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EU to curb phone costs, set up emergency alert system
Nov 14, 2018 (AFP)
Under the new law, which still needs formal approval from member countries, telecom firms will be barred from charging more than 19 eurocents per minute for cal...
Mattis to travel to Mexican border, Wyoming on Wednesday
Nov 13, 2018 (UPI)
Mattis will meet with commanders and soldiers among the thousands of troops currently stationed on the border, with numbers that the Department of Defense has s...
Foreign troops pour into PNG capital for APEC meet
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
About 4,000 military personnel, around half of them foreign, will work with hundreds of police to patrol Port Moresby for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ...
Rio de Janeiro landslide kills 14
Nov 11, 2018 (AFP)
The tragedy struck in the early hours of Saturday after heavy rainfall caused a huge boulder to slide down a slope, hitting at least nine homes and a pizzeria. ...
Marine combat veteran kills 12 in crowded California bar
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
Terrified patrons -- many of whom were college students -- scrambled for the exits after the gunman started shooting people with a handgun in the Borderline Bar...
Chemical spill leaves 52 ill in east China
Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)
The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday when a tube connecting a transport vessel to the wharf broke, spilling 6.9 tonnes of C9 aromatics into the se...
Munich Re posts gains despite typhoon, hurricane payouts
Nov 07, 2018 (AFP)
For the months of July to September, the group, which essentially insures insurers, recorded net profit of 483 million euros ($555 million), soundly beating ana...
Pentagon quietly drops 'Faithful Patriot' border ops name
Nov 07, 2018 (AFP)
"We are now just referring to it as simply border support," Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Davis said. Davis did not provide a reason for dropping ...
Deadly storms spotlight Italy's illegal housing
Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)
Rains and winds continued to batter the north while a shell-shocked Sicily prepared to bury its dead after a week of violent storms which took over 30 lives. Ni...
Hospital ship USNS Comfort performing medical operations in Peru
Nov 05, 2018 (UPI)
Medical personnel from the military, non-governmental organizations and partner nations, started screening potential surgical patients there on Oct. 30, with tw...
Trump threatens to shoot migrants who throw stones at US military
Nov 02, 2018 (AFP)
Trump told journalists at the White House that a group of several thousand migrants walking through Mexico towards the US border had thrown rocks "viciously and...
Power wherever it is needed
Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)
The solar system is part of the comprehensive solution portfolio of Staubli Electrical Connectors - a partner with more than 20 years of experience in the photo...
Trump's military deployment to the border
Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)
Critics have blasted the move as an expensive political stunt ahead of next week's midterm elections. Here is a look at what the deployment means, and what Amer...
China to showcase peacekeeping role with UN Security Council visit
Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)
The visit will highlight China's role as a global player at a time when the United States is pulling back from multilateral institutions like the United Nations...
New Zealand avalanche kills two Germans, woman survives
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
Media reports on Thursday named the dead men as Martin Hess and Wolfgang Maier, with police confirming they were both German-born mountain guides who lived in N...
Thousands of US troops head for southern border
Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)
The move represents a massive military buildup along the border, where some 2,000 National Guardsmen are already working to provide assistance to overwhelmed au...
US general signals bigger troop deployment to Mexico border
Oct 30, 2018 (AFP)
US authorities on Monday said more than 5,200 troops would head south to bolster border security, in a bid to prevent a caravan of Central American migrants fro...
Gun violence sends 75,000 US youths to emergency rooms in 9 yrs: study
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
That's the equivalent of around 8,300 cases per year, according to the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics. The number of...
A month on, Indonesia's quake-tsunami hit city faces health crisis
Oct 27, 2018 (AFP)
On September 28, a magnitude 7.5 quake and a subsequent tsunami razed swathes of Palu on Sulawesi island, killing some 2,200 people and displacing more than 220...
Japan rejects UN call to stop returns to Fukushima
Oct 26, 2018 (AFP)
UN special rapporteur Baskut Tuncak on Thursday warned that people felt they were "being forced to return to areas that are unsafe, including those with radiati...
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