FBI looks into shattered glass in new twist in derailment
The agency is called in to investigate the possibility that the Amtrak train’s windshield was hit with an object shortly before the train derailed.
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Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack
By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a U.S. jury on Friday for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others in the crowds at the race’s finish line. After deliberating for 15 hours, the federal jury chose death by lethal injection for Tsarnaev, 21, over its only other option: life in
Philadelphia train may have been hit by projectile before wreck
By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia and a separate commuter train in the vicinity may have been hit by projectiles of some kind shortly before the wreck, a U.S. transportation official said on Friday, after investigators interviewed members of the Amtrak crew. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was called in to examine a remnant of the Amtrak locomotive’s shattered windshield with a
Virginia's all-women Sweet Briar College holding last commencement
By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Virginia’s all-women Sweet Briar College holds its final commencement on Saturday, as school supporters battle to stop it from becoming the latest U.S. women-only school to shut down. The 700-student school in southwest Virginia is scheduled to close because of financial woes amid a changing educational landscape that has made U.S. all-women schools a vanishing breed. Commencement speaker Teresa Tomlinson, the mayor of
Russia helps block export restriction on asbestos
Four countries including Russia have blocked a bid to add chrysotile asbestos to a list of dangerous substances subject to export restrictions, participants at a UN meeting in Geneva said Saturday. Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Zimbawe opposed listing the mineral also known as white asbestos, which health experts say causes cancer, on the Rotterdam Convention list, according to groups attending the Geneva meeting that wrapped up Saturday.. The 1998 Rotterdam
Boko Haram crisis pushes poor of western Chad to brink of hunger, says UNICEF – TRFN
By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Under the shade of a wooden shack in the western Chadian town of Bagasola, heavily pregnant Zara Gayi sells mangoes and vegetables, hoping to earn enough money to feed her four children. “My husband used to ride boats to Nigeria. In the past, he could earn 100,000 Naira ($500) a month,” she told the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF. Disruptions to trade
South Sudan defends law that aid agencies say could be "catastrophic" – TRFN
By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – South Sudan has defended a law limiting the number of foreign aid workers that can work in the country despite concerns from relief groups that the move could have “potentially catastrophic effects” for the millions of people who need help. The law, which is awaiting President Salva Kiir’s signature after being passed on Tuesday, requires non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to limit foreign employees,
Morocco king eases restrictions on abortion for incest, rape
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan King Mohammed VI has ordered that laws restricting abortion be loosened, allowing it in the case of rape, incest, danger to the mother’s health or fetal malformation.
Meningitis cases triple in two weeks in Niger, more than 400 dead -WHO
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – An outbreak of meningitis with “unprecedented features” is spreading rapidly in Niger, with a tripling of cases in the past two weeks, hundreds of deaths so far this year and vaccines in short supply, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Vaccines against this form of the disease were in short supply and the outbreak was of particular concern because it was affecting more
Your Cat Is Trying to Talk to You
They have expressive faces and body language that we can read pretty accurately, according to researchers who study animal behavior.