A new NOAA-led report shows that Arctic air temperatures continue to rise at more than twice the rate of global air temperatures, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Increasing air and sea surface temperatures, declining reflectivity at the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, shrinking spring snow cover on land and summer ice on the […]
BEIJING—The United States frequently voices concerns about human rights abuses in China and North Korea. But now, both nations are taking Washington to task after a U.S. Senate report said the CIA tortured suspected terrorists. Late Tuesday, in apparent anticipation of the report’s release and World Human Rights Day, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency argued […]
The long-awaited and controversial report pertaining to the CIA’s Interrogation techniques following the September 2001 attack on the U.S. was released today by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The 499-page report, five years in the making, stated that the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques were much more brutal than was reported to the Senate by that agency and […]
In a short statement issued at the Dutch Safety Board located at the Hague, investigators said today that their investigation into the crash of MH-17 over Eastern Ukraine that took the lives of 298 people, two-thirds of which were Dutch, was caused by “high-energy objects.” Ruled out as a cause of the crash was pilot […]