As of Wednesday, in addition to the Thomas and Creek fires ravaging the Golden State, firefighters in California have also begun to battle the flames of the Skirball and Rye fires churning across parts of the city of Los Angeles itself.
Earlier, UK lawmakers passed an amendment, inspired by the Magnitsky case, to the country's Criminal Finances Bill, which provides for UK asset seizures for human rights abusers.
The Chinese air force launched an exercise of their own concurrent to the enormous air drills being run by the US and South Korea, causing experts to speculate what, exactly, Beijing is trying to communicate to the West.
This week, the Swiss and Nigerian governments came to an agreement that Switzerland would repay Nigeria $321 million in public funds stolen by Nigeria’s former leader Sani Abacha, who was the de facto president from 1993 until his death in 1998, and stashed in Switzerland.
NATO forces claimed they had eliminated the leader of Taliban’s Red Group, a military unit some describe as the Taliban’s special forces, over the weekend, and have just furnished the proof.
A parcel bomber who caused a Christmas market in Potsdam to be evacuated last week tried to extort ten million euros in bitcoin from the delivery firm DHL, German media reports.
The presidential election is expected to take place on March 18, 2018, and Vladimir Putin has announced that he's going to be standing for reelection. Let's have a look at the most interesting facts about Russia's president.
China has said it would release funds only after negotiating fresh guidelines, according to a Pakistani Daily.
Israeli Air Force head Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin announced on Wednesday that fifth-generation F-35 Adir fighters have joined the fleet, about one year after the first Lockheed Martin-made jet was delivered to the country.
Sharon Reed, a news anchor at CBS46, put a viewer who called her a "n***r" on blast Tuesday during the station's nightly newscast.
Court documents suggest that when Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore began dating his wife, born Kayla Kisor, now Kayla Moore, she was still married to her first husband.
US President Donald Trump's annnouncement that the US recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv has "destroyed the two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Palestine Liberation Organization has said.
Experts at the Heads of the Indo-Russian Think Tanks meeting were of the opinion that the full potential of Indo-Russian ties is yet to be realized.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on all states to follow the pattern of the US and recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. Earlier, US President Donald Trump announced his decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Palestine's Hamas movement has slammed US President Donald Trump over his move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, warning that the decision "opens the gates of hell."
Earlier today Trump announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocate the US diplomatic mission from Tel Aviv, a move many countries worldwide have urged the president to refrain from.
On today's BradCast: Another day, still more chaos in these United States, threatening to all but drown out two major civil and privacy rights cases heard this week by the US Supreme Court and covered in detail on today's show.
Fugitive Georgian ex-president-turned Ukrainian opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili can't seem to get enough of the internet spotlight. Coming off Tuesday's rooftop adventure with Ukrainian security service agents, the politician has now turned to insulting foreign reporters.
The present version of BrahMos travels at a speed of Mach 2.8. Indian and Russian scientists have been jointly working on increasing the speed to even greater hyper-sonic levels.
The present version of BhraMos travels at a speed of 2.8 Mach. Indian and Russian scientists have been jointly working on increasing the speed to hypersonic levels in a phased manner.
The US president has stated that Israel has the right to determine its own capital and the decision is a long overdue step to advance the peace process between the Jewish State and Palestine.
Last week, US officials revealed President Trump's intention to declare formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and initiate the process of relocating the US embassy from Tel Aviv, thus overturning decades of US policy.
Hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk is avoided by political parties active in the region as they claim it would provoke separatist militants to unleash terror in Kashmir, a region that is already facing intermittent bloodbaths over the last 25 years.
The US Syrian strategy has yet to be clearly articulated, Parwez Rahim Kader, a lecturer with the Erbil-based Salahaddin University, told Sputnik, commenting on the US-Turkish controversy over American military aid to the Syrian Kurds. According to Kader, if the US halts supplying arms to the Kurds, the latter may seek closer ties with Damascus.