80 years on, Hiroshima warns of nuclear threat
AFP : Japan marked 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday with a ceremony reminding the world of the horrors unleashed, as...
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Boeing defense workers set to strike
AFP : Thousands of members of a union representing Boeing defense industry workers in the US states of Missouri and Illinois will go on strike...
Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats
AP : Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens...
Russia to try suspects in concert hall attack
AFP : The trial opens in Moscow on Monday of 19 people accused of involvement in an attack on a Moscow concert hall last year...
White House defends Bureau of Labor Statistics firing as critics warn of eroded trust
Japan Today : White House economic advisers on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, pushing back...
China pushes back at US demands to stop buying Russian, Iranian oil
Japan Today : U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs,...
9 kidnapped from Haitian orphanage
AFP : Nine people were kidnapped from an orphanage near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Sunday, officials said, including the facility’s Irish director and...
Hamas says no food privileges forhostages
AFP : The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Sunday that Israeli hostages would not receive any “special privileges” in the food they are given compared...
Ex-NZ top cop charged with child porn, bestiality content
AFP : New Zealand’s former deputy police commissioner lost the right to anonymity Monday after he was charged with possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality...
Trump fires lead official on economic data as tariffs cause market drop
BBC : US President Donald Trump has fired the boss of one of America’s most important economic institutions hours after weaker-than-expected jobs data stoked further...
Portugal goes on high alert
AFP : Portugal’s government on Saturday issued an alert warning of a heatwave with a high risk of fires in large parts of the country...