Three Royal Netherlands Army soldiers were wounded in a shooting outside an Indianapolis hotel early Saturday, authorities said. Story Published at: August 28, 2022 at 09:33AM
Three Dutch soldiers were wounded in a shooting outside an Indianapolis hotel, authorities say
China’s worst heat wave on record is crippling power supplies. How it reacts will impact us all
For weeks now, a power crunch caused by a record heat wave and accompanying drought has wreaked havoc across Sichuan, a province home to 80 million people in southwestern China.Story Published at: August 26, 2022 at 09:06AM
At least 14 police injured as supporters of Argentina’s vice president protest
Police fired tear gas in the Argentine capital Saturday, as they clashed with supporters of vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, days after prosecutors sought a 12-year prison sentence against her for alleged corruption. Story Published at: August 28, 2022 at 06:44AM
Why Singapore’s gay sex law change is a double-edged sword for LGBTQ activists
When Singapore announced this week it would end a colonial-era law that criminalized sex between men, it looked like a big victory for gay rights advocates in the Southeast Asian country.Story Published at: August 28, 2022 at 02:01AM
They once fought to defend South Korea. 70 years later, these foreign veterans are choosing to be buried there
For more than 30 years, British veteran James Grundy made an annual 5,500-mile journey to South Korea, to visit the graves of bodies he had recovered as a young man thrust into war.Story Published at: August 27, 2022 at 02:15AM
Parents of 43 missing Mexican students welcome arrest of former attorney general
The mothers and fathers of 43 Mexican students who went missing nearly eight years ago have welcomed the findings of a recent government report that found the disappearances were a “crime of the state.” Story Published at: August 27, 2022 at 08:23AM
Russia blocks final draft of nuclear disarmament treaty at UN
A month-long meeting on nuclear disarmament ended in failure at the United Nations Friday night when Russia refused to accept the final draft of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Story Published at: August 27, 2022 at 06:47AM
US Navy is developing directed energy systems to counter hypersonic missile threats from China and Russia
The US Navy is developing directed energy systems as a potential defense against hypersonic missiles, the Navy’s top admiral said, calling advances Russia and China have made in hypersonic weapon technology “a significant concern.”Story Published at: August 26, 2022 at 09:36PM
Opinion: This British-French divide could not come at a worse time
Though Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson and the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar are long-ago history, France and the United Kingdom are apparently still doing battle. In fact, Boris Johnson’s likely successor as UK prime minister and assorted French politicos have recently been exchanging shots.Story Published at: August 26, 2022 at 09:43PM
Families of miners trapped underground in Mexico reject new rescue strategy
The families of the ten miners trapped underground in Mexico since early August have rejected a new rescue strategy proposed by the government, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday. Story Published at: August 26, 2022 at 09:03PM
