MEXICO CITY – The body of a baby carried away by a tornado was found Tuesday in the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Acuna as the death toll from the sudden, devastating storm hit 14. City spokesman Edgar Gonzalez said searchers found the body amid the rubble of shattered …
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WASHINGTON – Satellite imagery shows significant new construction at North Korea’s main rocket launch site in a sign of leader Kim Jong Un’s determination to pursue a space program despite international censure, a U.S. research institute said Thursday. North Korea is barred under U.N. Security Council resolutions from launching rockets …
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LONDON – The U.K. Independence Party’s only member of the British Parliament has criticized party leader Nigel Farage for harsh comments about immigrants during the recent campaign. Douglas Carswell says Farage was wrong and mean-spirited when he said in a televised debate that Britons are upset by immigrants coming to …
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CAIRO – An Egyptian security official says authorities arrested two top leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood — once the country’s most influential political group — after two years on the run. The official says Abdel-Rahman el-Bar, the group’s top religious cleric, and Mahmoud Ghozlan, the Brotherhood’s former spokesman and …
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Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh has not coached his team’s last two games due to a three-game Big Ten suspension in response to the school’s alleged sign-stealing scandal. Although Harbaugh did not coach either game, both wins, he has reportedly been credited with the victories. According to CBS Sports, the …
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s Caribbean reef island of Banco Chinchorro near Belize have hunted the meat and salmon-pink shells of queen conch for generations. As populations have shrunk in recent decades, Mexico has enforced limits and bans on catching the shellfish. The species has continued to decline …
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More people in Gaza could die from health problems such as infectious disease than from aerial strikes during the Israel-Hamas war, a World Health Organization spokesperson warned on Tuesday, pointing to Gaza’s collapsed health system and unlivable conditions in the territory. The World Health Organization said the war has caused …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks forcefully denied Wednesday a report alleging his nation planned to use the summit to strike oil and gas deals. Sultan al-Jaber, who also leads the massive state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., called …
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The Indiana Hoosiers’ head football coaching search appears to be over. According to ESPN, Indiana has lured coach Curt Cignetti from James Madison. Indiana recently fired Tom Allen after a third straight losing season. Cignetti will leave a program he helped transition from the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision …
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Norway’s minority center-left government and two large opposition parties made a deal Tuesday to open the Arctic Ocean to seabed mineral exploration despite warnings by environmental groups that it would threaten the biodiversity of the vulnerable ecosystems in the area. Norway said in June it wanted to open parts of …
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