With its relentless rain and refusal to go away — having already made three landfalls — Harvey may end up being one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. But pinning an exact price tag on the storm is more of an art than a science. Experts have already […]
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WASHINGTON — Coalition airstrikes stopped hundreds of ISIS militants and civilians Wednesday from moving from one threatened ISIS enclave in Syria to another hundreds of miles east. ISIS had negotiated a ceasefire with Hezbollah, the Lebanese government and the Russian-backed Assad regime that included a deal to evacuate ISIS militants […]
GETTY The Queen was criticised in the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death In the days after her death in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997, the spotlight was shone on the Royal Family and Prime Minister Tony Blair. Mr Blair’s popularity surged in the aftermath of Diana’s […]
Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts de France region, said he did not believe Britain leaving the bloc would create travel chaos at borders. He said British plans for a soft Irish border could also work if implemented in France at Channel crossings. The former French health minister, told the […]
FILE – This July 6, 2011 file photo shows a grizzly bear roaming near Beaver Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Wildlife advocates and a Montana Indian tribe are asking a U.S. court to restore protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park so that trophy hunting of […]
Astronomers have studied six distant starburst galaxies and discovered that five of them are surrounded by turbulent reservoirs of hydrogen gas, the fuel for future star formation.
Mariano Rajoy was hauled up in front of lawmakers to answer questions about alleged illegal financing of his conservative People’s Party. The Prime Minister defended his record on fighting corruption during testy exchanges with lawmakers at the hearing on Wednesday, called at a politically delicate time when he no longer […]
Russian diplomat and an expert in Asian studies, Professor Georgy Toloraya said that if conflict broke out, a number of countries “will be living under a threat of a nuclear volcano erupting.” He said: “Everyone understands perfectly well that for North Korea, if it initiates an aggressive strike, a military […]