Month: January 2020

Ambassadors to the United Nations of both the U.S. and Iran defended the recent attacks as “self-defense” in a letter to the 15-member Security Council. Both representatives justified the actions under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The article details the members’ right to self-defense against armed attacks. It also requires the…

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian conscript who shot dead eight fellow soldiers at his army base last year said on Thursday he had been left with no other course of action after conscripts turned his life into a living “hell”. Ramil Shamsutdinov opened fire on servicemen at a military facility in the far eastern region…

Associated Press/Rogelio V. Solis Mississippi police say two men have been arrested after they allegedly used superglue to attach the winning numbers onto a lottery ticket and tried to cash it in. The men were both arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and uttering a counterfeit instrument over $1,000 CNN reported that…

The Australian bushfires have been raging for months, causing billions in damages, destroying homes, human lives, and over 1 billion animals who have died in this tragic disaster. Australian locals have taken it upon themselves to help the affected wildlife, including two teenaged boys who rescued a few koalas who were hurt in the fires,…

Australian authorities urged another mass evacuation across the heavily populated southeast on Thursday as a return of hot weather fanned huge bushfires threatening several towns and communities. Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews urged communities to be on alert ahead of the extreme conditions. “If you receive instructions to leave, then you must leave,” Andrews said…

Iran and the United States recently traded threats after a top Iranian general was killed in a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad’s airport. Iran confirmed that it won’t any longer abide by the limits contained in the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran also fired a series of ballistic missiles at two military camps in Iraq housing American…

Facebook announced Thursday that it will maintain its policy of not fact-checking political ads, despite growing public pressure to not allow false information by candidates. In a post to the company’s website, Rob Leathern, Facebook’s director of product management overseeing the advertising integrity division, said the company would not change its policy against policing political…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will send articles of impeachment to the Senate “soon,” but still wants to see definitive details from the Senate on how it will conduct the trial. “Under the Senate rules of 1986, what is allowed for the presentation from the House is one person to speak,” Pelosi…

JACKSON, Miss. — Betty Turner dreaded what her son would face in the state penitentiary in Parchman, the Mississippi Delta prison that has, over the course of more than a century, earned a dark and near-mythic reputation for cruelty and institutional racism. Her fears were realized when he described meals of just a slice of…

Leur idylle a tout du conte de fée. Après avoir passé une semaine en amoureux, le Prince Harry et sa compagne Meghan Markle ont été aperçu à l’aéroport de Londres. Déterminé à profiter de chaque minute avec elle, le jeune homme a escorté sa belle jusqu’à la porte d’embarquement, sous la surveillance de plusieurs agents…