SYRIAN REFUGGES ARRIVE IN CANADA,WHICH ONE FAMILY CALLS ‘PARADISE’ Outfitted in new winter coats and clutching their yawning 16-month-old daughter in the wee hours of Friday morning, a Syrian refugee family on the first large government flight began their new life in Canada — or, as they call it, “paradise.” “We really would like to thank you for all this ...

China’s capital on Monday issued its first ever “red alert” for pollution, as the city government warned that Beijing would be shrouded in heavy smog from Tuesday until Thursday. China’s leadership has vowed to crack down on environmental degradation, including the air pollution that blankets many major cities, following decades of unbridled economic growth. The move comes as U.N. Secretary-General ...

Global emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to stall and even decline slightly this year, new data suggests. Global carbon emissions edged up by 0.6 percent last year, compared to 2.4 percent annual growth from 2004-2013, said the study by Britain’s University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project, which compiles data from research institutes worldwide. In 2015, ...

Weeks of heavy rain and flooding have knocked out power, suspended public transportation and left people stranded in Chennai, one of India’s largest cities. The Indian army and navy are carrying out rescue operations, the Indian defense ministry told the Media. The Indian Coast Guard is also working to rescue people. At least nine people have died so far in ...

SAN Bernardino Shooters had armament to kill,police say So far, nobody knows why a man and woman opened fire with automatic weapons at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California. Fourteen people died, and 21 people were wounded. We know there were two shooters: A U.S. citizen named Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, who was an inspector with the county health ...

Syed Rizwan Farook — who along with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out the San Bernardino shooting massacre — apparently was radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for international terrorism, law enforcement officials said Thursday. Farook’s apparent radicalization contributed to his role in the mass shooting of 14 people Wednesday during a holiday party for ...

David Cameron has said he will call a one-day Commons debate and vote on Wednesday over UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria. The decision comes after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would grant his MPs a free vote on the matter. The prime minister said there was “growing” parliamentary support for air strikes, saying it was ...

Two months into a bombing campaign in Syria, Russia has caused a lot of collateral damage One airstrike hit a post office, part of a series of strikes that killed 17 civilians. At least four other attacks targeted hospitals. An airstrike on Sunday hit a marketplace, killing at least 30 people. Russia’s military intervention in Syria is killing civilians at ...

Russia has accused Turkey of shooting down its warplane near the border with Syria in order to protect its oil trade with the Islamic State (IS) group. Speaking at international talks on climate change in Paris, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the downing of the plane a “huge mistake”. Turkey has denied any ties to IS and is part of ...

In the days following the Paris attacks, some news outlets seemed intent on helping ISIS’ propaganda efforts. “Terrorism is an American product,” blared one headline. Another recycled the tired, false-flag conspiracy theory that certain foreign intelligence agencies had carried out the attack in order to give Western countries carte blanche to invade the Arab world — or whatever else they ...