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Nineteen miners were still trapped in a coal mine explosion, as rescue operation was underway in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, state media reported on Thursday (December 17). The state broadcaster CCTV showed thick smoke coming out from the mine and fire engines parked in line to join the rescue work. As of 09:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) on Thursday, the fire was still burning, blocking rescuers from approaching the trapped miners. The blast happened at about […]
Islamic State has “revolutionized” terrorism by seeking to inspire small-scale individual attacks around the world through social media, encrypted communications and slickly produced propaganda, FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday (December 16). “Your parent’s al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today,” Comey said at a counter terrorism conference in New York City. He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation currently has “hundreds” of investigations in all 50 U.S. […]
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is not “overly concerned” about the lifting of a ban on U.S. crude oil exports included in a new omnibus spending bill, saying oil products were already being exported under various waivers, the White House said on Wednesday (December 16). The United States “already exports 4.3 million barrels a day of refined petroleum product, and there are there were already written into the law a handful of waivers […]
The new Argentine government declared a national emergency at the country’s electrical energy sector on Tuesday (December 15), citing a deterioration in the generation and distribution of energy across the nation. At a news conference in Buenos Aires, Energy and Mining Minister Juan Jose Aranguren announced measures to ration electricity and added that the state of emergency will likely be in place until 2017. “The president of the nation, Mauricio Macri, has raised an emergency […]
(Reuters) — Concerned parents of Los Angeles Unified School District students support the decision to shut down more than 1,000 public schools on Tuesday (December 15) over a threatened attack with bombs and assault rifles, Hundreds of thousands of students and school employees were sent home as city leaders were criticized for overreacting to what federal officials later said was likely a hoax. The emailed threat, which authorities said was “routed through Germany” but likely […]
(Reuters) — Saudi Arabia on Tuesday (December 15) announced the formation of a 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism, according to a joint statement published on state news agency SPA. A long list of Arab countries such as Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, together with Islamic countries Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and Gulf Arab and African states were mentioned. Shi’ite Muslim Iran, Sunni Saudi Arabia’s arch rival for influence in the Arab world, […]
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday (December 14) that Islamic State militants had lost swaths of territory they once controlled in Iraq and Syria but that progress needed to be made faster against the group. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon Obama said that the Islamic State, which he referred to as ISIL, has not conducted a successful offensive since the summer. “In many places, ISIL has lost its freedom of maneuver because they […]
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the central Philippines on Monday (December 14) as a typhoon with winds of up to 150 kph (95 mph) made landfall, dumping heavy rain that could cause flooding, landslides and storm surges, authorities warned. About 40 domestic flights were grounded, while 73 ferries and hundreds of fishing boats were ordered to remain in port as typhoon Melor hit the village of Batag on the northern tip of […]
The far-right National Front’s high score in regional elections should be a warning to all mainstream politicians, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday (December 13) after exit polls showed the National Front had failed to win any regions. Tactical voting by Socialist voters kept Marine Le Pen’s National Front out of power in its three main target regions in French regional elections on Sunday, handing power in all of them to the conservatives […]
Residents in the town of Lindale, Texas, about 90 miles (144.8 km) southeast of Dallas, are taking stock of the damage from a weekend tornado on Sunday. (December 13) The twister touched Saturday afternoon, damaging dozens of homes, according to local officials. Despite the collapsed roofs and missing walls, no one suffered any major injuries. Lindale’s mayor has issued a disaster declaration, according to local media, to help the small town cope with the scale […]
Global powers press Libya’s warring factions to implement a plan for a national unity government, to counter the growing influence of Islamic State. The United States and Italy are leading an international push to get Libya’s warring factions to sign a deal that sets up a national unity government, to help stabilize the chaotic North African country. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says a unified government is the only way to counter the growing […]
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius presented a landmark global climate accord on Saturday, a “historic” measure for transforming the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades and turn the tide on global warming. At the tail end of the hottest year on record and after four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperiled island states against rising economic powerhouses, Fabius urged officials from nearly 200 nations to support […]
