Bernie Sanders: Voters see Hillary Clinton as ‘lesser of two evils’ against Donald Trump
According
to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday, 58 percent of
registered voters view Trump unfavorably, while 54 percent view Clinton
the same way — the highest unfavorable ratings for likely general
election candidates in the history of the survey. “We need a campaign,
an election, coming up which does not have two candidates who are really
very, very strongly disliked,” Sanders said.Read More ...
17 girls killed in fire at school dormitory in Thailand
Seventeen
girls died after a fire swept through the dormitory of a school for
children of hill tribes in northern Thailand, officials said Monday,
with a survivor describing fleeing as flames engulfed the building.
Seventeen girls were killed, with five injured," Colonel Prayad Singsin
of the police in the town of Chiang Rai told AFP.Read More ...
Germany's Bayer offers $62 billion for Monsanto
The move which would create the world's biggest supplier of seeds, pesticides and genetically modified crops.Read More ...
Obama confirms leader dead as Taliban meet on his successor
By
Matt Spetalnick and James Mackenzie HANOI/KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.
President Barack Obama confirmed on Monday that the leader of the Afghan
Taliban had been killed in an American air strike, an attack likely to
trigger another leadership tussle in a militant movement already riven
by internal divisions. Obama, who started a three-day visit to Vietnam
on Monday, reiterated support for the government in Kabul and Afghan
security forces, and called on the Taliban to join peace talks. The
president authorized the drone strike that killed Mullah Akhtar Mansour
in a remote region just within the Pakistan side of the border with
Afghanistan on Saturday, and Afghan authorities have said the mission
was successful.Read More ...
New data backs argument that Trump has not expanded the GOP
Trump
has boasted that he is drawing new voters to the the GOP, but new
analysis refutes the claim and suggests increased primary numbers won't
help in November.Read More ...
Iraq announces start of operation to retake Fallujah
Iraqi
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday announced the start of a
military operation to retake the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State
group. The fight to recapture the jihadist bastion, which has been out
of government control for nearly two and a half years, will be one of
the toughest in Iraq's war against IS. "We are beginning the operation
to liberate Fallujah," Abadi said in a statement.Read More ...
Suspect in Massachusetts officer's slaying dies in shootout
AUBURN,
Mass. (AP) — The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts
police officer died after an exchange of gunfire Sunday as authorities
closed in on him at a small town residence, police said.Read More ...
Egypt sends submarine to hunt for crashed jet's black boxes
CAIRO
(AP) — Egypt sent a submarine Sunday to join the hunt for the flight
recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean
and killed all 66 people aboard, while hundreds of Coptic Christian
mourners filled a church in Cairo to pray for their relatives among the
dead.Read More ...
Austria's next president could be a right-wing Eurosceptic
VIENNA
(AP) — With direct ballots counted but a final result still
outstanding, Sunday's elections for Austria's presidency were too close
to call a winner between a right-wing politician and a challenger whose
views stand in stark opposition to his rival's anti-immigrant and
Eurosceptic message.Read More ...
Top US commander makes secret visit to Syria
NORTHERN
SYRIA (AP) — On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S.
forces in the Middle East said he felt a moral obligation to enter a war
zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment of progress in
organizing local Arab and Kurd fighters for what has been a slow
campaign to push the Islamic State group out of Syria.Read More ...
Israeli defense minister steps down
TEL
AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's defense minister officially stepped down
on Sunday, capping a tumultuous week of politics that is expected to
result in the replacement of the former military chief with an
inexperienced hard-liner in the sensitive post.Read More ...
'Smoke on board' EgyptAir plane before crash
Smoke
detected inside the plane shortly before it plunged into the
Mediterranean offered clues but no answers as to why it crashed.Read More ...
Afghan leaders see Taliban leader's death as hopeful sign
KABUL,
Afghanistan (AP) — A senior commander with the Afghan Taliban says the
militant group's leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a U.S.
drone strike.Read More ...
Dutch, Australian climbers die after reaching Everest summit
KATHMANDU,
Nepal (AP) — A Dutch man and an Australian woman died of apparent
altitude sickness while descending from the summit of Mount Everest in
the first deaths this year on the world's highest mountain.Read More ...
Clinton, Sanders duel over Latino vote in California
LOS
ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Sanders' image gazes out from a corner storefront
in Boyle Heights, a Hispanic enclave known for its plump burritos and a
plaza where mariachis strum guitars. It's here that his campaign is
going house to house to cut into Hillary Clinton's advantage with Latino
voters.Read More ...
Three dead, 11 injured in concert shooting in Austria
A
man shot dead two people and wounded 11 others before turning the gun
on himself at a concert organized by a motorcycle club in western
Austria on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. The shooting took place at
around 3 a.m. (2100 GMT) at the concert in Nenzing, a market town near
the border with Liechtenstein.Read More ...
7 dead after volcano erupts in western Indonesia
GAMBER,
Indonesia (AP) — The death toll in the eruption of a volcano in western
Indonesia rose to seven on Sunday, with two other people in critical
condition, as an official warned of more eruptions.Read More ...
Elvis guitar fetches $334,000 at New York auction
A
guitar given to Elvis Presley by his father in 1969 went under the
hammer for $334,000 in New York during an auction that also saw a
Michael Jackson vest fetch $256,000. Vernon Presley is said to have
changed the finish of the Gibson Dove acoustic guitar to ebony after his
son earned his black belt in karate. During a 1975 concert in
Asheville, North Carolina, Presley had given the guitar to fan Mike
Harris, who had kept it until now.Read More ...
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