A tsunami that struck late Saturday has killed over two hundred people along Indonesia’s Sunda Straits. “Two hundred twenty two people are dead, 843 people are injured and 28 people are missing,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, Indonesia’s national disaster agency spokesman. Casualties are expected to rise. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported an […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ASHINGTON — The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed a temporary spending bill that gives U.S. President Donald Trump $5 billion for his border wall. The House voted 217-185 late Thursday in hopes of averting a government shutdown at midnight Friday. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it has no chance of being approved. Trump […]
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]ARIS — The Islamic State group may be defeated geographically in the Middle East, but radical extremism is spreading to other parts of the world, and a new crop of potential terrorists now in prison will be out in a few years. A week after a deadly terrorist attack in eastern France, a top international law […]
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ithout offering specifics on what led to a declaration of victory against the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Syria, the White House defended both the declaration and the decision to start bringing U.S. troops in the war-torn country back home. The announcement, which seemed to catch some U.S. defense and diplomatic officials, as well […]