Month: January 2020

Thousands of residents and vacationers in Australia were forced to quickly take refuge on a beach in Mallacoota, Victoria, on Tuesday as a large fire threatened the seaside town located about 500 km (310 miles) east of Melbourne. Fire crews flanked the beach as the flames grew closer, and some people were able to flee…

By Samia Nakhoul and Kiyoshi Takenaka BEIRUT/TOKYO (Reuters) – Lebanon received an Interpol arrest warrant on Thursday for fugitive former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, while Turkey launched an investigation into his daring escape from Japan. Ghosn has become an international fugitive after he revealed on Tuesday he had fled to Lebanon to escape what he…

At least 16 inmates were killed in a central Mexico prison and five others wounded after a bloody two-and-a-half hour riot. Four guns – believed to have been smuggled in during prison visits on Tuesday, where found at the scene of the violent melee at the Cienguillas state prison in the north-central Zacatecas region. Zacatecas…

In the most anticipated speech of his career today, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un told hundreds of cadre from the Workers’ Party of Korea to prepare for a long-term standoff with the United States over its drive to “seek its own political and diplomatic interests” in Korea while “wasting time away under the signboard of dialogue…

Over a dozen Chinese lawyers and activists were detained or went missing in the final days of 2019 in a crackdown on participants of a private democracy gathering, rights groups said Thursday. The Chinese government has severely reduced the space for civil liberties since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012, rounding up rights lawyers,…

There’s some good news for Marvel fans to bring in the New Year. WandaVision, the new series from the superhero studio, has moved up from an initial planned air date of 2021 to later this year. It will air on Disney+, the new Disney-owned streaming platform set to land in the UK some time in…

Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park began turning away guests on New Year’s Eve, the park tweeted Tuesday afternoon. “We’re experiencing a busy day at the Walt Disney World Resort,” said the tweet, posted at 2:17 p.m. EST. “Magic Kingdom Park is not admitting new Guests at this time.” The tweet steered visitors toward the Animal…

A woman jumped from a ferry boat into the Seven Seas Lagoon at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. on Monday evening in an apparent suicide attempt, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office tells TIME. The 56-year-old woman received minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital, according to the sheriff’s office. She was examined…

YouTube/CBS Evening News West Virginia’s governor fired an entire class of prison guard trainees after they made Nazi salutes in a posed photo. An investigation found that the class had been making the salutes throughout their academy training in an effort to “hail” their instructor because she was “a hard-ass like Hitler.” The instructor, Karrie…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Charging that Iran was “fully responsible” for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 more prepared for possible deployment in the next several days. No U.S. casualties or evacuations were reported after the attack Tuesday…