Category: World

By Hannah Allam and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Gen. David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, has muddied the carefully crafted narrative of America’s most eminent “soldier-scholar statesman,”

By Lindsay Wise, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — The parents of missing American journalist Austin Tice appealed for information about their son Monday at a news conference in Beirut. Marc and Debra Tice

By Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald – MIAMI — Despite foreign assistance after their country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, Haitians continue to face “alarming threats” from deplorable living conditions, a broken justice system and

By Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers – JERUSALEM — Israel’s military engaged on two fronts Monday, exchanging fire across its northern border with Syria and its southern border with Gaza as its leaders warned

By David Enders, McClatchy Newspapers – RAS AL AYN, Syria — Thousands of people fled Ras al Ayn Monday for the safety of Turkey as the battle between Syrian rebels and government troops

By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers – BENGHAZI, Libya — Just more than a mile from the group of villas that served as the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was another set of U.S.-leased

By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times – NEW YORK — The grim toll from Superstorm Sandy has risen yet again in New York City with the death of a 77-year-old man who

By Matthew McGrath and Linh Tat, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – HACKENSACK, N.J.—Most utility customers should have power restored by the end of this weekend, and additional public transit lines will start

By Ken Dilanian and David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — The woman whose complaints sparked an FBI investigation that led to CIA Director David Petraeus’ resignation was identified Sunday

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Testimony in the preliminary hearing for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales wound up Sunday night with a senior Afghan

By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — The deeply divided Syrian opposition took a step toward renewed unity Sunday, forming a new coalition designed to build

By Michelle Manchir, Adam Sege and Rosemary R. Sobol, Chicago Tribune – INDIANAPOLIS — Investigators are trying to find out what caused two houses on Indianapolis’ south side to explode, killing two

Des Moines, IOWA — Today the Iowa Department of Public Safety welcomed its newest employee to the State Fire Marshal Division. Casey is a four year old, tan lab with expertise in

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times – JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — An Afghan guard testified Friday night that he was “shocked” to see a U.S. soldier returning to the remote Army camp

By Mike Johnson, Los Angeles Times – Nearly 100 years ago — decades before electronic record-keeping or FBI criminal background checks — the Boy Scouts of America devised its own system of files

By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—Argument has raged for decades over what doomed the ancient Maya civilization and spurred its people to abandon their awe-inspiring temples and pyramids in the

Jana Hollingsworth, Duluth News Tribune – Claudie Washington, representing the Duluth chapter of the NAACP, called the effigy of President Obama hung from a noose both a terroristic threat and a hate crime,

By Sammy Fretwell, The State (Columbia, S.C.) – ALAMOSA, Colo. — Brilliant sunlight hits the San Luis Valley virtually every day, making the sparsely populated area one of the nation’s hot spots for

Gregg Hennigan, CR Gazette – IOWA CITY – The City Council will discuss whether a city code limiting how close drinking establishments can be to each other should apply only to the

By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there are no new reports of fungal meningitis linked to tainted steroid injections responsible for dozens

By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times – KABUL, Afghanistan — Bombings killed at least 20 people around Afghanistan on Thursday as insurgents targeted Afghan security forces but left a number of civilians dead.

By Lornet Turnbull, The Seattle Times – SEATTLE — Opponents of same-sex marriage have conceded, saying it appears that Washington state’s Referendum 74 will pass. Approval of the measure would make Washington the

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — As China launched its 18th Communist Party Congress on Thursday, news of the self-immolations of several Tibetans opposed to Chinese rule helped illustrate the

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad predicted a global catastrophe should the West invade his country, and representatives of Syria’s notoriously divided opposition struggled Thursday

By Dahleen Glanton and Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — For many in Chicago’s Hyde Park and Kenwood neighborhoods, Wednesday was a day to celebrate. There would be another time to

By Ashley Rueff, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO—The Orland Fire Protection District responded to an emergency from an Orland Park supermarket early this week to find an unusual, squirm-inducing emergency. At a local grocer

By Melissa Hayes, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) – TRENTON, N.J. — The Republican governor picked up the phone Wednesday night and congratulated the Democratic president who just won a second term. Then they

By David S. Cloud, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Seven Navy SEALs, including one involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, have been reprimanded for divulging classified information to

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times – BEIJING — On the heels of the U.S. election, the Chinese Communist Party began its own leadership transition Thursday with promises to double income over

By Tim Sheehan and Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee – FRESNO, Calif. — Grieving relatives and co-workers marched Wednesday evening in somber remembrance for two men slain by a co-worker in a

By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — President Barack Obama faces a more volatile Middle East than the one he brought a sense of promise to nearly four years ago

From the IOWA DNR – A Centerville man was injured Tuesday after falling from a tree stand while hunting deer in Appanoose County. Blake A. Havard, 25, was hunting deer on private

By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times – MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin fired his defense minister Tuesday amid a criminal investigation into suspected fraud and embezzlement involving military assets. Putin announced

By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers – BEIJING — As the United States ends its political season, China’s is beginning, and Beijing would like to keep things in order. That means red banner

By Jim Guy, The Fresno Bee – FRESNO, Calif. — One person is dead and three are in critical condition, including the gunman, after a workplace shooting Tuesday morning in Fresno, Calif. Gunfire

By Shashank Bengali, Tribune Washington Bureau – NEW YORK — When Ulysses Bermudez hikes upstairs to check on his elderly neighbors in his public housing project in Brooklyn, he is met by

By Batsheva Sobelman, Los Angeles Times – JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister and defense minister tried to move their country closer to an attack on Iran in 2010 but military and security

By Patrick J. McDonnell and Rima Marrouch, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — A car bomb exploded Monday in a Damascus district that is home to many security personnel and members of

By Bill Daley, Chicago Tribune – Sodas may not sport the obvious dangers (or the kick) that a liter of scotch or a kilo of cocaine represent, but health advocates, researchers, nutritionists and,