The German Chancellor hit out after Mr Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea as fears of a nuclear conflict mount. Mrs Merkel said: “I am against threats of this kind. And speaking for myself and the Government I must say that we consider any type of military solution absolutely inappropriate […]
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Hours after the US President branded the 2015 deal “embarassing” and suggested he might withdraw the US from the pact, his French counterpart defended the accord and said it was “essential” to keeping the peace. Mr Macron told the UN General Assembly: “Renouncing it would be a grave error, not […]
Archaeologists digging under a Maya palace in Guatemala say they have opened the tomb of a royal and found a jade mask and bones, both painted bright red. The tomb was unearthed at the site of El Perú-Waka’ in the rainforest of northern Guatemala. Though the dense city was filled with […]
Even a “fatberg” — an enormous clotted, mass of fat and garbage found clogging a London sewer — deserves a second chance, and the biggest fatberg ever found in a British sewer recently got one. The fatberg, a cement-like plug of accumulated cooking grease, diapers, wipes, sanitary products and other […]
Jimmy Kimmel should have picked up the telephone, not the microphone, if he was unhappy with Republicans’ latest effort to replace Obamacare, two of the senators behind the proposal said Wednesday. One day after Kimmel ripped into Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., as a liar, Cassidy, backed by his colleague Sen. […]
Juliette Morillot told France’s Europe 1 radio the despot is “far from crazy” but warned the family still poses a threat to the world. Mrs Morillot said: “The ruling Kim family is far from crazy. In truth, they are all perfectly rational and well-educated. “When I say the Kims aren’t […]
Former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner “deserves time in prison” — about two years — for sexual communications with a 15-year-old girl, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday ahead of next week’s sentencing. In a submission last week, defense lawyers argued Weiner — who is in the midst of […]
Hurricane Maria, the powerful Category 4 storm that made landfall on Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning, could devastate the U.S. territory and surrounding Caribbean islands. Puerto Ricans take refuge at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan ahead of Hurricane Maria on Sept. 19. Hector Retamal / AFP – Getty […]