SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Shiite rebels pressed their offensive in the country’s south on Thursday as a Saudi-led coalition bombarded them from the air in at least six cities, less than two days after announcing the end of a monthlong campaign against the Iran-supported militants.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have found the body of a migrant who apparently drowned during floods as he tried to illegally enter the country from Turkey.
The White House said Thursday that a US operation in January against an Al Qaeda compound near the Afghan-Pakistan border killed one American and one Italian hostage, along with an American member of the jihadist group. Another American, Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, was killed, “likely in a separate US government counterterrorism operation.” “No words can fully express our regret over this terrible tragedy,” the White House said, revealing the previously
(Reuters) – The family of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old killed in Ferguson last summer by a white police officer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city on Thursday, seeking unspecified punitive damages, $75,000 in compensation and changes in policing. The civil lawsuit filed in St. Louis County, Missouri, names the city of Ferguson, former Police Chief Thomas Jackson and former police officer Darren Wilson as defendants.
Hillary Clinton shouldn’t laugh off the Republican turned Democrat as others have done in the past.
A new book claims she watered down sanctions to please a company that paid her husband for a speech.
By Will Dunham and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An American and an Italian who had been held hostage for several years by al Qaeda in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan were inadvertently killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in January, President Barack Obama said on Thursday. On behalf of the United States government, I offer our deepest apologies to the families,” Obama said in an appearance at
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton’s family’s charities are refiling at least five annual tax returns after a Reuters review found errors in how they reported donations from governments, and said they may audit other Clinton Foundation returns in case of other errors. The foundation and its list of donors have been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks. Republican critics say the foundation makes Clinton, who is
By Julia Edwards and Anjali Athavaley WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A recent series of widely publicized police shootings of unarmed civilians has heightened interest across the United States in outfitting patrol officers with body cameras. More than a half-dozen companies are competing to supply the nation’s nearly 700,000 sworn officers with body cameras, which can cost between $350 and $700 apiece.
A volcano in Chile that had been inactive for over 50 years suddenly erupted twice in the space of hours, blasting huge clouds of ash into the air and forcing the evacuation of around 5,000 people. There were no immediate reports of injuries after the eruptions from the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile late Wednesday and again before sunrise on Thursday. A state of emergency was declared after the first
