The year has already seen many extremes, from California’s and Colorado’s largest wildfires to a tropical cyclone boom. Smoke hangs low in the air along Highway 236 in Boulder Creek, Calif., on August 22, 2020. The CZU Lightning Complex fires decimated … Read More
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A humanitarian crisis was unfolding in northwestern Bosnia where up to 3,500 migrants may end up sleeping rough in cold weather, a top European human rights envoy said on Friday. Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe’s Human … Read More
David Ryder/Getty Images The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency deported more than 185,000 illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2020 including more than 4,200 gang members, despite operational disruption caused by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. Between October 1, 2019, and … Read More
“This evening for the first time, a country — the UK — will leave the EU.” Emmanuel Macron used his New Year’s Eve presidential address to the nation to denounce the “lies and false promises” that led to the UK … Read More
Divisions over Brexit, both political and social, remain deep and are likely to last for years, despite a muted end to the saga overshadowed by the global health crisis. Britain on Friday began a new year and life outside the … Read More
Senior officer in northern command warns that Shi’ite terror group Hezbollah is very likely to attempt major terror attack in near future. IDF artillery on northern border – IDF Spokesperson Unit/Flash 90 The IDF is concerned that the Lebanon-based Hezbollah … Read More
Britain’s International Trade Secretary Elizabeth Truss and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi bump elbows after a news conference following a signing ceremony of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in Tokyo on Oct 23. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon TOKYO A post-Brexit trade … Read More
Vaccinations are conducted at the Community Health Service Center in Enshi city, Hubei Province on 30 December 2020. Source: AAP A year on after the first global cases of COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan, a number of countries have already begun … Read More
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53), center, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) sail in formation during a scheduled transit of the Strait of Hormuz, Nov. 9, 2020. (MC3 … Read More
Difficult times caused by the coronavirus are not over as the region pivots for new year. Business owners protest against the nationwide closure in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2020 – (photo credit: FLASH90) 2020 was a vicious year for … Read More