A Russian naval repairs and maintenance facility in the Syrian port of Tartus could be overhauled to a full-scale naval base capable of hosting large warships, including aircraft carriers, within two years, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday.
FARINDOLA, Italy (AP) — The Latest on the avalanche that buried a hotel in central Italy (all times local):
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Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Researchers have created a new genetic engineering method that can be applied to bacteria, plants and human cells to help biologists study genes.
Barron Trump has officially arrived at his father Donald Trump‘s 2017 Presidential Inauguration! The 10-year-old future First Son was missing from the Inauguration events yesterday, but made it to see his father sworn-in in just a few hours. Also seen in the audience at the Inauguration were daughter Ivanka Trump with husband Jared Kushner, both [...]
There are now sister marches in 60 countries on seven continents.
The women’s marches taking place around the world to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump have now reached the furthest corner of the earth: Antarctica.
To be slightly more precise, the women will be holding their event on a ship harbored just off the coast of the world’s coldest and least-populated continent. That means protests taking place in solidarity with the massive one planned for Washington Saturday will... Читать дальше...
Tanya Rivero and Michael C. Bender discuss President Trump's working style, and Charles Passy pours Laird's Applejack, which was supplied to George Washington's troops. Photo: Getty
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Earth as we know it might not last forever.
If sea level rise triggers flooding in our cities, if climate change makes it impossible to grow food for billions of people, or if there's some other as-yet unthinkable apocalyptic disaster, humans will need a new home.
The architects at Shimizu Corporation, a Tokyo-based firm, want to build underwater cities that they call Ocean Spirals.
There are no concrete plans to construct an Ocean Spiral, which project... Читать дальше...
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Earlier this week, Young Thug's "Wyclef Jean" video gained acclaim for its sheer creativity, despite the star barely appearing in any...
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Friday sent a congratulatory message to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for his inauguration, highlighting the importance of the Seoul-Washington alliance. Through th
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — A March trial has been scheduled for a North Liberty man accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill three people who were expected to testify against him in another murder-for-hire case.
The legacy of a US president is inevitably overshadowed by their successor and in Barack Obama’s case Donald Trump campaigned with a promise to wipe his predecessor’s name from the history books. Many of Obama’s landmark achievements in office can be unravelled by Trump, from the deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme and the reopening of economic and diplomatic relations with Cuba to the Paris climate change agreement and the extension of health insurance to millions under the Affordable Care Act. Читать дальше...
As Barack and Michelle Obama exit the White House for the final time, they're looking ahead to serving for a foundation bearing their name.
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SAN FRANCISCO, California — Several protesters barricaded the front of Uber headquarters in San Francisco on Friday.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is a member of President-elect Donald Trump's economic advisory team, called the Strategic and Policy Forum.
A few protesters were chained to the front door on Market Street, and no employees were able to enter, according to our correspondent on-site.
The side doors to the headquarters were also blocked by... Читать дальше...
High-skilled tech immigrants worry about the Trump administration’s stance on immigration, BuzzFeed News reports.
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The photographer Mark Peterson is in Washington, D.C., this weekend, to photograph the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump. We’ll be updating this post with more images as the ceremonies continue.
“But in the long story that is America we will overcome that,” writer and producer of hit Netflix show says “We have always moved forward, slowly, with difficulty, with pain, with death,” Willimon told TheWrap’s Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman and Anna Palmer, co-author of Politco’s Playbook daily newsletter. Willimon also said that among his chief concerns with the current state of affairs in this country is efforts by the right to gerrymander electoral districts in order to stay in power, citing things like the REDMAP Project... Читать дальше...
Eyes in Europe will be on President Donald Trump as he begins his first week in office, but Brussels business will continue, both in Belgium and Malta, on trade, finance, and other matters. The Maltese presidency is hosting a series of informal ministers’ meetings throughout the week in the spectacular Grand Master’s Palace – a […]
Washington, DC police have used pepper spray on Friday to disperse protesters against the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, according to a video posted by protest organizers.
President-elect Donald Trump must address the perception that President Barack Obama has withdrawn America from the world stage, said Henry Kissinger.
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The broads of Broad City have weathered their fair share of storms — including a hellish detour en route to a dog wedding — but nothing could have prepared them for Jan. 20, 2017. Comedy Central on Friday released a special Inauguration Day episode — if this was 2001, I’d call it a webisode — in which […]
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