May 23 (Reuters) – Firefighters trying to prevent an explosion in a tank of hazardous chemicals in Southern California found overnight that the failing tank was heating up internally despite efforts to cool it, the incident commander said on Saturday. Evacuation orders remained in place for an area covering tens of thousands of people in …
NEW YORK (AP) — Sabrina Ionescu is ready to make her season debut for New York after suffering a foot injury in the preseason. The Liberty’s star guard practiced Saturday and said afterward she’s good to go against Dallas on Sunday. “It’s exciting to me,” Ionescu said after practice. “I haven’t had a regular-season game …
May 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal has been “largely negotiated” with Iran and will open the Strait of Hormuz, with details to be unveiled soon. “Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly,” …
BELGRADE, May 23 (Reuters) – Police fired teargas and clashed with protesters in central Belgrade on Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered to demand early elections and an end to the more than decade-long rule of Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic. People crowded into Slavija Square, one of the capital’s main junctions, in a fresh …
CANNES, France, May 23 (Reuters) – “Fjord,” the new drama by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or top prize on Saturday. It is the second time Mungiu has won the prize, after 2007’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” The drama starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve is centred …
Here are the guests for Sunday, March 24, on CBS News’ “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” moderated this week by chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes: White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland Former White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx A panel with …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in Orange County on Saturday as officials desperately search for a safe resolution to a leaking toxic chemical tank at an aerospace facility. “The safety of Orange County residents is the top priority,” Newsom said. “We are mobilizing every state resource available to support local responders and …
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African activists who were detained when their boats were intercepted while trying to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza alleged Saturday they were beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers in a detention facility. The Global Sumud Flotilla of 50 vessels was intercepted Monday in international waters some 250 miles (400 kilometers) off …
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Clashes erupted between groups of protesters and riot police after a huge anti-government rally on Saturday in the Serbian capital Belgrade attended by tens of thousands of opponents of the country’s autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic. While the rally at a central square in Belgrade passed largely peacefully, groups of young demonstrators …
Investigators were combing through a New York City shipyard on Saturday trying to find the cause of a fire and an explosion that killed one person and injured more than 30 firefighters and other first responders. Authorities provided no major updates to the incidents that occurred Friday afternoon in the Mariners Harbor neighborhood on the …