Category: World

By Mike Johnson, Karen Herzog and John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — The FBI said Wednesday that Wade Michael Page, the gunman who killed six people at the Oak Creek Sikh

By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times – CAIRO — Signaling a new era in Egypt’s diplomacy, President Mohamed Morsi met with Iran’s vice president Wednesday in the highest-level official contact between the two

By Ken Kaye, Sun Sentinel – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After moving into the warm waters of the southern Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon, Tropical Storm Ernesto refound some strength. At 5

By August Brown and Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—The guitar riffs come from punk rock, the lyrics from fascist ideology. Bands stake their territory with names like Aryan Rebels and

AMES, Iowa – Aug. 8, 2012 – The Iowa Department of Transportation held a public information meeting Thursday, April 5, to discuss proposed improvements to the U.S. 65/U.S. 69/Scotch Ridge Road intersection,

By Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times – LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. — Did Curiosity capture the galactic equivalent of the Zapruder film when it landed on Mars? Seconds after the NASA robot’s landing

By Nancy A. Youssef and Sheera Frenkel, McClatchy Newspapers – CAIRO — Deploying its air force for the first time in nearly 40 years, the Egyptian military launched an air offensive in the

By Molly Hennessey-Fiske and Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times – The former girlfriend of Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page said in an exclusive email to the Los Angeles Times that she wanted

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – Shaken by defections and rebel encroachment on its strongholds, the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is thought by some in the international community to

By Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled Southern California on Tuesday night. The quake was reported at 11:23 p.m. and was centered around Yorba Linda in northern

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – BEIRUT — Iran’s top security official reaffirmed Tehran’s support for Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday as the United States warned of a potential proxy

By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The Federal Aviation Administration appears to be changing its rules about some air traffic control procedures in the wake of an incident last

By Annysa Johnson, Aisha Qidwae and Emily Eggleston, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – MILWAUKEE — There is a mantra, a meditation, that Sikhs recite again and again in times of trouble. “Bajeguru, bajeguru,” is

Sun Sentinel – FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Ernesto increased speed slightly as residents of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula raced to prepare for the storm’s arrival Tuesday night. The storm, which has maximum

By Ali Safi, McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — Two U.S. soldiers and 11 Afghan civilians were injured Tuesday when a suicide truck bomb exploded outside a coalition base in the eastern province

Mike Mendenhall, Newton Daily News, Iowa – The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling Tuesday stating Whirlpool Corp. had the right to alter Maytag retiree benefits

Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – An April 2010 interview that Sikh Temple shooter Wade Page gave to promote his hard-core punk band End Apathy reveals a man who felt he was

By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times – MOSCOW — A few hours after the U.S. robot explorer Curiosity successfully landed on Mars and began transmitting images of the Red Planet, America’s Russian

Michael Futch, The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. – Two Fort Bragg paratroopers were killed in action Thursday by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said Sunday. Killed were 1st

By Ali Safi, McClatchy Newspapers – KABUL, Afghanistan — Eleven U.S.-trained Afghan police officers defected to the Taliban on Monday in southern Helmand province, the spokesman for the province’s governor said. Daud Ahmadi,

By Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — NASA’s Curiosity robot not only survived its elaborate landing on Mars, but also wound up in the most scientifically exciting pocket of its

By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – MINNEAPOLIS — Prairie and other natural landscapes have been plowed up at an unprecedented rate across the nation’s midsection since 2008, especially in the Corn Belt,

By Cammy Clark, McClatchy Newspapers – KEY LARGO, Fla. — In 1962, seven years before astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, Albert Falco and Claude Wesly captured the world’s imagination by becoming

By David Barber – WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Scientists monitoring a New Zealand volcano that erupted for the first time in 115 years said it was quiet on Tuesday but unpredictable and

By Tim Townsend, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – ST. LOUIS — Nearly 900 Roman Catholic nuns will gather in St. Louis this week to discuss their future relationship with the Vatican. Ordinarily, this annual

By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — The whole purpose of the Mars rover is to explore the possibility of life. So why is it so obsessed

By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times – SHEIKH ZUWEID, Egypt — The Bedouin tribal leader hurried up a sand dune in the moonlight and scanned the troubled land below: the Israeli border to

By Hudson Sangree, McClatchy Newspapers – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly 3,000 acres of Sierra Nevada peaks, meadows and forests atop Donner Summit will be preserved from development under a deal announced Monday.

By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times – SAN DIEGO — In a ceremony that was brief but redolent of the sacrifice and pain of war, one of the last bits of unfinished

Los Angeles Times – ALEPPO, Syria — In a two-room apartment where the paint is peeling off the walls, a woman talked about the bombardment of her neighborhood as her granddaughters, ages

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times – NEW DELHI — India reacted with grief and outrage Monday at the news that at least six Sikhs were killed when a gunman attacked them the

By John Diedrich, Don Walker, Mike Johnson and Erin Richards, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – OAK CREEK, Wis. — The shooter who opened fire before worship services Sunday at the Sikh Temple in Oak

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Chicago Tribune – Dozens of brand-name prescription drugs are losing their patent protection, allowing generic versions to enter the market and consumers to save 30 to 80 percent on those

Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes – RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — The incoming Air Force chief of staff says eliminating sexual assault is a priority, tied to readiness and strengthening the

John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes – STUTTGART, Germany — Attacks and abductions by the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa doubled in the first six months of 2012 compared with the previous

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Venezuela’s first secretary at its embassy in Kenya was charged Monday with murdering the newly arrived ambassador as allegations surfaced that officials at