North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump βderangedβ and said he will βpay dearlyβ for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on the horizon.
President Donald Trump added economic action to his fiery military threats against North Korea on Thursday, authorizing stiffer new sanctions in response to the Koreansβ nuclear weapons advances.
The sky was darkening Thursday afternoon as 10-year-old Sarah Jimenez laid out three plastic buckets on her grandmotherβs patio in hopes of capturing rainwater.
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A delicate effort to reach a young girl buried in the ruins of her school stretched into a new day on Thursday, a vigil broadcast across the nation as rescue workers struggled in rain and darkness to pick away unstable debris and reach her.
Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans stunned by a hurricane that crushed concrete balconies, twisted metal gates and paralyzed the island with landslides, flooding and downed trees vowed to slowly rebuild amid an economic crisis as rescue crews fanned out across the U.S. territory Thursday.
Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings early Wednesday, looking for survivors of Mexicoβs deadliest earthquake in decades as the number of confirmed fatalities stood at 217.
Dominicaβs leader sent out an emotional plea for help as Hurricane Maria smashed into the Caribbean island and caused βmind-bogglingβ devastation, but an ominous silence followed as the country lost all communications on Tuesday and the Category 5 hurricane barreled toward Puerto Rico, which looked likely to take a direct hit.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 104 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust.
Elected on the nationalist slogan βAmerica first,β President Donald Trump will use his debut address to the U.N. General Assembly to argue that individual nations should act in their own self-interest, yet rally together when faced with a common threat such as North Korea.
British officials have raised the countryβs terrorism threat level to βcriticalβ β meaning another attack is expected shortly.
One of Chinaβs biggest bitcoin exchanges says it will end trading after news reports regulators have ordered all Chinese exchanges to close caused the price of the digital currency to plunge.
A reported explosion at a train station sent commuters stampeding in panic, injuring several people on Friday at the height of Londonβs morning rush hour, and police said they were investigating it as a terrorist attack.
North Korea conducted its longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile Friday, sending an intermediate-range weapon hurtling over U.S. ally Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean in a launch that signals both defiance to its rivals and a big technological advance.
Russiaβs military says it fired seven cruise missiles at Islamic State targets in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour.
The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions on North Korea but not the toughest-ever measures sought by the Trump administration to ban all oil imports and freeze international assets of the government and its leader, Kim Jong Un.
China is joining France and Britain in announcing plans to end sales of gasoline and diesel cars.
A major earthquake off Mexicoβs southern coast killed at least fifteenth people, with the president saying Friday it was the biggest in a century to hit the country. Houses toppled and the quake produced tsunami waves and sent people running into the streets in panic.
Prince George went to school for the first time Thursday, but it was a rite of passage missed by his mother, who is struggling with acute morning sickness in the early stages of her third pregnancy.
Hurricane Irma has killed at least 10 people as the dangerous Category 5 storm continued its destructive march across the Caribbean early Thursday.
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