FILE – In this file photo dated Wednesday March 30, 2011, showing smoke emitting from a chimney in IJmuiden, Netherlands. Environmentalists group Friends of the Earth, have gone to court Wednesday Aug. 23, 2017, to demand that the Dutch government take urgent action to improve air quality, arguing that authorities […]
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WASHINGTON — The average number of U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan at any given time is thousands more than the Pentagon officially acknowledges, according to three U.S. defense officials. The Pentagon officially acknowledges 8,400 troops on the ground there, but that number actually hovers between 11,000 and 12,000, the officials […]
In Las Vegas, on August 26, the unbeaten American boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr and the immensely popular Irishman Conor McGregor will face off in a boxing ring, where only striking with hands while standing is allowed. It would be just another boxing match, albeit a huge one, except that McGregor […]
TOKYO — North Korea’s state media released new photos Wednesday that appear to show the designs of one or possibly two new missiles. Concept diagrams were seen hanging on a wall behind leader Kim Jong Un while he visited a plant that makes solid-fuel engines for the country’s ballistic-missile program. […]
View photos The owner of the world’s largest rhino farm says his technique of dehorning the animals under sedation is humane and discourages poachers (AFP Photo/MUJAHID SAFODIEN) More Johannesburg (AFP) – Several hundred rhino horns will go under the hammer on Wednesday in South Africa’s first online auction of the […]
The commander of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet will be relieved of command following the deadly collision of two warships in separate incidents in a little more than two months, two officials said Tuesday. Navy Vice Admiral Joseph P. Aucoin will be relieved of command by Pacific Fleet Admiral Scott […]