6.0 quake rattles Bay Area, sending about 170 people to hospitals
e little-known West Napa Fault shook for about 20 seconds early Sunday, enough to leave the San Francisco Bay Area with its biggest earthquake in 25 years — wrecking historic wine country buildings, buckling streets, emptying store shelves, rupturing gas and water lines, and sending about 170... read more »
Iraqi troops foil jihadists’ attack on country’s biggest oil re...
Iraqi government forces battled Sunni militants for control of the country’s biggest refinery on Thursday as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki waited for a U.S. response to an appeal for air strikes to beat back the threat to Baghdad. The sprawling Baiji refinery, 200 kilometers (130 miles) north... read more »
How many Palestinian civilians is a single militant worth?
On the night of August 5, Gaza’s Interior and National Security Ministry posted a comment on its Facebook page decrying the damage caused by publishing names and photographs of “resistance fighters who fell in battle” (shahids), along with information on where they died. The Israeli military... read more »
With thousands now dead, Ukraine refugees say aid is welcome but peace is b...
SHCHASTYA, Ukraine – Zhanna Sologub doesn’t know if the rocket that struck the courtyard of her house this month was fired by pro-Russian rebels or Ukrainian government forces. What she does know, she said, is that the biggest humanitarian gesture either side could make right now is to stop the... read more »
Arvind Kejriwal Spends Night in Tihar Jail, AAP Plans More Protests Today
New Delhi – Arvind Kejriwal, the chief of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), spent the night in Delhi’s Tihar jail after being arrested in a defamation case. Scores of his party men who... read more »
Indian Leader Invites Pakistani Premier to Swearing-In
New Delhi – India’s incoming prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Wednesday invited his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, to attend his swearing-in ceremony next week, an... read more »
Regional players likely to align in Lok Sabha
In an attempt at isolating the Congress and denying it the principal opposition space, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Trinamool Congress and the Biju Janata Dal have... read more »
California kidnap victim found 10 years after kidnapping
A woman who disappeared as a teenager a decade ago was reunited with her family after she went to police and told them her mother’s ex-boyfriend drugged and kidnapped her in 2004, forced... read more »
Blast rocks capital of China’s Xinjiang region
Powerful explosions rocked a crowded open market in the provincial capital of China’s Muslim-majority Xinjiang region on Thursday morning, leaving an unknown number of people killed and... read more »
