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Mideast Protests Spread to Libya Amid Bahrain Apologies, Clashes in Yemen
Bahrainis took to the streets for a third day of pro-democracy rallies as Yemeni demonstrators clashed with police and the Associated Press reported the first- ever protests in Libya against leader Muammar Qaddafi. Bahrain’s interior minister, Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah al- Khalifa, apologized for the killing of two protesters in clashes with security forces this [...]
Monster Storm Begins Trek across Midwest
A monster storm was bearing down on the middle of the United States on Tuesday, with freezing rain and sleet pelting several states from Texas through Ohio. Snow fell from Missouri to Wisconsin and ice downed power lines in Ohio, leaving 14,000 without electricity. Forecasters predicted a hodge-podge of brutal winter weather over a third [...]
Australians flee, jam shelters ahead of “catastrophic” cyclone
Thousands of residents fled their homes and crammed into shelters in northeastern Australia as a cyclone described as the most powerful in the country’s history and with a 650 km (400 mile) wide front barreled toward the coastline on Wednesday. “We are facing a storm of catastrophic proportions,” Queensland state premier Anna Bligh said after [...]
Egypt protesters want freedom, but can they organize to get it?
The demands of the tens of thousands of protesters who poured into Egyptian streets across the nation Tuesday were clear: freedom, democracy, and an end to the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. Protesters also called for the prime minister to quit, and for parliament to be dissolved after elections in November widely regarded as [...]
Hundreds dead in Brazil slides, search to continue
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Driving rains sent tons of rusty red earth sliding into Brazilian mountain towns, killing at least 287 people and leaving dozens more missing – lives rescuers hoped to save as they resumed searches Thursday. In the hardest-hit town of Teresopolis, where the local civil defense agency said at least 146 people died, [...]
Rockhampton food stocks plunge
A massive food convoy is on the way to the Queensland city of Rockhampton to refill empty supermarket shelves as residents prepare for flood conditions to worsen. Forced evacuations are underway in the city as the flood crisis that’s already affected 200,000 people escalates. Further west at Emerald, the full scale of the damage [...]
Winter storm rakes West with high wind, heavy snow
A winter storm pummeled the western U.S. on Thursday with fierce wind gusts, heavy rain and more than 2 feet of snow, closing hundreds of miles of roads and dumping a snowy mix of precipitation on the edges of Phoenix. Officials closed a road into Yosemite National Park in California after a rock the size [...]
Churches unite to help thousands of stranded passengers in Moscow’s airports
Religious organizations in Russia have begun efforts to help the thousands of passengers stranded for days in Moscow airports. Thousands of passengers remain stranded at the Moscow major airports of Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo following an ice storm that hit the entire territory of Central Russia over the weekend. Hundreds of flights have been canceled and [...]
Blizzard to snarl air travel at end of holiday weekend
A powerful storm system that prompted blizzard warnings in New York City and Boston is set to cause major travel headaches at the end of the holiday weekend. The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the New York metropolitan area effective 6 a.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Monday. The area includes Newark, New [...]
Mexican city devastated by pipeline blast; 28 die
A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves. The blast in San Martin Texmelucan, initally estimated [...]
