Russia blasts Boris Johnson’s Putin-Hitler comparison as insulting, ‘totally irresponsible’ Moscow’s ambassador to the U.K. slammed the British Foreign Secretary’s comparison of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolph Hitler as “disgusting” in an escalating war of words between the two countries. On Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it […]
EU leaders back UK in Russian row over nerve agent attack European Union leaders have sided with the United Kingdom in its worsening diplomatic dispute with Russia over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent, saying it’s “highly likely” Moscow is behind the attack. After meeting with British Prime […]
Vietnam Scraps South China Sea Oil Drilling Project Under Pressure From Beijing: BBC HANOI (REUTERS) – Vietnam’s state oil firm PetroVietnam has ordered Spanish energy firm Repsol to suspend its “Red Emperor” project off the country’s southeastern coast following pressure from China, the BBC reported on Friday. It would be […]
The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought Between California and Hawaii, there’s a teeming patch of garbage that’s stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. We already knew it was huge. There’s a reason it’s called the “Great Pacific Garbage […]
Tillerson bids farewell to a ‘mean-spirited town’ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appealed to State Department employees on Thursday to maintain their integrity and to be kind in a “mean-spirited town” as he bid farewell to the staff he led for barely a year. Tillerson urged a few hundred employees […]
Protest over fatal police shooting delays NBA game in Sacramento Hundreds of protesters formed a human chain across the entrance to a sports arena in downtown Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday evening, in reaction to Sunday’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. The protesters chanted, “Don’t shoot, it’s a […]
Feds tracked Austin bomber after FedEx camera got his plate, congressman says When the Austin bomber went to a FedEx store Sunday to ship two more of his package bombs, he made the mistake of parking within view of a surveillance camera, a US congressman told CNN. The license plate […]
Plastic patch in Pacific Ocean growing rapidly, study shows A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly, according to a new scientific estimate. Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” between California and Hawaii. This figure is […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has […]
16-year-old girl wounded in Maryland high school shooting to be taken off life support, family says Police are investigating a “prior relationship” between the gunman who wounded two students inside his Maryland high school Tuesday morning and a female victim. The shooter died during a confrontation with a school resource […]
