The hermit kingdom’s state media released a “severe warning” to the US after its “perfect” nuclear test. The article in the North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun said: “If the US persists in its hostile policy towards the DPRK and makes a showdown with the latter to the end, while […]
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Hundreds of people were allowed to go back home Sunday night as crews reported major progress fighting the La Tuna fire, described as Los Angeles’ biggest fire on record. The so-called La Tuna fire was holding steady at about 5,865 acres in the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles Fire […]
Arkema Inc. ignited and burned the six remaining trailers at its Harvey-wrecked chemical plant near Houston on Sunday so crews can stop waiting and get to work assessing the threat at the flooded facility, authorities said. Three of the nine trailers, which each house a half-ton of highly flammable materials, […]
A 41-year-old man died Sunday after leaping into a massive fire at Burning Man, the annual arts event in Nevada’s Black Rock desert that draws 70,000 people from around the world. The Burning Man ‘Man’ is engulfed in flames as about 70,000 people gather for the annual Burning Man arts […]
Mr Johnson said Britain was a “reassuring presence” for allies facing “Russian antagonism” ahead of the high-level talks in London on Monday night. Foreign ministers from EU nations Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden will attend the working dinner and meeting, along with counterparts from non-EU nations Norway and […]
Pyongyang boasted it had tested a hydrogen bomb, a device 10 times more powerful than an atomic bomb, in an underground bunker in the north of the country. North Korea claimed its sixth nuclear test was a “perfect success”, hours after seismologists detected an earth tremor in the area, which […]
GETTY Nazi concentration camp guard escapes justice: At 96, he is too ill to answer for crimes Hubert Zafke, 96, has – after a legal fiasco of a trial in which he was in court for four days over two years – has finally been pronounced too sick to answer […]
Tensions between Hong Kong and Beijing’s ruling Communist Party leaders have grown in recent years, particularly over the “Occupy” civil disobedience movement in 2014 when tens of thousands of protesters blocked roads for 79 days demanding full democracy. Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 with the […]