Sporadic shelling and shooting, which each side has blamed on the other, had ensured a steadily mounting death toll despite the ceasefire called as part of a peace plan worked out in Minsk, Belarus, in February. More than 6,500 people have been killed since a separatist rebellion erupted there in April 2014.
Satellite images have confirmed the destruction of the Temple of Bel, which was one of the best preserved Roman-era sites in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a United Nations agency said, after activists said the hardline Islamic State group had targeted it. A comparison of before and after images shows the damage to the temple at the UNESCO World Heritage site, the Geneva-based United Nations Institute for Training and Research
The latest batch of Clinton’s emails includes high-level diplomatic discussions — and a few surprises.
Kim Davis invokes her religious beliefs and “God’s authority” — this time in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against her.
Jeff Flake still believes politics is “a noble profession” — a view that makes him an anomaly in 2015
Citing her religious objections, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has refused to issue any marriage licenses since the Supreme Court in June ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry under the U.S. Constitution. On Monday the same court rejected Davis’ request for an emergency order allowing her to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples while she appeals a federal judge’s order requiring her to issue them. Eight people
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Police in suburbs north of Chicago were searching for two armed suspects after a police officer was shot dead on Tuesday in the village of Fox Lake, the Sun-Times and other local media reported.
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The University of Tulsa is working to clean up what it is calling a minor spill of a radioactive chemical on its research campus and is having 21 people who may have been exposed to the cesium-137 undergo medical evaluations, school officials said on Tuesday. The spill by Tracerco, a subsidiary of British chemical company Johnson Matthey that was contracted by the university,
By Madeline Kennedy (Reuters Health) – Wrist-worn activity trackers, increasingly popular among consumers and in healthcare research, can vary considerably in their accuracy, a study from Iowa State University suggests. Researchers pitted consumer devices against a gold-standard metabolic monitor and found the wristbands are more accurate for calories burned while resting or jogging, but have higher error rates for activities like weight lifting and crunches. “We have continued to study
