Officials from the U.S.-led coalition bombing the IS group in Iraq and Syria could not immediately be reached for comment. Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool says the military
The carrier said in a statement that the nose gear of an Airbus A330-300 “retracted while the aircraft was undergoing a landing gear system check.” “There were no passengers or crew
CHINA A Japanese woman in her 50s has been detained in Shanghai since June over her suspected involvement in spying activities, Kyodo news agency said yesterday. It’s the fourth Japanese
Nearly simultaneous explosions targeted a Turkish peace rally in Ankara, killing at least 95 people and wounding hundreds in Turkey’s deadliest attack in years — one that threatens to inflame
Former British Treasury chief Geoffrey Howe, a prominent figure in Margaret Thatcher’s government who helped bring about her downfall after they parted ways over policy toward Europe, has died at
The two men came close to striking a radical arms reduction deal after a weekend of lengthy negotiations at Hofdi House in the Icelandic capital. But the talks finally stalled over
Remnants of Pacific Hurricane Oho battered Alaska’s southeast coast on Friday, the latest unusual weather event to hit a state that so far this year has dealt with a lack
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Over the pulsating beat at an exclusive nightclub, the arms smuggler made his pitch to a client: 2.5 million euros for enough radioactive cesium to contaminate
Julio Iglesias has jumped into the U.S. political debate, calling Donald Trump “a clown” over the Republican presidential candidate’s derogatory comments about Mexican migrants. The singer says he will no longer
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for works that chronicled the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and those that followed in the wake of its 1991
CHINA Tourism officials have closed a newly opened glass walkway in a central China tourism spot after cracks appeared in the structure at the height of the weeklong National Day
Hillary Rodham Clinton declared her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord yesterday, her most significant break with President Barack Obama since launching her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. "I
A Las Vegas physician stood shackled in court and pleaded not guilty yesterday to drugging and sexually assaulting at least 14 patients, including a 16-year-old girl whose alleged attack was
A statement issued by the commander of the Eighth Bolivian Army Division, Colonel Joaquin Zenteno Anaya, said the 39-year-old guerrilla leader was shot dead near the jungle village of Higueras,
Rocket-based spaceflight was proposed 30 years earlier than previously thought by a Canadian university head, a space historian says. Historian Robert Godwin says William Leitch of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario,
Time Out magazine has defended its use of a slogan including the word slave on a T-shirt worn by Meryl Streep to promote the movie “Suffragette,” arguing that critics have
Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that can be used to develop new
CHINA-US A man has been sentenced to three years and one month in prison for importing counterfeit electronic components from China and Hong Kong for use by American customers, including builders
The deadly U.S. attack on a hospital in Afghanistan, which U.S. officials have called a "mistake," leaves open the possibility that the decision to open fire exceeded the authority under which
One of the biggest publishers in the U.S. apologized yesterday for calling slaves brought to America "workers" in a geography textbook used widely in Texas, where the wording went unnoticed
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