August 12, 2017 0 Flooding, Landslides Kill More Than 30 in Nepal, Officials Say Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have left more than 30 people dead in Nepal in the past 24 hours, ...
August 12, 2017 0 Thunderstorms Cancel Beijing Flights, Threaten Flooding Thunderstorms lashed Beijing on Saturday, disrupting hundreds of flights at one of the world’s largest airports, while ...
August 12, 2017 0 Pilates Class Combats ‘Text Neck’ Syndrome In the sports world, repetitive movements and muscle overuse eventually lead to strain and injury. The consequences of staring ...
August 12, 2017 0 Report: Trump to Announce China Trade Practices Investigation U.S. President Donald Trump will call Monday for his chief trade adviser to investigate China’s intellectual property ...
August 12, 2017 0 Trump Faces Crisis on North Korea Amid Backdrop of Sliding Polls President Donald Trump is facing his greatest foreign policy challenge in dealing with a nuclear-potent North Korea. But the test ...
August 12, 2017 0 Scientists Tracking ‘Unstoppable’ Ice Melt in Antarctica There’s no doubt Antarctica is getting warmer. Not only is the ice melting, but native moss covers more of the frozen ...
August 11, 2017 0 Somali Military Commander Survives Apparent Assassination Attempt The commander of Somalia’s Custodial Corps, General Hussein Hassan Osman, has survived an apparent assassination attempt inside ...
August 11, 2017 0 Israel, Land of Milk and Honey – and Now Whiskey? Israel has been known as the land of milk and honey since Biblical times – but the land of single malt whiskey? One ...
August 11, 2017 0 Role of Myanmar Military Hangs Over Forum on Democratic Transition The path to democracy is “not a bed of roses,” Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Friday at the ...
August 11, 2017 0 Venezuelan Leader Wants a Face-to-Face Meeting with Trump Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said Thursday he wants to meet the man who hit him with sanctions, U.S. President Donald Trump, ...
August 11, 2017 0 War Threats Have Become Background Noise in South Korea Heated rhetoric between the United States and North Korea are raising concern in much of the world that a major conflict is ...
August 10, 2017 0 Experts Debate Pros and Cons of Lethal Arms for Ukraine U.S. military experts are lining up on either side of a debate on whether to supply lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, a move ...
August 10, 2017 0 EEOC Finds Reasonable Cause Cargill Violated the Rights of Somali-American Muslim Workers The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined there is reasonable cause that the civil rights of ...
August 10, 2017 0 Guam’s Governor Talks to VOA About North Korean Threat Guam’s governor says his Pacific island is concerned but not in a panic in the face of new threats by North Korea to launch ...
August 10, 2017 0 War College Holds Conference About Women, Peace and Security An annual conference is being held at the U.S. Naval War College to discuss empowering women in conflict prevention and peace. ...
August 10, 2017 0 With ‘Watch,’ Facebook Takes Big Step Toward TV Facebook on Wednesday made its biggest move to date to compete in the television market by expanding its video offerings with ...
August 10, 2017 0 Hard-pedaling Soft Power, China Helps Launch $13B Belt and Road Rail Project in Malaysia China and Malaysia broke ground on Wednesday on a $13 billion rail project linking peninsular Malaysia’s east and west, the ...
August 10, 2017 0 Venezuela Exchange Rate Fluctuation Sparks Price Surge The extreme volatility of Venezuela’s exchange rate has the crisis-hit country’s shop owners hurriedly marking up ...
August 10, 2017 0 Hurricane Franklin Heads for Mexican Gulf Coast Hurricane warnings are out for parts of the central Gulf coast of Mexico after Tropical Storm Franklin strengthened Wednesday ...
August 10, 2017 0 Russian Surveillance Plane Buzzes US Capitol — Legally A low-flying Russian airplane created a buzz in the nation’s capital Wednesday, but it turns out the surveillance flight over ...
August 9, 2017 0 Scientists Find Potential Building Block of Life on Titan When astronomers look for life, they generally look for water. The saying goes that where there is water, there is life. But some ...
August 9, 2017 0 Transgender Kids Blossom in Summer Camp Just for Them Many summer camps in the U.S. focus on a single activity – baseball, computers. Many target specific groups – Jewish ...
August 9, 2017 0 Will New Sanctions Restrain Kim Jong Un? Maybe Not As the U.S. and its allies welcome the latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea as a good, incremental step to increase pressure ...