A damaged chemical tank in Southern California may have cracked – potentially lowering the risk of a cataclysmic explosion – though an evacuation order remains in effect for some 50,000 area residents with no timeline on when they can return, a fire official said Sunday.
ANKARA (AP) – Police stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party on Sunday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at party supporters and officials who had been holed up inside for three days. It was a violent end to a standoff between members of the Republican Peoples’ Party, or CHP.
MADRID (AP) – Thousands of people rallied in central Madrid on Sunday against spiraling housing costs that have priced many Spaniards out of the housing market despite a recent economic boom, particularly in cities such as the country’s capital and Barcelona.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Sunday used his State of the Union address to tout his government’s U.S.-backed crime-fighting strategies as well as improvements of some economic indicators. Addressing the National Assembly in the capital, Quito, Noboa cited the extradition of a dozen crime bosses to the U.S.
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a passenger train passed through the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday, killing at least 23 people and wounding over 70 others, officials said.
QINYUAN, China (AP) – Authorities in northern China were investigating a coal mine operator with a focus on safety lapses, as rescuers searched for those missing in the country’s deadliest coal mine explosion in recent years that killed at least 82 people.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – Ninety-two people who were abducted by jihadi extremists have been rescued by troops in Nigeria’s conflict-battered northeast region, the country’s military said Sunday.
ARACHOVA, Greece (AP) – As a child, Giannis Stathas remembers being snowed in for days at a time in Arachova, a village famous for its ski resort and long known as a winter playground for Greeks. “We couldn’t go to school because of the snow,” said Stathas, now mayor of Arachova and the surrounding area.