Month: January 2020

INSTAGRAM @IDASHOPE4STROKE via REUTERS The bushfires in southeastern Australia are raging on with no sign of stopping. Officials were bracing for unfavorable conditions, and temperatures hit a record high in Canberra. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Saturday that 3,000 Australian Defence Force reservists would help with bushfire recovery. He also announced nearly $13.9 million…

JACKSON, Miss. – Two inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman were reported missing early Saturday, the Mississippi Department of Corrections reported. The news of the missing inmates comes after a week of turmoil at prisons across the state. Five Mississippi inmates have been killed since Sunday across the state, including three amid violence at Parchman, where…

Key Point: Sanctions are key to preventing major arms sales to Iran. The Iranian air force on paper is one of the biggest air arms in the world. Its order of battle includes around 350 fighters, more than twice as many as the Royal Air Force possesses. But most of Iran’s fighters are old and outdated.…

Key Point: The Tomcat did prove itself to be one of the great American fighters of its era—in the hands of both the U.S. Navy and the Iranian Air Force. Let’s just get this out of the way: Maverick. Iceman. Charlie. Are you done swooning yet? For many, the 1988 film Top Gun caused the F-14…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate seems certain to keep President Donald Trump in office thanks to the overwhelming GOP support expected in his impeachment trial. But how that trial will proceed — and when it will begin — remains to be seen. Democrats are pushing for the Senate to issue subpoenas for witnesses and documents,…

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem vient de revenir sur l’accrochage qu’elle a eu avec Vanessa Burggraf sur le plateau d’On n’est pas couché le 20 mai dernier. « Une séquence scandaleuse » comme elle l’a définie, ses yeux dans ceux de Catherine Barma, la productrice de l’émission. Dans un entretien accordé au Monde ce dimanche, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem s’est…

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for House Democrats on Friday challenged the Trump administration on its claims of executive powers, in two court hearings that, while not directly related to the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, could come to influence the Senate trial that is expected to begin shortly. The first hearing was over whether former White House counsel…

For more than a decade, Hezbollah and therefore Iran have maintained “sleeper agents” in America who await only a coded signal to commit mass murder and wreak maximum chaos. “There would be certain scenarios that would require action or conduct by those who belonged to the cell,” one of three sleeper agents arrested by the…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a building under construction in Cambodia has surged to 36, even as an additional survivor was pulled from the rubble, officials said Sunday. At least a dozen bodies were found in overnight operations at the site in the coastal province of Kep, where…

By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Thirty-six people were killed and 23 more injured when a tourist guesthouse under construction in Cambodia collapsed, trapping workers under rubble, officials said on Sunday. Officials said rescue operations ended two days after the seven-storey concrete building collapsed on Friday in the coastal town of Kep, about…