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AKARTA, Indonesia – After being ravaged by a deadly earthquake and a tsunami last week, Indonesia’s fourth largest island witnessed a violent volcanic eruption on Wednesday morning. Indonesia’s Sulawesi island was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday, which triggered a tsunami, that ripped apart the coastline of the city of Palu on […]

© US Navy Photo via gCaptain Four photos apparently depicting the moment a Chinese destroyer had a close encounter with USS Decatur in the South China Sea have surfaced online, showing the blockbuster ‘near collision’ encounter of the two navies. The US Navy pictures, obtained by gCaptain website and authenticated by a naval source to Stars and Stripes, depict […]

Zum-lye Incontrera and her daughter Gea Di Lorenzo in Seoul last week / Korea Times photo by Jung Min-ho Zum-lye Incontrera was two years old when she was adopted from Korea to Italy. More than 40 years later, she has returned to the land of her birth for the first time. “I felt it was […]

An artist’s composite of the Kepler telescope is seen in this undated NASA handout image. (Reuters Photo) Astronomers may have found the first moon outside our solar system, a gas behemoth the size of Neptune. Plenty of planets exist beyond our solar system, but a moon around one of those worlds has yet to be […]

  The six personnel – part of the rescue diving unit – were searching for a teenager who fell into a mining pool when they were dragged away by strong currents.PHOTO: BOMBM  SERDANG (BERNAMA) – The tragedy of six divers of the Fire and Rescue Department (JPBM) Water Rescue Unit (PPDA) drowning during a search […]

President Donald Trump’s attack at a rally in Southaven, Mississippi, came just four days after he praised Christine Blasey Ford from the Oval Office as “a very credible witness.” | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images   President Donald Trump shifted his tone on Tuesday evening and launched into his fiercest attack yet against Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, […]

Test launch of the Russian Burevestnik nuclear cruise missile. © Russian Defense Ministry / Sputnik The US would look into ways of “taking out” new Russian missiles if they become operational, the US envoy to NATO said, accusing Moscow of developing a weapon that “violates” the Soviet-US nuclear arms treaty. US Ambassador to NATO Kay […]

Andreas Norlén, left, and Ulf Kristersson. Photo: Fredrik Persson/TT  The speaker of the Swedish parliament has asked Ulf Kristersson, leader of the centre-right Moderate party, to try to form a government. Sweden’s September 9th election left the two main blocs separated by just one seat. Arriving at a compromise has proved difficult, and the first round […]

“ A protest of the right-wing group “Pro Chemnitz The Monday arrests of seven alleged right-wing terrorists once again cast an uncomfortable spotlight on extremism in on the eastern German state of Saxony, where Chemnitz is located and which is a stronghold of the far-party AfD. “With the arrests and raids, we are sending a […]

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2018. (REUTERS Photo) Related Articles AmericasTrump slammed for sexism at rare news conference    U.S. President Donald Trump’s treatment of reporters — especially female reporters — is […]