More than 65 nights of demonstrations carried on in areas of Portland, Ore., on Thursday night, just hours after the city’s mayor decried the unrest that has roiled Portland since George Floyd’s death. A police officer was hurt and at least three elderly people who tried to thwart vandalism attempts were apparently targeted or blocked […]
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Beirut Explosion Leaves 300,000 People Homeless
Investigators probing the devastating blast in Beirut that killed at least 135 people and injured 5,000 more are pointing to a Russian ship docked in the city’s port for nearly seven years without appropriate security precautions that officials warned was “a floating bomb.” The Russian vessel, named MV Rhosus, carrying agricultural fertilizer with 2,750 metric […]
Massive Explosion Rocks Beirut Causing Deaths And Thousands To Be Injured
BEIRUT — A “colossal” explosion rocked the port area of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Tuesday, injuring thousands and causing widespread damage in a densely populated part of the city. At least 3,000 people have been injured and 50 killed, Minister of Health Hassan Hamad said at a press conference. Those numbers are likely to rise […]
Man Arrested After Videos Show Him Molesting Over 300 Children
Indonesian authorities have arrested a French man for alleged sexual abuse of minors after finding videos on his laptop computer showing him molesting over 300 children, police said Friday. Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus said Francois Camille Abello was arrested late last month in a hotel room where he was found with two naked girls. […]
Hundreds Of Elephants Mysteriously Dying
Mystery surrounds the “completely unprecedented” deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months. Dr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern African country had spotted more than 350 elephant carcasses in the Okavango Delta since the start of May. No one knows why the animals are dying, with lab results on […]
China Threatens The United States With “Cold War”
The United States is pushing China to the brink of a “new Cold War,” China’s foreign minister said as officials in the world’s two largest economies continue trading barbs over each other’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “This dangerous attempt to turn back the wheel of history will undo the fruits of decadeslong China-U.S. cooperation, […]
Kim Jong Un Makes Appearance For First Time In Weeks
The mystery surrounding what happened to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un might have been answered after he was reportedly spotted in public for the first time in nearly three weeks. Photos emerged Friday in a North Korean state-owned newspaper showing Kim cutting a red ribbon at the opening of a fertilizer plant in Suncheon In. […]
China Could Have 50 Times As Many Covid Cases As They Reported
As the international community, including Chinese citizens, raises questions about the Chinese government’s tally of coronavirus cases and the communist nation’s mortality rate, new details are emerging about just how far off official government calculations have likely been, Fox News has learned. Last week, the People’s Republic of China increased their official count of fatalities […]
Gunman Kills Officer, At Least 15 Other People
A gunman killed at least 16 people, including a police officer, and evaded authorities for hours while dressed as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in rural Nova Scotia in what was Canada’s deadliest shooting in three decades, officials said Sunday. The suspect, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, was killed after a lengthy manhunt, said […]
Chinese Lab Denies Releasing The Coronavirus
A laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has broken its silence to deny accusations that the novel coronavirus originated there. Yuan Zhiming, vice director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told Chinese state broadcaster CGTN, that this was a “conspiracy theory” designed to “confuse” people. He also denied the virus was manmade. It is […]
6 New Strains Of Coronavirus Found In Bats
SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in mammals, likely a bat or pangolin, given that its overall molecular structure closely resembles other viruses found in these animals. Researchers have now discovered six additional coronaviruses in Myanmar-based bats. The research, published in PLOS ONE, notes that the viruses were discovered between 2016 and 2018, but aren’t believed to […]
Britain’s Prime Minister In Intensive Care Due To Coronavirus
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to intensive care has shaken the nation, a jolting reminder that the coronavirus does not discriminate whom it infects and sickens. Johnson, 55, is not on a ventilator and doesn’t have pneumonia but has needed oxygen support while in the intensive care ward, a government spokesman told reporters Tuesday. The prime […]