Locals Warned of Flying Rocks as Eruptions at Japan’s Mount Shinmoedake Volcano Intensify

Officials are warning people to stay away from Mount Shinmoedake, as the Japanese volcano’s eruptions continue to intensify. The volcano had its largest eruption in years on Tuesday, grounding flights as the sky filled with volcanic smoke and ash reaching heights of … Read More

Opinion: Warning signal for Europe from Slovakia

posted in: European Union, News

After Jan Kuciak’s assassination, hundreds of thousands of Slovaks have demonstrated against corruption and abuse of power. Keno Verseck believes that foreign countries should pay close attention. The murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancé, Martina Kusnirova, shocked Slovakia like … Read More

Florida adopts wide package of gun laws, while Washington stalls

Washington (CNN) Less than a month after a gunman stormed a Florida high school and killed 17 people, the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature passed sweeping legislation this week to combat gun violence, acting at a rapid pace as students demanded that lawmakers … Read More

Bob Woodward: Many reporters have ‘become emotionally unhinged’ covering Trump

posted in: News, United States

© Getty I Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward says some journalists have “become emotionally unhinged” while covering President Trump, urging them to keep their personal politics out of their work. “A number of reporters have at times become emotionally unhinged … Read More

How Trump caught his White House and the world by surprise

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(CNN)When White House aides arrived at work Thursday, they were prepared for a market-shaking event that would prompt jitters among US allies and cause heartburn among establishment thinkers, even Republicans. They weren’t prepared for two such events. President Donald Trump … Read More

President Trump To Meet With Kim Jong Un, White House Says

President Trump has agreed to a face-to-face meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at a place and time to be determined,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Thursday. The announcement came in response … Read More

US ‘outgunned & outmatched’ by Russia in Europe, admits top general seeking budget increase

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FILE PHOTO: A convoy of US troops near Warsaw, Poland. © Kacper Pempel / Reuters US troops in the Baltic countries would be “outranged, outgunned and outmatched” by Russians in case of a conflict, the head of the US European … Read More

Papua New Guinea rocked by HUGE 6.8 earthquake amid Ring of Fire fears

A 6.8 MAGNITUDE earthquake has struck off the island of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, according to disaster officials, putting the Ring of Fire on high alert. USGS The earthquake struck off the island of New Ireland in Papua … Read More

Women in Iran are pulling off their headscarves — and hoping for a ‘turning point’

posted in: Middle East, News

Vida Movahed takes off her headscarf and holds on a stick in Tehran in late December, protesting Iran’s hijab rules. (Abaca Press/SalamPix/Sipa USA/AP) ISTANBUL — Iranian women have been raising a new challenge to their Islamic government, breaking one of its … Read More

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