Published On: August 24, 2019 09:45 AM NPT By: Associated Press
PORT VELHO, Aug 24: Under international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of Brazil’s Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized use of the military to battle the huge blazes while thousands took to the streets to protest his environmental policies.
Published On: August 24, 2019 09:40 AM NPT By: Associated Press
There is now a “Rolling Stones Rock” on Mars, and it’s giving Mick, Keith and the boys some serious satisfaction.
Published On: August 24, 2019 09:15 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SEOUL, Aug 24: North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Saturday in the seventh weapons launch in a month, South Korea’s military said, a day after it threatened to remain America’s biggest threat in protest of U.S.-led sanctions on the country.
Published On: August 24, 2019 09:00 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Aug 24: President Donald Trump angrily escalated his trade fight with China on Friday, raising retaliatory tariffs and ordering American companies to consider alternatives to doing business there.
Published On: August 23, 2019 09:45 PM NPT By: Associated Press
JERUSALEM, Aug 23: An explosion Friday near a West Bank settlement that Israel said was a Palestinian attack killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and wounded her brother and father, Israeli authorities said.
Published On: August 23, 2019 08:15 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MOSCOW, Aug 23: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military on Friday to work out a quid pro quo response after the test of a new U.S. missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty.
Published On: August 23, 2019 08:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Aug 23: China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into recession.
Published On: August 23, 2019 07:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Aug 23: Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother, Charles, transformed American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, has died at age 79.
Published On: August 23, 2019 01:45 PM NPT By: Associated Press
There is now a “Rolling Stones Rock” on Mars, and it’s giving Mick, Keith and the boys some serious satisfaction.
Published On: August 23, 2019 01:39 PM NPT By: Associated Press
Hasbro is going whole hog on Peppa Pig.The maker of Monopoly and GI Joe will pay about $4 billion to buy Entertainment One Ltd., a British entertainment company that produces “Peppa Pig,” ″PJ Masks” and other animated shows for preschoolers.
Published On: August 23, 2019 12:36 PM NPT By: Associated Press
Miley Cyrus denied rumors Thursday that she cheated on her soon-to-be ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth. In stream-of-consciousness mode, the pop star concluded : “You can say I am a twerking, pot smoking, foul mouthed hillbilly but I am not a liar.”
Published On: August 23, 2019 12:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
COLOMBO, Aug 23: He is a feared former defense official accused of condoning rape, torture and shadowy disappearances of critics, but to many Sri Lankans, the opposition’s presidential candidate is the best choice to protect the South Asian island nation after attacks that killed over 250 people this year.
Published On: August 23, 2019 12:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
HONG KONG, Aug 23: The Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong said Friday local staff aren’t allowed to travel outside the city including to mainland China, in a move that comes days after a British Consulate worker was detained there.
Published On: August 23, 2019 09:02 AM NPT By: Associated Press
TASIILAQ, Greenland, Aug 23: From a helicopter, Greenland’s brilliant white ice and dark mountains make the desolation seem to go on forever. And the few people who live here — its whole population wouldn’t fill a football stadium — are poor, with a high rate of substance abuse and suicide.
Published On: August 22, 2019 06:22 PM NPT By: Associated Press
Keira Knightley’s edginess while playing a real-life Iraq War whistle-blower in the political thriller “Official Secrets” wasn’t all an act.
Published On: August 22, 2019 05:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Aug 22: The federal budget deficit is expected to balloon to more than $1 trillion in the next fiscal year under the first projections taking into account the big-budget deal that President Donald Trump and Congress reached this summer, the Congressional Budget Office reported.
Published On: August 22, 2019 04:41 PM NPT By: Associated Press
MADRID, Aug 22: Spain has issued international health alerts in light of a widening outbreak of listeria from pork meat that has affected 150 people and killed one person.
Published On: August 22, 2019 03:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
See your “Friends” on the big screen. Deck out your place with “Friends” decor. Wear your “Friends” as jewelry. Heck, buy the “Friends” Lego set and pretend it’s for your kid.
Published On: August 22, 2019 02:25 PM NPT By: Associated Press
Quentin Tarantino is going to be telling a whole new brand of “Once upon a time” tale — the bedtime-story kind. The “Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood” director is about to become a father.
Published On: August 22, 2019 02:21 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Aug 22: A day after considering cutting taxes to promote economic growth, President Donald Trump on Wednesday changed course and said he would abandon the idea because the nation already had “a strong economy.”