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 Officials estimate that the total losses from last week’s earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi will likely surpass $658 million, making it one of the costliest disasters to have hit Indonesia in the past five years. The magnitude-7.4 earthquake and 3-meter tsunami that hit Palu, Donggala and Sigi have either crippled or destroyed crucial infrastructure, […]

The 2018 Nobel peace prize was awarded to Denis Mukwege and Yazidi rape victim Nadia Murad on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The pair won the award for their “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war,” Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said […]

US President Donald Trump (C-L) and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R) arrive for the Arabic Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — US President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Saudi Arabia’s king “might […]

AKARTA, Indonesia – After being ravaged by a deadly earthquake and a tsunami last week, Indonesia’s fourth largest island witnessed a violent volcanic eruption on Wednesday morning. Indonesia’s Sulawesi island was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday, which triggered a tsunami, that ripped apart the coastline of the city of Palu on […]

© US Navy Photo via gCaptain Four photos apparently depicting the moment a Chinese destroyer had a close encounter with USS Decatur in the South China Sea have surfaced online, showing the blockbuster ‘near collision’ encounter of the two navies. The US Navy pictures, obtained by gCaptain website and authenticated by a naval source to Stars and Stripes, depict […]

Zum-lye Incontrera and her daughter Gea Di Lorenzo in Seoul last week / Korea Times photo by Jung Min-ho Zum-lye Incontrera was two years old when she was adopted from Korea to Italy. More than 40 years later, she has returned to the land of her birth for the first time. “I felt it was […]

An artist’s composite of the Kepler telescope is seen in this undated NASA handout image. (Reuters Photo) Astronomers may have found the first moon outside our solar system, a gas behemoth the size of Neptune. Plenty of planets exist beyond our solar system, but a moon around one of those worlds has yet to be […]

  The six personnel – part of the rescue diving unit – were searching for a teenager who fell into a mining pool when they were dragged away by strong currents.PHOTO: BOMBM  SERDANG (BERNAMA) – The tragedy of six divers of the Fire and Rescue Department (JPBM) Water Rescue Unit (PPDA) drowning during a search […]

President Donald Trump’s attack at a rally in Southaven, Mississippi, came just four days after he praised Christine Blasey Ford from the Oval Office as “a very credible witness.” | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images   President Donald Trump shifted his tone on Tuesday evening and launched into his fiercest attack yet against Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, […]

Test launch of the Russian Burevestnik nuclear cruise missile. © Russian Defense Ministry / Sputnik The US would look into ways of “taking out” new Russian missiles if they become operational, the US envoy to NATO said, accusing Moscow of developing a weapon that “violates” the Soviet-US nuclear arms treaty. US Ambassador to NATO Kay […]