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WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's warm, wild and costly weather broke another record with the hottest June, federal meteorologists say. And if that's not enough, they calculated that 2016 is flirting with the U.S. record for most billion-dollar weather disasters....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Basic training for Navy SEALs is designed to be a grueling process to find the U.S. military's strongest fighters and turn them into an elite force able to dive into the world's deadliest places....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- A Vatican court declared Thursday it had no jurisdiction to prosecute two journalists who wrote books based in part on confidential documents exposing greed, mismanagement and corruption in the Holy See, ending a trial that drew scorn from media rights groups....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain is on course to get its second female prime minister, after Conservative lawmakers chose Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom on Thursday to fight a runoff contest for leadership of the country's governing party....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump tried to assure skittish GOP lawmakers Thursday that they all share the same Republican Party goals, but Senate antagonists withheld support after a tense meeting with the presidential candidate....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Four previous "use of force" complaints were lodged against the two white police officers in the video-recorded shooting death of a black man and they were cleared in all of them, according to internal affairs documents released Thursday....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Minnesota woman who calmly put live footage of her dying boyfriend online after he was shot by police brought a shocking new immediacy Thursday to the issue that gave birth to the Black Lives Matter movement....
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) -- A woman who watched as a police officer fatally shot her boyfriend during a traffic stop broadcast the gruesome aftermath of the slaying live on Facebook, telling a worldwide audience that her companion had been shot "for no apparent reason" while reaching for his wallet as the officer had demanded....
(Vatican Radio) The so-called Islamic State have warned that last Friday’s attack at a café in Bangladesh was just a glimpse of what is to come.In recent weeks, Bangladesh has experienced a rise in extremist violence, with a string of targeted killings on secular bloggers and religious minorities, with the most deadly attack taking place on July 1st, which saw 20 civilians of different nationalities murdered. However the Bangladeshi government has discredited claims that the so-called Islamic State carried out the attacks, instead blaming homegrown local militant groups.A spokesperson for the South Asia Team for Christian Solidarity Worldwide spoke to Georgia Gogarty, about the current situation in Bangladesh and what needs to be done to stop this rise in violent extremism.Listen: People in Bangladesh are extremely fearful and there is a sense of insecurity and instability according to CSW’s spokesperson. When asked why there has been such a rise in violent extr...
Eid ul-Fitr in Bangladesh has been dampened this year with a shocked nation still trying to get over its worst nightmare. In the deadliest terror attack ever in its history, 20 hostages were slaughtered after 7 heavily armed attackers stormed a restaurant on the night of July 1, in Dhaka’s upscale Gulshan neighbourhood. Security forces killed six of the attackers and freed 13 hostages in the rescue operation the following morning. The slain hostages included 9 Italians, 7 Japanese, an Indian and 3 students at American universities. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The total death toll from the attack stood at 28, including 2 Bangladeshi police officers and 6 terrorists. It w.as the worst in a recent series of militant attacks in Bangladesh, and the escalating violence has raised global concerns about whether the predominantly Muslim nation is capable of coping with Islamist terrorism rearing its ugly head in its deadlies...
