California’s Thomas wildfire now largest in state history The blaze known as the Thomas fire in Southern California is now the largest in the state’s recorded history, fire officials said Saturday evening. The Thomas fire has scorched 273,400 acres, or about 427 square miles of coastal foothills and national forest. […]
Robot growing pains: Two U.S. factories show tensions of going digital Robot growing pains: Two U.S. factories show tensions of going digital:- When Sandy Vierling took a job at a new robot-packed factory her company built just a few miles from an older plant where she made automotive exhaust systems, […]
Hong Kong’s underused military land a potential goldmine: but a minefield for government As Hong Kong seeks more land to help ease a worsening housing crisis, some lawmakers and activists are urging officials to take a fresh look at little-used swathes of more than $100 billion worth of real estate […]
Indonesia holds cabinet meeting in Bali as volcano threatens tourism Indonesian President Joko Widodo will on Friday hold his cabinet meeting on the holiday island of Bali in a bid to reassure visitors that there is nothing to worry about from the rumbling Mount Agung volcano. Authorities last month raised […]
Australian PM says nine foreigners among those hurt when driver plows into crowd Nearly half the 19 people injured when a driver with no known extremist links plowed into pedestrians in the southern city of Melbourne were foreign nationals, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday. Police allege that […]
After Reuters arrests, some Myanmar reporters fear ‘it could’ve been me’ Some human rights advocates say press freedom is under attack in Myanmar, even though decades of rule by a junta that tightly controlled the media has given way to a government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu […]
U.N. Security Council to vote Friday on new North Korea sanctions The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Friday on a U.S.-drafted resolution that seeks to toughen sanctions on North Korea in response to its latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, diplomats said. The draft, seen by Reuters […]
Catalan separatists win election in rebuke to Spain and EU Catalonia’s separatists look set to regain power in the wealthy Spanish region after local elections on Thursday, deepening the nation’s political crisis in a sharp rebuke to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and European Union leaders who backed him. With nearly […]
Defying Trump, over 120 countries at U.N. condemn Jerusalem decision More than 120 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Trump had threatened to […]
China ‘wants DEATH and is pushing South Korea over the edge’ China ‘wants DEATH and is pushing South Korea over the edge’:- CHINA is “taunting” South Korea and aims to push Seoul into war as tensions between the two nations continue to grow, a US political pundit has warned. Seoul […]
