'Stop shooting,' European Union pleads as Ukraine cease-fire teeters
Fighting rages around a strategic railway hub.Read More ...
N. Korea threatens strong response to D.C. rights meeting
Pyongyang gets defensive before a conference about its human rights abuses.Read More ...
'It's My Party' singer-songwriter Lesley Gore dies at 68
NEW YORK (AP) — Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 at age 16 with her epic song of teenage angst, "It's My Party," and followed it up with the hits "Judy's Turn to Cry," and the feminist anthem "You Don't Own Me," died Monday. She was 68.
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Icy storm paralyzes central U.S., pummels nation's capital
By
Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Record-breaking cold gripped the
eastern United States while an icy winter storm crippled the nation's
central states and then plowed into the mid-Atlantic, dumping snow and
forcing federal offices in Washington, D.C. to close on Tuesday. Heavy
snowfall and ice moving eastward from the Southern Plains pounded
Missouri, Arkansas, southern Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and
Ohio, the National Weather Service said. With the storm headed east and
sleet and freezing rain expected to also take a swipe at the South,
states of emergency were declared in North Carolina, Virginia,
Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, as well as in Washington, D.C. The U.S.
Office of Personnel Management announced on its web site that federal
offices are closed in D.C. Fort Knox, a U.S. Army post south of
Louisville, Kentucky, also will be closed on Tuesday due to weather and
road conditions, it said on its website.Read More ...
CSX train hauling North Dakota oil derails, cars ablaze in West Virginia
One
or two of the cars plunged into the Kanawha River, said Robert Jelacic
of the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security and Emergency
Management. CSX said the train was hauling 109 cars from North Dakota to
the coastal town of Yorktown, Virginia, where midstream firm Plains All
American Pipelines runs an oil depot. As of 9:30 p.m. local time,
billowing flames could still be seen coming from several rail cars and
something appeared to be burning on the partially frozen river.Read More ...
USW leader: U.S. refinery strike could spread over safe staffing
By
Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - A strike by U.S. refinery workers that
passed its 16th day on Monday could spread if there is no progress in
talks this week with plant owners on safe staffing levels, said the lead
negotiator for the United Steelworkers union (USW). "The longer that
this strike rolls on, the more people that will be affected," said Gary
Beevers, USW international vice president, in a telephone interview on
Monday. Asked if a lack of progress in talks with lead oil company
negotiator Royal Dutch Shell Plc could result in strikes at more plants,
Beevers said: "There certainly will be." About 5,200 workers from 11
plants, including nine refineries accounting for 13 percent of U.S.
capacity, were walking picket lines after talks between the USW and
Shell Oil Co failed to reach an agreement on a new national contract.
The USW has said the company is also considering a counterproposal from
the union.Read More ...
Ex-prostitutes drop civil action against DSK in pimping trial
It's good news for the embattled former IMF chief.Read More ...
Battle persists for Ukraine railway hub, despite peace deal
The fighting threatens to dash a cease-fire deal brokered by European leaders last week.Read More ...
Many Southern states get their 1st major blast of winter
FRANKFORT,
Ky. (AP) — It's the South's turn to suffer from the snow, freezing rain
and sleet in a storm that brought back memories of one from the same
time a year ago.Read More ...
Europe scrambles to reassure Jews after Copenhagen attacks
European
nations scrambled on Monday to reassure their Jewish communities after
deadly attacks in Copenhagen that heightened fears of a new surge in
anti-Semitic violence. Flags were flying at half-mast across Denmark
after the weekend shootings on a synagogue and a cultural centre that
stunned one of the world's most peaceful nations. Two men were charged
on Monday with aiding the gunman, named by the media as Omar El-Hussein,
in his lone rampage in the Danish capital that left two people dead and
five policemen wounded. France, which was rocked by Islamist attacks
last month that killed 17 people including four Jews, appealed for
national unity to combat "Islamo-facism".Read More ...
Controversial executions in Indonesia set to continue
Despite international appeals, two Australians will be transferred to a prison island to be killed.Read More ...
Boko Haram insurgents attack Cameroon army base
Nigerian
Boko Haram insurgents attacked a Cameroon military camp near the town
of Waza in the north of the country on Monday, wounding several
soldiers, an army spokesman said. Chad, Niger and Cameroon have begun a
joint offensive against Boko Haram militants who have killed thousands
of people in a bid to carve out an Islamist emirate in northern Nigeria,
and have increasingly staged raids across nearby borders.Read More ...
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