French President Francois Hollande on Monday will bestow France’s highest decoration, the Legion of Honor, on three Americans and a Briton who subdued a heavily armed gunman aboard a high-speed train on Friday. The ceremony set for Monday morning in Paris also will include a French citizen who first discovered the gunman near a restroom […]
Rescue teams were poised to hike through rugged terrain Tuesday toward the wreckage of an Indonesian airliner with 54 people aboard that crashed into a mountain Sunday. A search plane spotted the debris from the crash of Trigana Air Flight 267 in the eastern province of Papua early Monday. The ATR 42-300 twin turboprop disappeared […]
Only one in three Americans approves of President Barack Obama’s handling of the international agreement to restrain Iran’s nuclear program, according to a new Gallup survey. The pollster questioned more than 1,000 people in the last few days and said Thursday that 55 percent disapproved of Obama’s handling of Iran policy and 33 percent approved […]
Japan is marking the 70th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which led to the end of World War II. Tens of thousands of people observed a minute of silence Thursday as bells tolled at the Peace Memorial Park, near the epicenter of the bombing. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui called […]