EU: Some 20 bodies spotted as migrant boat sinks off Libya
By NICOLE WINFIELD A migrant boat sank off Libya’s coast Thursday, with some 20 bodies spotted in the sea. Officials said 88 people had been rescued. The Libyan coast guard…
Accidents and disasters
Survivors of tornado that leveled Missouri city look back
By JIM SUHR A sky-darkening storm was working its way into southwest Missouri around dinnertime on a Sunday evening, zeroing in on the city of Joplin. Will Norton was among…
Egyptian plane with 66 aboard crashes; terrorism suspected
By MAGGIE MICHAEL, ELENA BECATOROS and ANGELA CHARLTON An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after a mysterious…
China barely notes start of Cultural Revolution 50 years ago
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Exactly 50 years ago, China embarked on what was formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a decade of tumult launched by Mao Zedong to revive…
Additional bombings bring death toll to 88 across Baghdad
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and SUSANNAH GEORGE he scene after a car bomb explosion at a crowded outdoor market in the Iraqi… Read more BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi police and hospital…
Kenya burns huge pile of ivory tusks to protest poaching
By TOM ODULA Kenya’s president set fire Saturday to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever destroyed,…
Airstrikes, shelling kill at least 60 in Syria’s Aleppo city
By SARAH EL DEEB A wave of airstrikes and shelling killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, monitors and activists…
Memories painful on Chernobyl’s 30th anniversary
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and DMYTRO VLASOV As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of…