Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:56:18 +0000
SEOUL — A senior North Korean diplomat on Tuesday accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of making “foolish and dangerous” comments, after Pompeo said Washington will have to “change paths” if nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang break down.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:04:43 +0000
BEIJING – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday he hopes for “substantial progress” in talks with Chinese officials aimed at ending a tariff war over Beijing’s technology ambitions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:28:36 +0000
NEW YORK – Quarantines in California. Fines in New York City. Orders for some people to avoid public places in Rockland County, New York.As an outbreak of measles surges across the United States — with 704 cases this year and counting — some local health officials are trying to deal with contagion in unvaccinated communities by turning to extraordinary police powers from the past.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:16:27 +0000
Emperor Akihito has started his abdication rituals at a Shinto shrine Tuesday morning as Japan embraces the end of his reign with reminiscence and hope for a new era.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 11:58:06 +0000
For years, Louis and Katherine Kealoha were Hawaii law enforcement’s power couple. Then the white mailbox in front of their house disappeared.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 08:07:03 +0000
JAKARTA, Indonesia- Floods and landslides from torrential rains in Indonesia have killed at least 31 people and displaced thousands in the past few days, the country’s disaster agency said Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:23:01 +0000
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The Catholic church in Sri Lanka says the government should crack down on Islamists with more vigor “as if on war footing” in the aftermath of the Easter bombings.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:17:27 +0000
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia’s navy said Monday that one of its patrol vessels was rammed by two Vietnamese coast guard ships after intercepting a boat it says was fishing illegally in its waters.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 01:55:19 +0000
MADRID – Spain’s governing center-left Socialists won the country’s election Sunday but must seek backing from smaller parties to maintain power, while a far-right party rode an unprecedented surge of support to enter the lower house of parliament for the first time in four decades.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 02:36:04 +0000
Texas officials announced Friday that they settled a lawsuit over a bungled search for ineligible voters that President Donald Trump stoked over Twitter but that resulted in the U.S. citizenship of thousands of people being wrongly called into question.
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