CAIRO—Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said militant attacks on army checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 30 troops Friday were a “foreign-funded operation” and those who commit such attacks “must be hanged.” The president vowed Saturday to take drastic measures against the militants, saying there are foreign powers that want to “break the back of Egypt.” Egypt declared […]
It’s been 25 years since the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, and nearly five years since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico gushed 200 million gallons of crude oil. On Oct. 28– 29, nearly 40 experts and eyewitnesses from science, […]
As Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper was addressing his conservative party in Canada’s main parliament building on Wednesday, a gunman burst through the doors of the building and ran past the door of the room where the caucus meeting of legislators was taking place. The gunman, suspected to be Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, had just killed a […]
A plane from the U.S. Air Force picked up American, Jeffrey Fowle after his release from detention in North Korea on Tuesday, according to officials at the State Department. An U.S. Air Force jet set down at the Pyongyang Airport this morning. Fowle was arrested and detained this spring after he left a bible at a restaurant/bar […]