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Elevated benzene levels near Texas petrochemicals facility

Judge Hidalgo says response crews are now focused on maintaining the foam blanket. Officials don't yet know what caused the release of benzene vapor from unde...

Voting underway in Thailand's first election since 2014 coup

The telegenic 40-year-old billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and his Future Forward party were also set for a strong showing, taking over five million vo...

Hundreds protest again in Algeria against President Bouteflika

Leaders have emerged from the protest movement, offering an alternative to Bouteflika's political roadmap to what he says will be a new Algeria . The number ...

Boeing presents 737 MAX upgrades to U.S. airlines

The FAA has said it plans to mandate the upgrade by April, but it is still not clear if the upgrade will address any issues after the March 10 Ethiopian Airlin...

Cabinet coup to ditch Theresa May for emergency PM

Nevertheless, amid other claims that Brexit supporters were lining up Michael Gove to take charge, cabinet anxieties about May and her ability to maintain con...

Limerick postal sorting office evacuated over suspect package

Gardai attended to Limerick An Post office just after 6am on Friday. Only four out of five packages sent by the group have been recovered by the police so far. ...

Kurds declare ISIS control in Syria over

Half buried in the dirt was a tattered shred of ISIS notorious black flag, while a giant yellow flag belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fluttered...

Israel strikes Gaza over bomb balloons

The Israeli army did not comment on the deaths but said "approximately 9,500 rioters and demonstrators" gathered in various locations, "hurling explosive devi...

Britain must resolve Brexit but changing PM May wouldn't help, Hammond says

Mr Duncan Smith also said any idea of a leadership election would create "complete chaos", as he criticised the actions of Cabinet ministers. The chancellor s...

FEMA shared personal information of 2.3M disaster victims with contractor

A FEMA spokesperson said that situation was a case of "oversharing of information with a contracted vendor". "FEMA's goal remains protecting and strengthening...

Thousands march in London to demand people's vote on Brexit

Mrs May hinted on Friday she might not bring her twice-defeated European Union divorce deal back to Parliament next week, leaving her Brexit strategy in meltdo...

Sydney Aiello, friend of U.S. school massacre victim, kills herself

Sydney was a pupil at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a former student killed 14 of her classmates and three staff members on Valentine's Day past yea...

Boeing states flight-control software fixes for 737 Max 8 jets

The factory visits indicate Boeing may be nearing completion of a planned software patch for its newest 737 following a Lion Air crash that killed 189 people ...

Sunday Times reporter: PM May facing plot from minister to oust her

Talk of a cabinet coup within hours has reached fever pitch amid reports that ministers are plotting a coup to get rid of her. Her de facto deputy David Lid...

At least 134 killed in Mali massacre as United Nations visits

The massacre in the village of Ogossogou left the village chief and his grandchildren dead in the ethnic Peulh community, according to a local official who had ...

Suspect arrested in subway attack caught on video

In video that was posted online , the suspect walked up to the 78-year-old woman and kicked her in the face multiple times before exiting the train. The woma...

Police identifies militants killed in Hajin encounter

Police said that two civilians were held hostage by militants during the encounter in Hajin area of Bandipora. From the incriminating material recovered at ...

Passenger tried to smuggle a drugged orangutan in suitcase

Suspicious officers stopped him and opened his luggage to find a two-year-old male orang utan sleeping inside a rattan basket. He took along baby food and all...

German police arrest 10 people on suspicion of terror plot

Several of the suspects are German citizens, according to the prosecutor's office, but no other nationalities were specified. Hesse state's interior minister,...

Australian Muslims honor New Zealand terror victims

Since the March 15 attack, New Zealand has banned military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles like the ones used in the mosque attacks. The Islamic cal...

Trump says trade agreement with China 'will probably happen'

For now, the U.S. administration has allegedly given a " tacit approval " to Taiwan's request to buy American jets, people familiar with the matter have told ...

'Yellow vest' protesters begin 19th week of demonstrations against Macron government

The scenes of lawlessness prompted the government to act: Paris' police chief was replaced, protesters have been banned from the Champs-Élysées and fines for ...

Experts warn Midwest flood risk may persist for months

The dam is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Missouri Governor Mike Parson declared an emergency on Wednesday as high water forced evacuations of ...

Iowa Republican Steve King slams Hurricane Katrina disaster victims

Blake Gibbins, of Lafayette, Colorado, was arrested in connection with the incident and has been charged with misdemeanour assault and disorderly conduct, CBS n...

Former AG Sessions honored at Justice Dept

ABC News reported that the letter, which had not yet been publicized until Thursday, quotes now-Attorney General Bill Barr, who previously appointed three spe...

Lawyer's office shot at after cop's acquittal

A jury has found former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld not guilty of one count of homicide in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Antwon Ro...

'Magic fridge' full of beer found amid Nebraska flood

The box turned out to be a refrigerator filled with Busch Light and Bud Light beers . The men cracked open a couple of cold ones and took photos which their fr...

Cyclone lashes remote Australian coast with wind, rains

Thousands of Australians have been forced to evacuate their homes in preparation for two potentially devastating cyclones. The other cyclone threatening the A...

YouTube mom in Arizona accused of child abuse

They were also "locked in the closet for days at a time" and two said they were sprayed or pinched in the genitals, it added. Machelle Hobson's adoptive chi...

Great Lakes rapidly warming, likely to trigger more flooding and extreme weather

Numerous same findings were issued past year in the federal government's Fourth National Climate Assessment , conducted by the U.S. Global Change Research Prog...