Monsoon fury: Floods and landslides submerge Kedarnath Temple in mud
Posted by: aymaan30
New Delhi :: India | updated 2013-06-18 22:50:17 -0700 | disasters-news
Incessant rains, flash floods, cloud bursts and landslides have caused unprecedented damage to life and property in the mountainous states of India’s Himalayan region. Thousands have been displaced in Uttar Pradesh and the neighboring state of Uttarakhand where torrential rivers...
Hamas ask Hezbollah to focus on Israel
Posted by: saleh1966
Gaza :: Palestine | updated 2013-06-18 22:04:43 -0700 | disasters-news
The Islamist movement Hamas which wrested control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah, or Palestinian National Liberation Movement, in 2007, has urged the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from Syria and to keep its weapons aimed...
Endgame talks: US to meet Taliban this week in Doha
Posted by: StephenManual
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 23:17:26 -0700 | disasters-news
The United States is all set to meet the Taliban this week for peace talks as the latter have opened a political office in Doha, capital of Qatar. The United States wants to establish peace and stability in Afghanistan before...
Russian president derails Western efforts to oust Syrian dictator
Posted by: StephenManual
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-06-18 23:11:17 -0700 | disasters-news
Russian President Vladimir Putin has stalled efforts of the United States and its allies to garner support for the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Putin warned the West and the United States that the arms they were supplying to...
US military to induct women in all combat units within three years
Posted by: Jennifer Rees
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:47:26 -0700 | disasters-news
The United States announced Tuesday that within three years women will be allowed to play full part in the military’s combat positions, including the Army Rangers, Marine infantry and the Navy SEALs. Even though the commanders of the Army, Marine,...
Meredith Kercher's Death Ruled a Possible Sex Game Gone Wrong
Posted by: MandyRobinson
Rome :: Italy | updated 2013-06-18 22:46:34 -0700 | disasters-news
Amanda Knox spent time in prison for the death of Meredith Kercher and now they are saying that her death was really a sex game gone wrong. Telegraph is reporting that the Supreme Court in Rome is ruling that her...
Mardan suicide blast kills 35, including MPA
Posted by: Avaline
Mardān :: Pakistan | updated 2013-06-18 23:17:23 -0700 | disasters-news
35 people were killed and many more were injured in a suicide bombing at a funeral in the district of Mardan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, on Tuesday. In the attack, a provincial assembly member was also killed. The attack...
Was Adrienne Salinas murdered?
Posted by: ChelseaHoffman
Tempe :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:34:19 -0700 | disasters-news
Have you seen this woman? Adrienne Salinas,19, had plans to spend Father's Day with her father -- but that never happened. She vanished sometime around Saturday, June 15th, the day her wrecked car was found by her father. Now it...
Katelyn Wolfe update: Should killers get death penalty?
Posted by: ChelseaHoffman
Bloomington :: IN :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:31:38 -0700 | disasters-news
Katelyn Wolfe was laid to rest on Friday after she was brutally murdered over a week ago by two drug dealers who sold drugs to her. While her family pulls together and continues to mourn over their loss, the public...
Irish Human Rights Commission faults government in Ireland's Magdalen Laundries scandal
Posted by: Robert Myles
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-06-18 23:42:00 -0700 | disasters-news
The Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) yesterday published its Follow-up Report on State Involvement with Magdalene Laundries. The IHRC Follow-up Report reviewed the findings in fact as set out in the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee of State involvement with...
President Obama gives no clear view on the necessity of national security programs
Source: The Washington Times
Erie :: PA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 20:33:34 -0700 | disasters-news
President Obama has had difficulty finding his footing and has been late to the game in defending federal intelligence surveillance programs as a valuable weapon for thwarting terrorist plots, national security analysts say. When Mr. Obama appeared on TV with...
How an e-mail address disrupted plots in Britain and U.S.
Source: Washington Post
Karāchi :: Pakistan | updated 2013-06-18 19:43:09 -0700 | disasters-news
It is unclear exactly how British intelligence services linked the Pakistani e-mail address, sana_pakhtana@yahoo.com , to a senior al-Qaeda operative who communicated in a kind of pigeon code to his distant allies . But the intelligence helped stop the plot in...
Bulger defense team seeks to shield murder photos
Source: Boston Herald
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 19:52:13 -0700 | disasters-news
Highly graphic crime-scene photographs of two men that former mobster John Martorano testified today the Winter Hill Gang murdered in 1975 are too upsetting for jurors to see, James Whitey Bulger's lawyers argue in court papers filed late tonight...The described...
NSA boss: 50-plus plots uncovered
Source: Boston Herald
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 21:20:16 -0700 | disasters-news
One of the nation's top spies told the House Intelligence Committee that a controversial database of American phone and Internet records has helped the National Security Agency intercept as many as 50 plots against U.S. targets but an expert said...
Australian jailed for Meagher murder
Source: BBC
Melbourne :: Australia | updated 2013-06-18 20:45:10 -0700 | disasters-news
Australian Adrian Bayley jailed for Jill Meagher murder Jill Meagher was originally from Drogheda, County Louth Australian Adrian Bayley has been jailed for the rape and murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher. Bayley, who had pleaded guilty, was sentenced to...
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