Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2018 at 00:16 (about 13 hours ago)
We have our generation?s battleships in nuclear aircraft carriers. They are majestic, imposing, ocean-going and potentially fading into obsolescence as missiles threaten to outrange and outpunch their organic fighter complement. The future is not bigger ships with more armor. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2018 at 00:16 (about 13 hours ago)
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced concern Friday about the humanitarian situation in the rebel-held Syrian region of Idlib, which is shaping up be the country's next big battleground. In a telephone call the two leaders described the "humanitarian risks" in Idlib, where government forces have stepped up their bombardments of rebel positions in recent days, as "very high", according to the French presidency. President Bashar al-Assad has set his sights on retaking control of the northwestern province of Idlib -- the biggest area still in rebel hands after seven years of war. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2018 at 00:16 (about 13 hours ago)
Police have identified the body of a boy found in a New Mexico compound as Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, who was reported missing in November. The Office of the Medical Investigator identified the remains of three-year-old Abdul-Ghani, who was from Jonesboro, Georgia, when he was reported to be missing. Prior to identifying Abdul-Ghani?s body, the Taos County Sheriff?s Office in New Mexico had raided the compound they referred to as a ?makeshift residence? on 3 August and found 11 children ranging in age from one to 15 years old. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2018 at 00:16 (about 13 hours ago)
The 50-year-old mechanic fled Venezuela three days ago. Traveling by bus with his fiance Yenny to the border town of Ipiales in southwest Colombia, Malavolta said he heard on the final leg of the trip that their plan had been ruined. As of 12 a.m. on Saturday, new regulations put in place by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno prohibit Venezuelans from entering Ecuador without a valid passport. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th August 2018 at 00:15 (about 13 hours ago)
In Geneva, the Kofi Annan Foundation announced his peaceful death after a short undisclosed illness with "immense sadness", saying he was surrounded in his last days by his second wife Nane and children Ama, Kojo and Nina. After rising through the ranks of the United Nations, Annan served two terms as U.N. Secretary-General in New York from 1997-2006 and retired to live in a Swiss village in the Geneva countryside. "In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th August 2018 at 22:46 (about 15 hours ago)
The smart speaker wars are heating up. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th August 2018 at 22:46 (about 15 hours ago)
Esteban Santiago Ruiz, who is now 28, opened fire in a busy terminal at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on January 6, 2017, after arriving on a one-way ticket from Alaska. "While nothing can ever heal the wounds inflicted by the defendant's unspeakable and horrific acts of violence, we hope that the life sentence imposed today provides at least some sense of justice for the victims and their loved ones," US Attorney Benjamin Greenberg said in a statement. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th August 2018 at 22:46 (about 15 hours ago)
The Holy fire was raging through southern California?s Cleveland national forest, and his family had already complied with a mandatory evacuation order, but Daniel Perez decided to take the risk anyway. At lunchtime on Thursday 9 August, Perez convinced public officials to allow him to return to his evacuated neighborhood for one last thing: to turn on his home security cameras, connect them to the internet, and point them in the direction of the oncoming flames. As internet-connected home security cameras grow in popularity and climate-change fueled natural disasters continue to ravage communities around the globe, a new phenomenon has emerged: witnessing your worst nightmare, remotely. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th August 2018 at 22:46 (about 15 hours ago)
Longtime Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy is under investigation by the #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th August 2018 at 22:46 (about 15 hours ago)
We have the pictures. #