UN experts: Al-Qaeda affiliates remain a threat
Sun Star
Sun Star
UNITED NATIONS -- Al-Qaeda's senior leadership has a diminished ability to direct global terror operations but the threat from loosely linked affiliates and individuals radicalized by its "infectious ideas" is becoming more sophisticated, UN experts said Wednesday. In a report to the Security...
Obama scraps summit with Putin
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
LOS ANGELES -- President Barack Obama's decision to scrap a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin reflects the White House's growing frustration with the Russian government over its embrace of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, as well as its reluctance to engage over a...
Indian group offers new plan for Bhopal
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
The international fight for justice by survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in India has been a rollercoaster ride of delay, disappointment and few victories for families of the tens of thousands of people who died in one of the world's worst industrial disasters. However, three recent major...
Why Yemen's al-Qaeda branch is so feared by the West
CBC
CBC
The closing of embassies in the Middle East and North Africa by the U.S. and other Western countries "due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks" has once again focused attention on the Yemen-based group, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In May, U.S. President Barack Obama identified...
First likely case of H7N9 bird flu spread by humans is reported
South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
Chinese scientists on Wednesday reported the first likely case of direct person-to-person transmission of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed more than 40 people since March. The development was “worrying” and should be closely watched, the team wrote in the British online journal bmj.com, but...
U.S. Senator McCain, in Cairo, says Egypt near 'all-out bloodshed'
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unrest in Egypt could turn into "all-out bloodshed" in coming days if efforts to find a political solution fail, U.S. Senator John McCain warned on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo. "Oh my God, I didn't know it was this bad. These folks are just days or weeks away from all-out...
The Snowden-Atomic Bomb-NFSS Connection
WorldNews.com
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "Our national security can only be assured on a very broad and comprehensive front." -Navy Secretary James Forrestal, 1945. Before elaborating on the connection between Edward Snowden and the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which...
Japan marks 68th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
The Independent
The Independent
Japan marked the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with a somber ceremony to honour the dead and pledges to seek to eliminate nuclear weapons. Some 50,000 people stood for a minute of silence in Hiroshima's peace park near the epicenter of the early morning blast on Aug. 6, 1945,...
Troops killed six unarmed people in temple during Thai 'Red Shirt' protests, court rules
The Independent
The Independent
A court in Thailand has ruled that six unarmed people who were killed inside a Buddhist temple were shot dead by troops using high-velocity rounds who had taken up positions on railway tracks overlooking the site. The Thai military has always denied its troops fired into the temple. In a ruling that...
Death toll rises as floods sweep Pakistan
Asia Times
Asia Times
By Syed Fazl-e-Haider KARACHI - The death toll from monsoon rains in Pakistan has risen to more than 80 in the last five days, as much of the country has been inundated, flooding many cities and towns from north to south. The National Disaster Management Authority warned on Monday that more rain...
Fort Hood shooter faces death penalty as trial begins
France24
France24
Opening statements begin Tuesday in the trial of US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who confessed to killing 13 people and wounding 32 in a November 2009 shooting spree at the Fort Hood base in Texas. Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted. By News Wires (text) Nearly four years after...
Kashmir: Five Indian soldiers 'killed in shooting'
BBC News
BBC News
Five Indian soldiers have been shot dead in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, the chief...
Nigeria attacks by Boko Haram could be crimes against humanity, says ICC Prosecutor
United Nations
United Nations
5 August 2013 – The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today reported that there is reason to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in Nigeria, namely murder and persecution by the militant group known as Boko Haram. A report issued by the Office of the...
Dozens Killed in Pakistan, Afghanistan Floods
Voa News
Voa News
Sharon Behn ISLAMABAD — Rescue and relief efforts are underway in Pakistan and Afghanistan after flash floods caused by heavy monsoon rains inundated parts the region. More than 100 people were killed in both countries and preparations are underway for more rains in September, the typical monsoon...
