Quito (AFP) – A volcano erupted on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos, Ecuadorian authorities said, spewing lava on the ecologically sensitive environment. La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina island, one of the youngest in the archipelago, began erupting Sunday evening, […]
The violent eruption of the Taal volcano in the Philippines Monday has left images of a desolate landscape full of destroyed houses, a thick layer of ash and buried animal carcasses. The nation’s disaster response team said that at least […]
By Allison Lampert, Rozanna Latiff and Tim Hepher MONTREAL/KUALA LUMPUR/PARIS (Reuters) – Why was the Ukrainian airliner mistakenly shot down near Tehran by Iranian forces last week for the loss of 176 lives even allowed to take off from a […]
Anthony Fisher/Insider Andrew Yang recently spoke with Insider about his lonely high school years. “Growing up in my town, I was one of the only Asian kids and I’d skipped a grade,” Yang recalls. “And I did get called ‘chink’ […]
Andrew Yang has a theory for why there are barely any candidates of color left in the Democratic primary race. After Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) dropped out earlier this week, Yang remains the only person of color in the Democratic […]
Key Point: Sometimes events don’t go the way you want. In the summer of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his Republic of China (ROC) government appeared doomed. Shanghai and Nanjing, then China’s capital city, had fallen to Mao Zedong’s communist forces, and […]
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – His jacket sparkling with war medals, 96-year old David Dushman holds back the tears as he remembers the eyes of emaciated prisoners at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz which he helped liberate 75 years ago […]
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s deputy prime minister described the country as the only one in the world with a single race, language and 2,000-year-old monarchy, sparking criticism that he was ignoring an indigenous ethnic group and Japanese racial diversity. Taro […]
The US House of Representatives is set to vote on Wednesday to send articles of impeachment it previously approved against Donald Trump to the Senate, where a contentious trial is expected to begin shortly after. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made […]
Donald Trump has retweeted what appears to be an image of a dead body and a meme of senior Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer dressed as Muslims as he continues to lash out over the Iran crisis and his […]