August 7, 2018 0 DHS: 700K-plus Overstayed US Visas Last Year More than 700,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the United States during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas, ...
August 7, 2018 0 Chinese Businessman Pleads Guilty of Importing Opioids A Chinese businessman pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court Tuesday of importing and distributing opioids. Bin Wang operated ...
August 7, 2018 0 NYC Ponders Precedent With 1-Year Cap on New Ride-Hail Car Services New York City’s iconic but imperiled yellow cab industry may be getting help from lawmakers who want to pump the brakes on ...
August 7, 2018 0 Ex-Ivory Coast First Lady Granted Amnesty Former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo is one of 800 prisoners who were granted amnesty Monday by President Alassane ...
August 7, 2018 0 Trump Reimposes Iranian Economic Sanctions The United States has reimposed economic sanctions on Iran that were originally put in place to pressure the country to limit its ...
August 7, 2018 0 California Fire Swells to Largest in State History Authorities in the western U.S. state of California say a wildfire that began burning more than a week ago has become the largest ...
August 7, 2018 0 Watchdog Says Australia Lawmakers Increasingly Exploit Race Australia’s racism watchdog said on Monday the country is experiencing a resurgence in lawmakers exploiting race to advance ...
August 7, 2018 0 Iran Partially Lifts Currency Controls as US Reimposes Sanctions Iran is partially lifting controls on the rial’s exchange rate with the dollar to try to ease panic-buying of the U.S. ...
August 6, 2018 0 French Master Chef Joel Robuchon Dies at Age 73 Joel Robuchon, a master chef who shook up the stuffy world of French haute cuisine by wowing palates with the delights of the ...
August 6, 2018 0 HRW Opposes Plan to Move Rohingyas to Uninhabited Island A human rights group is urging Bangladesh to reconsider its plans to move Rohingya refugees to a small, uninhabited island. ...
August 6, 2018 0 US Navy’s Top Admiral Cites Increased Threat in Ocean Nearest Washington Chinese military vessels are now patrolling the Northern Atlantic, and Russian submarines are prowling those same waters at a ...
August 6, 2018 0 Taiwan’s Kinmen Island Begins Importing Water from China The Taiwanese-controlled island of Kinmen located just off the Chinese coast has begun importing water from its neighbor via a ...
August 6, 2018 0 Bangladeshi Photographer Detained For Protest Posts Police in Bangladesh said Monday they have arrested Shahidul Alam, a celebrated photographer, for his posts on Facebook and ...
August 5, 2018 0 Violence Follows Ethiopian Army Deployment to Eastern Region Officials in Ethiopia’s Somali region say 29 people were killed as a result of violence Saturday in the regional capital, ...
August 5, 2018 0 Deadly Blasts Hit Somalia At least six people were killed and 13 others were wounded in two bombings in Somalia on Sunday, ambulance services and officials ...
August 5, 2018 0 New Era in Space: NASA Astronauts Fly Commercial Spacecraft A new era in American spaceflight was unveiled Friday, with NASA presenting the flight crews that will carry out the first test ...
August 5, 2018 0 S. Sudan’s Warring Leaders Sign Peace Deal to Share Power South Sudan’s warring parties signed a peace deal on Sunday in the latest attempt to end the country’s five-year ...
August 5, 2018 0 Drought Raises Questions About Israel’s Water Strategy For years, public service announcements warned Israelis to save water: Take shorter showers. Plant resilient gardens. Conserve. ...
August 4, 2018 0 Venezuela’s Maduro Fine After Apparent ‘Attack’ Drones loaded with explosives detonated close to a military event where Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was giving a speech ...
August 4, 2018 0 Manafort Trial Concludes Active First Week The first week of Paul Manafort’s trial ended Friday, with prosecutors calling a bevy of witnesses to testify about the ...
August 4, 2018 0 California Governor Requests Federal Aid for Fighting Wildfires California Governor Jerry Brown said Saturday that he had asked U.S. President Donald Trump for emergency aid to help the state ...
August 4, 2018 0 Bail Hearings Delayed for Zimbabwe Opposition Protesters Twenty-two opposition activists, facing charges of inciting violence and causing malicious damage to the ruling ZANU-PF party ...
August 4, 2018 0 What Happens When Volcano Meets Hurricane? Hawaii May Find Out Two of Mother Nature’s most potentially devastating forces — a major hurricane and an erupting volcano — appear headed for ...