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.
Heavy rain and 185-mph winds lashed the Virgin Islands and Puerto Ricoβs northeast coast Wednesday as Hurricane Irma roared through Caribbean islands on its way to a possible hit on South Florida.
The governor of South Carolina has issued a state of emergency as new models show Hurricane Irma shifting towards the Carolina coastlines.
With Seoul expecting another North Korean missile test, South Korean warships conducted live-fire exercises at sea on Tuesday in a second straight day of military swagger from a nation still rattled by the Northβs biggest-ever nuclear test.
U.N. Security Council members called for further sanctions against North Korea on Monday after a powerful nuclear test explosion added another layer of urgency for diplomats wrestling with what to do about the Northβs persistent weapons programs.
Following U.S. warnings to North Korea of a βmassive military response,β South Korea on Monday fired missiles into the sea to simulate an attack on the Northβs main nuclear test site a day after Pyongyang detonated its largest ever nuclear test explosion.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday shot back at North Koreaβs latest nuclear provocation with a blunt threat, saying the U.S. will answer any North Korean threat with a βmassive military response -- a response both effective and overwhelming.β While he said America does not seek the βtotal annihilationβ of the North, he added somberly, βWe have many options to do so.β
North Korea announced it detonated a thermonuclear device Sunday in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date, a big step toward its goal of developing nuclear weapons capable of striking anywhere in the U.S. The North called it a βperfect successβ while its neighbors condemned the blast immediately.
The way Princess Diana died 20 years Thursday β in a high-speed Paris car crash while she and her boyfriend were being chauffeured by an intoxicated driver and pursued by photographers β shocked and angered the public. It also preserved her in memory as a glamorous, beloved and vulnerable figure.
With more guests than cots, some people slept on chairs or the floor. People hung towels and wet clothes on the base of the ceiling supports. Police officers guarded several entrances. Outside, dozens of people still awake stood with their pets and traded cigarettes.
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