Paris (AFP) - The French presidency on Thursday said it would deploy its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to boost its operations against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
France launched airstrikes against the jihadists in Syria in October, after a year of bombing IS in Iraq.
Afghanistan's is racing to ramp up supplies of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID-19 worsens, a senior health official told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday. The government is installing oxygen supply plants in 10 provinces where up to 65% of those tested in some areas are COVID positive, health ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigir Nazari said. Afghanistan's 24-hour infection count has also continued its upward climb from 1,500 at the end of May when the health ministry was already calling the surge “a crisis,” to more than 2,300 this week.
Cohn, who is Jewish, had reportedly grown "despondent" with former President Trump's response to the Unite the Right rally, according to the book.
The teen was flown to a hospital by the Tennessee Army National Guard to receive medical care for her wounds.
The group of tubers passed over the approximately eight-foot-high Duke Energy dam along the Dan river while on a floating trip in North Carolina.
The group cited figures released by the Customs and Border Protection, which revealed 180,034 migrant encounters at the southern border last month.
Richard Barnett, a self-described white nationalist, was arrested days after he was photographed with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
“Mark Cuban approached me about a role as special advisor and I am happy to support my Mavs,” the Mavs icon said.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Thursday released a full list of investigations into crashes involving Tesla Autopilot.
Alberto Sánchez Gómez will serve 15 years in jail for the grisly murder of his mother. He strangled her and cut her into pieces, the Independent said.
After a space rock struck Earth 66 million years ago - killing the dinosaurs - another asteroid hit, delaying Earth's recovery from a mass extinction.
A franchise that seemingly has been cursed for most of its existence underwent a transformation in Friday's playoff series victory over the Utah Jazz.
Ryan Lochte finished seventh in the 200-meter individual medley at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials Friday night, missing his chance to compete in Tokyo.
“Mark Cuban approached me about a role as special advisor and I am happy to support my Mavs,” the Mavs icon said.
Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes is worthy of joining Buccaneers QB Tom Brady on the cover of 'Madden NFL 22.' But is it too soon to call him a GOAT?
For those fortunate enough to own a home in a Bahria Town development, the elite suburb promises to offer a respite from the clamour of life in much of Pakistan. Prospective residents from Karachi are lured with assurances that they can swap the blackouts, floods and rubbish heaps of the port metropolis for a luxury lifestyle in a manicured architectural fantasia. Brochures offer world class amenities, a floodlit golf course and even a replica Parthenon. Yet two weeks ago the haven of Bahria Tow
'Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It' unabashedly hails the performer, and illuminates her recent defense of 'In the Heights' casting.
After the easing of lockdown restrictions was delayed in England, music festivals announce their plans.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos via GettyOn June 12, police in Alabama discovered Birmingham TV news anchor Christopher Sign dead in his home at 45 years of age from an apparent suicide.Under normal circumstances, Sign’s death would have remained a local tragedy. But it’s taken on national importance in the right-wing rumor mill after conservative media personalities and a member of Congress saw an opportunity to exploit Sign’s death by suggesting he had been murdered at the orders
A man accused in a fatal crash that claimed the life of a Lawrence woman in April has been arrested, police said Thursday.
Puffing on an asthma inhaler cuts three days off the length of time people are taking to recover from a bout of Covid, boosting hopes that lockdown restrictions will end for good on July 19. The findings have led to doctors prescribing inhalers to Covid sufferers on "a case-by-case basis", ministers disclosed to MPs late last week. The news came as Matt Hancock told MPs that people who catch the virus are now spending 20 per cent less time in hospital beds as the vaccine rollout continues. MPs h
