashed after taking off in the northern Mexican state of Durango on Tuesday, but the state’s governor said no one died in the accident. The civil defence office for the state said the plane came down in a field near the airport for the state capital, Durango. The office published photos of…
[ad_1] A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary restraining order to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic gun, saying they could end up in the wrong hands. The company behind the plans, Austin, Texas-based Defense Distributed, had reached a settlement with the federal government in June to allow it to…
[ad_1] At least 80 people were on board the plane when it went down near Guadalupe Victoria International airport, local media reports. A Durango State Civil Protection spokesman said 80 people were injured in the accident. But the Governor of Durango said on his Twitter account that there were no deaths in the plane accident.…
[ad_1] Two men have confessed to snatching a small shark from a Texas aquarium’s interactive touch tank, then whisking it away, wrapping it in a blanket and concealing it in a baby stroller, police say. Miss Helen, the 40-centimetre-long grey horn shark, was returned to the San Antonio Aquarium on Monday night, two days after the…
[ad_1] Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair, opened more than 30 bank accounts in three foreign countries to “receive and hide” his income from Ukraine, a federal prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday. Uzo Asonye, one of the prosecutors in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, made the comment as part of the prosecution’s opening statement as the trial…
[ad_1] French MP André Chassaigne launched a scathing attack on Emmanuel Macron for his delayed response to the Alexandre Benalla scandal as part of his speech to call for a vote of no confidence on the president. Critics accused Mr Macron of a cover-up by claiming he failed to report the incident as soon as…
[ad_1] Italian officials deflected responsibility Tuesday after 108 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean were returned to Libya, a move that humanitarian groups said could violate international law. The UN refugee agency and Amnesty International denounced the decision to take the migrants to Libya. But both Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli insisted…
[ad_1] The former Mayor of New York and US President Donald Trump‘s lawyer threatened to leave the CNN interview after he claimed he was “useless, petty and silly”. But Mr Giuliani was persuaded to continue with the fiery interview at the compromise of being offered some coffee. As Mr Giuliani said he would leave the…
[ad_1] Counting is currently underway as polls have now closed in Zimbabwe’s election. The elections have been dubbed by some foreign observers as the chance for Zimbabwe to finally break away from its repressive past. Voter turnout was 75 per cent. The results are expected to be officially announced within five days of last weekend’s…
[ad_1] Rwandan Christians have expressed outrage after the crackdown, as officials enforced a strict set of rules declaring churches “unfit” for practise. Thousands of churches in the East African country have been closed in recent weeks, after churches failed to meet the country’s new stringent requirements, which were announced at the beginning of the year.…
[ad_1] Emergency services rushed to the scene after a “suspicious vehicle” was stopped at a passport control booth on the French side of the border, Lille-based newspaper La Voix du Nord reports. A source told French radio network France Info the driver of the car had threatened to blow himself up along with his vehicle.…
[ad_1] Senior Iranian officials on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of talks without preconditions as worthless and “a humiliation” after he acted to reimpose sanctions on Tehran following his withdrawal from a landmark nuclear deal. Separately, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Trump’s repudiation of the accord reached in 2015 was “illegal” and Iran…
[ad_1] The heat wave gripping large stretches of Europe has already been blamed for deadly forest fires and crop failures. Now freshwater fish could be the next victims. Some regions in Germany sweltered as the temperature hit 39 C and the German Meteorological Office said the country’s all-time record of 40.3 C could be topped…
[ad_1] International aid groups are failing to tackle “horror” sexual abuse and harassment in the charity sector, Britain’s aid watchdog said on Tuesday after the revelation of sexual misconduct by aid workers sparked global outrage this year. The International Development Committee (IDC) said the response by the humanitarian sector towards widespread sexual abuse was “reactive,…
[ad_1] The volcano, Mexico’s second-highest peak, began erupted early this morning. Luis Filipes, the country’s civil defence chief, said ash was failing on a number of communities. He Tweeted: “As a result of the Popocatépetl activity recorded this morning, we have reports of ash fall in Amecameca, Acuautla, Ecatzingo, Ozumba and Tepetlixpa.” He later urged…
[ad_1] A shark snatched from the San Antonio Aquarium and wheeled out in a baby stroller is back in its petting tank and investigators say they’ve obtained confessions from two men involved in the deed. Surveillance video had shown two men and a woman carrying a baby sneaking the 60- to 90-centimetre-long grey horn shark named…
[ad_1] Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don’t call it a “wholphin,” they say. The melon-headed whale is one of the various species that’s called a whale but is technically a dolphin. “Calling it something like a wholphin…
[ad_1] Eight states are filing suit against the Trump administration over its decision to allow a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, contending the hard-to-trace plastic weapons are a boon to terrorists and criminals, and threaten public safety. The suit, filed Monday in Seattle, asks a judge to block the federal…
[ad_1] A bomb exploded in a van in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing 11 people at a military checkpoint in an attack officials blamed on militants with ties to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The blast took place on Basilan, the island stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group notorious for…
[ad_1] Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort will enter a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday for his criminal trial on bank and tax fraud charges — the first member of the president’s inner circle to face off with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team. Although the charges have nothing to do with Mueller’s primary goal of investigating Russian interference in the…
[ad_1] Zimbabweans were awaiting the first results Tuesday of an election they hope will lift the country out of economic and political stagnation after decades under former leader Robert Mugabe. Officials neared the end of vote counting a day after millions peacefully cast their ballots in a process closely watched by international monitors, who have yet to announce…
[ad_1] About 3,600 firefighters are battling to tame the horrendous blaze as it destroys acres of land in California, outside the town of Redding. Some inroads have been made in the fight to snuff it out and fire crews reported the blaze is now 23 percent contained, up from five percent on Sunday. Eight people…
[ad_1] Zimbabwe opposition leader Nelson Chamisa said on Tuesday he was winning the election “resoundingly” as votes were being counted in the first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted from power. Mr Chamisha said on Twitter: “Winning resoundingly…We now have results from the majority of the over 10,000 polling stations. “We’ve done exceedingly well. Awaiting…
[ad_1] Hans-Olaf Henkel – a German politician, who is also the former head of the Federation of German Industries and a supporter of the UK, said he believed the UK should stay within the EU bloc. Following shock resignations from David Davis and Boris Johnson, who handed in their notices after Theresa May unveiled her…
[ad_1] Nelson Chamisa, 40 and 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa were the main contenders in Monday’s election, the first since long-ruling Robert Mugabe was removed in a bloodless coup in November. Armen Georgian, an International Affairs Editor, warned armed forces veterans who remember the “struggle for independence” are likely to not have confidence in the younger…
[ad_1] Millions of Zimbabweans queued for hours to cast their vote yesterday in what was said to be an incredibly high turnout of voters. This is the first election for the former British colony since long-time ruler Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup last year. The main contenders to take the presidency are…
[ad_1] Mr Mnagnagwa tweeted: “Good morning Zimbabwe. I am delighted by the high turnout and citizen engagement so far. “The information from our reps on the ground is extremely positive! Waiting patiently for official results as per the constitution.” He took over the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZAN-PF) after 94-year-old Mr Mugabe…
[ad_1] Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes in northern California Tuesday — yet another front in the seemingly endless summer of wildfires that have ravaged some of the most scenic areas of the state. The two fires straddling Mendocino and Lake counties had burned seven homes by Monday night…
[ad_1] This is the first election since the removal of the former President and leader of Zanu-PF, Robert Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for more than 37 years. Nelson Chamisa, the 40-year-old leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), tweeted his party is doing “resoundingly well” in the polls. But a researcher at the Institute…
[ad_1] Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed his party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), collected results from more than 10,000 polling stations, which showed he had done exceedingly well and he is ready to form the next government. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) said official results will be announced in five days. He and…
[ad_1] Mr Chamisa says he is only awaiting for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to officially announce the election results. He and 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa were the main contenders in Monday’s election, which was the first since long-ruling Robert Mugabe was removed in a bloodless coup last November. If the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission confirms Mr…
[ad_1] Nelson Chamisa says he is awaiting Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to officially announce the election results. If he wins then it will be a democratic watershed for the south African country that will boot Robert Mugabe’s former party, ZANU–PF, out of office for the first time since Zimbabwe became independent. Mugabe was known as a…
[ad_1] Mr Pompeo dramatically told American TV station CNBC that IMF bailout money must not go straight from Pakistan to China. He warned: “Make no mistake. We will be watching what the IMF does. “There’s no rationale for IMF tax dollars, and associated with that American dollars that are part of the IMF funding, for…