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SAN NICOLAS DE LOS RANCHOS, STATE OF MEXICO, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano erupted early on Monday (April 18), in a fiery show of smoke, ash and lava flows. The dramatic eruption spewed ash over the nearby city of Puebla, causing the local airport to close. According to authorities, the ash cloud rose nearly three kilometres (two miles) over the crater. A yellow alert has been declared for the area and authorities are encouraging […]
TORONTO, Canada (Reuters) – A building that was being demolished has collapsed in Toronto, injuring as many as seven people, the fire department in Canada’s largest city said on Monday (April 18). Four people have been rescued from beneath the structure, with three transported to hospital. Another three or four people were injured and treated at the scene, Toronto Fire Services Captain Michael Westwood told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Westwood said the building appeared to […]
(Reuters) – When the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday takes up a challenge brought by Texas and other states to President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, the eight justices face a series of legal questions beginning with whether Texas and the other state challengers even have grounds to bring the case. Obama’s November 2014 orders affect immigrants in the country illegally whose children are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents or who themselves […]
WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday (April 18) that the United States is providing more support to Iraq as its military moves to take back territory from Islamic State, and he expects the city of Mosul will be retaken eventually. “As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and gaining ground, let’s make sure that we are providing them more support,” Obama said in an […]
HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA (Reuters) – Large parts of Texas were under a flash flood warning on Monday (April 18) after a storm system dumped as much as 18 inches (45 cm) of rain in areas near Houston, causing hundreds of canceled flights, closed roads and massive power outages. One fatality has been reported, Channel 13 in Houston said, from storms that have caused nearly 900 water rescues in the country’s fourth-largest city. The National Weather Service […]
STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told supporters in New York on Sunday (April 17) that she was “sick and tired of people running for president who view our country through a negative lens.” Her remarks came while she was campaigning at Staten Island in the Empire State ahead of the Democratic primaries in the delegate heavy state. “This nation of immigrants with Lady Liberty in the harbor […]
LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, United States (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday (April 13) the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq had put the militant group on the defensive, shrinking its territory and striking key leaders. “We have momentum and we intend to keep that momentum,” Obama told reporters after meeting with his national security advisers at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. The campaign has cut supply lines and […]
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) – As Uber launched its service in Argentina on Tuesday (April 12), taxi drivers choked downtown Buenos Aires traffic to protest the service. The private car company, which is not yet regulated in Buenos Aires, claims to have thousands of drivers on the streets of the South American capital. It launched its service by offering users two free trips, as long as each trip was below 100 pesos (USD 5.73). Taxi drivers […]
A SINKHOLE in the middle of a California street. This was what a policeman in California recently captured in a video of the California city of Madera on Monday (April 11). The depression in the residential road was already cordoned off by police, when the street slowly started collapsing into an underground sewage line, creating a hole 15 to 20 feet deep, according to Madera police. It’s unclear what provoked the collapse, but it […]
HONOLULU, HAWAII, United States (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy officer with access to sensitive U.S. intelligence faces espionage charges over accusations he passed state secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday. (April 10) The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, who was born in Taiwan and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen, according a Navy profile article written about him in […]
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (Reuters) – Police in Washington, D.C. are looking for a burger thief after a man broke in a Five Guys restaurant and made himself a meal. In surveillance video released by Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department from a Five Guys restaurant in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, the man is seen in the kitchen between 3:10am and 5:05am on March 18. The suspect can be seeing walking around the restaurant before turning […]
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) – More than a 1000 runners competed in 35th annual Seven Mile Bridge Run in Florida Keys on Saturday (April 9). South Florida resident Josh Peterson won his third consecutive overall men’s title while the women’s division title was claimed by Laura DiBella of Fernandina Beach, Florida. The race over the convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico started in 1982 and marked the completion of a project to […]
