Authorities in southeast China ordered the evacuation of about 158,000 people and ships back to port ahead of the typhoon, which was expected to hit Fujian province on Saturday.
Police shot dead a man wielding an axe, a replica handgun and pepper spray at a movie theatre near Nashville on Wednesday, in terrifying echoes of two previous cinema shootings.
The attack last week by fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the pipeline carrying Kurdish and Kirkuk oil to Mediterranean port of Ceyhan is part of a wider surge in violence by the PKK, targeting Turkish security forces and infrastructure after Ankara...
ANKARA, Turkey – Kurdish rebels detonated an explosives-laden agricultural vehicle Sunday at a military police station in eastern Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding 31 others, authorities said, amid a sharp escalation of violence between the government forces and the...
There’s a debate to be had as to whether the SI Yankees were right to work with such a controversial group in the first place (rather than, say, working with other police charities with less-confrontational names and goals), but regardless of one’s position there,...
WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trump said Monday he never intended to say anything inappropriate about Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly and said the uproar over his criticism is “all fueled by the press”. “I said nothing wrong”, he said, adding that someone...
Norwegian People’s Aid, the labour movement’s humanitarian organisation for solidarity, has for many years been pushing the Norwegian politicians to take active, driving role in the fight to prohibit nuclear weapons.
Japan has marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under fire for his attempts to expand the military’s role.
Hundreds of people are gathering in Ferguson, Missouri this weekend to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by white police officer Darren Wilson. Brown said his family is still grieving, but he believes his son’s...
Per Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those three principles are, “not possessing, not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons, in line with Japan’s Peace Constitution”.
When Black Lives Matter protesters stormed the stage where he was speaking Saturday, uber-liberal Democratic presidential candidate and avowed socialist Bernie Sanders got a good look at what happens when his own progressive agenda is taken to extremes.
The Saudi-led coalition ground force fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has captured the capital of Abyan province, after launching preliminary airstrikes and a series of coordinated attacks on strategic locations still held by the rebels.