Tropical Storm Sara expected to disappear within the next 24 hours
MERIDA — Tropical Storm Sara is beginning to weaken the western Caribbean and is now expected to dissipate over the Yucatan in the next 24 hours. Today's advisory from the…
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India’s ban on Salman Rushdie ‘The Satanic Verses’ may end — thanks to missing paperwork
NEW DELHI (AP) — The decades-long ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two…
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US steps up campaign to transform Kenya-led force in Haiti to a UN peacekeeping force
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The United States has stepped up its campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping force, spurred by escalating gang violence that…
Tropical Storm Sara pounds Central America with torrential rains as forecasters warn of life-threatening flash flooding
TEGUCIGALPA — Belize issued tropical storm warnings for the Central American country's coast on Friday as Tropical Storm Sara stalled in the western Caribbean, dousing Honduras' northern coast with heavy rain. Sustained…
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A wayward sea turtle wound up in the Netherlands. A rescue brought it thousands of miles back home
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — An endangered sea turtle that was found about a year ago some 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) from its native waters has been released into the Gulf of Mexico,…
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Judge sets date for 9/11 defendants to enter pleas, deepening battle over court’s independence
GUANTANAMO BAY (AP) — A U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled hearings in early January for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants to enter guilty…
Central America braces for Tropical Storm Sara’s ‘life-threatening’ downpour
SAN JOSE — Central American countries scrambled on Thursday night to make preparations for the impact of Tropical Storm Sara, with Honduras likely to be the first in the storm's…
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Masses of residents flee homes in Haiti’s capital as gangs ratchet up violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Masses of residents fled a running battle Thursday between gang members and police in one of the few neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital that hadn’t already been fully…
When to catch the last supermoon of the year
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — Better catch this week’s supermoon. It will be a while until the next one. This will be the year’s fourth and final supermoon, looking bigger and…
Hurricane Sara could form by Friday. NHC tracking possible Florida impacts
KINGSTON — A broad area of low pressure over the central Caribbean Sea has an 80% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the National Hurricane Center…