OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian prosecutor said Thursday he is concerned that the confessed perpetrator of last month’s attacks that killed 77 people is declining to give information that could determine if he had accomplices. Anders Behring Breivik has confessed to the July 22 shooting massacre at a youth camp conducted by the governing
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — In the wake of Hurricane Tomas, cholera has reached the congested capital of Port-au-Prince, where as many as 73 people have come down with the potentially deadly infection. Dehydration is one of its tell-tale signs. In a camp in Cabaret, just east of Port-au-Prince, children lie on cots as life-sustaining fluids
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – For Mexicans living in the battleground between two of the country’s biggest drug gangs, the threat of even worse violence is rising as the Zetas try to grab the turf of the Gulf cartel’s dead kingpin. “We’re all very afraid of what’s coming,” said Julio, a car wash worker in the
NEW YORK (AFP) – International scientists nudged back the minute hand of the symbolic Doomsday clock Thursday, as they praised President Barack Obama for helping to pull the world back from nuclear or environmental catastrophe. “It is six minutes to midnight,” the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS), which created the Doomsday clock in 1947 as
As a massive human tragedy unfolds in Haiti, relief organizations are soliciting credit-card donations through their hotlines and websites. About 97 percent of these donations will actually make it to the designated organizations — but the other 3 percent will be skimmed off by banks and credit card companies to cover their “transaction costs.” Thanks
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