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UPCOMING Briefing With Author Philip Shishkin
Restless Valley has the makings of a gripping thriller: revolutions, massacres, civil war, drug-smuggling, brazen corruption, contract hits and larger-than-life characters who may be villains…or heroes…or possibly both. Yet Philip ...
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French troops stage Niger raid jihadists threaten new attacks
French special forces and local troops raided an army base Friday in northern Niger, ending a hostage seizure by Islamist fighters who had staged twin suicide bombings that killed at least 20 ...
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Gunmen face off in Tripoli as sectarian battle escalates
He doesn't feel it, strapped up in his bed at the Nini Hospital, swathed in bandages, two bottles of painkillers pumping into him. He was driving his motorcycle on Thursday night from Badawi past the end of Syria Street - an aptly named thoroughfare that divides Tripoli's two warring neighbourhoods of Bab el-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen - whence came a single sniper's round."It ...
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Deadly car bombing at aid groups house in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan A Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked an international aid group's guest house in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long battle with security forces in an upscale Kabul neighborhood, authorities said. The International Organization for Migration said four of its workers were wounded, including an ...
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Baby gray foxes arrive at Minn. wolf park
Three baby gray foxes arrived at Wolf Park near Battle Ground, Minn. The 17-day-old pups are part of a master's degree project to understand the species since little is known about them. Visitors can see the pups during park ...
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Sweden prepares for sixth night of violence
Stockholm police called in reinforcements from across Sweden to quell a possible sixth straight night of riots in the country's capital. The nightly unrest led Britain's Foreign Office and the United States embassy on Friday to warn their nationals against travelling to the affected areas. "We will be getting reinforcements from Gothenburg and Malmoe tonight," police ...
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Hillyer to the Hill
I recently had dinner with a bright young GOP congressman, and asked what could be done that would most help him and others like him. He said, elect more like us in 2014. The good people of South Alabama will have a chance to get a start on this task in 2013. I trust they'll give Quin Hillyer a good look, and I'm confident they'll like what they ...
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Cat Fight Kadyrov Takes On Moscow Socialite In Feline Beauty Contest
quite literally , with bureaucrats. But a photo posted on May 23 showing him cuddling up with three kittens in his Grozny palace has sparked a new battle with a top Moscow socialite. Kadyrov announced on Twitter the next day that he and Russian TV host Tina Kandelaki had entered into an interminable debate about whose cats were ...
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Israel in reassessment thinks Syria’s Bashar Assad will last awhile
JERUSALEM - Israel has reversed its assessment about the staying power of Syrian President Bashar Assad and now thinks he’ll remain in control of at least part of his country for some time to come – a conclusion that makes it likely, a growing number of officials think, that an escalation of violence between the two countries may be inevitable. Israeli defense officials said that ...
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Taleban attack central Kabul
In the latest militant strike on the Afghan capital, Taleban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked an international aid group's compound, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long street battle with police in the heart of Kabul. The attack, the second in the city this week, also left four International Organization for Migration workers wounded including an Italian woman badly ...
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Assad has enough sarin to wipe off Damascus Aleppo Homs
Exiled Syrian chemical weapons scientist tells Al Jazeera the Assad regime used sarin in small quantities to stop rebel advancements, mixes gases to make it harder to detect WMDs use; adds weapons were developed against ...
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Iranian candidate vows to resist West
Tehran, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if ...
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Syrian rebels trapped in Qusayr army
Qusayr, Syria - Syrian troops have captured much of the rebel stronghold of Qusayr, in central Homs province, squeezing opposition fighters into the north of the strategic town, a military officer told AFP on ...
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London attack puts pressure on spooks
Tributes are seen near the scene of the attack on a British soldier in Woolwich, south-east London. The soldier was hacked to death on Wednesday by two men shouting Islamic slogans, in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist ...
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Zetas suspects admit killing US agent
Washington - Three men have pleaded guilty in US federal court for the 2011 killing of a US immigration and customs agent and the attempted murder of a second agent, the Justice Department ...
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A $98 stump of wood for hipsters
>Editor's note: Each week in "Apparently This Matters," CNN's Jarrett Bellini applies his warped sensibilities to trending topics in social media and random items of interest on the Web. Toronto (CNN) -- I've been camping countless times in the forest -- as one does -- and without fail, there's always plenty of wood just lying around. Plenty of concrete might indicate that, perhaps, you've ...
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UK WEATHER Miserable Bank Holiday weekend ahead as forecasters predict heavy rain showers across the country
A severe weather warning was in place for the whole of the UK today as gales swept from the South West up to Yorkshire, with temperatures struggling to creep above 12C, and hovering as low as 7C in some ...
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Furlough Friday hits US federal employees
The first day of US government furloughs imposed by a budget crunch saw more than 100,000 federal workers ordered to stay home Friday, including those at the scandal-plagued Internal Revenue Service ...
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British spy services under pressure over soldiers murder
Britain's intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London slip through their ...
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Three survive US-Canada bridge collapse
The major link between the US and Canadian sides of the Pacific Northwest region was severed after a bridge collapsed, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, police said. All three people who were on the span were rescued and taken to hospitals. The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge more than half a century old collapsed about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver, British ...
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Fighting has turned Tripoli Lebanon into a battleground – and brought the Syrian war home
He doesn't feel it, strapped up in his bed at the Nini Hospital, swathed in bandages, two bottles of painkillers pumping into him. He was driving his motorcycle on Thursday night from Badawi past the end of Syria Street - an aptly named thoroughfare that divides Tripoli's two warring neighbourhoods of Bab el-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen - whence came a single sniper's round."It ...
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French government seeks to ban extreme right-wing group
John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...
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Stockholm police ask for reinforcements to quell ongoing riots
Police in Sweden have appealed to residents to photograph and film people they see rioting in the streets, as they struggle to bring under control the violent unrest that has spread throughout the capital city of Stockholm for more than a ...
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Unrest may spread across Europe warns Red Cross chief
Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to widespread civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has ...
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Key witness against Lebedev cant testify
Mr Lebedev is charged with hooliganism motivated by political hatred for punching the property tycoon Sergei Polonsky during a 2011 television show.He faces up to five years in jail if found guilty. Mr Lebedev's lawyer, Genri Reznik, said Mr Polonsky's claim that he could not attend was "laughing in the face of justice" and noted that legally, if he is not seriously ill or ...
Barbados Digest
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Barbados employment slips
Barbados has seen a dramatic increase in unemployment benefits and requests for help from the government following the recession, a country that emerged rather well from colonialism is now struggling, but a new census is in the works.
Barbados is country with much to be proud of, this little island nation in the Caribbean was a possession of various colonial powers from the Spanish in the 15th century to the British until 1966. Read more
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