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ISTANBUL (AP) -- As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried it out were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and Turkish police raided Istanbul neighborhoods for suspects linked to the Islamic State group....
(Vatican Radio) Ten women died in a sinking boat packed with forced migrants off the coast of Libya on Thursday, while hundreds of others were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard in two separate operations.Listen to the report by Christopher Wells: The latest deaths at sea came as the wreck of a fishing boat that sank last year with up to 800 people on board was due to arrive at a Sicilian port. The sunken wreck was raised on Wednesday.Nearly 120 bodies have already been recovered from the seabed but hundreds more are believed to be trapped below deck, where survivors said many women and children were locked. Speaking to Vatican Radio Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò, President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant peoples decried the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean and said unfortunately it will not be the last…Unfortunately, he said, there are still people who continue to not want to tackle the phenomenon of migration, they do not want to ...
(Vatican Radio) Turkish authorities say the three suicide bombers who carried out the deadly attack on Istanbul's main airport were nationals of Russia and other Central Asia nations. The announcement came shortly after the Turkish and Russian presidents spoke each other for the first time in months. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Turkish officials said the three men directly involved in Tuesday's deadly attack on Istanbul's main airport were all from parts of the former Soviet Union. One is said to be from Russia's restive North Caucasus region and the others from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.Tuesday’s gunfire and suicide bombing attack at Ataturk Airport killed 42 people and wounded more than 230 others.The statement came as counter-terror teams reportedly launched 16 simultaneous raids in Istanbul. Turkish police told local media that they detained 13 people, including three foreign nationals, in connection with the attack. Turkish media ...
DETROIT (AP) -- The U.S. government is urging owners of 313,000 older Hondas and Acuras to stop driving them and get them repaired after new tests found that their Takata air bag inflators are extremely dangerous....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials set traps, installed wilderness cameras and scouted the woods by helicopter Thursday for the bear that attacked and killed a U.S. Forest Service employee as he rode a mountain bike along a trail outside Glacier National Park....
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Porfirio Guerrero has grown increasingly frustrated as a decade-long recession has sapped business from his tailor shop in the Puerto Rican capital. He now feels the only way for the island to recover is to become a full-fledged part of the United States, a sentiment that is gaining force in the territory....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A single elevator could have accommodated the donors who recently gathered with Hillary Clinton at the Pritzker family home in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. Small in number, the group was big in largesse, contributing at least $1 million to help elect her and other Democrats this fall....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- An adoring father of his four "princesses." A weeping bride-to-be, bent over her fiance's coffin. Two women looking forward to a few days' vacation with their husbands and their infant children. Victims of Tuesday night's attack at Istanbul's main airport have left behind mourning friends and relatives who are now struggling to deal with their loss. Here are some of their stories:...
ISTANBUL (AP) -- As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried it out were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and police raided neighborhoods for suspects linked to the Islamic State group....
LONDON (AP) -- In a real-life political drama mixing Shakespearean tragedy with "House of Cards," Britain's victorious anti-EU campaigner Boris Johnson saw his chances of leading his country evaporate Thursday after the defection of a key ally....
