As Iraq’s government forces continue to battle Sunni militants in the country’s north and west with the help of American airstrikes, the country’s parallel political crises deepened Sunday as embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki resisted calls to step down and accused the new president of violating Iraq’s constitution. In a nationally televised speech Sunday evening, […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Afghanistan late Thursday on an unannounced visit to press the country’s two feuding presidential candidates on the urgency of ending a bitter dispute over June elections and forming a new government by early September. Kerry’s visit comes as the election results are being audited in a process […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he has authorized the U.S. military to launch targeted airstrikes if Islamic militants advance toward American personnel in northern Iraq. He also has announced that the military carried out airdrops of humanitarian aid Thursday to Iraqi religious minorities threatened by the extremists. “Today America is coming to help,” […]
(CNN) — Health officials in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday reported deaths of citizens they suspect were infected with Ebola, and Spain said it will accept a patient from the West African outbreak, adding to concerns about the spread of the deadly virus. Nigeria reported that a nurse died after treating someone believed to have […]
BY BILL DEMAREST SPRING VALLEY – Police in Columbus, Ohio, believe a 15-year-old girl who is missing could possibly be in Rockland County. Sarah Curtis is a runaway from Columbus and the New York State Mission Persons Clearinghouse reports the teen could possibly be in the Spring Valley area. She has been missing since April […]
Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school Wednesday sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting, killing 15 and wounding 90 after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said. The relentless bombardment also killed 27 Palestinians elsewhere in the coastal territory Wednesday, further dimming […]