- BEIRUT (AP) - Israel launched a rare airstrike inside Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, targeting a convoy believed to contain anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. |
- In the run-up to the raid, Israeli officials have been warning very publicly of a threat of high-tech anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles reaching Israel's enemies in the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah from Syria. They have also echoed U.S ... |
- The summer of 2012 was the worst drought in 50 years across the nation's breadbasket, with over 1,300 U.S. counties in 29 states declared drought disaster areas. * Wildfires burned over 9.2 million acres in the U.S., and destroyed hundreds of homes. |
- Tens of thousands of mourners poured into the streets of the restive Egyptian city of Port Said on Sunday for a mass funeral for most of the 37 people killed in rioting a day earlier, chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Rioting erupts in Egyptian city after soccer fans sentenced to die; nearly 30 killed Washington Post See all 354 sources » |
- BRASILIA, Brazil - A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 245 people and leaving at least 200 injured, police and firefighters said. |
- The 2012 drought continued through the end of the year and is carrying into the winter of 2013. While the drought strengthened across the Plains, it appears to be weakening its hold on the Eastern Corn Belt. |
- 2012 Drought Could Affect 2013 Crops. By Jason Meyers, Meteorologist By Eric Dutkiewicz. January 24, 2013 Updated Jan 24, 2013 at 7:10 PM EST. |
- Ricky Volpe, Economist, United States Department of Agriculture, says, "The most important agricultural impact of this major drought of the summer of 2012 was the major damage that it had on the field corn crop on the American Midwest." Volpe says that ... |
- AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) - Algeria's special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert in a final assault Saturday, killing 11 militants, but not before they in turn killed seven hostages, the state news agency reported. |
- Ricky Volpe, Economist, United States Department of Agriculture, says, "The most important agricultural impact of this major drought of the summer of 2012 was the major damage that it had on the field corn crop on the American Midwest." Volpe says that ... |
- BAGHDAD (AP) - Insurgents unleashed a string of bomb attacks mainly targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims across Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and extending a wave of deadly bloodshed into a second day. |
- BEIRUT (AP) - Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad swept through a small farming village in central Syria this week, torching houses and shooting and stabbing residents in an attack that killed up to 106 people, including women and children, activists ... |
- Some economists now expect the drought could outstrip Sandy as America's costliest extreme weather event of 2012, costing up to $100bn in lost crops with a knock-on effect on the livestock and farm equipment industries, and rural communities. The US ... |
- (CNN) -- The 16-year-old student showed up late to class armed with a 12-gauge shotgun. With the first period half over, the student took direct aim and hit one classmate in the 28-student classroom in the science building of Taft Union High School in Taft, ... |
- OLD BRIDGE, N.J. - Police in Old Bridge, N.J., say a New York-bound commuter bus hit a mini school bus from behind in a crash that injured at least 17, two critically. |
