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In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 photo, a brigade from the Electric Power Authority repairs distribution lines damaged by Hurricane Maria in the Cantera community of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican Gov. Requests DOJ To Investigate PREPA Over Critical Rebuilding Materials

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Roselló asked the Justice Department to investigate the island's public electric utility on Thursday after federal agents uncovered mass quantities of critical rebuilding materials that were stored in a warehouse owned by the public utility, according to National Public Radio. Agents with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency

Residents hold pictures of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during the meeting of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and Egyptian general intelligence chief Khaled Fawzy, at the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' former official resident in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017.

Majority Of Egypt's Legislators Want President To Run Again

More than 500 of Egypt's 596 lawmakers have signed "recommendations" supporting a re-election bid by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, even before he has formally announced his candidacy, according to news reports published Thursday, The Associated Press reports. El-Sissi is considered virtually certain to run in the March 26-28 election and to win a second four-year term. So

United Steelworkers Local 1999 President Chuck Jones speaks during a news conference Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Carrier Lays Off More Workers At Indiana Plant Trump Made Deal To Save

More than 200 workers clocked in for their final shifts on Thursday at Carrier Corp. in Indianapolis in the latest round of layoffs at a plant President Donald Trump toured in December 2016 to trumpet a deal to save jobs and prevent its closure, Reuters reports. Under pressure from the newly elected Trump, Carrier and its parent company United Technologies Corp, dropped its

Venezuelan Migrant Boat Crashes En Route To Curacao: Four Dead, Dozens Missing

At least four people drowned while dozens remain missing after a boat carrying migrants from Venezuela crashed while on its way to the Caribbean island of Curacao on Wednesday, according to The Guardian. Local police told Curacao News that they had recovered the bodies of two men and two women, but were still searching "to see if there are more." There were around 30 people on

Mohsen Bahrami, a spokesman for National Iranian Tanker Company, NITC, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the headquarters of the NITC, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018

Firefighters Still Battling Iranian Oil Tanker Blaze In East China Sea After 6 days

Six days after a fire broke out on an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of China, firefighters are still struggling to extinguish the blaze, as criticism mounted in Tehran over whether enough was being done to locate dozens of its missing crew members, The Guardian reports. The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tons of light crude oil from Iran to South Korea, has been in flames since

A Russian officer walks next to drones that attacked the Russian air base in Syria and were captured by the Russian military are displayed at a briefing in the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018.

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Russia suspects ‘state’ behind drone attack on its bases in Syria

MOSCOW: An officer walks beside drones that attacked the Russian air base in Syria last week.—AP MOSCOW: Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday displayed a pair of drones that it said were captured following attacks on two Russian military bases in Syria, saying the attack required know-how indicating it was carried out with outside assistance. Russian President Vladimir Putin

A man works his phone as he drives through traffic in Dallas, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Texas lawmakers are considering a statewide ban on texting while driving.

Chicago Might Be First To Use Anti-Texting Tool: 'Textalyzer'

Chicago is poised to become the first city in the United States that will arm its police officers with devices that would inform them if a motorist was texting when they got into a traffic accident, according to ABC News. The Chicago City Council's public safety committee voted on Thursday to request that the police study the hand-held devices after first hearing from a father

Yuri Milner, right, speaks next to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at an announcement for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at Genentech Hall on UCSF’s Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013.

Facebook Announces Big Changes in Prioritizing Friends, Not News

Facebook implemented changes on Thursday that will alter the algorithms that filters posts and videos on its centerpiece News Feed, beginning what Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said was a series of changes in the design for the world's largest social network, according to Reuters. Zuckerberg posted on Facebook to address how the company would change the filter for the News

Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meets with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at the Prime Minister's Official Residence the Kantei, in Tokyo, Aug. 18, 2017

Japan PM heads to Europe amid N. Korea tensions

Shinzo Abe will be the first Japanese leader to visit that region of Eastern Europe Japan's prime minister on Friday headed to the Baltic states and other European nations as he seeks to drum up support for his hawkish

ISRO's 100th Satellite Launched Sucessfully

Isro hits a century into space, successfully launches 100th satellite

PSLV-C40 is carrying Cartosat-2 series satellite and 30 other spacecraft. The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched its 100th satellite on Friday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. On its 42nd mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) trusted workhorse PSLV-C40 carried Cartosat-2 series satellite and 30 other spacecraft. The

Demonstrators representing female victims of forced sterilizations during former President Alberto Fujimori's government perform during protest against the medical pardon given to Fujimori, in Lima, Peru , Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018.

Peruvians Rally Against Fujimori's Pardon and Release

More protests were staged in Peru against the controversial decision to pardon former President Alberto Fujimori as thousands of students, trade unionists, and human rights activists marched in Lima amid a heavy police presence on Thursday, according to BBC News. The protesters demanded the dismissal of the pardon, but also the resignation of current President Pablo Kuczynski

File - African migrants barbecue outside Holot detention center in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Tens of thousands of African migrants have made their way to Israel in recent years.

'It is better to go to jail': the African migrants being forced from Israel

Thousands of asylum seekers face a dilemma: leave Israel with a cash sum or be imprisoned. Many say jail is the only option

Bill Asher walks through mud in his home damaged by storms in Montecito, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018.

Rescuers 'searching for a miracle' in California mudslides

MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) " More than two full days after mudslides ravaged the coastal town of Montecito, the search for the missing became an increasingly desperate exercise Thursday, with growing doubts about whether anyone would be found alive. Seventeen people from ages 3 to 89 were confirmed dead, and more than 40 others were unaccounted for."In disaster circumstances there

FILE:US military inspect the damage from a suicide bomber, Tuesday, July 11, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq.

U.S. Creates Narcoterrorism Team to Target Hezbollah

The Justice Department on Thursday announced the creation of a new team of prosecutors that will focus on fighting individuals and networks that support Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group with close ties to Iran . ...

In this April 25, 2017, photo, Cassie wipes a tear as she describes her ordeal at a cybersex den while she stays at a shelter for sexual exploitation survivors in Manila, Philippines.

A teenager's suicide may help break Australia's inaction on bullying

When she was just six years old, Amy Jayne Everett appeared in an ad for Akubra hats, which represent Australian outback life in the same way Stetson hats symbolize Texas. But as Everett grew into an awkward teenager, she was subjected to relentless online bullying. Last week, at age 14, she committed suicide...

FILE- This photo on July 4, 2017, distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest.

Satellite detects new tunneling at N.Korean nuclear base

Seoul, Jan 12 (IANS) Satellite images show that North Korea has bored new tunnels near its Punggye-ri nuclear test site, indicating Pyongyang's intention to maintain its potential for future nuclear testing, a US website specialised in North Korean affairs has said. The images, taken on December 28, 2017 and

Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly's seventy-second session

Japan PM rejects South Korean call for new steps to help 'comfort women'

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday rejected South Korea's call for more steps to help "comfort women", a euphemism for women forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels, and urged Seoul to honour a 2015 pact on the divisive topic. Japan and

H.E. Mr. Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus, called on the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 12-09-2017

Belarusian President Wants To End Border Dispute With Russia

MINSK, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday he would reconcile border-related differences with Russia in 2018, China's Xinhua news agency reported,

President Donald J. Trump participates in a Veterans Executive Order Signing Tuesday January 9, 2018, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Trump's 'shithole' remark was a shocker, but hardly a departure

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's blast at immigrants from "shithole" countries was a bombshell -- but no one who has watched his political career could be surprised. Trump has shown little respect for traditional behavior or concern about the horror that erupted when people he would describe as elites learned about his words in a Washington Post report. Yet the remark

FILE - In this June 12, 2016, file photo, Jermaine Towns, left, and Brandon Shuford wait down the street from Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where a gunman opened fire, killing 49 people.

Police to issue report on response to Newtown shooting

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut State Police are planning to release a report assessing the agency's response to the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary

Japan Will Offer $3 Million To Aid Rohingya Return to Myanmar

Donald Trump Spotted Outside London Embassy He Claims To Hate

Morocco: A Beacon of Hope for Christianity in the Middle East