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Israel withdraws most troops from Gaza

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 04:23 PM PDT

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)Israel's move was an apparent winding down of the nearly monthlong operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and 60 Israelis dead.


U.S. 'appalled' by 'disgraceful' U.N. school shelling

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 01:21 PM PDT

United Nations worker gestures after what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike outside a U.N.-run school, where displaced Palestinians take refuge, in Rafah in the southern Gaza StripThe United States says it is "appalled" by the "disgraceful" shelling by Israel of a United Nations school sheltering some 3,000 displaced people in southern Gaza.


Strong quake kills 367 in southern China

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:40 PM PDT

A general view shows collapsed houses after an earthquake hit Ludian countyBEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.


American nurse with Ebola to leave Liberia Tuesday

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:38 PM PDT

An ambulance departs Dobbins Air Reserve Base near Interstate 75, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, in Marietta, Ga. Officials at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta expect an American that was infected with the Ebola virus to be transported today.(AP Photo/John Bazemore)ATLANTA (AP) — A second American medical missionary stricken with the often deadly Ebola virus is expected to be flown Tuesday to the U.S. for treatment, following a colleague who was admitted over the weekend to Emory University Hospital's infectious disease unit.


Lake Erie's algae woes began building a decade ago

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:23 PM PDT

Algae is seen near the City of Toledo water intake crib, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. More tests are needed to ensure that toxins are out of Toledo's water supply, the mayor said Sunday, instructing the 400,000 people in the region to avoid drinking tap water for a second day. Toledo officials issued the warning early Saturday after tests at one treatment plant showed two sample readings for microcystin above the standard for consumption, possibly because of algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The toxins that contaminated the drinking water supply of 400,000 people in northwest Ohio didn't just suddenly appear.


Replant after wildfire or let nature take over?

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 07:34 AM PDT

In this Friday, July 25, 2014 photo, vegetation grows among trees burned by the Rim Fire, near Groveland, Calif. Nearly a year after the Rim Fire charred thousands of acres of forest in California's High Sierra, a debate rages over what to do with the dead trees, salvage the timber to pay for forest replanting and restoration or let nature take its course. Environmentalist say that the burned trees and new growth beneath them create vital habitat for dwindling bird such as spotted owls, and black-backed woodpeckers and other wildlife. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)GROVELAND, Calif. (AP) — Nearly a year since a historic wildfire charred a huge swath of California's High Sierra, debate rages over what to do with millions of dead trees left in its wake: truck them to lumber mills or let nature to take its course?


Syrian rebels kill 10, capture others in Lebanon

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 11:52 AM PDT

Lebanese soldiers ride in the back of an army vehicle with detained suspected militants in the Lebanese town of Arsal, a primarily Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug 3, 2014. At least 10 Lebanese Army soldiers were killed and over a dozen were captured in Arsal, while tens of militants have been killed, during clashes between the Army and Syrian armed groups, according to security sources. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels killed 10 Lebanese troops and likely captured over a dozen more in a raid on a Lebanese border town, the country's military chief said, the most serious spillover of violence yet into the tiny country from its neighbor's civil war.


Bertha drifting away from Turks & Caicos, Bahamas

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 03:15 PM PDT

A surfer enters the water to take advantage of the high waves in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Bertha pushed just south of Puerto Rico on Saturday as it unleashed heavy rains and strong winds across the region.(AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands (AP) — Tropical Storm Bertha drifted away from the Turks & Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas on Sunday afternoon, prompting officials to discontinue all storm warnings and coastal watches.


Northeast California wildfire destroys 8 homes

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 04:37 PM PDT

This image provided by the Madera County Sheriff's Office shows fire burning in the French Fire, Sunday Aug. 3, 2014 in Madera, Calif. A pair of wildfires, including the French Fire, burning without restraint about 8 miles apart in northeast California became the focus of state and federal firefighters Sunday as authorities reported that one of the blazes had destroyed eight homes and prompted the precautionary evacuation of a small long-term care hospital. (AP Photo/Madera County Sheriff's Office)BURNEY, Calif. (AP) — A pair of wildfires burning without restraint about 8 miles apart in northeast California became the focus of state and federal firefighters Sunday as authorities reported that one of the blazes had destroyed eight homes and prompted the precautionary evacuation of a small long-term care hospital.


Turks & Caicos, south Bahamas buffeted by Bertha

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 11:20 AM PDT

Two women walk with the protection of an umbrella in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Bertha pushed just south of Puerto Rico on Saturday as it unleashed heavy rains and strong winds across the region. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands (AP) — Tropical Storm Bertha was moving over the Turks & Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas on Sunday after emerging from the Dominican Republic, where overflowing rivers led to the temporary evacuation of dozens of families.


AP Photos: A Belgian landscape shaped by war

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 12:12 AM PDT

In this Dec. 12, 2013 file photo, World War I graves next to a farm on Messines Ridge in Messines, Belgium. The ridge was fought over fiercely by all sides during the entire four years of the war. One hundred years on World War I still resonates across Flanders Fields, where countless monuments and cemeteries as well as the relics of bunkers and trenches dot the modern landscape. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)One hundred years on, World War I resonates across Belgium in countless monuments and cemeteries along with relics of long-abandoned bunkers and trenches that dot the landscape.


CIA interrogation helped get bin Laden: senator

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Ranking member Senator Chambliss arrives for a closed Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing in WashingtonBy Sarah N. Lynch and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee will soon release a report asserting the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques helped bring down Osama bin Laden and disrupt terrorist plots, the panel's top Republican said on Sunday. "Information gleaned from these interrogations was in fact used to interrupt and disrupt terrorist plots, including some information that took down bin Laden," Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said on CBS's "Face the Nation." Democrats who control the Senate Intelligence Committee are expected to issue their own report that alleges the CIA techniques, such as "waterboarding," did not help yield valuable intelligence and were not necessary. It is unclear when the Democrats' report will be released because Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the committee, has said she may challenge some redactions made by the Obama administration. President Barack Obama, who banned the practices after taking office in 2009, said on Friday the CIA had "tortured some folks" during former President George W. Bush's administration.


Ebola-stricken American doctor 'seems to be improving,' CDC head says

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 06:52 AM PDT

Handout photo of Dr. Kent Brantly speaking with colleagues at the case management center on the campus of ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.Kent Brantly, the Ebola-stricken American doctor who was flown back to the United States from Liberia on Saturday, "seems to be improving," Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.


Obama to decide on immigration by end of summer

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 09:19 AM PDT

This Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, photo shows demonstrators as they march at Freedom Plaza in Washington, asking President Barack Obama to modify deportations policies. What can President Barack Obama actually do without Congress to change U.S. immigration policies? A lot, it turns out. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior White House adviser says President Barack Obama will make a decision by the end of the summer on how to use his authority to address immigrants living illegally in the U.S.


At least 10 dead in strike on Gaza school

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 12:10 PM PDT

A Palestinian woman reacts following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike at a United Nations-run school in RafahAn Israeli air strike killed at least 10 people and wounded about 30 others on Sunday in a U.N.-run school in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics said.


Don't drink the water, says 4th-largest Ohio city

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 09:48 PM PDT

Aundrea Simmons stands next to her minivan with cases of bottled water she bought after Toledo warned residents not to use its water, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Toledo, Ohio. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned not to drink or use its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo John Seewer)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's governor has ordered the state's National Guard to help deliver water and food to residents in Toledo, where some 400,000 are being told not to drink from the city's water system.


Israel strikes Gaza as troops start redeploying

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 08:48 AM PDT

The sun rises over Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. The Israeli military said Sunday that an Israeli soldier it previously believed had been captured by Hamas fighters in a Gaza ambush had in fact been killed in battle that day. The soldier's purported capture Friday had helped shatter an internationally brokered cease-fire, drawn global condemnation and triggered a military assault on the area of his disappearance in southern Gaza that left dozens of Palestinians dead and scores of homes destroyed. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A United Nations school sheltering displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip was hit Sunday by what a U.N. official said appeared to be an Israeli airstrike that killed 10 people as Israel signaled a possible scaling back in the ongoing war.


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