By Reuters
The South Korean military detained a North Korean man who crossed the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two countries, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) said on Thursday.
Published: July 31, 2019 at 07:48PM
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By Margot Boyer-Dry and Max Falkowitz
City Island is home to the type of impossibly quaint seaside scene you might expect to find in New England, only within New York City limits.
Published: July 31, 2019 at 02:11PM
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By Reuters
Like colourful corals, they swayed in the underwater current.
Published: July 31, 2019 at 10:18AM
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By The Associated Press
The clock strikes 10 p.m. on a Friday night when the “Parent Patrol” enters a popular playground in suburban Reykjavik. The teens turn down the music and reach for their phones to check the time: It’s ticking into curfew.
Published: July 31, 2019 at 09:48AM
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By The Associated Press
China on Wednesday warned outside nations against any attempt to sow discord between Beijing and Southeast Asian countries by playing up disputes over the South China Sea, saying differences can be resolved peacefully between the affected parties …
Published: July 31, 2019 at 12:09AM
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By Reuters
Recent incidents involving Chinese ships in Southeast Asian waters are testing regional faith in Beijing’s sincerity about maritime peace, and aiding a renewed U.S. push to build alliances with countries unnerved by China’s assertiveness.
Published: July 31, 2019 at 04:12AM
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By The Associated Press
Fishermen on Wednesday found the body of an Indian coffee shop chain owner in a river, two days after he disappeared, police said.
Published: July 30, 2019 at 10:54PM
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By Rory Doyle and Patricia Cohen
Floodwaters swamped more than half a million acres of forest and farmland in the lower Mississippi Delta more than six months ago, gulping up highways and homes, livestock and tractors.
Published: July 30, 2019 at 04:00PM
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By The Associated Press
For his latest TV show, famed chef Gordon Ramsay has definitely left the comforting familiarity of his kitchens.
Published: July 30, 2019 at 10:54AM
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By Reuters
A Vietnamese fishermen’s group has called on the government to take stronger measures for the removal of a Chinese oil survey vessel that Vietnam accuses of violating its sovereignty in the South China Sea.
Published: July 30, 2019 at 08:46AM
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By Reuters
In the small western Belgian fishing village of Oostduinkerke, fishermen use horses, rather than boats, to go shrimp fishing — one of the very few places in the world still using a technique dating back to the 15th century.
Published: July 30, 2019 at 07:00AM
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By The Associated Press
The Philippine defense chief criticized China on Tuesday for what he said was its bullying actions in the South China Sea and added that Beijing’s peaceful assurances contrast with its behavior in the contested waters.
Published: July 30, 2019 at 04:27AM
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By Reuters
Tired of seeing Senegal’s seascapes spoiled by ever-growing mounds of cheap plastic bags, authorities plan to crack down on polluters by imposing fines and further restricting plastic use.
Published: July 30, 2019 at 12:36AM
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By The Associated Press
Top diplomats from the Asia-Pacific region started gathering Tuesday in the Thai capital to discuss issues of concern to the area, including security on the Korean peninsula and China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Published: July 29, 2019 at 11:48PM
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By The Associated Press
After Kim Lauerman was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, doctors wanted to give her a drug that helps prevent infections and fever during chemotherapy. Her insurer said no.
Published: July 29, 2019 at 11:00AM
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By Reuters
Tired of seeing Senegal’s seascapes spoiled by ever-growing mounds of cheap plastic bags, authorities plan to crack down on polluters by imposing fines and further restricting plastic use.
Published: July 29, 2019 at 10:57AM
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By Reuters
South Korea returned three North Koreans who crossed the maritime border aboard a fishing vessel at the weekend, an official at Seoul’s defence ministry said on Monday.
Published: July 29, 2019 at 03:54AM
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By The Associated Press
A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons. The waters are a major shipping route for global commerce and rich in fish and possib…
Published: July 29, 2019 at 01:51AM
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By The Associated Press
South Korea says it’s returning three North Koreans who crossed the Koreas’ sea border aboard a wooden fishing boat over the weekend.
Published: July 29, 2019 at 01:21AM
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By Reuters
Trump administration infighting is holding up approval of the first major U.S. offshore wind energy project, with agencies sparring over whether the proposal does enough to protect the fishing industry, according to interviews and agency documents…
Published: July 29, 2019 at 01:06AM
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By Reuters
South Korea will release three North Koreans who crossed the maritime border aboard a fishing vessel at the weekend, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said on Monday.
Published: July 28, 2019 at 09:42PM
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By The Associated Press
The running joke between Dalilah Muhammad and some of her competitors goes like this: She orders the wet conditions.
Published: July 28, 2019 at 08:27PM
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By LetÃcia Casado and Ernesto Londoño
Cutting down trees at the current rate could lead to runaway deforestation, environmentalists say. But President Bolsonaro is sticking to his promise to curb enforcement.
Published: July 28, 2019 at 02:55AM
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By The Associated Press
Seoul says two South Koreans and 15 Russians have returned to South Korea about 10 days after their boat drifted into North Korean waters.
Published: July 28, 2019 at 02:27AM
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By Reuters
North Korea has released a Russian fishing boat held after being accused of violating entry regulations, the Russian embassy in North Korea said on Sunday, in an incident that prompted a Russian warning of a freezing of talks on fisheries cooperat…
Published: July 28, 2019 at 12:42AM
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By Reuters
North Korea has released a Russian fishing boat held after being accused of violating entry regulations, the Russian embassy in North Korea said on Sunday, in an incident that prompted a Russian warning of a freezing of talks on fisheries cooperat…
Published: July 27, 2019 at 11:42PM
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By The Associated Press
President Donald Trump listened to Robert Mueller testify to Congress this past week, then misrepresented what the former special counsel said. Some partisans on both sides did much the same, whether to defend or condemn the president.
Published: July 27, 2019 at 08:51AM
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By The Associated Press
A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
Published: July 27, 2019 at 04:45AM
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Pablo Sandoval homered with two outs in the 11th inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 2-1 Friday night for their 18th victory in 22 games.
Published: July 27, 2019 at 01:57AM
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By Reuters
Iran has freed nine Indian crew members of a Panama-flagged tanker it seized this month, the Indian foreign ministry said on Saturday, and it appealed for the release of three remaining crew members held from the same ship.
Published: July 27, 2019 at 01:36AM
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By The Associated Press
President Donald Trump is wishing members of Congress would show him the deference that he said Republicans gave Barack Obama when he was president. Trump is recalling a genteel time that did not exist.
Published: July 25, 2019 at 08:45PM
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By The Associated Press
The first strike by Alaska ferry workers in over 40 years has snarled travel plans for thousands of people during the busy tourist and fishing season, leaving some stranded and catching the attention of a Democratic presidential candidate.
Published: July 26, 2019 at 08:36PM
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By Adam Liptak
The court’s ruling, addressing a stay application, was an interim step in a litigation that will continue in the lower courts.
Published: July 26, 2019 at 06:33PM
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House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler filed a petition in federal court Friday to obtain secret grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, arguing the panel needs the information as it weighs whether to pursue…
Published: July 26, 2019 at 09:45AM
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By The Associated Press
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Asia next week with an agenda dominated by a stalemate in the Trump administration’s nuclear talks with North Korea and impasses with China over trade, Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Published: July 26, 2019 at 02:00PM
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The U.S. government has decided to allow off-road vehicles access to some archaeologically sensitive land at a Utah national monument that houses sacred tribal sites under a plan announced Friday.
Published: July 26, 2019 at 12:03PM
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By Reuters
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday he would not let an Italian coastguard boat carrying 135 migrants dock until European Union countries agreed to take them in.
Published: July 26, 2019 at 12:43PM
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By Reuters
Switzerland’s highest court has ruled that historical data about 40,000 UBS clients must be handed to French tax authorities in a landmark case that could set a precedent for foreign governments seeking information from Swiss banks.
Published: July 26, 2019 at 07:01AM
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By The Associated Press
Italy’s interior minister says he won’t let 140 rescued migrants off an Italian coast guard ship until Europe agrees to take them.
Published: July 26, 2019 at 10:18AM
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By Jacey Fortin
Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled organism found in warm freshwater, can be fatal if it enters the body through the nose.
Published: July 25, 2019 at 08:48PM
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By The Associated Press
The House Oversight Committee voted along party lines Thursday to authorize subpoenas for personal emails and texts used for official business by top White House aides, including Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.
Published: July 25, 2019 at 01:30PM
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By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
The Trump administration said it would resume executions of federal death row inmates, starting with five men who have been convicted of killing children.
Published: July 25, 2019 at 02:16PM
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By Reuters
By this time of year, the Mekong River should have been rising steadily with the monsoon rains, bringing fishermen a bounty of fat fish.
Published: July 25, 2019 at 06:27AM
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By Reuters
The wedge of sea between Japan, Russia, and the Korean peninsula became a new flashpoint this week, with a regional airspace dispute, a seized fishing boat, and missile tests by North Korea aggravating longstanding tensions.
Published: July 25, 2019 at 03:12AM
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By Reuters
The Trump administration has resurrected a plan to carve a road through a national wildlife refuge in Alaska, less than four months after a federal judge struck down an earlier plan as illegal.
Published: July 25, 2019 at 12:33AM
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By The Associated Press
A new land exchange agreement aimed at constructing a road through a national wildlife refuge has been signed by an Alaska Native corporation and the Interior Department, village community leaders announced Wednesday.
Published: July 24, 2019 at 03:36PM
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By The Associated Press
U.S. House members from three Gulf Coast states are backing their governors’ request for a fisheries disaster declaration, saying freshwater flooding into saltwater ecosystems has killed oysters and hurt the fishing industry.
Published: July 24, 2019 at 05:24PM
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By Reuters
Britain’s incoming prime minister, Boris Johnson, starts appointing his government team on Wednesday, after weeks of planning and of jockeying among Conservative hopefuls looking for top jobs in his new cabinet.
Published: July 24, 2019 at 07:34AM
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By Reuters
Russia’s state fishing agency said on Wednesday that a Russian vessel held by North Korean border guards had not been in North Korean waters when it was detained and that Pyongyang’s action had been illegal, the RIA news agency reported.
Published: July 24, 2019 at 10:22AM
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By Reuters
Direct access for Britain’s financial sector to the European Union after Brexit is increasingly under threat as political will for an industry deal fades and the bloc toughens requirements for recognising other countries’ financial rules.
Published: July 24, 2019 at 08:25AM
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