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Romania’s president has stepped into a row over the location of the country’s embassy in Israel. The leader of Romania’s ruling Social Democrats said the government had approved a memorandum to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, one … Read More

A caldera-forming volcano supplies the heat for the hydrothermal features in Yellowstone National Park. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) Yellowstone National Park sits squarely over a giant, active volcano. This requires attention. Yellowstone has been a national park since 1872, but … Read More

TEHRAN – Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq held a quartet intelligence committee meeting in Baghdad on Thursday, the Mehr news agency reported. The meeting was primarily aimed at sharing intelligence in campaign against terrorism. Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami … Read More

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A group of 50 Central American migrants who set out from southern Mexico in late March have reached the U.S. border, having endured the long journey despite threats by President Donald Trump to secure the border … Read More

GENEVA – Russia has joined the European Union, India and China in demanding compensation from the United States for its tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. The World Trade Organization’s web site posted Thursday a filing from Russia that, like … Read More

It’s 4:18 in the afternoon in Oakland, California. Deep below the city, the Hayward Fault — one of the most active fault lines in the country — suddenly slips, setting off a magnitude-7.0 earthquake. Violent shaking is felt throughout the … Read More

A LARGE number of earthquakes have been felt beneath volcanoes across the world, sparking fears of major eruptions, so are any volcanoes erupting and could there be a violent explosion?   In Hawaii a total of 18 earthquakes have been … Read More

Other demands to be made by Seoul at Korean leaders summit include freeze on Pyongyang’s missile programme, says South Korean government security adviser. South Korea will demand the North freezes its missile programme, disclose its nuclear capacity and allow in … Read More

A theater is under investigation for promising free entry to spectators who wear a swastika to a play named after Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.” The theater has defended the move as a social experiment. German prosecutors have launched a probe … Read More

San Francisco instantly became a hellscape of rubble and ruin 112 years ago today, thanks to a magnitude-7.9 earthquake and subsequent fire that killed thousands of people. Seismologists have said California is due — and perhaps overdue — for the “big one,” … Read More

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leads the weekly Cabinet meeting of the German government at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) President Trump will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House on April 27, … Read More

WASHINGTON – A U.S. law requiring the deportation of immigrants convicted of certain crimes of violence is unconstitutionally vague, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, in a decision that could hinder the Trump administration’s ability to step up the removal … Read More

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much, everybody.  It’s an honor to have Prime Minister Abe with us.  The Japanese people greeted me so warmly when I was there, and actually even before becoming President.  It’s a very, very special … Read More

The European Union’s relief efforts must not contribute to the subjugation of the asylum seekers and deny them their basic human and legal rights. The world seems to be slowly coming to terms with the Libyan refugee crisis. Despite the … Read More

If there’s a clear indication that Israel intends to continue bombing Syria despite threats from Iran, this is it. Israel’s Arutz Sheva radio reported on Monday that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sent a clear message to Russia that it must … Read More