Syria

US is 'playing with fire', Turkey warns

Turkey claims the US is 'playing with fire' over plans to set up a border force on the Syrian frontier.

15 January 2018

USA

Hawaii did not have ‘reasonable’ safeguards to stop false missile aler

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai described the error as "absolutely unacceptable."

14 January 2018

USA

Foreign-language media get creative covering Trump’s phrase heard arou

Issues arose from the fact that there is no exact translation in some languages and the phrase itself differs in interpretation across cultures

14 January 2018

USA

False missile alert spreads panic in Hawaii

Hawaii Governor David Ige said he was working to determine what had caused the false alarm and how to prevent it from happening again.

13 January 2018

USA

Texas city trains volunteers to catch drivers who park in disabled spa

Houston city council is running an initiative "empowering" citizens to issue tickets to drivers who violate handicap parking spaces.

13 January 2018

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Fire rips through Denver recycling plant

Heavy smoke and flames could be seen for kilometres as the blaze engulfed the plant, which is situated in an industrial area in the northeast of the city.

10 January 2018

USA

Salvadoreans face deportation after US ends Temporary Protected Status

Due to the US practice of granted citizenship to babies born inside the United States, there are now nearly 200,000 US citizens who were born to parents who now may face deportation.

8 January 2018

World News

Defending Donald: Theresa May says Trump is committed to US interests

The UK prime minister has said she believes US President Donald Trump is committed to the best interests of the US.Theresa May was asked about accusations in a new book that he is mentally unfit for office.

7 January 2018

USA

John Young, US astronaut and space shuttle commander, dies

He was the only astronaut to fly with three different NASA programs, in a career spanning 42 years.

7 January 2018

USA

Trump boasts of being ‘a very stable genius’

The US president has defended his mental capacity following the release of an explosive new book questioning his fitness for office.

6 January 2018

USA

Muslims to beocme second-largest religious group in US

The Muslim population in the US is growing at a rate of around 100,000 per year

5 January 2018

USA

Trump's team serves Bannon with cease-and-desist notice

From 'long-time friend' to a legal battle in just over two months. Trump's lawyers serve his former Chief Strategist with a cease-and-desist notice.

4 January 2018

USA

Whilst US south freezes, parts north bask in unusually warm conditions

Whilst forty US states are under official winter alerts for bitter cold or snow, it's about twice as warm as normal in the north, thanks to high and low pressures pushing tropical air there.

3 January 2018

Economy

US government blocks MoneyGram sale

It's the latest in a series of Chinese acquisitions of US companies to be blocked by CFIUS.

3 January 2018

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Freezing weather grips northern United States

Extremely cold temperatures across the US have created Winter Wonderlands with a number of lakes, trees and park benches frozen over.

29 December 2017

USA

View: We don't need a Year of the Woman. We need progress for all wome

Equal representation for women at all levels of government must be more than just a fad, writes Barbara Lee

28 December 2017

USA

Power outage hits parts of Disneyland in California

Some visitors at Disneyland in Southern California had to be escorted off rides after a power outage caused by an issue with a transformer, park officials said.

28 December 2017

North Korea

US places sanctions on two North Korea missile developers

North Korea has defied years of multilateral and bilateral sanctions and this latest standoff between the Washington and Pyongyang has raised fears of a new conflict on the Korean peninsula.

27 December 2017

Russia

Russia’s Foreign Ministry accuses US of election meddling

The comments came after the US state department expressed concern over the decision to bar opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running in the 2018 election

27 December 2017

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The Year of Trump

This year marked President Donald Trump's first year as the US leader.

26 December 2017