Residents on Alaska’s Kodiak Island received warnings of a potential tsunami early on Tuesday after 7.9 earthquake. A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s Kodiak Island briefly prompted a tsunami warning for a large swath of coastal Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia. The National Tsunami Center cancelled the warning just after 12GMT on Tuesday, but an advisory […]

Muslim leader lambastes ‘cowardly’ act by right-wing group, which left note warning against what it calls Islamisation. A decapitated doll was left at a mosque in Amsterdam, police said, in an Islamophobic act that has shocked the Muslim community in the Netherlands. The head was hung by a rope from a fence above the doll’s […]

Public concern about the impacts of climate change is the highest it’s been, but so, too, are our planet’s temperatures — and the level of carbon emissions that are driving them up. Warnings from scientists and environment agencies about what’s happening to our climate aren’t in short supply. Still, we’ve ended up at a point where we […]

Sushi lovers, this story is for you. Sushi lovers, this story is for you. Tokyo’s world famous fish market has had its last auction in its historic site – and a prized blue fin tuna fetched a hefty price of more than $320,000. Al Jazeera’s Hannah Hockstar has more. Source: Read Full Article

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet the group of lawmakers behind an alternative Brexit proposal later on Thursday, her spokesman said. In addition to May’s meeting with those behind the so-called ‘Malthouse Compromise’ plan, officials will meet trade union representatives, the spokesman said, adding the government wanted to secure changes to […]

New York Times says tapes it obtained reveal how intel official told hosts to persuade Egyptians to accept Trump’s move. A report by the New York Times has said that while Egypt’s government was publicly condemning a US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a state intelligence officer was asking influential TV hosts in […]

Federal immigration officials are force-feeding six immigrants through plastic nasal tubes during a hunger strike that’s gone on for a month inside a Texas detention facility, The Associated Press has learned. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 11 detainees at the El Paso Processing Center have been refusing food, some for more than 30 days. […]

Known as the ‘Big Boss’ and hailed as Nigeria’s football icon, Stephen Keshi would have been 56 on Tuesday. Nigerian football icon Stephen “Big Boss” Keshi is being honoured by Google on what would have been his 56th birthday.  The search engine changed its logo in Nigeria on Tuesday to an illustration of the legendary […]

MOSCOW/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A law firm appointed to act as a buffer between Russian metals magnate Oleg Deripaska and one of his businesses, under a deal that allowed Washington to lift sanctions on the firm, has worked closely with Deripaska for years. The U.S. Treasury Department agreed to lift sanctions on three businesses controlled […]

US-led coalition forces don’t operate in Syria’s Kurdish-controlled Afrin after Turkey vows attack, news report says. Syrian Kurdish fighters previously armed by the United States are no longer part of the battle against ISIL and the US-led coalition doesn’t support them, a US military official said on Tuesday.  The comments were the first indication by American […]