Whether humanity has pushed the planet into a “mass extinction” event may be a matter of definition, but by any measure the rate at which life-forms are disappearing is deeply alarming, scientists say. “In each of the five previous mass extinctions, we lost about 75 percent of species,” […]
Russia’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 was the country’s first post-Soviet passenger plane and intended to revive the civil aviation industry but it was dogged with problems from the start. Here is an overview of the jet involved in a runway blaze in Moscow on Sunday in which 41 people […]
Brunei’s sultan has announced death by stoning for gay sex and adultery will not be enforced after a global backlash, but critics Monday called for harsh sharia laws to be abandoned entirely. In a speech late Sunday, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said a moratorium on capital punishment that already […]
The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow’s busiest airport, killing 41 people, said lightning led to the emergency landing. Investigators were on Monday working to understand the causes of the blaze after the Sukhoi Superjet-100 had […]
Washington : President Donald Trump’s turnabout on whether the special counsel should appear before Congress “Bob Mueller should not testify,” he tweeted has sparked criticism from Democratic lawmakers eager to question the author of the report on Russia’s election interference. Trump had previously said he would leave the question […]
BEIJING — Chinese envoys are preparing to travel to the United States for trade talks, a government spokesman said Monday, suggesting negotiations on ending a bruising tariff war will proceed despite President Donald Trump’s threat to raise import taxes. Beijing is “trying to get more information” following Trump’s […]
TOKYO — North Korea appears to have tested a new short-range missile — and President Donald Trump’s resolve to keep it from doing more of the same in the future. The test early Saturday was quickly played down by Trump and his top advisers, who noted it was […]
Your daily look at late breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. FIGHTING ERUPTS UP ALONG GAZA FRONTIER Rockets fired into southern Israel by Gaza militants kill at least four Israelis, while Israeli airstrikes kill 22 Palestinians in bloodiest fighting in five […]
WASHINGTON — The Latest on United States and Iran (all times local): 10:25 p.m. A U.S. defense official says the deployments of an aircraft carrier strike group and land-based bombers to the Middle East are in response to indications that Iran and its proxy forces were preparing to […]
NEW YORK : — Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, media attack dog and all-around fixer for President Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin serving a three-year prison sentence Monday for crimes including campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made on Trump’s behalf. Cohen faces a 2 p.m. […]
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