LONDON (AP) — British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died.
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LONDON (AP) — British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died.
Read more here: UK zookeeper dies from tiger attack injuries
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – The death toll in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli reached 25 on Saturday in the seventh straight day of clashes between factions supporting opposing sides in Syria’s two-year civil war, security sources said. Residents heard sounds of rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire throughout the night and into Saturday morning in one of the most violent bouts of fighting so far in the city. Two people were killed on Saturday, according to medical sources. Security sources said 25 had died in the clashes in the past week. …
Read more here: Syrian-linked death toll grows in Lebanon's Tripoli
Only rarely have people seen what happens when chimpanzees and leopards come into close quarters in the wilds of Africa. On these occasions, chimpanzees have made loud, fearful calls, or played the aggressor: In one case, chimps even surrounded a leopard den and killed a cub.
Read more here: Spotted: 1st Evidence of Leopard Eating Chimp
Slow earthquakes don't kill anyone, but they're certainly suspicious characters. Recent great earthquakes, such as massive temblors in Japan and Chile, were foreshadowed by slow quakes shuffling through the regions in the months before the deadly shaking struck.
Read more here: Slow Earthquakes: Slippery Clays at Fault
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has warned against the danger of Iran’s nuclear program to the region’s security and said Iran should not threaten its neighbors since countries in the region harbor no ill-intentions to the Islamic Republic.
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As Memorial Day weekend sees people in the United States celebrating the opening of beach season, data from a European Environment Agency (EEA) report serves as a warning of how wild weather can affect water safety.
Read more here: UK Beach Quality Plummets
PARIS (AP) — David Beckham’s soccer career is officially over.
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A Sicilian priest gunned down by the Mafia 20 years ago outside his home in Palermo was beatified in a seafront ceremony.
Read more here: Thousands watch as murdered anti-Mafia priest is beatified in Sicily
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – A group of 80 international aid agencies urged the European Union on Saturday to follow through on pledges it made last year to back Palestinian communities seen as vulnerable to Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. Not enough action has been taken since EU foreign ministers last May urged Israel to ease curbs to growth on Palestinian villages and criticized its settlement policies, the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) said in a report. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and U.S. …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s security services temporarily suspended the country’s two biggest newspapers to punish them for writing about army operations against rebels and the future plans of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, editors said on Saturday. Sudan has clamped down on independent media, think tanks and non-governmental groups since it discovered plans for a coup against Bashir’s government in November. …
Read more here: Sudan suspends two biggest dailies for critical coverage-editors