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Hollyn Johnson/Tribune-Herald Smoke rises from Leilani Estates as residents evacuate Thursday evening. Mahalo to Blue Hawaiian Helicopters and Andrew Richard Hara. Gov. David Ige has signed an emergency proclamation after an eruption of lava forced the evacuation of Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens. The lava flow, which emerged from a fissure in Mohala Street between 150-200 […]

Twitter / Liveuamap MiddleEast A Russian military plane has reportedly crashed off the coast of Syria near a Russian air base, killing two pilots in what appears to be an accident. Russia leases the Khmeimim air base in the coastal Latakia province, where it maintains fighter jets and bombers involved in a nearly three-year military campaign in support of the Syrian […]

File Photo Twitter Inc urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some of them to be stored in plain text on its internal computer system. The social network said it had fixed the glitch and that an internal investigation had found no indication passwords were stolen or […]

© Ludovic Marin, AFP | French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in New Caledonia’s capital Nouméa on May 3, 2018. French President Emmanuel Macron starts Thursday a highly symbolic visit to New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific that is getting ready to vote on its independence.  The nickel-rich island, 1,200 km (750 miles) […]

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic reserves the right to respond should the US, as a party to the 2015 nuclear deal, withdraw from the agreement. In a video message posted on YouTube on Thursday, Zarif compared Tehran’s full commitment to its side of the bargain to Washington’s breach of the […]

© Damir Sagol / Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he strongly supports denuclearization during a rare meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The diplomat is visiting Pyongyang after a landmark agreement between the two Koreas. “The denuclearization of the Korean peninsula is the firm position of the North Korean side,” Kim Jong-un told Wang Yi on […]

These agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth, ” President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Donald Trump insisted Thursday morning that his longtime personal attorney acted outside the auspices of the 2016 Trump campaign when he paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement, […]

A Somali man looks out from a nearby building at the compound of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, May 3, 2018. Armed gunmen stormed into the ICRC compound in Somalia’s capital and abducted a female staffer, the aid group said Wednesday night, and a senior police official said […]

Soldiers loyal to Bashar al Assad seen near a bus carrying rebels from Yarmouk camp in Damascus on April 30, 2018. (Reuters) Syrian rebels began pulling out of an enclave they have surrendered in south Damascus on Thursday, but a few fighters in another besieged area near Homs shelled government areas after their groups agreed […]

Deadly attacks by the al-Shabaab extremist group targeting non-Muslim teachers in Kenya have caused hundreds of schools near the Somali border to shut down as teachers flee for their lives. Analysts say it is leaving local youth susceptible for recruitment to the al-Qaeda-linked group. Dozens of teachers have been sleeping in a union boardroom for […]