Nicolas Negoce, Paul Njie,BBC Africa reporters, Natasha Bootyand Wedaeli Chibelushi AFP via Getty Images Gen Horta N’Tam, centre, becomes the transitional head of state for one year An army general has been sworn in as Guinea-Bissau’s new head of state a day after an apparent coup. Gen Horta N’Tam becomes the transitional president for a…
Jaroslav Lukivand Fan Wang Watch: Deadly fire engulfs Hong Kong apartment blocks Firefighters are still searching for hundreds of missing people after a massive fire tore through multiple high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong. At least 83 people are now known to have died in the blaze – the city’s deadliest in more than 70…
President Donald Trump has directed the federal agency that oversees legal immigration to the U.S. to conduct a sweeping review of green card holders from what the administration calls countries of concern, the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Thursday. “At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination…
NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, intimidating armada of bombers and attack aircraft. With superior numbers, the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations brandished a massive hammer of both nuclear and ‘conventional’ destructive force. Here are 12 Soviet combat aircraft that kept NATO awake at night: 12:…
Martinsburg, West Virginia — US Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and US Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe were called to the nation’s capital in August as National Guard troops from multiple states responded to President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement in the area. But on the eve of Thanksgiving, the two West Virginia…
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Putin arrives for meeting in Kyrgyzstan Putin meets with the heads of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for a summit in Kyrgyzstan. (Russian pool via AP.) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed interest in using President Trump’s peace plan as a negotiating…
By Mohamad Torokman and Ali Sawafta Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank who JENIN, – Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV news footage showed. In the footage, the men are seen exiting a…
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Alaska early Thanksgiving morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake struck just after 8 a.m. local time near Susitna,…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guardsmen just blocks from the White House on the day before Thanksgiving served in an elite CIA counterterrorism unit in Afghanistan, according to new details that emerged Thursday about the suspect’s background. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, served in Afghanistan with…