U.S. leaders are edging closer to a compromise on contentious end-of-year mandates for sharp spending cuts in key government programs and tax increases for almost all American workers. Significant hurdles remain to a deal, but the outlines of an agreement seemed to be emerging Tuesday, even as U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican opponents […]
US Leaders Edging Closer on ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Compromise
Posted December 18th, 2012 at 11:05 am (UTC-5)
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Schools Reopening in U.S. Town Where Mass Shooting Occurred
Posted December 18th, 2012 at 4:00 am (UTC-5)
Students will begin returning to their classes, on Tuesday, in Newtown, Connecticut, the site of one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. Classes are resuming at all the town’s schools except Sandy Hook Elementary, where a gunman opened fire on Friday and killed 20 children and six adults before taking his own life. […]
First Funerals Held For US School Rampage Victims
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 4:40 pm (UTC-5)
Grief-stricken families have buried the first two young victims of a shooting rampage last week at an elementary school in the northeastern U.S. Two six-year-old boys were laid to rest Monday, one of them a boy whose twin sister survived the massacre. Meanwhile, classes at the school in Newtown, Connecticut where the shooting took place […]
First Funerals Being Held For US School Rampage Victims
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 12:50 pm (UTC-5)
A small town in the northeastern United States is beginning the grim task of holding funerals for the 20 children and six adults killed in a shooting rampage at an elementary school. Funerals for two six-year-old boys are being held Monday, the first for those gunned down at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, […]
Officials: Landmine Kills 10 Girls in E. Afghanistan
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 11:45 am (UTC-5)
Afghan officials say 10 young girls died in an explosion as they were collecting firewood Monday in eastern Afghanistan. Authorities say they believe the blast came from an old landmine, one of many that are hidden in fields and rural areas across the country after decades of war. But the area near Pakistan is in […]
First Funerals Being Held For US School Rampage Victims
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 10:40 am (UTC-5)
A small town in the northeastern United States is beginning the grim task of holding the first funerals for the 20 children and six adults killed in a shooting rampage at an elementary school. Funerals for two six-year-old boys are being held Monday, the first for those gunned down at the Sandy Hook Elementary school […]
Iraq Attacks Kill 26, Many in Kurdish-Claimed Areas
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 10:20 am (UTC-5)
Iraqi authorities say bombings and shootings across the country have killed at least 26 people, about half of them in northern regions whose territory is disputed between autonomous Iraqi Kurds and Baghdad’s central government. In Monday’s deadliest attack, a car bomb killed seven people in a village near the northern city of Mosul in Iraq’s […]
Obama Joins Mourners as Community Prepares to Bury School Shooting Dead
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 7:00 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has vowed to use all of his power to prevent tragedies like Friday’s killing of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school, as that community prepares to bury the first of the dead. Funerals for two of the kids who died in the rampage at a school in Newtown, […]
South Africa Arrests 4 in Suspected Ruling Party Conference Plot
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 5:25 am (UTC-5)
South African police have arrested four right-wing extremists suspected of plotting an attack on a conference of the ruling party. Police issued a statement Monday, but gave few details about the arrests, saying they occurred Sunday and that the men are between 40 and 50 years old. The African National Congress, which has led South […]
Bombs Kill 10 in Northern Iraq
Posted December 17th, 2012 at 3:10 am (UTC-5)
Multiple bomb blasts have hit northern Iraq, killing at least 10 people in contested areas where tensions have flared between the Kurdish minority and the central government. Two of the bombs Monday exploded in a Shi’ite area of Tuz Khurmatu, in Kirkuk province. Another blast, a car bomb, struck a Shabak minority area near Mosul. […]
