Having already weathered a devastating hurricane season, Caribbean residents feared a new round of destruction from Category 5 Hurricane Maria as it barreled towards the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Tuesday. “We already had years ahead of us to recover from the first one [Hurricane Irma] and now we have […]
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Authorities warned Puerto Ricans to evacuate or die on Tuesday as Hurricane Maria, the most powerful storm to threaten the region in almost 90 years, barreled toward the U.S. territory. Maria, a Category 5 storm — the strongest there is — killed one person and injured two other people as […]
A powerful earthquake rocked Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 119 people and toppling buildings — less than two weeks after a deadly 8.1-magnitude quake hit the country and left nearly 100 dead. The quake struck central Mexico at about 2:15 p.m. ET and had a magnitude of 7.1, the […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top chemical regulator is expected to face tough questions from Senate Democrats for spending decades working on behalf of corporations trying to stave off tougher chemical regulations. Michael Dourson, who’s been nominated by the White House to lead the Environmental […]
Shocking video footage has emerged which appears to show the woman violently hurl the baby into its cot. In the video, taken from inside the child’s bedroom in the family home in Namibia, the nanny is seen carrying little Laila by her shoulder and neck. The nanny begins to tidy […]
Martinique, where 50,000 homes were left without electricity and 10,000 without drinking water, escaped the brunt of the storm, although a communications blackout with neighbouring Guadeloupe meant that it was still “too early” to know the full extent of the damage, a senior French Civil Protection official said. But Hurricane […]
President Moon Jae-in said Mr Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly yesterday “portrayed a firm and specific stance” on the rogue state – and demonstrated “how seriously” the US viewed the threat posed by the authoritarian regime. The South Korean leader has previously called for more engagement with North […]
Instead of first taking questions from French journalists after his address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly this week, the young leader – whose approval ratings have plummeted since his election in May – chose to grant an interview to CNN International. And when quizzed by a French […]