GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—U.S.-led coalition warplanes carried out intense airstrikes Tuesday on Raqqa, the de facto Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, a monitoring group said, continuing days of air-raids that appear to be aimed at demoralizing jihadist fighters before an offensive by Kurdish-led forces on villages to the north of the city. The airstrikes appear […]
The iconic “60 Minutes” corespondent, 84-year-old Morley Safer, died in his Manhattan home today just one week after announcing his retirement from the hour-long news program. Although the cause of death has not been released, Safer was reported to have been suffering from declining health of late. The Toronto-born Safer caught the public’s eye in 1965, when […]
“Floating debris” from the missing EgyptAir MS804 was reported to have been located by Greek authorities on Thursday near the island of Karpathos the Greek Foreign ministry announced. But, those earlier reports were inaccurate and reports say that the debris was not from the airliner. The ill-fated flight plunged from 37,000 feet to 15,000 feet before […]
Alberta (Reuters) – A massive wildfire around the oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, moved toward energy production facilities on Tuesday, extending a shutdown that has led to lost Canadian output of one million barrels a day. The fire jumped a critical firebreak area where plants and trees had been removed to stop its […]