Category: World

By Larry Oakes and Curt Brown, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – COLD SPRING, Minn. — The body of police officer Tom Decker returned home Friday evening in a white hearse, escorted by two

By Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel – ORLANDO, Fla. — Joe Dorrity of Newark, N.J., was sleeping next to his father on an Amtrak train from New York to Florida when he was awakened

By Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The time needed to process veterans’ disability claims shot up by nearly 40 percent last year despite years of effort by federal officials to streamline

By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times – The federal government cleared the way Thursday for waters off the Northern California coast to become the first marine wilderness in the continental United States, ending

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Following a landmark United Nations vote upgrading the status of the Palestinian territories to become a “nonmember observer state” in the international body, Israel

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Syria was plunged into Internet darkness Thursday and much of the nation’s telephone service was cut as fighting raged on the main road

By Glenn E. Rice, The Kansas City Star – DEARBORN, Mo. — Cindy and Mark Hill graduated from North Platte High School in Dearborn, Mo., a year apart in the late 1970s. Friday

By Paul Walsh and Larry Oakes, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – COLD SPRING, Minn. — A Cold Spring police officer was fatally shot late Thursday when he and his partner were answering a call

By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — A minivan packed with civilians struck a roadside bomb in the southern Afghanistan province of Oruzgan on Thursday morning, killing 10 people and

By Don Lee, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew much faster in the third quarter than first estimated, but the latest government report laid bare the vulnerabilities for the

By Paul Richter, Tribune Washington Bureau – UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to slightly enhance the status of the Palestinian territories at the international organization, a controversial gambit

By Mike Carter, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — The Department of Justice announced Wednesday it will not appeal the 37-year sentence handed down to would-be “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, ending more than

By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald – In a renewed Democratic effort to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Sen. Dianne Feinstein released an independent feasibility study that showed six military prisons on

By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun – BALTIMORE — Scientists believe they have found ice inside craters near Mercury’s poles, a discovery they say could reveal more about the “building blocks” for life

By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is serious about compromising on higher income-tax rates for the rich, but other Democrats have failed to offer specifics on what

By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times – The U.S. Navy’s new bat-winged experimental drone has been delivered to an aircraft carrier to undergo handling tests aboard the ship. The Navy said that sailors

Blythe Bernhard, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – A pit bull puppy that was dragged behind a truck on Interstate 55 for a mile on Wednesday is recovering from severe injuries, Humane Society officials said

By Alejandra Matos, Star Tribune – MINNEAPOLIS — Lottery jackpots are growing bigger more quickly, and ticket sales are soaring all over the country. Now Minnesota is the first state to make buying

Los Angeles Times – AMMAN, Jordan — Dozens of people were killed Wednesday morning in four consecutive explosions that rocked a pro-regime suburb of Damascus, the Syrian capital. Twin car bombings first

By William Douglas and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Republican opposition to the potential nomination of United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice as secretary of state appeared to harden Tuesday after she

By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Taliban fighters didn’t discriminate when they wounded then-Capt. Mary Jennings of the California Air National Guard. She was the enemy, so they shot at her

By Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Six U.S. senators from West Coast states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to conduct a refinery-by-refinery probe to determine the causes of punishing

By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald – Morgan Knable stumbled on more excitement than he bargained for Nov. 11, the last day of deer season in the area he hunts southwest of

By Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers – ISTANBUL — The top U.S. aid official said Tuesday that Syria faces an immediate humanitarian emergency and that international plans to feed and support millions of destitute

By Curt Brown, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — Insisting the case crosses the line from self-defense to a cold-blooded double execution, Morrison County authorities filed second-degree murder charges Monday

By Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — NASA and Russia’s space agency are pushing ahead with plans for a yearlong stay in space, choosing the two men who will undertake

By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Doctors should give underage teenagers prescriptions for emergency contraceptives such as Plan B before they start having sex instead of waiting until a

The Army released suicide data for the month of October.  During October, among active-duty soldiers, there were 20 potential suicides:  five have been confirmed as suicides, and 15 remain under investigation.  For

By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times – GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Following its eight-day clash with Israel, Hamas will seek $1 billion in reconstruction aid from the Arab world and international community

By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIJING — Senior Chinese Communist Party leadership has recently called on propaganda officials to study the “spirit” of a party congress that ended a week ago. The

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — China is staking its claim on paper to what neighbors say is rightfully theirs. The latest territorial flap in Asia is over new Chinese

By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times – NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and two planet-based explorers are tracking a huge dust storm, offering scientists an opportunity to study the planet’s weather like none they’ve

By Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers – JERUSALEM — The United Nations envoy to the Middle East acknowledged Sunday that he has maintained quiet contacts with the Islamist group Hamas for “years,” despite the

By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times – A natural gas explosion in Springfield, Mass., that blew up a strip club Friday evening also damaged 42 other buildings and displaced hundreds of people, early

By Maher Abukhater and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times – RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority announced Saturday it would exhume the body of Yasser Arafat within days in a bid to

By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON – The top Republican to oppose a nomination of Susan Rice as new secretary of state softened his opposition and said Sunday he was

By Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times – Nearly everyone ages 15 to 64 should be screened for HIV even if they’re not at great risk for contracting the virus, under guidelines proposed by

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Soon after the cease-fire took effect this week between Israel and Hamas, another truce ended: The agreement among candidates in Israel’s upcoming elections

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — Texas Deputy Sheriff Rod Carroll is calling it the Thanksgiving Day nightmare. The deputy in Jefferson County, in southeast Texas, heard